Olympics, Day 7

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Getting this up early as I'm off soon.

A great day for us yesterday as we won three golds, taking our score to 5. We now sit 5th in the medal table and with any luck could sit in 3rd by the day is out.

The main event starts today as well, with the athletics kicking off at 10 with Jess Ennis.

AND COME ON ALAN CAMPBELL!

Crimey wrote:Hopefully we can pick up a few more golds in cycling, gold/silver for Murray over the next few days.

It's the final day of Rowing tomorrow, 4 finals and there is British interest in 3 of them. Hopefully some Medals there.

canada 2-0 up on gb

And I can't see past Hoy and Pendleton in their remaining events

In the rowing, I'm hopeful for the men's LW doubles and confident about the men's IV

Murray is still doing alright as well. Hasn't been broken.

And I think Mo will get at least one gold

We got Helen Jenkins in the Triathlon tomorrow morning too. She's a pretty good favourite for gold.

Great run from Ross Murray. Quick race too and beat some decent guys.

Murray is 7-5 5-4 up. If he can break Djokovic here, he'll be in the final.

If MO can beat the cube he can win any gold medal he tries for- Mo is a cert

Murray three points away from a silver medal.

Olympic Dave wrote:Look (as Thorpey would say), we will pull clear of South Korea tomorrow.

Haha, all Aussies start with "look, ..."

Go on Badders.

Haha, someone just loudly shouted 'Not Again' in the tennis.

Back to 5-5, but Murray is still on course.

Djokovic holds.

loving abit of athletics- its like the real olympics is here- shame we dont have the same amount of quality as we used to(and them was in the days we didnt do as well in the medal table)- cycling has clearly elevated us!

But i love athletcis!

HALF-TIME - Great Britain 0-2 Canada in the Women's football Quarters.

Our cyclists are bloomin' marvellous.

That is all

Long distance runners are so scarily skinny!

mystiroakey wrote:loving abit of athletics- its like the real olympics is here- shame we dont have the same amount of quality as we used to(and them was in the days we didnt do as well in the medal table)- cycling has clearly elevated us!

But i love athletcis!

Fallacy really. People tend to look back to the 'good old days' and lump all of our medals all together as one. In any given Olympics, we didn't actually ever do that much better than we'll do this time. (particularly as our best ones 80-84, were both boycotted games.)

We had more bad events then than we do now, but they're just not mentioned because they're not remembered.

Murray has just saved a break point!

Good run from Ross Murray!

Murray v Djokovic is a simply stunning game of tennis! Surely the gold medal winner is on this court.

They only got a bronze in 1976, Brendan Foster. My dad always reminds of that. Big athletics fan he is, his favourite was Ovett.

Is it just me or is the crowd support better than it is at Wimbledon for Murray? Is that because he's playing for GB rather than himself?

Murray needs to use the momentum to break Djokovic now.

Murray now 7-5 6-5 up. If he can break Djokovic's serve here, he'll win. Otherwise, it'll be a tie-break. Tension.

Crimey wrote:Good run from Ross Murray!

Where did he finish?

Dj maybe its because we had world class athletes in the big events. linford christie, all the 400metres guys, daley thompson, Johnathon edwards! etc etc

at the mo- who is our top top athletes(athletics)?

bar MO offcourse- but is long distance as cool.

Crimey wrote:Is it just me or is the crowd support better than it is at Wimbledon for Murray? Is that because he's playing for GB rather than himself?

Murray needs to use the momentum to break Djokovic now.

Agreed. They can be more vocal. He's more pumped as well. Plus he can't be called Scottish if he loses.

EnglishReign wrote:

Crimey wrote:Good run from Ross Murray!

Where did he finish?

4th, needed to finish top 6 to qualify. The crowd pushed him on at the end after he got stuck in the middle.

3 match points!!!

YES! GO FOR GOLD ANDY!

Murray has broken Djokovic to love and is in the final! Incredible achievement. He'll play a slightly exhausted Federer in the final.

Murray is into the final.

Revenge for Wimbledon is on.

He smiled!

HE ACTUALLY SMILED!

Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?

Woww!

Shocker of a last game from Djokovic, but Andy looked absolutely pumped for this. Great performance.

So now only Federer in a five set final on Sunday. Pity it's not tomorrow after Fed's marathon against Del Potro.

So you're saying Barcelona/Atlanta was our golden era? 2 gold and 4 bronze at Barcelona and 2 silver 3 bronze in Atlanta.

It's all rose tinted glasses stuff, although understandable.

Awesome from Murray - couldn't be happier, he so wants this one.

hehe!! Murray is a good lad

djlovesyou wrote:So you're saying Barcelona/Atlanta was our golden era? 2 gold and 4 bronze at Barcelona and 2 silver 3 bronze in Atlanta.

It's all rose tinted glasses stuff, although understandable.

Awesome from Murray - couldn't be happier, he so wants this one.

edit- certainly not atlanta- but 1980-84-88-92 for athletics was probally our golden era just- At the moment we are so much better overall!

Next bit of the Heptathlon starts at 20:45, it's the 200m and Jessica Ennis is in Heat 5 along with KJT.

mystiroakey wrote:

edit- certainly not atlanta- but 1980-84-88-92 for athletics was probally our golden era just- At the moment we are so much better overall!

That's the problem with what people do these days. They take a period of 4 Olympics and say why can't we have as many great athletes as we did then?

If you take it Olympics by Olympics, we're certainly no worse no and probably better. You can't put Seb Coe and Tessa Sanderson in the same era as Roger Black and Jonathon Edwards.

We are going to do better in athletics than we have done in years

It all mixes into one i admit.But having stars in showcases athletics events is what I remember from the olympics as a kid- The kids from today are way more spoilt than I was - they will remember winning gold after gold in cycling!!!

30 minutes to go, GB 0-2 Canada. Come on GB!

Bert Le Clos is a cult hero.

An athletics team consisting of Ennis, Idowu, Farah and Greene is better than anything we've had.

Stick Grabarz and PSD in that and it becomes very impressive.

2 long jump boys going doing better than anyone since 1968. A few great athletes, albeit 'plastic' going in the women's jumps. Goldie Sayers brilliant stuff in the Jav.

It has been another excellent day for Team GB.

3 golds, 4 bronze is it?

Murray confirms a gold or silver medal, Jessica Ennis starting well.

idowu isnt fit though is he...