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3.21pm BST

Volleyball: Turkey win the third set 25-17! Get those rally caps on, Turkish fans. “We’re going to find out what these world champions are made of,” says the TV commentator. “This is the Olympic stage.”

Call Me Maybe plays around the arena, which is straight from the London 2012 playlist. 17mil views! The US swimmers did well here.

3.13pm BST

Remember when I was going on about the brilliant table tennis commentator during the women’s final? I’m not surprised to learn that we have a Adam Bobrow feature on the site from 2019. What a guy. More importantly, what a fantastic ambassador for his sport.

Over the years, Bobrow has parlayed both his lifelong obsession with table tennis and endless, unabashed exuberance into viral fame, receiving millions of views on YouTube for goofy videos like “Enter the Snake: Twist of Fury” and “Excessive Ping Pong Celebration”. He’s also made a career out of it. As the official commentator for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), the sport’s main governing body, Bobrow is known as the “voice of table tennis” to fans across the world. He travels with the ITTF’s annual world tour all year long, from Budapest to Japan to Australia, living out of a suitcase painted with illustrations of famous players. As far as he knows, he’s the world’s only full-time table tennis commentator.

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