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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 23, 2024 19:32:33 GMT 1
^^^
I only read that quickly, and I thought it was Gold medal odds. And then I thought "I missed the annuncement that darts was now an Olympic sport. Must have happened at the same time as break dancing was added."
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Post by Panda on Jul 23, 2024 19:41:02 GMT 1
^^^ I only read that quickly, and I thought it was Gold medal odds. And then I thought "I missed the annuncement that darts was now an Olympic sport. Must have happened at the same time as break dancing was added." If darts was in the Olympics, at least it would be two nailed-on gold medals for GB on current form.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 11:58:58 GMT 1
2 days away from the Opening Ceremony but the football and rugby sevens competitions get underway today. FOOTBALLMEN GROUP A France USA Guinea Switzerland GROUP B Argentina Morocco Iraq Ukraine GROUP C Uzbekistan Spain Egypt Dominican Republic GROUP D Japan Paraguay Mali Israel WOMEN GROUP A France Colombia Canada New Zealand GROUP B USA Zambia Germany Australia GROUP C Spain Japan Nigeria Brazil The men's tournament is an under-23, with 3 overage players allowed. The women's competition is full senior teams. No GB in either tournament. England won the European U21 Championship last year, which acted as the European qualifier but there was no agreement in place between the home nations for GB to be represented so losing semi-finalists Israel and Ukraine both qualified without the need for a playoff. There is an agreement in place for the women to compete and they did so in Tokyo but they failed to qualify for Paris after England, who'd been nominated as the team that was trying to qualify, narrowly missed out on the Nations League semi-finals. Had the World Cup been used as Europe's Olympic qualifier as it previously was, GB would've been in thanks to England reaching the final.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 12:04:37 GMT 1
RUGBY SEVENSMEN GROUP A New Zealand Ireland South Africa Japan GROUP B Argentina Australia Samoa Kenya GROUP C Fiji France USA Uruguay WOMEN GROUP A New Zealand Fiji Canada China GROUP B Australia Ireland Great Britain South Africa GROUP C France USA Japan Brazil
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Post by o on Jul 24, 2024 12:35:33 GMT 1
Stags have got an 18yo gk in the Dominican Republic side, I feel he will get plenty of practice if he plays! All great experience for him though! We have another gk who plays for Northern Ireland U21s? And also sold another to Leicester for 50k, be nice to see some of them get a chance on the bench, or go out on loan and get experience.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 13:50:19 GMT 1
Predicted medals for GB, sport-by-sport:
ATHLETICS (2-0-4) CANOEING (2-2-0) CYCLING (3-6-3) DIVING (0-2-2) EQUESTRIAN (1-0-4) GYMNASTICS (1-0-1) MODERN PENTATHLON (0-1-0) ROWING (6-0-0) SAILING (0-4-0) SHOOTING (0-1-2) SKATEBOARDING (0-0-1) SWIMMING (1-2-2) TAEKWONDO (1-0-3) TENNIS (0-0-1) TRIATHLON (0-2-2) WEIGHTLIFTING (0-0-1)
TOTAL: 17-20-26
This is based on Gracenote's Virtual Medal Table. Sports Illustrated has done its own prediction for every medal and I will try and produce a comparison if I have time.
