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Post by Panda on Aug 17, 2008 13:09:58 GMT 1
GB's Jeanette Kwakye is through to the final of the women's 100m!
Louis Smith has just won a bronze in the gymnastics!
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Post by rubcale on Aug 17, 2008 13:44:34 GMT 1
GB's Jeanette Kwakye is through to the final of the women's 100m! Louis Smith has just won a bronze in the gymnastics! For me this is what it is about to a great extent. Yes, you do celebrate the medals but as long as everyone gives of their best then you can ask no more. I have to admit I was a bit turned off by Paula's tears. Surely there must be a couple more golds in the cycling but even so GB will finish high in the medals table. Maybe I'm jumping the gun and since I'm always wrong it will hopefully go the other way but how successful will the games be judged for us if we come away with NO medals at all in the athletics. At this stage there is a real possibility of that. I'm sure the bookies aren't offering too high odds on this.
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Post by Panda on Aug 17, 2008 13:53:43 GMT 1
GB's Jeanette Kwakye is through to the final of the women's 100m! Louis Smith has just won a bronze in the gymnastics! For me this is what it is about to a great extent. Yes, you do celebrate the medals but as long as everyone gives of their best then you can ask no more. I have to admit I was a bit turned off by Paula's tears. Surely there must be a couple more golds in the cycling but even so GB will finish high in the medals table. Maybe I'm jumping the gun and since I'm always wrong it will hopefully go the other way but how successful will the games be judged for us if we come away with NO medals at all in the athletics. At this stage there is a real possibility of that. I'm sure the bookies aren't offering too high odds on this. Britain has a very good chance of at least 4 more golds in cycling... Even if we got nothing in athletics, I don't think it would take anything away from the overall performance. It would be a worry for next year's World Championships but the Olympics is all about success and we've had plenty of it in other sports. Anyway, even with Kelly Sotherton missing out, I think we should get at least 3 medals in athletics (Idowu, Ohuruogu/Sanders, women's 4x4) and we have outside chances in other events (Greg Rutherford in the long jump, Martyn Rooney in the 400m, Andy Baddeley and Lisa Dobriskey in the men's and women's 1500m). Tasha Danvers looked good in her 400m hurdles heat as well.
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Post by Thor on Aug 17, 2008 14:01:05 GMT 1
Yeah, it's hard to complain about the poor athletics year when we've won so much elsewhere. I'm not sure it matters that much. The main thing is we're ahead of the Germans!
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Post by o on Aug 17, 2008 14:17:22 GMT 1
A great bronze in the horse/Gymnastics, our first ever medal in that event, amazing!
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Post by madison on Aug 17, 2008 17:22:36 GMT 1
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Post by rubcale on Aug 18, 2008 8:39:01 GMT 1
For me this is what it is about to a great extent. Yes, you do celebrate the medals but as long as everyone gives of their best then you can ask no more. I have to admit I was a bit turned off by Paula's tears. Surely there must be a couple more golds in the cycling but even so GB will finish high in the medals table. Maybe I'm jumping the gun and since I'm always wrong it will hopefully go the other way but how successful will the games be judged for us if we come away with NO medals at all in the athletics. At this stage there is a real possibility of that. I'm sure the bookies aren't offering too high odds on this. Britain has a very good chance of at least 4 more golds in cycling... Even if we got nothing in athletics, I don't think it would take anything away from the overall performance. It would be a worry for next year's World Championships but the Olympics is all about success and we've had plenty of it in other sports. Anyway, even with Kelly Sotherton missing out, I think we should get at least 3 medals in athletics (Idowu, Ohuruogu/Sanders, women's 4x4) and we have outside chances in other events (Greg Rutherford in the long jump, Martyn Rooney in the 400m, Andy Baddeley and Lisa Dobriskey in the men's and women's 1500m). Tasha Danvers looked good in her 400m hurdles heat as well. I am pretty shocked at Nicola Sanders exit in the 400m semis. Admittedly injury really set her back but after last year's worlds I thought she would go on to surpass Ohurugu. I admit I'm pessimistic - I now see the women's 400 tream coming 4th and I'm not convinced Idowu will perform under pressure in the final although his qualification was impressive. Magnificent silver from the men's 470 sailors as they went into the final race in 4th place. Ther are good chances of more medals here: The men's RSX windsurfer are in 3nd place but it is tight at the top and could go any way while the women's RSX are in 4th place but only 2pts from 4rd. The Star men's keelboat is lying 4th but only 3 points behind the silver medal position and dare I mention it - in the Men's laser one person after 8 races Paul Goodison is 17 (seventeen points) ahead of his nearest challenger. No counting of chickens..............
