HmmThinkingAboutIt
Mon 06-Aug-12 20:59:42
Sitting on 18 Gold, we need one more to match Beijing.
We are also sitting on 40 medals over all. Our target for the entire games was 48 over 12 sports. We are likely to hit that officially on Wednesday, though by Tuesday we could have it in the bag with guaranteed medals in the boxing not officially counted.
Tuesday looks like it has the very real potential to be a gold rush day with 5 very, very good chances with Chris Hoy, Laura Trott, Victoria Pendleton, the Team Dressage and one of the Brownlee brothers if fortune shines on GB and NI tomorrow.
Medal Hopes for the Day
Robert Grabarz Athletics - Men's High Jump
Lawrence Okoye Athletics - Men's Discus
Chris Hoy Cycling - Men's Keirin
Laura Trott Cycling - Women's Omnium - leading at the end of day 1
Victoria Pendleton Cycling - Women's Sprint
Richard Davison, Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer, Charlotte Dujardin Equestrian - Team Dressage - currently in 1st place and have a guaranteed silver medal already
Nick Demsey Sailing - Men's RS-X - lying 2nd going into final race
Alistair Brownlee & Jonny Brownlee Men's Triathlon - hot favourites for event
Andrew Selby Boxing - Men's Fly (52kg) Quarter Final*
Freddie Evans Boxing - Men's Welterweight (69kg) Quarter-finals*
*Guaranteed a bronze if win
10:00 - 12:13
Goldie Sayers
Athletics - Women's Javelin Throw Qualification
10:00 - 15:45
13:45 - Richard Davison
14:30 - Carl Hester
15:19 - Laura Bechtolsheimer
15:55 - Charlotte Dujardin
Equestrian - Individual Dressage and Team Dressage Grand Prix Special
10:00 - 10:17
Chris Hoy
Cycling - Men's Keirin Round 1
10:07 - 10:39
Rachel Cawthorn
Canoeing - Women's Kayak Single 500m Heats
10:10 - 10:43
Lawrence Clarke & Andrew Pozzi
Athletics - Men's 110m Hurdles Round 1
10:19 - 11:16
Laura Trott
Cycling - Women's Omnium 3km Individual Pursuit
10:35 - 10:59
Abigail Edmonds & Louisa Sawers
Cycling - Women's Kayak Double 500m Heats
10:45 - 11:53
Phillips Idowu
Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Qualification
10:55 - 11:37
Julia Bleasdale, Barbara Parker & Joanna Pavey
Athletics - Women's 5000m Round 1
11:30 - 11:54
Rachel Cawthorn (if qualify)
Canoeing - Women's Kayak Single 500m Semi-finals
11:30 - 13:45
Jonny Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Stuart Hayes (Brownlee Brothers are favourites for event - Alistair is the better of the two brothers having won all six Olympic distance races, he's entered in the last twelve months. Jonny won two of the events he missed. Hayes is the pair's domestique).
Men's Triathlon
11:50 - 12:31
James Ellington & Christian Malcolm,
Athletics - Men's 200m Round 1
11:51 - 12:07
Abigail Edmonds & Louisa Sawers (if qualify)
Canoeing - Women's Kayak Double 500m Semi-finals
13:00 - 13:20
Nick Dempsey (In second position)
Sailing - Men's RS-X FINAL RACE
14:00 - 14:20
Bryony Shaw (In seventh position)
Sailing - Women's RS-X FINAL RACE
16:00 - 16:51
Victoria Pendleton (if qualify)
Cycling - Women's Sprint Semi-finals
16:07 - 16:27
Laura Trott
Cycling - Women's Omnium 10km Scratch Race
16:34 - 16:44
Chris Hoy
Cycling - Men's Keirin Round 2
16:53 - 17:25
Laura Trott
Cycling - Women's Omnium 500m Time Trial FINAL EVENT
17:26 - 18:20
Victoria Pendleton (if qualify)
Cycling - Women's Sprint FINAL
17:50 - 18:02
Chris Hoy (if qualify)
Cycling - Men's Keirin FINAL
19:00
GBR v Spain (final group match. GBR currently second in table, first two go through to Semi Finals. Australia have 8pts, GB 8pts, Pakistan 7pts, Spain 7pts - 3pts for win/1pt for draw)
Men's Hockey
19:00 - 21:06
Robert Grabarz (Has 5th best PB of finalists / SB is joint 4th)
Athletics - Men's High Jump FINAL
