And just like that the pool swimming is over. They gave us a final 18,400m to remember them by but our summer of fun is over. We'll still see some swimming from the Triathlon and the open-water stuff but our days of indoor fun are over. Let's just remember one last time how ridiculous Michael Phelps is.
Day 8 also gave us 532,600m of running, 5,806.83m of throwing and 2,253.12m of jumping as the Track and Field programme keeps going. This gives us the following:
Totals:
Swimming: 440,150m
Running: 2,284,900m
Jumping: 2,999.27m
Throwing: 17,740.86m
Total: 2,745,790.13m
This has more than halved Rio's lead at this stage over London to 559,059.95m. That is still a big deficit though, I'd kind of been hoping that the lack of Russian athletes would have led to London coming up trumps but it's not looking great.
Hero of the day:
I've gone on before about how good the BBC coverage of the Olympics is and it is again exemplary. The absolute star of it has been Clare Balding, every time I turn on the TV she's there discussing another niche sport with aplomb and insight. It's almost like she's done some research beforehand to be able to ask relevant questions of the guest athlete who is there as the "expert."
The look of pleasant surprise on the faces of these people as they recognise that they can actually discuss the sport they love rather than give soundbites to an idiot is a joy, for that, Clare is today's hero.
R
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