Things to note from this list: GB is predicted to return to dominance in rowing after failing to win a gold in Tokyo. The cycling medals are fairly spread between track, BMX and mountain bike with the VMT predicting 2 track cycling golds, in addition to Tom Pidcock in the mountain biking. No gold medals are predicted for GB in sailing, which would be the first time since 1996. GB is predicted to win bronze in the men's doubles in tennis. The list I've seen doesn't specify which pair but I suspect the prediction is based on Salisbury and Skupski, rather than Murray and Evans. After reasonable success in gymnastics in recent Games, the VMT predicts just a single bronze medal in artistic gymnastics, with GB's gold coming on the trampoline. GB is not predicted to win a single medal in boxing, which again, would be the first time since 1996.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 16:30:08 GMT 1
Gracenote has published its final Virtual Medal Table for Paris 2024. It has GB winning 63 medals in total (17 gold), one less than in Tokyo, finishing 3rd in total medals behind the USA and China and 4th in gold medals behind those two and hosts France. It's worth mentioning that the Virtual Medal Table predicted 52 medals for GB in Tokyo three years ago. I haven't been able to find a full list of GB's predicted medals yet but gold medals are predicted for Keely Hodgkinson and Matt Hudson-Smith (who both set new national records at the weekend), Adam Peaty, Tom Pidcock, taekwondo fighter Bradly Sinden, trampolinist Bryony Page and canoeists Joe Clarke and Kimberley Woods. Rowing is predicted to be GB's most successful sport with 6 gold medals. Top 10 on the Virtual Medal Table: 1. USA 39 gold - 32 silver - 41 bronze - 112 in total 2. China 34 - 27 - 25 - 86 3. Great Britain 17 - 20 - 26 - 63 4. France 27 - 21 - 12 - 60 5. Australia 15 - 23 - 16 - 54 6. Japan 13 - 13 - 21 - 47 7. Italy 11 - 19 - 16 - 46 8. Germany 11 - 12 - 12 - 35 9. Netherlands 16 - 10 - 8 - 34 10. South Korea 9 - 4 - 13 - 26 Beyond the top 10, Brazil are predicted to win 8 golds, Switzerland are forecast to win 12 medals but no golds, and 10 medals are forecast for Ireland, including 2 golds. Medal table based on Sports Illustrated's predictions: 1. USA 43 - 37 - 36 - 116 2. China 34 - 22 - 28 - 84 3. France 18 - 28 - 18 - 64 4. Great Britain 29 - 20 - 14 - 63 5. Australia 15 - 19 - 24 - 58 6. Japan 21 - 10 - 15 - 46 7. Italy 18 - 12 - 13 - 43 8. Germany 12 - 17 - 14 - 43 9. Netherlands 11 - 11 - 14 - 36 10. Spain 10 - 8 - 10 - 28 Gracenote's medal table has 90 teams winning a medal, with 68 winning gold. SI's medal table has 92 teams winning a medal, with 57 winning gold.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 24, 2024 17:00:48 GMT 1
Predicted medals for GB, sport-by-sport: EQUESTRIAN (1-0-4) I suspect that gold was Charlotte Dujardin, so we can strike that from the predictor. Her absence, however, might convert a bronze into a silver, or a blank into a bronze.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 17:03:17 GMT 1
Predicted medals for GB, sport-by-sport: EQUESTRIAN (1-0-4) I suspect that gold was Charlotte Dujardin, so we can strike that from the predictor. Her absence, however, might convert a bronze into a silver, or a blank into a bronze. Actually it's Tom McEwan in the eventing. It doesn't appear that they were predicting Dujardin for an individual medal. They have Lottie Fry winning individual bronze in the dressage, as well as bronze for the team dressage event.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 17:56:47 GMT 1
Crazy scenes in the Argentina v Morocco football match. Morocco led 2-0, Argentina pulled one back, the ref added on 15 minutes of stoppage time, which had just expired when Argentina scored an equaliser. It looked like the ref had blown for full-time as the players immediately left the pitch but it turned out the ref was taking the players off because of Moroccan fans throwing things on the pitch. While the players have been off, VAR has disallowed the equaliser! They're about to come back out to play 3 more minutes of stoppage time in an empty stadium, 4 hours after the game kicked off.
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Post by rubcale on Jul 24, 2024 18:13:00 GMT 1
Surprised the rowers are predicted to win 6 golds.
I thought they'd slipped back a bit?
