Biggest disappointment for you in the games?

Nothing. I enjoyed it all. Everyone is giving their best, win or lose.

Easily IMO the biggest disappointment is Laura Muir falling far behind out of the gate and finishing 5th in the 1500m final. She did PB anyway, but the way she floored the gas the last 600m and was easily able to maintain a head of steam through the finish showed she held back way too much and could have easily stayed with the pack to start and more than likely had a real shot at another Olympic medal.

Instead we have to deal with Scottish apologists putting over a PB that could have easily been over a second better had she just run the damn race with everyone else.

The posters who gleefully send the athletes devastated home

NBC did a terrible job with the opening ceremony. They really needed someone with a deep knowledge of French history to help interpret what we saw on the screen. Instead they had Peyton Manning, a known sexual/steroid abuser, and Kelly Clarkson.

Similar, but the other train-wreck super-clown winning the other 100, her time equaling her IQ. At least she pulled off the Big L in the 200. Also acted like, what?... complete beeoch after the 4x. What's her effing problem??

Severe lack of shots of hot chicks in the stands by NBC, pathetic!

The last lap of the women's 1500m when I realized that neither ESP nor Hiltz had the kick they needed. Please understand that I am not disappointed IN them, I am disappointed FOR them. I think they both had reason to think they had a shot at the podium. I have rewatched it and it was a crazy race. I had hoped that maybe the US women might have an outcome like the men had. With 3:56 not even making the team this time I really thought this might be the year I would see a US woman on the podium. I thought it could have been either of them. That field was so fast, and they ran so hard and I am proud of both of them. I just wanted both of them to get a medal.

Source?

Agree. although the absurdity and tradition of it made it almost funny if that makes sense

U.S. Women’s mid and distance showings

Just a reminder that Kiplimo has had some extremely strange actions (disappearances) the last two seasons, spends large solo training periods in Italy, and is a premier Rosa athlete. Cheptegei has run 26:11 in a Covid/non-testing period, and I believe has had a training partner popped (please correct me if that is wrong). Basically, I wouldn’t be throwing stones when those two are your heroes.

1.) The Ethiopian strategy team. Whoever is setting up “team tactics” & athlete event selection for them needs to be fired. Across all middle & long events (outside the marathon), it seemed that plans - or the lack thereof - had a significant impact on outcome. Without the jets that Aregawi found in the last 50m of the 10K, it was an epic sh*t show all around. The marathon performances saved their Olympics. Without them?!?!

2.) The men’s 5K (or keep the little q’s). Change the number of heats (3 vs 2) & keep the time qualifiers for this event. (Otherwise repechage was interesting.) While there may be less of an issue with the system when the 5K are earlier in the meet schedule, like it was for the women, but the jogfest/crash-up derby that the men’s heats became was embarrassing. Add to that the lack of key players (Kejelcha, Aregawi, Cheptegei, Kiplimo, due to scratch national incompetence, or Ahmed, Nur due to crashes) made the Jingy redemption hallow.

3.) While it was ridiculous to expect Beleke/Kipcgoge fireworks, I still held out hopes. So I was disappointed with this but the men’s marathon was pretty exciting. That course! Tola’s courageous move on the critical hill!

4.) NBC’s coverage. Why can the sport not package a product we can get the world to rally behind. Our sport is currently on fire with incredible racing, fast times & a really compelling narratives. But our organizing/doping controls bodies (WA, USATF, WADA, USADA) continue to fail to answer the bell equal to athlete performance. We need to tell the stories better, place these narratives directly in the way of the casual fan to stubble upon or push into their frames/feeds & remove the barriers to entry (qualifying process,continued doping concerns, etc). Track & field could/should be THE Olympic sport. Our governing bodies fail us.

5.) Letesenbet Giday. The sport needs this woman. Especially the distances. She is the potential star, the Kipchoge of the track. No one else has the race savvy, star power, sport love to compare. I actually think Hassan has all these capacities but her life story seems to only bring divisiveness. Whether her association with Saladbar or her exile/fleeing from Ethiopia or her Muslim faith, many people fail to be inspired by her. I truly missed Giday in these Games.

Breaking was allowed as an Olympic sport.

Dude, I'm a swimmer now and I follow the sport closely. Titmus is absolutely on fire. She is the only person who has done 3:55 - and she did it twice - most recently at Aussie trials. She also swam the 200m WR at Aussie trials. Summer is fantastic, and I cheer for her. (I'm Canadian.) But Titmus is clearly the best 400m freestyler right now.

FTFY.

Kara Goucher’s commentating. All

of it.

I was pretty ticked at the US men's 4x100 team that looked like they were back in middle school again.

Other than, if this counts... missing coverage from NBC that loves splitting my TV to show adds during events or panning away to field events during track events. I love the field events but without context and watching the succession of all competitors I would rather not see it all. Field event athletes are not benefiting from watching that half a$$ed coverage either.

That they let 2 obviously doping barbies medal in the women’s 1500m