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Silver for Australia! Titmus swims a PB and Commonwealth record to claim silver behind Ledecky. Made her earn it and swam a great race!

 

Bronze for Australia in the Mixed medley relay. I do question the decision to go with Temple in the Butterfly and McKeon in the freestyle as opposed to McKeon in Butterfly and Chalmers in freestyle, but they've done extremely well.

After Taylor McKeown's efforts today, we are only 1 gold medal away from equalling our greatest ever performance in the pool and 2 away from our best ever. Tomorrow is the final day in the pool for the games and we've got three chances to make the marks. Our best chance is probably in the women's 50m Freestyle witn Emma McKeon fastest qualifier and Cate Campbell there to. Then another good chance comes in thd Womens 4x100m Medley relay with the same two listed above along with Taylor McKeown and Chelsea Hodges to do a job in the breastroke. Our final chance is the mens 4x100m Medley relay with Mitch Larkin, Izac Stublety-Cook, Matthew Temple and Kyle Chalmers. Gold medal probably highly unlikely there, but you never do know?

 

Hockeyroos defeat Argentina 2-0 to go through their group match undefeated. A fantastic win!

Will now meet either India or Ireland in the Quarter Finals who we should be far to strong for.

1 hour ago, MadAsHell said:

After Taylor McKeown's efforts today, we are only 1 gold medal away from equalling our greatest ever performance in the pool and 2 away from our best ever. Tomorrow is the final day in the pool for the games and we've got three chances to make the marks. Our best chance is probably in the women's 50m Freestyle witn Emma McKeon fastest qualifier and Cate Campbell there to. Then another good chance comes in thd Womens 4x100m Medley relay with the same two listed above along with Taylor McKeown and Chelsea Hodges to do a job in the breastroke. Our final chance is the mens 4x100m Medley relay with Mitch Larkin, Izac Stublety-Cook, Matthew Temple and Kyle Chalmers. Gold medal probably highly unlikely there, but you never do know?

Kaylee McKeown sorry, for some reason I was naming her sister who competed at the last Olympics...

In other news our mens waterpolo team were flogged again 16-5, this time by Spain. Have a match to come against Kazakhstan which we should win, but given the goals against to for differential that we have, it looks unlikely we'll progress to the Quarter Finals.

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                             Saturday Schedule

  • 6.20pm    Basketball Men's - Australia vs Germany
  • 7.00pm    Rugby 7's Gold Medal Match
  • 7.35pm    Boxing R/16 Men's Lightweight Australia (Harry Garside) vs Namibia (Jonas Jonas)
  • 8.10pm    Athletics - Heats,  S/F's & Qualification
  • 9.15pm    Athletics - Men's Discus Final (Matthew Denny)
  • 10.35pm  Athletics - 4 x 400m Relay Mixed Final
  • 10.50pm  Athletics - Women's 100m Final

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The swimming teams effort has been fantastic. Mckeowns performances have been the highligt. She now matches Thorpe and O'Niell for medals. And well done to the Matildas last night. Great t beat the poms.

Esther Qin has won her way through to the women's 3m Springboard final in the diving tomorrow at 4pm.

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Harry 'The Demon' Garside has won through to the quarter finals in the Light Weight Boxing after winning all 3 rounds against his Namibian opponent

One more win and he is assured of a medal but he'd have grander designs you'd imagine!

 

Great gutsy win by the Boomers over Germany tonight 89-76. Germany were on and it took us some time to adjust to the loss of Baynes, but a great win. We got killed on the glass without him, which is of some concern, but this Boomers team has guts!

Next match will be the Quarter Finals. We'll have to wait about 24 hours to find out who our opponent will be. I suspect it will most likely be Slovenia or Argentina, but we'll wait and see.

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And just saw, another bronze for Australia! Congratulations to Ash Barty and John Peers in the tennis Mixed Doubles, claiming it in a walk over.

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     Kaylee McKeown - 200m Backstroke Champion (along with the 100m Backstroke Title)

 

Swimming-Australian McKeown wins women's 200m backstroke gold | Reuters

 

Swimming-Australian McKeown wins women's 200m backstroke gold | Reuters

 

Kaylee McKeown claims Australia's first-ever gold medal in women's 200m  backstroke

 

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                                            Saturday Schedule

  • 6.20pm    Basketball Men's - Australia vs Germany
  • 7.00pm    Rugby 7's Gold Medal Match
  • 7.35pm    Boxing R/16 Men's Lightweight Australia (Harry Garside) vs Namibia (Jonas Jonas)
  • 8.10pm    Athletics - Heats,  S/F's & Qualification
  • 9.15pm    Athletics - Men's Discus Final (Matthew Denny)
  • 10.35pm  Athletics - 4 x 400m Relay Mixed Final
  • 10.50pm  Athletics - Women's 100m Final

                                            

