If you're looking for gold medals today, then you've come to the right place. Up for grabs on this fine Tuesday we have the Men's Canoe Single and the Women's Synchronised 10m diving. There's also some horsey type things with individual and team jumping finals in the eventing. The men's individual foil will be decided, whilst it is also the women's team final in artistic gymnastics. There's a final in the men's skeet shooting, which sounds odd, and there's some men's and women's judo and weightlifting to behold as well. What more could you want?
London 2012, Day 4
Published by Christine Blachford on
Day 4 already!
BBC have this - compare yourself to Olympians: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19050139
Apparently I'm like Tom Daley - I'm sceptical.
im not sure how they work that out, it said i was like david anderson, australian basketballer, who is 212 cm...... um well im about a 35 cm shorter version maybe
Michelle Cesan... in the hockey... I can't help but feel we're not really that similar.
GB silver in the team equestrian!
i'm sad it keeps raining at wimbles, they are denying me of tennis!!
although.. if Murray doesn't get to play today cause play is delayed i may get to see him tomorrow...hmmm
watching the canoe slalom semi finals now. gee thats a real tough sport, it would take me half an hour to get through the course, these blokes are doing it in a minute.
Looks like I have violent tendencies. I am most like an Italian female fencer, a male Turkish boxer and a male Thai shooter. Figure that lot out
Interesting that the heaviest competitor is more than 7 times the weight of the lightest but only 49cm taller.
I think GB male handball team are in for another hiding, 7-2 down after 7 minutes...
24-10 HT... scored some nice goals, at least...
Looking in at the 3 Day Show Jumping event right now. Gotta love the themed jump designs. I wonder if anyone nicknamed the 3 fence combo near the end of the run Oxerhenge yet. :D
How is the crowd at the Copper Box for the Handball match right now?
Looks pretty full.
I saw a newspiece on the local news last night about some members of the press getting a ride down the course on a raft. It was a rough ride for them capped off by the raft capsizong near the end. Dunno if they offer rides to the public on non-competition days...
Someone better do a Anti-Rain dance! Is Centre Court getting used right now? Hopefully it is...
Meanwhile at the Barracks, former Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiya (QAT) won the Bronze medal in Men's Skeet Shooting after defeating Russia's Valeriy Shomin in the Shoot-off. The USA's Vincent Hancock became the first person to win 2 GOld Medals in this event with his win while Anders GOlding (DEN) takes the Silver.
http://www.london2012.com/shooting/event/men-skeet/phase=shm403100/index.html
2nd Hald of the GBR-SWE Men's Handball match is on now.
Half*
womens 10 m synchronized diving final on now, no surprises, china dominating
france win the canoe slalom gold medal, germany silver
Before I forget, the Mid-west US could use some of your rainy weather right now. :(
Yoink! X|
Full Time Score
GBR 19-41 SWE
GB Badminton team have ALL been KO'd .... 1 at least should have made it through..
:(
Looks like GB handed it to them
It just occurred to me that we are not hearing much about people from outside GB about their teams. We need to be kept up to date with how your team is getting on as well. I wonder how many countries we can find commentors from.
australia isnt doing much better than GB 1 gold 2 silvers and a bronze, normally we do well in the swimming but so far its been a struggle, 2 events we were big favourites for, mens 100 m freestyle relay and the womens 100 m backstroke with emily seebohm but both missed out on gold, as tonight magnussen is favourite for the 100 m freestyle but i think the french swimmer will win that too. its been a slow start but cycling we do ok in and will go close in the mens hockey but i think we will struggle to win as much as we have the last few olympics.
Currently being 'made' to watch the women's gymnastics team final - featuring Team GB
I can become an honorary Italian when I go there next week?
Evening sports fans!
Beth Tweddle about to do Floor in the Team comp
Someone else just got carried off in a stretcher on the hockey. What is this crazy dangerous sport?
Been an OK game up to that point. GB threw away a 3-1 lead to...
This field hockey needs a field hospital.
They should wear helmets and body armour. Is the girl who got smashed in the face with a stick on Sunday and had to get a steel plate to re-connect her broken jaw playing? Everyone seemed to think she would be back fairly quickly but that would be crazy. She was the team captain
Isn't there a technical-working-group who are immediately depeloping solutions?
heh!
I do quite like the use of 'Wild Dances' in the gymnastics #eurovision
what a view!
http://twitpic.com/adx8cq
Popping in to say yay for nz getting its first medal, bronze in the horsey thing!
Elsewhere Tsonga and Raonic are trying to be the new Isner and Mahut
Just got in and switched on the TV. Hockey is on and Korean women are wearing serious looking facemasks. Makes you wonder why the others don't
That would be the team 3 day event. GB team didn't win gold according to some team official because the weather has been bad this year.
Another GB hockey player on a stretcher. Twisted her ankle this time.
Just found out this is recorded. I am live commenting the past. Stupid BBC
Great quote from Gervais in the build up video.
"if you can run, it could save your life, if you can swim, it could save your life, if you can fight, it could save your life. Rhythmic gymnastics...."
Ooh, swimming time again.
GB lady in 200m free final but last, I think.
Phelps time!
What are the odds on a Phelpsy win?
he came 2nd!!
Phelps can't catch a break!
unbelievable, it was al down to the glidey bit
He must be pinching himself, hoping he's in a nightmare!
Seen it now, what an idiot - one kick at least would've done it, but short stroke would've given him the G.
And by idiot I mean that he will feel like one when he watches it back.
Michael Jamieson wins 200m breaststroke semi-final.
Improved his personal best by over a second, and took a British record too.
Never heard of him!
