Friday 10 August 2012

Olympics - day 14

A mixed bag for Team GB today. Lots going on as we get towards the end of the 30th Olympiad.

  • Athletics - no medals in the stadium today. We had finalists in a number of events, and came close in some - our men's 4 x 400m relay team came in 4th, 0.13s behind the bronze medallists, and Steve Lewis finished 5th in the pole vault. Our men's 4 x 100m relay team carried on the GB tradition by mucking up the last handover in their heat and getting disqualified.
  • Boxing - a good day for Team GB - two more through to the weekend's finals, meaning we are guaranteed three gold or silver medals in the next two days. Anthony Ogogo lost his semi-final and so finishes with a bronze.
  • Canoe Sprint - through to several finals tomorrow, so hopefully we will be able to add one to our 'sports with medals' tally tomorrow morning.
  • Cycling - BMX - both our competitors through to their finals safely, and then Shanaze came 6th whilst Liam Phillips crashed and came last. No medals for Team GB - disappointing.
  • Diving - Tom Daley just made it through the preliminary round of the 10m diving, but only managed 15th place. Really needs to pick his game up tomorrow if he wants to win a medal.
  • Hockey - the women's team picked themselves up and dusted themselves off after their semi-final disappointment and came back to win bronze by beating New Zealand 2-0. Let's hope they can also be an inspiration to the men's team in their bronze medal match tomorrow.
  • Sailing - we came into the day assured of two medals, and that's what we got. The only disappointment was that neither the men's or women's 470 pairs had a good final race and both came away with silver.
  • Swimming - after 4th place by Keri-Anne Payne yesterday, we wanted Daniel Fogg to manage at least one better placing in the 10km open water swim, but he did one worse, finishing 5th.
  • Taekwondo - an up and down day. Looked like Lutalo Muhammad was out of it when he lost his quarter-final, but thanks to other results and a win in his repechage, he was through to the bronze medal match which he won.
One other thing, here's an interesting statistic - if we exclude swimming from the medals table, we have the same number of golds as the USA (we have 25 golds including none in swimming, the USA have 41 golds including 16 in swimming)!!

TEAM GB
Today: 2 silver, 3 bronze
So far: 25 gold, 15 silver, 17 bronze
Medal table position: 3rd