Tokyo Olympics 2020 (deferred to 2021)

Expectations against reality: I don't think I've ever seen anyone more devastated at getting silver instead of gold than Dina Averina in the rhythmic gymnastics final, or anyone so ecstatically delighted at getting bronze as Alina Harnasko after ranking fourth in the first three rotations.

Ooh, the Russians are unhappy at the rhythmic gymnastics results. They're claiming the results were fixed because winner Linoy Ashram (Israel) dropped her ribbon during the final rotation and so it's apparently not possible that she could have beaten Russian Dina Averina. (Never mind that Averina herself dropped her ribbon in a competition in 2018 and still came first.) They're being terribly poor losers, and the Russian fans are posting insanely xenophobic comments all over social media. It's almost like they think that because Dina Averina has dominated RG for the past few years she has a right to gold just by turning up.

It's all rubbish, of course. The current code of points has no real limit on the difficulty score: it can go as high as the number of points you can cram into 90 seconds so with enough difficulty a gymnast can easily (well, not easily: it's called a difficulty score, after all) offset minor errors by performing a more difficult routine. And that's what Ashram did: her difficulty scores were higher than Averina's right across the board so the 1.7 deduction she got on the ribbon wasn't enough to wipe out her lead.

After the exemplary behaviour of the artistic gymnasts supporting and congratulating each other, and the behaviour of the other rhythmic gymnasts doing the same, it's disappointing to see how the Russians are throwing their toys out of their pram. Terrible sportsgymnastship.

And the Russians came second in the rhythmic gymnastics group competition as well. Head coach Irina Viner has a reputation for being somewhat uncompromising — brutally abusive, some would say, and one commentator once said she could give lessons to Tony Soprano — so I expect the Russian gymnasts are in for a miserable few days for not coming home with gold.

(I like Russians as people, but the state's constant desperation to show that they're winners makes me think of an overweight middle-aged man with an expensive sports car and a fierce dog.)

How bizarre is the syncro swimming. Very skilled but also makes me laugh when they walk to the pool with their nose clips on. It's like watching the North Korean army marching in swimsuits.

A massive well done to the whole GB team coming in with 65 medals, equalling 2012 and at fourth place in the medal table. A credit to the whole country in what has been a difficult year especially for those trying to train.

Anyone else feeling sad now it's over? There were so many things to watch and for the past three days I've been getting up around 02:00 to follow the gymnastics and now all the events have finished and it's ... OK, what do I do now?

I think that's more than a bit unfair given she won two of the four disciplines!

As the 2x defending champion she was always going to be picked, but GB could have given Elinor Barker or Katie Archibald the ride instead. Though given she didn't ride the team pursuit final Barker may not have been on top form either.

I don't normally follow sport but I got sucked into the Olympics even if it leads to tiredness due to getting up to watch events early in the morning. I am glad the 2024 Games are in Paris so I can view it at a decent time

That rash was the Italian job. A pretty nasty cash and very surprised everyone got up and was able to carry, however crashes do have consequences.

None of that means she didn't mentally show up though, which is what you accused her of. She clearly did given her performance in the two events she won today, and the fact she fought right to the end to take the last sprint despite not being able to win by then.