Tokyo Olympics 2021

[Macca 16,922]

Silver medal to the Aussies in the Equestrian Eventing Team competition.  GB were just too far ahead ... so congrats to 62yo Andrew Hoy, Shane Rose & late inclusion, Kevin McNab

All 3 have qualified for the Eventing Individual Jumping Final to be held at 9.45pm tonight

[Macca 16,922]

10 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Confirming today that Simone Biles will compete in this one. Hope she goes well!!

I've included Simone in the schedule!

[Macca 16,922]

  New page so here is the schedule again ...

 

                                  Monday Schedule

• 8.20pm    Athletics - S/F's & Qualification
• 8.50pm    Water Polo Men's - Australia vs Kazakhstan
• 9.00pm    Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Final
• 9.00pm    Football Women's S/F - Matilda's vs Sweden
• 9.45pm    Equestrian - Eventing Individual Jumping Final (Andrew Hoy, Kevin McNab, Shane Rose)
• 10.00pm  Basketball Women's - Opals vs Puerto Rico
• 10.15pm  Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
• 10.40pm  Athletics - Women's 5000m Final

 

                                      Tuesday Schedule

• 10.00am  Athletics - Heats & Qualification
• 10.30am  Canoe Sprint - Women's Kayak Single 200m S/F (Lisa Carrington) Final at 12.35pm
• 11.00am  Diving - Men's 3m Springboard S/F (Final at 4.00pm)
• 11.05am  Canoe Sprint - Men's Kayak Single 1000m S/F (Jean van der Westhuyzen,  Thomas Green) Final at 1.20pm
• 11.30am  Canoe Sprint - Women's Kayak Double 500m S/F (Jamie Roberts & Jo Brigden Jones) Final at 1.45pm
• 11.50am  Athletics - Women's Long Jump Final
• 1.20pm    Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
• 4.30pm    Cycling Track - Heats & Qualification
• 6.00pm    Sport Climbing - Men's Speed, Bouldering & Lead Qualifying (Tom O'h=Halloran)
• 6.00pm    Gymnastics 3 Finals (Men's Parallel Bars,  Women's Balance Beam (Simone Biles),  Men's Horozontal Bar)
• 6.15pm    Cycling Track - Women's Team Pursuit Final
• 6.40pm    Cycling Track - Men's Team Sprint Final
• 7.35pm    Boxing - Lightweight Men's Q/F Harry Garside (Australia) vs Zakir Safiullin (Kazakhstan)
• 8.00pm    Hockey - Men's S/F Kookaburra's vs Germany
• 8.10pm    Athletics - Heats & S/F's (Nina Kennedy,  Steven Solomom,  Elizaveta Parnova,  Riley Day)
• 8.20pm    Athletics - Men's Pole Vault Final
• 8.50pm    Water Polo Women's - Australia (Stingrays) vs ROC
• 9.35pm    Athletics - Women's Hammer Throw Final
• 10.00pm  Basketball Men's Q/F - Boomers vs Argentina
• 10.25pm  Athletics - Women's 800m Final
• 10.50pm  Athletics - Women's 200m Final
• 11.00pm  Beach Volleyball Q/F - Australia (Del Solar & Clancy) vs Canada

Edited August 2, 2021 by Macca

[Jaded No More 68,867]

3 minutes ago, Macca said:

I've included Simone in the schedule!

When’s Bol running again? 

[MadAsHell 4,212]

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

When’s Bol running again? 

10:05pm Wednesday night.

[MadAsHell 4,212]

15 minutes ago, Macca said:

Silver medal to the Aussies in the Equestrian Eventing Team competition.  GB were just too far ahead ... so congrats to 62yo Andrew Hoy, Shane Rose & late inclusion, Kevin McNab

All 3 have qualified for the Eventing Individual Jumping Final to be held at 9.45pm tonight

Great work by the Equestrian team and Andrew Hoy. Our silver cupboard was a little bare, so nice to even things out a little!

[Macca 16,922]

28 minutes ago, Jaded said:

When’s Bol running again? 

TD beat me to it but the Olympics site is easy to negotiate - a few clicks and one can find all the Aussie representation (or any country for that matter) ... www.olympics.com

Not sure on the app but others might have a verdict on that one ... I just use the official site

For the benefit of others, the 7Plus app is brilliant.  I watched all the Equestrian tonight on a laptop and no gliches to be seen at all

 

Edit:  At first glance the official app looks good ... the daily schedule in a complete timed list is very helpful

Edited August 2, 2021 by Macca

[Macca 16,922]

51 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Great work by the Equestrian team and Andrew Hoy. Our silver cupboard was a little bare, so nice to even things out a little!

