2016 Rio Summer Olympics

[Starvinho]

Murray far from playing his best stuff here. If it clicks then I can see him reeling off a few games in a row. At the moment he's just about doing enough.

[Adam]

Del Potro is starting to win the longer rallies now, which is bad news for Murray especially when his serve is down so much as well. But there is still a very long way to go yet.

[Meacon Keaton]

I can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that males play field hockey in other countries. Even in gym class, on field hockey day, the boys played basketball instead. It's so ingrained in American culture that that's a female sport and I'm honestly not quite sure why.

[Colly]

Probably because it wasn't invented/popularised in the US...

[Meacon Keaton]

It's very popular among females though. It's not like we ignore the sport completely. But it's not even offered to boys.

[Adam]

Yeah I don't really understand that at all. My school focused heavily on Rugby and Hockey, both primarily for the boys.

The tennis has turned hasn't it, Murray is getting smashed off the court at the moment. Del Potro is hitting harder, and Murray is playing to the Argentine's forehand which I don't really understand. I think this set has gone, he needs to regroup quickly to get going again in the third.

[The Buscher]

Yeah during the falls in my school there was football as a boy-only sport with field hockey and cheerleading for the girls.  Soccer and cross country had teams for each gender, ditto for basketball in the winter and pretty much every spring sport.  Wrestling and the ski team were officially unisex but female participation was very sparse.

Really had no idea field hockey was played by males in the rest of the world, feel like a lot of the lacrosse players from my school would have thrived.

[TCO]

Over here hockey and cricket are seen as sports played almost entirely in protestant schools. 

It's not popular to the masses at all.

[Colly]

Yeah, but you have that terrifying hockey played at head height. Jaysus.

[TCO]

Hurling is pretty fucking mental alright.

I was never any good at it though, takes insane hand to eye co-ordination and I was also a bit soft. So association football was the only thing I played at a high level!

[Meacon Keaton]

...I do not understand the one-on-one bicycle racing at all.

[Adam]

Cavendish really tossed up in the Elimination Race. Rivals had gone out and he gets DQed for an illegal undertake. No idea what Victoria Pendleton was moaning about though, there was no doubt it was an infringement.

Murray has turned the screw on Del Petro thankfully, two straight breaks to win the third set and go within a set of victory. Del Potro is looking leggy now.

[Starvinho]

Del Potro is looking fucked. Could be the beginning of the end...

[Gazz]

Now Murray looks rattled. 

[Starvinho]

It keeps going back-and-forth. One game Murray looks unstoppable and the next Del Potro does. It's a great match. Murray needs to break here to stay in the set...

...and Murray breaks!

[Bobfoc]

Both players seem to be pulling great shots out of the bag before mucking it up minutes later.

[Starvinho]

Murray actually held his serve! Del Potro will now serve to stay in the match...

[Bobfoc]

I hope Murray wins this set, not just because I want to see another British gold, but because I want to watch the athletics too.

[Starvinho]

Yes! Get in there Murray lad!!

[Bobfoc]

That makes Murray the first man to retain the Olympic title.

In athletics news, Kim Collins is about to run in the 100m semi-finals at the age of 40. That's a remarkable achievement in an event often considered a youngsters' game. There's also a guy called Bolt in there.