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                                                Tuesday Schedule

  • 7.35pm    Boxing - Lightweight Men's Q/F Harry Garside (Australia) Winner! 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

 

                                                 Wednesday Schedule

  • 7.30am    Marathon Swimming - Women's 10km Final (Kareena Lee)
  • 10.00am  Skateboarding - Women's Park Preliminaries (Poppy Olsen) Final at 1.30pm
  • 10.00am  Athletics - Heats & Qualification
  • 10.30am  Canoe Sprint - Heats & S/F's (Bernadette Wallace, Josephine Bulmer, Alyce Wood, Alyssa Bull)
  • 12.30pm  Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
  • 2.40pm    Basketball - Women's Q/F  Australia vs USA
  • 3.00pm    Diving - Women's 10m Platform Preliminaries (Nikita Hains, Melissa Wu)
  • 3.30pm    Sailing - Men's 470 Class Medal Race (Mat Belcher & Will Ryan)(Already Assured of the Gold Medal)
  • 4.30pm    Cycling Track - Heats & Qualification
  • 6.55pm    Cycling Track - Men's Team Pursuit Bronze Medal (Australia vs New Zealand)
  • 7.30pm    Athletics - Heats & S/F's (Ashley Moloney, Jessica Hull, Linden Hall)
  • 9.00pm    Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final (Genevieve Gregson)
  • 10.05pm  Athletics - Men's 800m Final (Peter Bol)
  • 10.55pm  Athletics - Men's 200m Final

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What a win for the Kookaburras in such a tense match against the Germans! 3-1 and Germany really came to play. We're now assured of a medal.  Will it be Gold or Silver? We'll wait and see....

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Kookaburra's win through to the Final!!

Played much better tonight and controlled the game throughout.  Germany just couldn't score against our methodical defence based style

Final: 8.00pm Thursday

Australia vs Belgium with a Gold medal up for grabs!

 

 

Our Stingrays suffer their 2nd consecutive Quarter Final exit from the Olympics in heart breaking fashion. After their 13-11 loss to Hungary in 2016, they've gone down 9-8 to Russia this time around.

It really is a great effort as they're all amateurs I believe coming up against nations who pump a lot more money into the sport.  Unfortunately it just wasn't to be. A great Olympics from them though. 

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Yes the Water Polo Women's team just couldn't get within striking distance ... trailed by 2 or 3 for the majority of the match

ROC controlled the match but we never gave up and could have pinched the game in the end.  A good effort, all the same when considering the funding we're up against (as TD noted in the above post)

 


It's all happening at the moment. Boomers cruising to a win over Argentina and Del Solar/Clancy take the first set against the World Number 1's who hadn't dropped a set for the tournament until now. Could we go three for four tonight with our teams???

 

Edit: Yes Boomers win by a massive 38 points 97-59 against the 2019 World Cup Silver Medalists. Just a demolition job in the final term after it was only 60-48 at 3/4 time. Our 2nd largest Olympic win ever, just below our 103-62 win over Greece in Atlanta in 1996 which I remember quite well in the Gaze, Heal, Bradtke era.  Next task for the Boomers, the USA!

Now if we can bring Del Solar/Clancy home!

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They've done it!!! Revenge for the Commonwealth Games Gold medal match! Del Solar & Clancy have won their way through to the Semi Finals defeating the World Number 1 pair from Canada in three sets 21-15, 19-21, 15-12 in an amazing performance!

The Americans who are on the other side of the draw are probably favourites now, but these two are more then capable of going all the way!

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Boomers were supreme and the Beach Volleyball Women (del Solar & Clancy) won well against quality opposition.  Both teams now engaged in semi finals on Thursday

Next up is Latvia (Thursday 11.00am) for del Solar & Clancy whilst the Boomers take on the USA (Thursday 2.15pm)

Shaping up as a big Thursday in more ways than one with Kookaburra's vying for Gold (Thursday 8.00pm vs Belgium) and we are medal chances in a few other sports as well on the same day

Our 4th team still in the running are the Opals and they play the USA at 2.40pm tomorrow (Wednesday)

And the 5th team in the running (The Matilda's) play for the Bronze against the USA on Thursday as well (6.00pm) 

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Bronze to Australia in the Women's Marathon swim with Kareena Lee. Wjhat an amazing swin!

Sadly I missed it by sleeping in due to my late night last night, but will have to check it out.

Gold to Australia with Ryan & Belcher in the sailing! All they needed to do was turn up today, but they've done better and won the race on top of that.

15 Gold now to Australia, officially our 3rd greatest haul!


Meanwhile the Opals have been eliminated from the women's basketball competition with a 79-55 loss to USA.

I think it's fair to say we're now officially in a transition phase with our women's basketball team, just like we were with the Boomers after the Sydney Olympics and we saw the last of Gaze, Bradtke, Longley etc.

