Team GB have managed to get a couple of medals but we are way down the table as the ceremonies begin to take place. The action continues today, with Tom Daley in the final of the 10m synchronised diving, and the men's team final in gymnastics. There are also medals up for grabs in the fencing, both men's and women's judo, men's air rifle shooting, men's and women's weightlifting, plus some fantastic opportunities in the pool. The swimming so far has been fantastic to watch, so hopefully that will continue today.
London 2012, Day 3
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All those live streams and I am not there to see them! Epic FOMO today!! :)
Watching the sailing, some great graphics, and good commentary. If you get a chance to watch any 49er racing, do so - that is the 'F1' of dinghy racing :)
im watcing the archery, china v korea, im liking it, only see these sports every 4 years and they are pretty good,
Zoe Smith lifted 90kg quite easily in the weightlifting final. Going for 93kg which is a British record...
last bow korea need 8 or moreto win, and they get a 9, on the last bow they win by 1, 7 gold medals in a row they are saying... its fair to say they dominate womens archery
I'll probably be on TV in court 1 because I'm only 5 rows behind the players chairs
who is playing?
Ah, can't do it... nearly takes out a judge in the mean time.
If anybody wants to see HUGE flags moving very quickly, sailing now :)
Monaco v Goffin at the moment, serena up next
Who fancies a game of Where's Amy? http://t.co/c35oPgKt
they just had lleytons match on here and now they are showing robson v safarova
robson up a break early in the first set...
i should say "aussie" robson.......................
Zoe Smith leading in the weightlifting... breaks British record... not half bad!
Currently the Kiwi is leading in the Finn sailing, and Ben Ainslie isn't far behind.
Spectacular kit clash going on in the handball.
robson takes the first set
Trying to keep an eye on the BBC live text as the diving gets underway. Goooo Tom and Pete!
Also just read that the GB women's hockey captain had to have a plate in her jaw after the last game. Ouch!!
It doesn't live refresh though, have to press a button. Mr C > BBC.
Finn sailing: Kiwi won that race, Ben Ainslie 6th.
Ooo - that looked like a good dive from TeamTomD :)
Yay!
into equal 1st place after that one :)
I can remember when Tom Daley was tiny compared his partner, now he's taller.
Out of time compared to China, though?
True - fingers crossed it's just nerves
They've swapped sides of the diving board for this one
She got smashed in the face with a stick. There was lots of blood and stuff. Then one of her team mates had a ball smashed into her knee and had to be carried off too.
Kiwi and Finn and Amy isn't there. I thought that was her favourite combination.
Looked even better that one :)
That looked a hell of a lot better.
After 2/6, GBR top by 0.6 (but those were the easy ones ;) )
I'm surprised more people don't clunk into the diving boards.
Never mind Mr C, you guys are much better than silly old Beeb text :)
I'm guessing those that have tendencies to do that have either learnt not to, or haven't got this far.
Looks like the Cuban divers' names are anagrams of each other. I wonder whether that is a requirement by their Olympic Committee.
Wow :)
Ever so slightly out of time (only ever so slightly), ... 91.08 :P
Gbr top at halfway by 2.4 pts
And now i have to go out to get Alli from the train - NM! Come on TeamTomD
Mexico did an insane dive, apparently, 95.4 which is a big score...
Daley/Waterfield have messed it up big time. 71.28 score.... Oh dear.
Whaaaaaat?
Dropped to 2nd to 4th.... the screens haven't showed us the scores...
Sorry, from 1st to 4th.
Anyone else thinking no golds this year for Team GB?
I think they need a miracle for bronze now...
The only person I've seen live up to the promise so far is Beth Tweddle. Still loads of days left though.
Just seem to be a lot of the people who were seen as favourites or close to favourite for gold failing miserably like Cavendish. I get the impression the whole team is under-performing
GB need 102 to get bronze... unlikely...
91.8.... 4th.
I think we have missed some good opportunities but I've also seen us doing well in football and hockey and badminton and table tennis. Jessica Ennis (goodnight) hasn't even started yet!
Boo, oh well. They went for it, at least. Better than just bein rubbish. Thanks for the updates!
We won't be getting any Badminton medals... got a chance with football i reckon!
I think the performance in Beijing has a lot to do with it. Arguably we over-performed compared to recent games, and people are generally expecting the same or better, which is not necessarily going to be the case. We got the same number of gold medals in 2008 than 2000 and 2004 combined.
:(
Don't forget gymnastics men team final now
I think as long as we get one medal, it's okay, then the rest is a bonus. Kinda like the Eurovision - anything but nil points!!
NBC keep on giving... https://twitter.com/fieldproducer/status/229978748676620289
Hey all
Gymnastics ouch
GBR men's gym team 1 piece left = floor, looks like contention for 3rd.
we got a bronze!
We have a silver!!!!!
Erhm = SILVER !!