                                              Sunday Schedule

  • 10.10am  Athletics - Heats & Qualification
  • 11.10am  Cycling BMX Freestyle - Women's Park Final (Natalie Diehm)
  • 11.30am  Swimming - Men's 50m Freestyle Final
  • 11.35am  Athletics - Women's Shot Put Final
  • 11.37am  Swimming - Women's 50m Freestyle Final (Emma McKeon,  Cate Campbell)
  • 11,44am  Swimming - Men's 1500m Freestyle Final
  • 12.15pm  Swimming - Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final (Australia Lane 3)
  • 12.20pm  Cycling BMX Freestyle - Men's Park Final (Logan Martin)
  • 12.36pm  Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final (Australia Lane 7)
  • 1.00pm     Hockey Men's - Q/F Australia vs Netherlands
  • 3.30pm     Sailing Medal Race - Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser (Matt Wearn)
  • 4.00pm     Diving - Women's Springboard Final (Esther Qin)
  • 6.00pm     Gymnastics - 4 Finals (Men's Floor, Women's Vault, Men's Pommel Horse, Women's Uneven Bars)
  • 8.10pm     Athletics - Semi Finals
  • 8.10pm     Athletics - Men's High Jump Final (Brandon Starc)
  • 8.50pm     Water Polo Women's - Australia vs South Africa
  • 9.15pm     Athletics - Women's Triple Jump Final
  • 10.00pm   Beach Volleyball - R/16 Australia (Del Solar & Clancy) vs China
  • 10.50pm   Athletics - Men's 100m (Rohan Browning in a Semi Final at 8.15pm!!)

 

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Rohan Browning through to the Men's 100m S/F's after winning his heat ... 6th fastest to qualify as well

The Semi's are on at 8.15pm tomorrow night whilst the final will be run at 10.50pm

Plucked from obscurity after showing some serious speed playing Rugby Union at school (Trinity)

Now he's arrived in the big time!  

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In other sailing news (apart from the certain gold to be awarded today to Matt Wearn in the laser) the Aussies are currently in 1st position in the Men's 470 (Mathew Belcher & Will Ryan) ... 4 races to go!

And in the Nacra 17 mixed we are in 4th place with 3 races left to run.  Should be able to medal if we finish off well


Nothing better than Novak having a sook for losing an individual medal and then immediately pulling out of the mixed doubles because he’s a sore loser who is all about himself. Complete [censored] jockey. 

Gold to Australia with an Olympic record to Emma McKeon in the 50m Freestyle.

We have now equaled our best gold haul in the pool with Melbourne 1956!

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Emma McKeon what a champion!

Wins the 50m Gold in classic style!

Counting the gold that we will receive for Matt Wearn in the sailing later on we're now up to 12 gold

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10 hours ago, Macca said:

In other sailing news (apart from the certain gold to be awarded today to Matt Wearn in the laser) the Aussies are currently in 1st position in the Men's 470 (Mathew Belcher & Will Ryan) ... 4 races to go!

And in the Nacra 17 mixed we are in 4th place with 3 races left to run.  Should be able to medal if we finish off well

... and the Men's 470 (Belcher & Ryan) race twice today at 1.15pm

For those unfamiliar, the competitors race up to 10 times and their worst result doesn't count

So far, Belcher & Ryan have finished 2nd, 5th, 1st, 1st, 4th & 3rd with 4 races to go ... so the 5th placing doesn't count but will count if we finish worse than 5th in any of our remaining races

Gold, gold, gold to Australia! What a swim, well done Cate Campbell. What a final leg and well done Chelsea Hodges on holding your own in the breastroke leg.


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More Gold!!  Fantastic!!

The 4 x 100m Medley Relay team get it done!

Cate Campbell brings it home after trailing then hitting the front and then being headed with 10 metres to go.  Gutsy!

More gold to Australia in the BMX Freestyle! Well done Logan McDonald!

With sailing gold to come later today, that will be 4 gold in one day!

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Gold!!  Logan Martin superb!

This time in the BMX Freestyle for Men - Great viewing too!  Fabulous!

Now up to 14 Gold medals.  Incredible!

Meanwhile, the Demons are smashing the Gold Coast by close on 10 goals!

The day can't get any better!

 
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Kookaburra's win a thriller vs the Netherlands after a penalty shoot-out!

Credit to the Dutch in real time ... they often looked the better team and had lots of forward forays

Eyes going everywhere with devices aplenty in operation with the Demons playing at the same time but the footy was more of an exhibition ... Demons by 98 points in a canter! 

Helps with the confidence re the footy & the hockey!

Kookaburras progress to the Semi Finals in the Hockey with a thrilling 2-2 (3-0) penalty shoot out victory over Netherlands!

Was a lot tougher than it should have been, but they've got their redemption for their Quarter final exit to the same team in Rio. Now on to bigger and better things in the Semi Final against Germany.

What a day for the Aussies!


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