Not entirely sure where our 3 competitors sit** with regards to the Eventing Individual Final but we may well be in a position to be vying for medals again

But it would be great to see Andrew Hoy get an individual medal of any colour

Competition starts at 9.45pm

** See next post

 

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Edited August 2, 2021 by Macca

[Macca 16,922]

[MadAsHell 4,212]

Good effort by the Sharks tonight, finishing their Olympic campaign with a 15-7 victory of Kazakhstan which sees them finish with a 2-3 record and finish 9th. A lot of the time a 2-3 record would be enough to earn a Quarter Final birth, however it wasn't to be for the Sharks despite their impressive win over Serbia. One of their better Olympic campaigns IMO.

[MadAsHell 4,212]

Will take a minor miracle for the Opals to get the 25 point win they need tonight. At this stage it's no sure thing they'll even win!

1 point up at the half.

[Pates 9,660]

Sad way to lose foe the Matilda’s. It was pretty even, both teams had their chances and in the end a bit of luck for Sweden got it done. Baffling decision from the ref to award that soft free kick to deny us the opening goal. Really silly from Carpenter (who’s been good all tournament), frustration got the better of her and now she misses the bronze play off game (and I think if we somehow beat the states she doesn’t get a medal). 

Still they’ve done Australia proud, setting themselves up for a red hot crack at the World Cup. 

[Macca 16,922]

Andrew Hoy wins the Bronze medal in the Equestrian Individual Eventing!!

At one stage he was in the gold medal position with just 3 competitors to complete their jumping discipline

2 of the 3 went clear including the ultimate winner and the first female athlete to win this event ... Julia Krajewski

All the same, a fantastic effort from Andrew Hoy along with his mount, Vassily De Lassos

Kudos!

Will he be back for Paris?!

Edited August 2, 2021 by Macca

[MadAsHell 4,212]

Opals got a move on in the 3rd term. Now 16 points up with a quarter to play. Can they do it!?

[MadAsHell 4,212]

They've somehow managed to do it the Opals! Well done on getting to that 27 point victory and securing that Quarter Finals birth! Left it late, but at least they got there.

Will face USA or hopefully Spain instead in the Quarter Finals which will be tough either way, but at least they managed to get there.

[Macca 16,922]

The Opals save the day!! (from a teams point of view as we've done ok elsewhere)

Man, that was tense!

We live to fight another day but we're going to have to have a couple of 'day-outs' to progress past the Q/F's

Edited August 2, 2021 by Macca

[MadAsHell 4,212]

10 hours ago, Macca said:

The Opals save the day!! (from a teams point of view as we've done ok elsewhere)

Man, that was tense!

We live to fight another day but we're going to have to have a couple of 'day-outs' to progress past the Q/F's

Not wrong there Macca.  The Opals have drawn USA in the Quarter Finals....

[Macca 16,922]

1 hour ago, MadAsHell said:

Not wrong there Macca.  The Opals have drawn USA in the Quarter Finals....

Ugh!  That match-up now falls into the "you never know" category!

But still, basketball games can be won if one team gets hot with 3 pointers

We've done ok in the Canoe Sprint S/F's today with 3 crews/singles progressing to 3 finals ... coming up shortly

[MadAsHell 4,212]

Another gold coming our way tomorrow in the Sailing with our pair only needing to show up!

That will make 15 gold and officially put it down as our 3rd best Gold Medal haul at the Olympics ever and keep us within striking distance of making it out best!

[Macca 16,922]

44 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Another gold coming our way tomorrow in the Sailing with our pair only needing to show up!

That will make 15 gold and officially put it down as our 3rd best Gold Medal haul at the Olympics ever and keep us within striking distance of making it out best!

Well done to 470 crew! (Mat Belcher & Will Ryan) ... they have been dominant throught

Just need to eke out a few more gold TD.  We've got more than a few more chances though so fingers crossed!

[Jaded No More 68,867]

Do we know the order of the gymnastics finals tonight? I am trying to plan my evening around it…. I’m not obsessed you are ?

[Jaded No More 68,867]

I’ll answer my own question. Simone on at 6:50pm then we have an Aussie representing in the horizontal bars. 
My night is sorted ? 

[MadAsHell 4,212]

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

Do we know the order of the gymnastics finals tonight? I am trying to plan my evening around it…. I’m not obsessed you are ?

Sorry for the silence Jaded. Off doing dinner etc. See she got bronze which is a brilliant effort!

Meanwhile Harry Garside has won his way into the Boxing Semi Finals assuring himself of a bronze medal minimum.

[Macca 16,922]

1 minute ago, MadAsHell said:

Sorry for the silence Jaded. Off doing dinner etc. See she got bronze which is a brilliant effort!

Meanwhile Harry Garside has won his way into the Boxing Semi Finals assuring himself of a bronze medal minimum.

Well done Harry!!

The Kazakhstan boxer a tad unlucky as I scored it a draw

But you take the win and the assured medal

[Jaded No More 68,867]

38 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Sorry for the silence Jaded. Off doing dinner etc. See she got bronze which is a brilliant effort!

Meanwhile Harry Garside has won his way into the Boxing Semi Finals assuring himself of a bronze medal minimum.

She was amazing as always. I think they scored her a little low on the difficulty but what an effort to come third after the week she’s had.