And our commentators have exploded
Matt Baker is about to divide by zero
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Right, so I'm just starting the gymnastics coverage but spoilers shmoilers. A medal!!
OMG I was at the fencing today. It was AMAZING. I have come home to watch the semi finals and there is the mother of all controversies....
Japan look like they're all about to kill someone
There is a major argument about how long 1 second can last....
Irony being they could have replayed the entire fencing match in the time they've been arguing about it.....
and still we wait for the result of the protest ...
There are princes in the audience!
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a long time. Makes the FIA look fair and reasonable.
awww.
Farce
The referee decided straight away. Can't they just support her decision and argue how the rules could be improved later? Both the fencers have another match later to decide the medals.
So, what's happening in the fencing?
There was 1 second left. If a point was scored the German would win, if not the Korean would win. The German did score and the ref awarded the point. Then the Korean coach went mad and started whining that there'd been longer than 1 second.
They've then both had to sit on the stage for 25 minutes since then while random beaurocrats argue with each other.
The point has been awarded. Quite fairly I would say. The Korean is now having a breakdown on the stage. She's supposed to be going into a bronze medal fight in about 20 minutes.
Isn't all the point-scoring system computer controlled - so wouldn't allow the score outside the time ... ?
Yes it's stopped when the sword makes a touch. But it turns out it's started by a man who presses a button when the ref says go. His reactions appear not to be so sharp as the fencers'.
It's been explained that the Korean athlete is staging a sit-in.
Haha! Really??
oh my.
You'd've thought that the timings would've been computer controlled then.
Good luck sitting there with guys with sword coming at you ;)
*puts the fencing on*
It would be her competing in the next fight. The disputed match is the semi-final to decide if you go to the gold or bronze medal fight. The bronze medal match is already over its scheduled start time now.
The commentator has gone to check it out and eveerything
I'm going back to check it out :)
She is angry and she has a sword though so I'd wish anyone trying to move her on some good luck!
they are announcing she's got every right to sit there as leaving it means she accepts the decision
How on earth is she going to fence in another match after this though.
Is she just going to stay there all night?
The whole problem comes from the clock not counting in fractions of a second
might as well do a dance.
And also having 'some guy' starting and stopping it with a human error delay.
So rather than dividing that 1 second up (like you'd think it should), each time the match was started at 1s, it looks like they started from a whole 1s. (The rubbishy human error system seems to make it all worse.)
How can that be in this day and age?
Yes, they were playing sudden death. The clock got down to 1 second. The first time they both hit each other at once. The 2nd and 3rd times they hit each other at once. And then this last time the German scored against her.
So yes this 1 second lasted for 4 starts. Because, as you say, the clock can only manage whole seconds at a time.
I can see that it seems unfair. But similarly, the Korean would win in case of a tie because of a random draw so....
Archaic sport seems to have archaic set of rules, and is probably scored using an abacus.
:D
From personal experience, the clocks were pretty naff this morning! One of them randomly reset to 4 minutes in the middle of a fight earlier. They had to press through a second at a time to get it up to the right time to restart. So erm.... cutting edge stuff.
apparently the announcer saying now that korea have to pay money, whaa..?
Rent?
Tube tickets perhaps :)
That's a standard thing. It's like a deposit. I think the point is to stop people protesting at random.
strange to announce it though to a crowd surely!
Yes that is weird.... Because it is pretty standard.
How can I speak to those fencing commentators?! I want to direct them to our thoughts
I like that the BBC are plugging their own rewind features to see the controversy again
I just want more fencing :( I was enjoying it. I was so happy when the German lady scored as well because it was a very well deserved win.
I just came home and was like "oh maybe I'll watch the final"
Time for swimming I guess.
Can't believe this is still going
good idea
go on gemma!
aww she just missed out.
By-Jove I think he [fencing comm.]'s got it! What do people think the outcome should be? ...
Liam Tancock up next.
Swimmers have such a swagger now,
I can never work out how swimmers turn, it looks so tangly
We keep coming fifth!
It is not simple, but is just a technique.
we just want a medal!
The Korean lady has got up and left while I was distracted with the swimming.
She was sobbing after they told her no dice, and was escorted by one of the most head-honchos in the world of fencing.
The appeal has not been successful.
The commentators have said they're leaving to turn roaving reporter.....
Fencing is back.
Bronze medal fencing is go! The Korean is back. I'm sure the whole stadium is gonna be behind her for the medal.
Look's like she is psyched and determined: now 0-2 up.
How much do you think Omega have paid for the privilege of being universally embarrassed.
Something weird happened in the swimming and now a man in a toolbox has arrived to fix something.
That was odd..
Awww the Korean fencer has been beaten by the world number 1. She's come 4th, no medal.
It is COLD at the top of the hockey stand at night. Very windy! Glad I packed my hoody today.
Is this Hannah Miley in another final?
