an epic and historic football final upcoming in an hour at Parc des Princes

- 38 year old BRA legend Marta is playing in her last international competition for her country. she has never won a WC or Olympics (including losing the gold medal matches to USA#1 in 2004 and 2008)

- the USWNT look to keep a good thing going under new manager Emma Hayes. the "Triple Espresso" front line of Smith, Rodman and Swanson (scorers of 9 of the U.S.'s 11 goals) look to impose themselves on BRA's defense

- i was hoping Hayes would swap out Albert for Rose in the starting XI. the U.S.'s midfield has been its clear weakness this tournament and Albert adds more bite and energy. well, great minds think alike as that change has been made

- U.S. defensive stalwart Naomi Girma looks to continue her dominating play. many are now calling her women football's best center-back

leggo USWNT! grab that gold

Brazilians suck so losing would be devastating

fwiw, 48 hrs ago the USWNT was -238 to win gold. right now they're -270

BRA has the midfield to spring the upset

BRA clearly the better side early

U.S. living on the edge. VAR PotG so far for the U.S.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...breaker-raygun

"Gunn, a 36-year-old Australian university lecturer known in breaking as b-girl Raygun, lost all three of her round-robin battles by a combined score of 54-0 on Friday."

WTF

Porcillo is a shameless flopper. U.S. looks tired, and service into the box have been LOLterrible.

floodgates about to open for USA

seems so. Brazil has fallen apart in the back.

Brazilians whine a bit much.

Oh it was indeed that bad

Which was magnificent

I had never seen this Madison event before and am absolutely perplexed. 200 laps, 30 bicycles on the track yet noone falls? Points for sprints every so often, points for lapping, are there also points for who finishes first or what is the purpose of these points?

What is this madness?

#3 on Brazil is soooooo annoying

Oh I believe the British sub was just the first to fall as he didn't anticipate the Dutch guy barging past (who is trying to lap everyone? I have no idea)

Rodman seems like she can run forever, which I guess isn't surprising.

the stretchers coming out in soccer will always amuse me

the U.S. women back atop their perch

it is a beautiful thing

ty Emma Hayes

that was a fun 100m hurdles

0.03 bt gold and bronze

sounds like a make a wish thing where the opposing b-girl didn't get the memo

its pretty bad tbh. too crowded, cant tell what is going on

soon though we have two of the top 5 best olympic events

the KIERIN, which features a motorbike and where the goal appears to be to crash into as many people as possible

and

the ELIMINATOR, where twenty people go out there, and if you are last after 5 laps you are OUT. so now there are 19 left, if you are last after a further 3 laps you are OUT, and so on until there are two left. its BRILLIANT

Lol eat **** Ethiopia

Men's high jumpoff for gold. Other option (which I would definitely choose) is for both dudes to get a gold.

Coffee originated in Ethiopia.

I ****ing hate coffee. Disgusting drink. People don't actually enjoy it. They pretend they do to fit in with everyone else.

in the high jump can competitors choose what height they want to attempt? if so, once they choose a height can they choose a shorter height later?

i mean it looks like they just go higher and higher but the legs are just dead, so the chances of hitting higher jumps goes down drastically as the legs get more and more fatigued

i'd like a scenario where the misses at a height still count, but you can go down to another height if you wish. this way we have competitors fresh and going for high jumps straight away when the legs are freshest

relay just just had the 200m champ vs the 400m hurdles champ over 400m flat, that was great, 200m guy nearly did it despite starting a few meters behind

full credit to the yank who refused to split the gold medal and instead forced the jump off. a gold in such circumstances is tainted.