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 18:22:09 GMT 1
Surprised the rowers are predicted to win 6 golds. I thought they'd slipped back a bit? They couldn't really slip back any further from Tokyo. They won 4 golds in Olympic events at last year's World Championships and 5 golds at this year's European Championships.
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Post by o on Jul 24, 2024 18:22:32 GMT 1
Crazy scenes in the Argentina v Morocco football match. Morocco led 2-0, Argentina pulled one back, the ref added on 15 minutes of stoppage time, which had just expired when Argentina scored an equaliser. It looked like the ref had blown for full-time as the players immediately left the pitch but it turned out the ref was taking the players off because of Moroccan fans throwing things on the pitch. While the players have been off, VAR has disallowed the equaliser! They're about to come back out to play 3 more minutes of stoppage time in an empty stadium, 4 hours after the game kicked off. Yes I just had the footy on Eurosport and they were doing a roundup, and got to this game, and assumed it was called off due to the Moroccan fans going mad and throwing cups on the pitch. Maybe if they'd announced it was disallowed by VAR they might have calmed down. I dont think it will be the last example of crowds doing this!
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 18:25:42 GMT 1
Crazy scenes in the Argentina v Morocco football match. Morocco led 2-0, Argentina pulled one back, the ref added on 15 minutes of stoppage time, which had just expired when Argentina scored an equaliser. It looked like the ref had blown for full-time as the players immediately left the pitch but it turned out the ref was taking the players off because of Moroccan fans throwing things on the pitch. While the players have been off, VAR has disallowed the equaliser! They're about to come back out to play 3 more minutes of stoppage time in an empty stadium, 4 hours after the game kicked off. Yes I just had the footy on Eurosport and they were doing a roundup, and got to this game, and assumed it was called off due to the Moroccan fans going mad and throwing cups on the pitch. Maybe if they'd announced it was disallowed by VAR they might have calmed down. I dont think it will be the last example of crowds doing this! I signed up to Discovery+ last night so have been watching the football this afternoon. Not overly impressed with Eurosport's coverage so far but it might be different once they move to the proper studio setup.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 21:08:23 GMT 1
Tom Daley and Helen Glover have been announced as GB's flagbearers at the Opening Ceremony. Daley is competing at his 5th Olympics, having made his debut as a 14-year-old in Beijing in 2008. Glover will be competing at her 4th Games.
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Post by o on Jul 24, 2024 22:31:22 GMT 1
Discovery+ is telling me I have to subscribe to watch the games on their channel? (ie money) So I'll stick to Eurosport and their live games and roundups.
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Post by Panda on Jul 24, 2024 23:10:41 GMT 1
I didn't have Eurosport to start with. A bit annoyed that I paid £6.99 last night and today they've started a trial offer of £3.99 a month for the rest of the year.
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Post by Ligerswubsme007 on Jul 25, 2024 0:28:02 GMT 1
Starts tommrow bet ages show break dancing N red button live fotteyyyy hour long Lost
Ligers roxs
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Post by lordmelbury on Jul 25, 2024 5:56:48 GMT 1
I hope we don't get any of this "Super Saturday" garbage rammed in our ears and faces by Auntie Beeb when the athletics begin.
It's just stealing off Sky Sports and changing the Sunday to Saturday.
In Tokyo finishing 4th in the Medal Table was a step back after being third in Rio and third in London, but the media chose to ignore that and saw it as good because the gold medal count was higher than in London, but ignored that it was less than in Rio.
Hopefully there will be improvement from four years ago.
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Post by lordmelbury on Jul 25, 2024 5:58:20 GMT 1
^^^ I only read that quickly, and I thought it was Gold medal odds. And then I thought "I missed the annuncement that darts was now an Olympic sport. Must have happened at the same time as break dancing was added." If darts was in the Olympics, at least it would be two nailed-on gold medals for GB on current form. Never going to happen, you have around the same amount of chance of that becoming an Olympic sport as much as Hurling, ensuring nailed on medals for Ireland.
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