Mixed day for Team GB. The cycling team won another two golds Hoy & Pendleton no doubt listening to The Prodigys 'Speedway' with the king to be Kenny taking silver behind Hoy in the mens sprint.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7570265.stmnews.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7570228.stmIf we had the womens kierin then VP would have won that too.
The Madison saw a tired Wiggins & Cavendish finish 9th .All of their attacks were foiled & Cavendish did not time his sprints. Both were drained I guess by their previous events & the Tour which makes me wonder why someone like Queally was not used.
Sadly Jesus Blair was theirto bask in the glory. For a man who has led this country downhill it was rich of him to applaud the cyclists.
Heres the entire backup team: Hoy with his three golds matches alongside Henry Taylor the last Briton to win 3 golds at a one games.
Sheffield Blade Paul Goodiso won the Laser as expected & enjoyed some frolics in the water.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/sailing/7569505.stm
The womens Laser was won by Doncaster born Yank Anna Tunnicliffe (with a surname like that she could be harldyfrom anywhere else).
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/sailing/7569640.stmStrong medalling chances still in the mens windsurfing class with Nick Dempsey & bronze or silver for Bryony Shaw in the womens.
GB lie 4th & are well placed in the Star class but are miles out in the mixed tornado.Results:
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/7504467.stmThe mens triathlon saw a disappointing finish from Alistair Brownlee early on this morning with competitors he ha sbeaten earlier this year like Canuck Simon Whitfield.Tim Don did not finish either another fancied medallist before his viral episode.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/triathlon/7569466.stmTim Brabanst looks on course for a double gold in the 0.5K & 1k K1 kayaking classes winninghis heat today with relative ease.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/canoeing/7569976.stmLcuy Wainwright made the semis of the 0.5k womens event.
GB mens hockey team as expected are out of the race for a medal after only tying with Oz & conceding a late goal from a defensive blunder late on .A very creditable result against the World &Olympic champions but not good enough.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/hockey/7570617.stmLight heavyTony Jeffried is into his weight division semi after beating his Hungarin opponent. The Geordie was a class apart & is guaranteed a bronze.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/boxing/7570484.stmOn the track great effort from Martin Rooney with a late charge to make the 400 final.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7569503.stmSarah Claxton sadly finished last in the womens 110 hurdles which saw Lolo Jones the favourite screw up badly.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7569883.stmEmily Freeman just about amd the semis of the womens 200 but will be hard pushed to go any further. Christian Malcom ran far better today to make the mens final & still has a chance to round off his career with a individiual medal as opposed to a team relay one.
Andy Baddely failed to rekindle past glories in the 1500 finishing 9th & well run out of it.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7570993.stmRashid Ramzi won the race but again highlights a pertinent point about passports of convenience having effectively been purchased by Bahrains sheikhs.
Which leads me onto the mens high jump. I'm going against the grain here I'm sure but having scruples it does not fill me with joy that Jermaine Mason wins a silver in the high jump.
I'm sur the Jamaican Federation impoverished as it is relatively speaking will be turning cartwheels having invested money in his training as a junior & student only for the BAA 'purchase' him.
He even still speaks with a heavy Kingstonian accent.
Tom Parsons & Martyn Bernard could not however come any closer than 8th & 9th but being youngsters the future looks bright in this discipline following the footsteps of Steve Smith & Dalton Grant.
And don't get me started on the drug cheat.
I was ptaying she would not win whilst watching Argentina v Brazil. I don't know why you're celebrating Hannah. If you were in the position of Nicola Sanders at Osaka ask yourself how you're feeling to lose a gold medal to a cheat.
The BBC spin on the tale Oversight & Ordeal was gut churning. For an athlete to come out of nowhere as she has done is suspicous in itself .
I'm sure that extra muscle mass which gave her the stamina to 'win' was acheived soley by gym work. How the likes of supreme athletes such as Allyson Felix could not compete with him raises a question.
I find it hard to contemplate being elevated to the same pedestal as such illustrious track Olympians Coe, Thompson , Holmes & Cram. I sincerely hope no company decides to use her to endorse any products either.
This afternoon highlighted the BOA two faced attitude on passports of convenience & drug cheats. Tough on Chambers but not so on this & Whitlock.
How it has the temerity to raise the Union Jack when refused entry to the Olympics last year it was prepared to compete for Nigeria is sickening.
Elsewhere in the field events Jade Johnson left it late to make the LJ finals with her very last jump. Goldie Sayers took less time with her first throw she made the qualification distance.
Medals :Gold 16 Silver 9 Bronze 8Should be Gold 15 Silver 8 Bronze 8 with that silver going to Jamaica.
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I was ptaying she would not win whilst watching Argentina v Brazil. I don't know why you're celebrating Hannah. If you were in the position of Nicola Sanders at Osaka ask yourself how you're feeling to lose a gold medal to a cheat.
