Olympics Day 3

Day 3 of the Games and the first main weekday. Men's gymnastics today, we also have individual archery and the cross country in the three day event. Much more as well, including Rowing and Swimming. We kick off at 0830 with South Korea and New Zealand in the men's hockey.

And we're off!

GB has qualified for the rowing finals in the Men's eight, the women's quadruple sculls and the women's double sculls.

Nice to see Thorpey is in a better mood today than he is with Gary.

The GB men's four have won their heat, and are through to the semi-finals. Paul Drinkhall coming up now in the 3rd round of the table tennis.

The rowing team look fantastic. Medal chances in practically every category. Can't wait for the finals!

Boo to whoever in the PC Police removed the "Olympic Boobs" thread !!......................

It gave me a lift this morning........feeling a bit flat now that it's gone.......

Olympic Dave wrote:Nice to see Thorpey is in a better mood today than he is with Gary.

Problem is that Lineker seems a bit out of his depth covering other sports and his blokey humour just doesn't go down too well with someone who takes his sport seriously .Lineker even made a feeble joke at Germany's expense last night for having no medals this might be the accepted thing in football coverage but doesn't sit well at the Olympics. He just doesn't have the Gravitas to be the anchor man.

Olympic Dave wrote:Nice to see Thorpey is in a better mood today than he is with Gary.

Gary effectivley asked him how retirement was going for him Saturday night until Thorpe snapped back that he was trying to get back to the top of the Sport..........

These weightlifters scare me

18 year old GB weightlifter Zoe Smith sets a British Record in the clean and jerk to lead group B with 1 lifter left.

Come on GB- what medals can we win today lads?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19045752

mystiroakey wrote:Come on GB- what medals can we win today lads?

Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield are in the 10m synchronised diving final at 15:00, they probably won't get gold but silver or bronze isn't out of the question. And GB men's gymnasts are in the team final at 16:30.

cheers..

mystiroakey wrote:Come on GB- what medals can we win today lads?

Sadly most of the half-chances have again slipped away today - our judokas and fencers are out, and Drinkhall lost in the Table Tennis. Pressure on Daley/Waterfield and an outside chance in the Gymnastics though. Come on GB (we need a flagwaving emote )

cheers!

theres some brit woman on a horse running around a track- maybe she has a chance?

come on Mary King... wooooo some Japanese dude has stacked it!

No need to panic yet, most our medals came in rowing, cycling and sailing in beijing. Cavendish missed out, but nobody else really expected to triumph bar Adlington.

Stop, Daley time

Ben Ainslie is struggling in the Finn. He finished 6th in his third race and Christensen, the Dane who beat him twice yesterday finished 2nd.

Ainslie has often been a slow starter in Olympic competition but this Dane looks seriously good.... not the sort of man to choke. Ainslie needs a win. And soon.

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Don't they have 10 races?

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Don't they have 10 races?

Yes they do. There is time still, and Ben Ainslie has been here before so no reason for him to panic. Yet. But watching the race today, The Dane had the better tactics, read the wind and the sea conditions better and the distance between 2nd and 6th positions was considerable.

Make no mistake, this could go pear shaped if Ainslie doesn't get his act together soon.

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Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:No need to panic yet, most our medals came in rowing, cycling and sailing in beijing. Cavendish missed out, but nobody else really expected to triumph bar Adlington.

Adlington main chance is still to come with the 800m. the bronze in the 400m was really a bonus.

True enough.

Great start for Daley and Waterfield halfway through

whocares wrote:

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:No need to panic yet, most our medals came in rowing, cycling and sailing in beijing. Cavendish missed out, but nobody else really expected to triumph bar Adlington.

Adlington main chance is still to come with the 800m. the bronze in the 400m was really a bonus.

Didn't she do well..!! It's clear that Becky Adlington really cares about these "Home" Games. She seems to feel a responsibility to the fans to deliver. That swim, out in Lane 8 where it is so difficult to win from was really gutsy. She wanted a medal, not just for herself, but to give something to the crowd.

Her main event is the 800 metres and she will set out to make sure she has the best chance of gold in that event. It's by no means a certainty, but if there is one Briton at these Games we can rely on to "want it" more than the opposition, it's Becky Adlington.

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Daley and Waterfield have blown it.

1st place at the end of round three then made a horrible hash of their fourth dive and down to 4th.... From gold to out of the medals in one cockup.


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Big ask for them to win gold, certainly in contention for silver and bronze

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Big ask for them to win gold, certainly in contention for silver and bronze

Going into the final round, they were never in realistic contention for a medal. The final American dive left Daley and Waterfield needing 100.6 to get bronze. They scored 92.

It was a very good start by the British pair and we were starting to dare to believe, but that fourth dive really was a pig's ear and they never recovered. Still a good effort to finish fourth, but no cigar.

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The fourth dive indeed ruined everything. If the fourth dive had scored 86, not 71, then Daley and Waterfield would have had silver. Alas, it wasn't to be.

Afternoon all, hows the action been today?

Boom! And there's a medal in gymnastics

Silver for the GB Mens team in Team Gymnastics.

Absolutely stunning result!!!!!!!!!!

WOW WHAT A RESULT!!!!!!

WOW, well done GB's Gymnasts

Expected to be 6th/7th, absolutely stunning.

YES YES YES YES! GET IN YOU BEAUTIES! OH MY DAYS! DEARIE ME!

WOW, JUST WOW.

is that a silver- nice work GB gymastics.

Special thanks to the epic choke from Japan

Stunning achievement for GB Gymnasts.



Just stunning. What a moment.

Now can Beth and Louis get individual medals?

Japan are appealing. Not sure they'd get enough to get to silver

Stop whining Japan

Apparently, the Japanese may still get a half a point which would see GB drop to Bronze...

Yep, Japan go up to silver.

Still a fantastic result either way. Japan get out of jail thanks to some whining

Crowd isn't pleased. Ruined the response to getting a bronze

That's still impressive.

Well done guys. Well done. Take a big bow

Still a bronze, great show, but I am not happy with Japan. Poor form

You can't hold it against Japan.

Stunning result for GB

In fairness, i can understand the Japanese. If it was GB with a chance to move up then i would support their claim.

Still excellent to get a Bronze, totally unexpected.

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:You can't hold it against Japan.

Stunning result for GB

I can. It's not particularly fair of me, but oh well