How this should end…

Love Clare Balding but for me the real triumvirate of swimming is Becky Adlington, Mark Foster and Helen Skelton

Women’s football at the Olympics has been at 12 teams since 2008 despite the exponential growth in the game. Mens has pretty much always been 16. Of course, if it was parity that was wanted, it should also become an U23 comp like the mens.

Australia v Zambia is the sort of knockabout fun that tournament football should be. 2-3 with 10 minutes left of the first half.

The curse of the Banda hat-trick

A victory for all Canadian spies

Hey Archie Rhind-Tutt - send over that 🎶 When The Party’s Over 🎶 wav file whenever is convenient. 👍

He could call his house “Golden, aye”

“Blighted” is an interesting choice of words given the number of unnecessary stoppages VAR itself has caused.

It's a classic by any measure - and a very rare find!

All the way to gold

Well of course you’re going to win all the gymnastics if you have power of flight.

We go to BoxPark Croydon for reaction to the Men’s Eight Rowing

Given that 3x3 basketball is at the Olympics along with the full form, why not have both? How about this for a controversial idea - make football part of the Winter Olympics

Harsh or deserved red card? Elizabeth Ammon

If you don’t loudly say “Hammer time!” when the coverage switches to the hammer throw, you’re doing Olympic watching wrong.

The speed climbing is Eurosport 2. Right now!

We return next week. Season 16 Episode 1 comes out 13 August

Also good to rethink and reassess. Any recommendations for John?

Time to step back from here for a while, maybe ever, who knows? We'll be around on Blue Sky - same handle.