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                                       Wednesday Schedule

  • 7.30pm    Athletics - Heats & S/F's (Ashley Moloney, Jessica Hull, Linden Hall)
  • 9.00pm    Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final (Genevieve Gregson)
  • 10.05pm  Athletics - Men's 800m Final (Peter Bol)
  • 10.55pm  Athletics - Men's 200m Final

                                       Thursday Schedule

  • 7.30am    Marathon Swimming - Men's 10km Final (Kai Edwards)
  • 10.00am  Scateboarding - Men's Park Preliminaries (Final at 1.30pm)
  • 10.00am  Athletics - Heats & Qualification
  • 10.30am  Canoe/Sprint S/F's (Alyce Wood, Alyssa Bull, Tom Green, Jean van der Weasthuyzen, Riley Fitzsimmons, Jordan Wood
  • 11.00am  Beach Volleyball Women's S/F - Australia (Del Solar & Clancy) vs Latvia
  • 11.00am  Diving - Women's 10m Platform S/F (Final at 4.00pm)
  • 12.00pm  Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Final
  • 12.05pm  Athletics - Men's Shot Put Final
  • 12.55pm  Athletics - Men's 110m Hurdles Final
  • 1.25pm    Canoe/Sprint - Women's Kayak Single 500m Final
  • 1.55pm    Canoe/Sprint - Men's Kayak Double 1000m Final
  • 2.15pm    Basketball - Men's S/F (Boomers vs USA)
  • 4.30pm    Cycling Track - Heat's & Qualification
  • 5.30pm    Athletics - Men's 20km Race Walk Final (Kyle Swan, Declan Tingay)
  • 6.00pm    Football - Women's Bronze Medal Match (Australia vs USA)
  • 6.45pm    Cycling Track - Women's Keiren Final
  • 6.55pm    Cycling Track - Men's Omnium Points Race Final
  • 8.00pm    Hockey - Men's Gold Medal Match (Australia vs Belgium)
  • 8.15pm    Athletics - Heat's & Qualification
  • 8.20pm    Athletics - Women's Pole Vault Final
  • 10.00pm  Athletics - Men's 400m Final

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Bronze for Australia at the veledrome in the team pursuit over New Zealand.

Unfortunate for the Kiwis as it came about due to a crash, but a great race by the Aussies and a deserved win.

That is now 36 medals for Australia. We already know this Olympics is currently our 3rd best Gold Medal haul, and now with 36 medals it brings us up to our 5th best total medal haul, going past the 35 we won in both 56' Melbourne and 12' London.

Artistic swimming duos. What an event. Creepy, mesmerizing, confusing… ORC dominating again. 

11 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Artistic swimming duos. What an event. Creepy, mesmerizing, confusing… ORC dominating again. 

The skill involved in that is unquestionable. I have no idea how they do it?


Peter Bol just misses out on a medal, but ran a good race for 4th.

34 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

The skill involved in that is unquestionable. I have no idea how they do it?

12/10 difficulty. 15/10 creep vibes. 
The ladies who won train 8 hours a day 6 days a week. I mean that is some next level commitment to water gymnastics. 

They've done it the Aussie Girls! Del Solar & Clancy have won their way through to the Gold Medal match in the Women's Beach Volleyball match with a straight sets win over Latvia 23-21, 21-13. Tough first set and the 2nd set seemed to be going the same way, until the Aussie Girls steam rolled through the back end of the 2nd set!

The Americans won't be easy beats, as their ranked number 2 in the World, however after we knocked off World Number 1's Canada in the Quarter Final, I don't think that will phase this pair!

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This post was meant to go up yesterday!

Well done to Mat Belcher & Will Ryan in the 470 Class in the Yachting!  Gold!

Could only listen to the medal race but the pair went out in style by winning the race when all they really needed to do was finish.  Kudos!

And now our Beach Volleyball Women have advanced to the final!!

Fantastic, and a great start to the day!

 

Melissa Wu has qualified for the final of the women's 10 meter Platform later on today in 5th position. Less then 10 points shy of the woman in 3rd and 15 clear of the woman in 6th, so she's well and truly in the medal discussion. The two from China look a class above, however once the final starts, everyone starts again from zero, so you never know what could happen?


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4 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Melissa Wu has qualified for the final of the women's 10 meter Platform later on today in 5th position. Less then 10 points shy of the woman in 3rd and 15 clear of the woman in 6th, so she's well and truly in the medal discussion. The two from China look a class above, however once the final starts, everyone starts again from zero, so you never know what could happen?

Yes Melissa is a real chance for a bronze at least ... Final is on at 4pm so fingers crossed

We've got a full day ahead of us TD with one important event or final flowing onto the next

Wall to wall with hopefully more thrills than spills!!

4 minutes ago, Macca said:

Yes Melissa is a real chance for a bronze at least ... Final is on at 4pm so fingers crossed

We've got a full day ahead of us TD with one important event or final flowing onto the next

Wall to wall with hopefully more thrills than spills!!

Yes being alive in so many of the team events certainly helps keep you on your toes for the last few days of the Olympics as the numbers of events start to wrap up.  Fingers crossed there's a few more gold in us yet!

Gold for Australia in the Kayak Doubles in a thriller! Gold Number 16. The record is in sight! What a finish!

 

Skateboarding gold to 18 year old Keegan Palmer! That's 17 Gold Medal for Australia! With the Kookaburras on tonight, we could make this our best games by the end of the day!

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Double Gold in 30 minutes ... well done to our K2 pair in the Canoe Sprint and Keegan Palmer in scateboarding!!  Fabulous!!

As TD stated,  17 Gold with the record number in sight!!

 


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