Thread by @Samfr

FINAL OLYMPICS THREAD

It's all over (bar the water polo final which doesn't affect the top ten of the medal table). I feared the lack of spectators would seriously diminsh these games but I've barely felt it. They've been as enjoyable as ever. A stats thread to finish up...

With Jason Kenny and Lauren Price's golds, GB finish 4th in the medal table, tied on medals with London and just 2 behind Rio. The US just got past China to take top spot.

It really is an incredible achievement. No country has ever managed to maintain it's medal total after a home games for one further Olympics, let alone two.

It's the 4th games in a row GB has finished in the top 4. Between 1972 and 1996 we only made the top ten once.

I had predicted GB would come between 3-5th in the table, would get 15-20 golds and 50-55 medals. This was in line with AP, Gracenote and others. Comfortably beat expectations.

I had identified 139 medal chances. Only two didn't come from this list (women's gymnastics team bronze and men's lightweight four silver.) That's a v high conversion rate. In Rio we got 67 medals from 170 identified chances.

Medal total of each sport versus Rio:

Boxing +3
Sailing +2
Swimming +2
Pentathlon +2
Equestrian +2
Cycling = 0
Triathlon = 0
Diving = 0
Taekwando = 0
Hockey = 0
Judo = 0
Shooting = -1
Golf = -1
Rugby = -1
Athletics = -1
Canoeing = -2
Rowing = -3
Gymnastics = -4

The most obvious area for improvement in Paris is rowing where it's relatively easy to win medals due to lack of countries who do the sport. Taekwando the only other one I was a bit disappointed by as we came in with 5 competitors ranked in the top 2 in the world.

New GB individual records set in Tokyo:

Jason Kenny most successful GB Olympian ever: with 7 golds and 9 medals.

Laura Kenny first women to win gold in three games.

Laura K and Charlotte Dujardin first GB women with 6 medals.

Duncan Scott - first Brit to win 4 in one games.

Also:

Adam Peaty - first British swimmer to retain a title

Max Whitlock - first British gymnast to retain a title and win three golds

And GB won the Finn class sailing for the 6th consecutive time, a record streak.

Oh and actually The Queen had the best games of all. If you take the countries where she's Head of State as a single entity then she came top of the medal table with 60 golds and 168 medals

And of course there were loads of great non-GB stories:

Simone Biles comes back from the twisties to win a medal.

India's first ever athletics gold.

Karsten Warholm with one of the most incredible WR's ever.

Japan's sibling judokas winning gold within minutes of each other.

But my three favourite moments:

Tom Daley finally wins his gold in his fourth games.

Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny smash the madison.

Jason Kenny's magnificent Keirin win this morning.

I will, of course be watching the paraolympics which start on the 24th August, but sadly have to go back to work so won't be able to tweet in as much detail. (Non-sporty followers breathe a sigh of relief).

Next summer olympics is Paris 2024. Baseball/softball and karate have been dropped again and breakdancing has been added (yes really). But otherwise it's the same programme. And thank God it's in the right timezone. Looking forward to it already.

And finally if you've valued these threads then please make a donation to one of these charities. Merci et rendez-vous a Paris.

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