19:05 - 20:17
Shara Proctor
Athletics - Women's Long Jump Qualification
19:15 - 19:32
Tiffany Porter
Athletics - Women's 100m Hurdles Semi-finals
19:45 - 21:05
Lawrence Okoye (4th longest throw in qualification of 65.28m)
Athletics - Men's Discus Throw FINAL
19:55 - 20:15
Andrew Osagie (Qualified 3rd in his heat - he had the joint 5th best time overall)
Athletics - Men's 800m Semi-finals
20:25 - 20:42
Margaret Adeoye & Abiodun Oyepitan
Athletics - Women's 200m Semi-finals
21:15
Andrew Selby
Boxing - Men's Flyweight (52kg) Quarter-finals
21:00 - 21:01
Tiffany Porter (if qualifies)
Athletics - Women's 100m Hurdles FINAL
21:30 - 22:26
Freddie Evans
Boxing - Men's Welterweight (69kg) Quarter-finals
HmmThinkingAboutIt
Tue 07-Aug-12 12:46:02
Wooo good to hear things are apparently going well in triathlon. At work today. Limited net access and no iplayer (No tv license at work 
)
Thank goods for olympic site and here!
HmmThinkingAboutIt
Tue 07-Aug-12 12:48:18
How many are in the lead pack? Looks like it pretty tight from the splits.
HmmThinkingAboutIt
Tue 07-Aug-12 12:56:01
Gah! Breakaway? [cries at lack of visuals]
BiscuitsandBaileys
Tue 07-Aug-12 13:02:12
Hmm- The two Brownlea brothers are in the breakaway along with J. Gomez from Spain 
NicholasTeakozy
Tue 07-Aug-12 13:33:06
Gold and bronze in the triathlon. 
Hurrah! 
Hurray! And a silver on the water!
EightiesOlympicGolds
Tue 07-Aug-12 13:41:08
NaturalWinningNaturesTeamGB
Tue 07-Aug-12 13:57:53
Whoohooo Go Brownlee Bros Gold and Bronze
Who won the silver?
HaitchJay
Tue 07-Aug-12 16:14:13
Yay to all the medals.
bloody children wanting taking out and entertaining rather than slobbing watching Olympics
EightiesOlympicGolds
Tue 07-Aug-12 16:14:45
Gold in dressage! That makes 20!!
HmmThinkingAboutIt
Tue 07-Aug-12 16:19:13
Chris Mears has made it through to the Diving 3m springboard final this evening in 9th place.
I missed the diving off last night as they were still qualifying when I posted and in all honesty I didn't think he'd make the semis...
So good work for getting to the final.
45 mins left at work. Then at least I get a radio for Trott, Pendleton and Hoy.
I am not addicted
OhYouGreatGreatBritain
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:19:29
See we've been on great form today again. On the train home from the triathlon. Was bloody amazing. Flipping crowded though, I had to ask a lady who was trying to squash in front of dd to stop squasing my dd. I was very grrr. But we held our ground with pointy elbows and saw the medalists get further and further ahead in running. Couldn't follow the cycling or swimming at all, very fast, whoosh.
Brilliant about dressage what time is cycling on?
NicholasTeakozy
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:20:21
RaahhningforGOLD
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:20:57
I think Laura Trott has just won gold in the cycling?
RaahhningforGOLD
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:21:51
aww- she's crying? you can see how much it means to them. Well done Laura!!
RaahhningforGOLD
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:25:57
We really are good at cycling, aren't we
RaahhningforGOLD
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:27:38
21 gold medal- only 9 behind the US!
OhYouGreatGreatBritain
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:32:34
Is Pendleton on now? Phone being really slow.
NicholasTeakozy
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:34:59
Pendleton is one up in the sprint final. By 0.001 sec.
RaahhningforGOLD
Tue 07-Aug-12 17:35:34
I missed it, has she raced? seem to be showing a Pendleton/Mears replay?
