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!

Very unprofessional performance from Becky Adlington. Seconds off her best, I wouldve let her off if she was close to her PB. No doubt loser mentality British Swimming/Athletics will still pick her for the next World Championships though.

Usually in US and Australia when you perform so much worse than your best in a final, you don't get picked again. Time for someone else to get the chance over Adlington, clearly needed to lose weight. Even if the next best 800 metre swimmer performs worse than Adlington, we need to look to the future.

Looked over 26 seconds for Skujte. Ennis should go under 23 when she runs.

I always think they should just have an average person run at the same time so we can see just how fast they are going.

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Very unprofessional performance from Becky Adlington. Seconds off her best, I wouldve let her off if she was close to her PB. No doubt loser mentality British Swimming/Athletics will still pick her for the next World Championships though.

Usually in US and Australia when you perform so much worse than your best in a final, you don't get picked again. Time for someone else to get the chance over Adlington, clearly needed to lose weight. Even if the next best 800 metre swimmer performs worse than Adlington, we need to look to the future.

is that whats wrong with aus then , they keep dumping there best!!??

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Very unprofessional performance from Becky Adlington. Seconds off her best, I wouldve let her off if she was close to her PB. No doubt loser mentality British Swimming/Athletics will still pick her for the next World Championships though.

Usually in US and Australia when you perform so much worse than your best in a final, you don't get picked again. Time for someone else to get the chance over Adlington, clearly needed to lose weight. Even if the next best 800 metre swimmer performs worse than Adlington, we need to look to the future.

I have no words to respond to this...

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Very unprofessional performance from Becky Adlington. Seconds off her best, I wouldve let her off if she was close to her PB. No doubt loser mentality British Swimming/Athletics will still pick her for the next World Championships though.

Usually in US and Australia when you perform so much worse than your best in a final, you don't get picked again. Time for someone else to get the chance over Adlington, clearly needed to lose weight. Even if the next best 800 metre swimmer performs worse than Adlington, we need to look to the future.

Can you suggest a viable replacement for Adlington?

Ignore him. That was his backlash from the Murray victory.

I think we'll get a Gold in Long Jump. The crowd will give the extra centimeters/inches they need.

10 minutes to go, still GB 0-2 Canada. All or nothing time.

Come on ref. Stonewall penalty denied for GB.

Olympic Dave wrote:I think we'll get a Gold in Long Jump. The crowd will give the extra centimeters/inches they need.

Nice to have two viable options too.

Indeed. I have just this feeling everything that can go right, will.

My post was removed?

mystiroakey wrote:idowu isnt fit though is he...

Who knows ?

Certainly CVC doesn't

So you remove my post without a PM? Well done

eirebilly wrote:So you remove my post without a PM? Well done

I thought it was pretty obvious why it was removed.

I've given you an explanation now.

Very good run by Jess - should be top after Day 1. Now Miss Ennis, throw that javelin.....

Very, very good run.

Jessica Ennis, absolute machine

Jess Ennis wins her 200m heat in a great time of 22.83. Personal best for her. I think that puts her 1st overall again.

Ennis 22.83 PB

Back in the lead...

Fantastic finish...momentum for day two. And 187 point lead .

Crimey wrote:

eirebilly wrote:So you remove my post without a PM? Well done

I thought it was pretty obvious why it was removed.

I've given you an explanation now.

I did not say anything controversial. My post was "It was a decent WUM attempt " hardly controversial?

Brilliant from Ennis

This Heptathlon is in the books. Lap of honour for Jess tomorrow.

eirebilly wrote:

Crimey wrote:

eirebilly wrote:So you remove my post without a PM? Well done

I thought it was pretty obvious why it was removed.

I've given you an explanation now.

I did not say anything controversial. My post was "It was a decent WUM attempt " hardly controversial?

I didn't say it was controversial. I just said that in my experience accusing people of being WUMs only ever causes arguments. Was actually trying to stop an argument. If you don't agree, tackle their point, don't attack the actual poster.

Stop creating an issue out of something very small.

Whats suprising is Dbrynska is in 10th

GB women have lost 2-0 to Canada and are out at the Quarter-Final stage.

That's a really sad face for the GB Women. After that great result against Brazil.

Crimey wrote:

I didn't say it was controversial. I just said that in my experience accusing people of being WUMs only ever causes arguments. Was actually trying to stop an argument. If you don't agree, tackle their point, don't attack the actual poster.

Stop creating an issue out of something very small.

This isnt even worthy of a response.