Badminton Update : Ladies Doubles, both Chinese and korean pairs were trying to loose as to not meet the other chinese pair in the next round... the Koreans won... Chinese pair didn't play at all they have a history of this sort of match fixing?!
.. blame the group stage format..
Red hat swimmer comes second in the other semi final. Seems like we're good at breaststroke?
We're quickest at the slowest stroke. There's something poetic about that.
:)
aww bless his mum and dad.
Tears!
Bless them all!
Heheheh his dad is amazing
LOOK AT HIM!
I swear he just accidentally said "underbelievable" :)
Ooh, Hannah's back. We like Miley.
She is looking soo smiley
I'm surprised (s)Miley doesn't do more breaststroke stuff because she made up tons of time on that length.
She's always so positive. I love her.
And now a relay. Fabbo!
Swimming is so relaxing to watch yet so exciting at the same time
Where did she finish?
what a performance by the us
Phelps has destroyed them
Somewhere around fifth I think.
Go Nasser, good to see him doing well.
It always boggles my mind a bit when they get to a turn and start swimming back, passing the other people who are still coming in the other direction.
Seems to be happening a lot. Not last but not in a medal position
yes! it's so strange :)
michael phelps is now officially the most olympicest man ever
GB sixth in the relay.
Ieuan has a lot of vowels in his name.
Hope the swimming is good, I've missed two nights of it now..
19 medals!
Best. Olympian. Ever.
(So long as number of medals is the metric you're using)
has ian thorpe left the couch yet? do they just keep giving him a new jacket?
There must be something about the lights in that studio because I keep thinking Thorpe and Lineker are crying.
He said last night he is going back to swimming competitively. Wonder if that us connected in any way to Phelps retiring
Looked at the tv, ian thorpe was talking. Looked away. Looked back. stella mcartney.
Interesting change of clothing
If Gary doesn't ask Stella why she forgot the red, I will be annoyed.
I hope she doesn't close tonight's show with hey jude
tom daly's... what??
The male gymnasts were almost all red as are one or two other sports
Lotus took it
Trunks
oooooh right.
uugghghh
That isn't quite what she said :)
She was poking Victoria Pendleton's stomach. Is that really a necessary part of making a cycling suit?
impressive replay!
love matrix-vault-cam.
That's the best vault I've ever seen.
Vaulting terrifies me, honestly, it always looks like theyre gonna break their legs to me
They showed a replay of the assymetric bars a couple of days ago and it looked like the girl was flying upside down with her body staying perfectly vertical. Very odd. Then a bar came into view
I used to think beam was the worst, but they're running headlong at a big block. Scary.
I just liked jumping face first into massive crash mats at school. why is that not an olympic sport?
I used to like putting all the mats away. Mostly because it meant PE was over. :)
heheh!
Oh wow, GB are beating Brazil in women's football. 1-0, 2 minutes to go.
You would enjoy it more now because you could FBFB everything that happened then make a podcast and sell it to everyone's parents
oh fantastic!! i hope brazil aren;t as physical as they were in cardiff though :)
pink floyd?
worked well.
All the music for the gymnastics sounds weird. Must be something to do with the rules. Beth Tweddle had the worst version of Live and Let Die ever
ironically i havent heard the official song at all apart from being in cardiff. which is wierd!
are they playing it through a gramophone?
GB women just beat Brazil
sounds like it's being played through a potato
They won!!
They've won every match! Very impressive
I think one with a graphic equalizer where they fade out certain random frequencies
It sounds like some teenager is playing music under the duvet so that their parents won't know they are doing it
Team GB's women football team should replace some of the men, they seemed better and less fally-over-y
And when they do 'fall over', they get back up, rather than writhing.
Indeed, no messing or anything.
"Bradley Wigglens"
bradley wiggins and guy martin need to race each other on their respective bikes to out-muttonchop each other
Tomorrow's schedule: http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/day=1-august/all-day.html
Quite similar to today's I think.
Wow it's august tomorrow. I didnt even realise!
I love the little blocks. I just imagine people turning up to watch diving then leaving to go home 45 minutes later. Surely diving can't be that quick
you can't not have noticed, it's autosport quota day ;) #sorrywayofftopic
Well there's eight entries and they dive, what is it, six times? That can't take that long.
There are lots off different diving competitions though. They could have put three of them on together and given the people value for money
This is why we need more running bomb entries into diving
Oh yes, you could even, shock horror, have mens and womens on the same day.
The hockey dressing rooms are not in the stadium. Stupid
Most like Alan Parsonage the water polo player.
I think it's time to turn in - night all.
In light of the heroic win, I've got tickets for the women at St James now! Shame its for USA-NZ...
Night Will
where are they then?
I have now heard it half a million times and find myself wishing they'd play something else before things start #sorrylukeh
In other news I still can't believe I saw Phelps win #19 and it was gold. The only swimming ticket I applied for in the ballot and one of the only tickets I successfully got. What are the odds! Must have been fate.
that is amazini!
you know who to cheer for...
I think they keep the diving sessions really short to fit in with the swimming
Could be one sided but people said that about Brazil v GB..
I'll make sure I buy the Kiwi Pie.
Very cool :)
Not quite sure. The hockey stadium is not a permanent structure so they have to leave the stadium and jog somewhere else to the changing rooms.
it's like a school sportsday
Jake on BBC3 quit the USA v Tunisia basketball to update us on what celebrities are saying on Twitter.
Ah now a Wiggins interview, good one too.
I don't even think there was a reason I chose that session over the other ones :D
dumb luck > planning - PROVED
hehehehe. although getting maybe required a tiny bit of planning.
Whose side are you on?
the one with the most gold medals?
actually, i'm not picky. the one with the most medals :)
yay I'm most like a chinese male gymnast
I notice you forget to mention which one ;)