Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Olympics - day 5

The medals have started to come!

  1. GOLD - for the hugely impressive pairing of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the rowing. Our first gold of the games, and the first ever women's rowing gold for Team GB.
  2. Bronze - for the men's eight rowers, and Greg Searle gets another medal twenty years after he picked up gold in Barcelona along with his brother and their blubbing cox.
  3. GOLD and bronze - two medals in one race - the men's cycling time trial. The soon-to-be-knighted Bradley Wiggins cruised to a gold medal to go along with his Tour de France win, whilst Chris Froome got a great bronze to go with his Tour de France runners up place. Wiggins now has 7 Olympic medals - the most of any GB Olympian. Mind you, if things go well, Hoy might be challenging that soon.
  4. Silver - in the pool for Michael Jamieson in the 200m breaststroke, a race in which Team GB has some pedigree (Wilkie, Goodhew, Moorhouse). It took a new world record to beat him, and even then, only just.
So, more than doubled the medal total today, and in other encouraging news, Murray is through to the quarter-finals, as are the men's football team, having beaten Uruguay 1-0 this evening to top their group.

TEAM GB
Today: 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
So far: 2 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze
Medal table position: 11th