Team GB

It's kind of worth losing a couple of quid a week on the lottery to see us doing so well knowing that your loss is partly why they are winning .

They'll be able to jump on Eurostar to get to Paris in 2024 that'll save a few Bob

 

Unless France gets put on the amber plus list again because of a high number of cases of the Zebra variant on Reuinion island?

 

Well the surfing will be in Tahiti...

 

That was awesome was the keirin. Even the commentators were blown away with the breakaway so early on.

 

That will probably be his last Olympics. What a way to sign out. Incredible. I didn’t think he had another gold in him

 

I'll be honest, I thought his legs had gone. He'd been struggling for recovery all week, got nowhere in the sprint event and in the keirin he finished a distant fourth in his first heat. He was so far off the pace I didn't think he'd even get through the repecharge. Then he found some pace, won a high quality repecharge and didn't look back after that. The final performance was true class.

I suspect that'll be his last hurrah now though. You could tell he was really creaking this Olympics and age was right on the verge of getting the better of him. There's no way he'll be at Paris aged 36, he should leave on a high.

 

I think he left every ounce of what he had left out there for that race. His legs must have been on fire in the last 2 laps.

 

Life ban, too soft on drugs cheats .He should never pull on a GB vest again .This is not like missing a test this is a proven doping offence.

 

Completely agree, if his second samples tests positive then he should never be selected again.

 

Can imagine the other three will be incredibly pissed off.

 

It's one thing when you're entering an individual event and you get caught out cheating, but when you cheat and it strips other athletes in your team of an Olympic medal? He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a meeting again and if I was one of the other three in the relay team I don't think I'd be too happy bumping into him again.

 

I'd like to see him chased out with a baton if he ever tries to compete again.

 

Always remember Darren Campbell being pissed at Dwayne Chambers for costing him World Championship silver due to positive test.

Must be so frustrating as a relay runner.

 

The thing that gets me is after getting that far and they had a chance of winning an Olympic medal wouldn't someone say "erm, we're all clean, rght?"

 

European gold as well. Seems to happen a fair bit in the relay, I guess just because sprinting is prevalent for it and there's more athletes to catch out.

Usain Bolt lost one of his Olympic golds after he retired, as one of his team mates was doping for the 4x100m in Beijing.

Also the US team at Sydney in 2000 were stripped of gold in the 4x400m with four of the six members of the team were doping, which denied Michael Johnson from a final Olympic gold.