Olympics Day Seven Megathread (Friday, August 2)
Official website with the most comprehensive schedule. The schedule here has events grouped together in sessional chunks to prevent it from becoming excessively long. The listed end times are estimates I created based on event lengths from previous Olympics and my knowledge of the sports, and may not be 100% accurate (they also try to account for medal ceremonies at the end).
u/CTIDmississippi has also created a comprehensive Google spreadsheet here with built-in time zone conversions.
u/skymasterson2016 has created a list of today's medal events here.
In addition, the mods highly encourage you to read the following posts:
u/ManOfManyWeis has written previews sport by sport, which can be found here.
u/ContinuumGuy has written a comprehensive preview of today's medal chances here.
Daily Schedule
General Housekeeping
Since there'll often be multiple events running simultaneously, it's helpful to identify which sport you're watching (if it's not obvious from the context). You can create a header by entering four spaces then typing the name of the sport.
The mods strongly request that you flair up with the new flair system if you haven't already. They put a great deal of work into it during the offseason. If you don't want to reveal your country, it's fine to choose the neutral Olympic rings flag. Relatedly, I'm not a mod of r/Olympics so I won't be able to help with things like removing comments, sorting the thread by new, etc.
Frequently Asked Questions
For those asking what's in the box that the athletes are awarded on the podium: according to L'Equipe, it contains a limited edition poster of the Paris Olympics and a Phryge plush toy.
The jealusty getting too much re:fly jump so let me go watch ugly men now (badminton).
6 August - Individual Final: scores reset to 0. Score is based on points and time. Ranking is from low to high scores as they're penalty scores. If people have same score, those with shorter time goes above the one with longer time.
Penalties
First disobedience (meaning first refusal at a fence) = 4 penalties
Obstacle knocked down while jumping = 4 penalties
One or more feet in the water jump or an imprint made on the strip before the water jump = 4 penalties
Fall of Horse or Athlete or both = Elimination
Second disobedience = Elimination
Exceeding time allowed for the round = 1 penalty for every seconds or commenced fraction of a second
Fair to say rooth is the greatest athlete because of how many events they go through
swimming
oh, i thought sjoelstrom was new the way they talked about her grabbing a gold. she's only a legend though...
Why is Men’s doubles bronze medal match being played after the Gold medal match ? This might be first time I am ever seeing gold and silver being determined before the bronze medal.
I think they do that in soccer too but I'm not positive
Good job Korea!!
Brazil doing great in rowing
My thoughts on day seven:
The start of track and field events - seeing Sha’carri Richardson take charge was awesome
Djokovic!!
The magnificent Marchand continues, can’t wait to see this guy in Olympics to come. We are witnessing history.
Hate to see Dressel fall short, hoping he can finish strong with the last event. But I really liked the spotlight story they gave him about his mental struggles.
I was going to stay up for Lyles run but he's going to qualify huge day tomorrow don't want to be tired.
Day eight's thread is up!
Will Australia actually break its record that was set in Tokyo in terms of gold medals? It's already at 11 gold medals.
Hope so I like to see other countries excell
Holy smokes there's a lot of medal events today, but I guess it's that time where Swimming isn't done but Athletics have started so between those and some sports finishing there's a looooot to watch
There'd be even more but surfing is delayed again
Yeah quite a lot during this weekend as track, swim and gymnastics all collide. Exciting times.
Severely sleep deprived but the first event starts in half an hour
The women are carrying us so hard this Olympics. The men have 2 gold the women have 7 so far. Let's go fellas
Australia's ratio is even more crazy. 1 for men, 10 for women.
Judo is starting early today huh
Man Mckeown has Regan Smith's number 😭
Definitely this Olympics. Aussies have been phenomenal
In lieu of surfing I've just been listening to the sound of the Mediterranean in Marseilles between rounds of windsurfing replays
First Olympics I can ever remember where the USA men haven't won a single individual gold in the pool. Fink you're our last chance let's go