Duty281 wrote:

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Very unprofessional performance from Becky Adlington. Seconds off her best, I wouldve let her off if she was close to her PB. No doubt loser mentality British Swimming/Athletics will still pick her for the next World Championships though.

Usually in US and Australia when you perform so much worse than your best in a final, you don't get picked again. Time for someone else to get the chance over Adlington, clearly needed to lose weight. Even if the next best 800 metre swimmer performs worse than Adlington, we need to look to the future.

Can you suggest a viable replacement for Adlington?

like I said they will reward her despite finishing below 2 swimmers she was expected to beat. Not a pop at Becky, more a pop at the selectors and their thinking. They did the same with Mark Lewis Francis, Andy Turner etc. Replacement for Becky can be anybody, doesnt matter if shes not as fast, its just pointless keeping someone as their number 1 after failing at the big stage. She only won in Beijing with no pressure.

Phew. The 20 is on gents, the 20 is on!

She won bronze though....another swimmer would likely have won nothing.

That it is Dave, could be the best Olympics for GBR ever

Josiah Maiestas wrote:

like I said they will reward her despite finishing below 2 swimmers she was expected to beat. Not a pop at Becky, more a pop at the selectors and their thinking. They did the same with Mark Lewis Francis, Andy Turner etc. Replacement for Becky can be anybody, doesnt matter if shes not as fast, its just pointless keeping someone as their number 1 after failing at the big stage. She only won in Beijing with no pressure.

Right, I'll tackle the issue. Adlington has shown that she's third best in the world in two events. She won two medals. Most swimmers at the games from any country got zero medals.

How you can say that she failed? She got medals. Simply getting Olympic medals is incredible. How's that working for Spain this time around?

djlovesyou wrote:This Heptathlon is in the books. Lap of honour for Jess tomorrow.

Wouldn't go that far , dj

Let us get the LJ and jav out of the way first...

But Dobby and Chernova are a long way down...looking good.

eirebilly wrote:That it is Dave, could be the best Olympics for GBR ever

we won last first time in london

but 3rd would still be the best acheivement britain has collectively done in my lifetime

Sorry, I'm calling it. If she loses now you can blame me.

She needs about 6.45 and 46 to be very comfortable in the 800.

gbr beating france in basketball(womens)

Certainly for atmosphere, this is the best Olympics in my memory. Sydney 2000 was brilliant but the Brittish public have taken it a notch higher. Very hard act to follow.

eirebilly wrote:Certainly for atmosphere, this is the best Olympics in my memory. Sydney 2000 was brilliant but the Brittish public have taken it a notch higher. Very hard act to follow.

I think the road cycling kinda confirmed the passion for the Olympics. I follow about 50 pro cyclists on twitter and all of them, not only the Brits, were astounding by the noise and the support they got all of the way around.

They said it was like Alpe D'Huez but for 10s and 100s of kilometres.

Before I go - anchoring the Olympics on here is tough , we are 5 golds ahead on where we were on Day 7 in Beijing. Russia are tied on golds but have more medals. We are outperforming in total medals as well - 22 to 8.

In the race for 3rd (with apologies to South Korea):

Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 8 G, 6 S, 8 B. (2008 AT DAY 7: 3 G, 2 S, 3 B)

Russia: 3 G, 12 S, 8B (2008: 3 G, 8 S, 8 B)

We had massive Days 8 and 9 though last time, but I'm hopeful!

Link to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/interactive/2012/aug/02/london-olympic-medals-2008-2012-compared?newsfeed=true

OK dj , it'll be on your head if anything goes wrong

But I am pretty confident really - actually have been all along , since Gotzis...that hurdle effort really set this up today.

Andrew Selby of GB in the boxing is through to the flyweight Quarter-Finals with a 19-15 victory.

I see 5 big gold opportunities tomorrow too. It's just going to keep on rolling.

I live in Holland DJ and the Dutch commentators cant get enough. They are over the moon with the support the Brittish public has given, not only to Brittish athletes but to all athletes.

Proper world event supported in the best of ways.

I think the best atmosphere so far has been either in the Olympic park for Ennis, or Wimbledon for Murray when he beat Djokovic.

alfie wrote:OK dj , it'll be on your head if anything goes wrong

But I am pretty confident really - actually have been all along , since Gotzis...that hurdle effort really set this up today.

I'm actually looking at the 7000 point mark. She's 48 points up on Gotzis already. She needs 45 more points tomorrow to get there. Maybe an two good performances and an inspired 800?

Nice to know we have dutch support- there seem to be a few jealous nations out there concentrating on negatives!

Ach well, the Aussies can go and cry over their one gold.