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Post by Panda on Aug 18, 2008 10:08:49 GMT 1
Also Martyn Rooney and Andrew Steele both looking impressive in the 400m heats this morning. A comfortable 45.00 for Rooney and a PB of 44.97 for Steele... It'd be great if both make the final.
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Post by Panda on Aug 18, 2008 10:37:39 GMT 1
Paul Goodison's lead in the laser is so big, he just has to avoid finishing last in the medal race tomorrow to win gold!
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Post by Panda on Aug 18, 2008 11:35:41 GMT 1
Gold for Britain in the team pursuit and another world record!
That takes us ahead of Australia again in the medal table!
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Post by Panda on Aug 18, 2008 13:00:41 GMT 1
Sarah Claxton qualifies for the 100m hurdles final!
Beth Tweddle narrowly missed out on a medal in the uneven bars.
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 10:11:45 GMT 1
Paul Goodison clinched GB's 13th gold in the sailing this morning.
Britain are guaranteed another gold in cycling as the men's sprint has an all-British final between Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny. Victoria Pendleton is through to the women's final.
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 12:26:28 GMT 1
Golds for Victoria Pendleton and Chris Hoy! Jason Kenny takes silver behind Hoy as well.
15 golds now. It's GB's most successful Olympics for 100 years and in 1908, there were only 22 countries taking part at the games...
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Post by o on Aug 19, 2008 12:41:05 GMT 1
Amazing!
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Post by Robin on Aug 19, 2008 12:51:54 GMT 1
Blimey, they just keep coming!
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 12:52:45 GMT 1
GB's medal tally at previous Olympics:
Athens 1896: 2 gold - 3 silver - 2 bronze Paris 1900: 15-6-9 St. Louis 1904: 1-1-0 London 1908: 56-51-39 Stockholm 1912: 10-15-16 Antwerp 1920: 15-15-13 Paris 1924: 9-13-12 Amsterdam 1928: 3-10-7 Los Angeles 1932: 4-7-5 Berlin 1936: 4-7-3 London 1948: 3-14-6 Helsinki 1952: 1-2-8 Melbourne 1956: 6-7-11 Rome 1960: 2-6-12 Tokyo 1964: 4-12-2 Mexico City 1968: 5-5-3 Munich 1972: 4-5-9 Montreal 1976: 3-5-5 Moscow 1980: 5-7-9 Los Angeles 1984: 5-11-21 Seoul 1988: 5-10-9 Barcelona 1992: 5-3-12 Atlanta 1996: 1-8-6 Sydney 2000: 11-10-7 Athens 2004: 9-9-12
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 13:00:36 GMT 1
Just a shame Wiggins & Mark Cavendish didn't get a medal today as we would've been able to add the Isle of Man to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in terms of medal winners...
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 14:00:15 GMT 1
Germaine Mason has got GB's first athletics medal in the high jump with a silver!
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 14:21:10 GMT 1
Tony Jeffries guarantees Britain a second boxing medal by reaching the semi-finals in the light-heavyweight division.
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Post by Panda on Aug 19, 2008 15:14:11 GMT 1
Christine Ohuruogu wins gold in the 400m!!
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