It's a semi-final, I think.
Oooh they changed stroke
IM: fly back breast crawl
Four!
and again!
amazing!
hannah is doing well
If only this was a final ;)
Second! Fab.
That was impressive.
Hannah - 2:10.89, let's see where it puts her.
I miss all the cool stuff. Hope they live streamed whatever he did but lack of comments suggests not
I remember a few Olympics ago there was a sit in at the boxing. I think that involved a Korean or it was the 1988 games in Korea
That was a fast heat.
He just sort of opened it up, poked a few bits and went away again. The starting procedure all worked fine the second time.
I saw that recently. They just turned the lights out and left him there. Comedy gold.
He needs Alex and Bassano to show him how to make fixing stuff interesting
That's the one.
The timing system version of hitting it with a hammer - short of turning it all off and then all on again.
I read a brilliant piece by the Olympics communications officer. He said the reason there was no on screen data from the men's cycling road race was that networks were blocked with people tweeting. Apparently there would not have been a problem if people just used twitter for emergencies and he hoped that is what would happen for the rest of the Games.
Uttely moronic. Plan for people to only tweet emergencies because that is going to happen
When does anybody ever tweet in an emergency? Would just looking and refreshing you stream would 'clog the air' similarly?
That comment was comedic. Mobile data has been really dodgy in London all day. I had full signal for calls and texts but no mobile data coverage. I was on the train home and it popped back up as soon as the train got a few miles out of waterloo.
Cripes I just watched the end of the gymnastics. Controversy all round.
At least this protest had the correct result.
And by correct I do of course mean fair.
Tomorrow's schedule: http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/day=31-july/all-day.html
I don't know that other result was particularly unfair overall. The Korean girl basically had a strategy that involved hiding, running away and waiting for the clock to run down. She'd been doing that for several minutes.
I don't think that makes you hugely deserving of the victory. At the end of the day, both players involved lost their next match and I think the judicial farce afterwards had a big part to play in that.
eeesh, some people are clueless.
problem solved - http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/want-to-see-the-future-of-mobile-coverage-go-to-a-baseball-game/
I thought you were going to suggest people tweet in pictures so they could work out who was in the lead from that ;)
I would agree with you on the tactics front, but the final second was played 4 times, and that isn't fair. Especially if your strategy at that time is to run and hide, that counts against you a lot more than is fair.
Just starting: GBR women's volleyball vs Algeria + Legard on the mic.
heh.
Baseball is so far ahead
very much is. we're in the wrong country and following the wrong sport.
I am watching baseball right now
oh :)
I am loving coming home to find that there is still some handball going on.
It turned out that she had committed a technical infringement the 2nd time and was given a yellow card which is why the clock was reset. The German then scored straight after the clock was reset.
That is news :) And makes every make more sense. Still doesn't stop the whole system being flaky if you ask me.
Shocking reporting tbh. Too busy announcing that the Korean coach was out at the cashpoint and not enough time spent explaining what was going on. Being clear and transparent is surely in everyone's interest.
On a more positive note, iplayer functionality is fantastic! I love the bookmarks, I love that you don't have to wait for the event to finish for it to be ready to watch. It's so hugely improved.
They all just left to go and listen, or looked at the BBC online stuff without really saying anything. #deadair
I'll step out of the negativity-pit and agree. Possibly the best bit of the Games so far, after the Opening Ceremony.
Evening. Did anyone see the GBR v CAN women's basketball? That was a good game, close all the way until the last couple of minutes.
No. Watching GB-Senegal women's volleyball. The indoor kind with clothes. Fascinating
Nick and I spent ages in a pub watching that a couple of months ago. It's really compulsive.
I saw a bit of the Japan-Italy game. Dad and I couldn't work out why one of them was wearing a different colour kit.
That is the libero. Normally in volleyball every time a team wins the serve back all the players rotate one position so that the next player serves. That's how it was in the few games I played at school anyway, Since then they have decided teams can have one player who always plays in the back court and that is the libero who presumably doesn't serve. I have watched bits of a couple of games and never seen a libero serve.
GB just lost the first set despite leading all the way through
Sounds about right ;)
Oh, I'm not sure I like that rule. If one of your team isn't good enough then that's a team weakness and part of the game..
When we played at school I preferred serving.
I assume the idea is that having a defensive specialist(who is a foot shorter than the others) means that the ball hits the ground less often because they get down to shots the others can't so the game becomes more interesting
Just learned the libero is not allowed in the front court, cannot set and cannot spike
Love the sychronised sweeping you get in the time outs
The Algerian coach was terrifying...
Like in football... acts as a sweeper?
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GB won the second set in the volleyball
Senegal won the third set
2 sets each
GB won 3-2 against Algeria.
Algeria are the African champions. GB have had no funding for two years and no top level experience for 3 years. great performance.
53 rankings places between the two teams. Great result