Tokyo Olympics 2021

[Macca 17,034]

New page so here is the schedule again ...  

 

                                        Friday Schedule

• 10.00am  Athletics - Heats & Qualifications
• 10.33am  Rowing Women's Single Sculls Final (Emma Twigg)
• 10.45am  Rowing Men's Single Sculls Final
• 11.00am  Cycling BMX Racing S/F's Men's/Women's (Saya Sakakibara) Finals at 12.40pm
• 11.00am  Hockey Men's - Kookaburra's vs Spain
• 11.05am Rowing Women's Eights Final (Australia)
• 11.25am Rowing Men's Eights Final (Australia)
• 11.30am  Rugby 7's Women - Australia vs USA
• 11.40am  Swimming Women's 200 Breaststroke Final
• 11.50am  Swimming Men's 200M Breaststroke Final
• 12.00pm  Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle Final (Cate Campbell,  Emma McKeon)
• 12.16pm  Swimming Men's 200m IM Final
• 3.00pm     Canoe/Slalom Men's K1 S/F (Lucien Delfour) Final at 5.00pm
• 4.00pm     Beach Volleyball Women - Australia (Del Solar/Clancy) vs ROC
• 6.30pm     Rugby 7's Women's 4 x Q/Fs
• 7.00pm     Football Women's Q/F - Matilda's vs Great Britain
• 8.00pm     Athletics - Heats & Qualification
• 8.00pm     Swimming - Heats
• 8.50pm     Water Polo Women - Australia vs Spain
• 9.30pm     Athletics Men's 10,000m Final (Patrick Tiernan)
• 10.00pm   Basketball Women's - Opals vs China

Edited July 29, 2021 by Macca

[MadAsHell 4,215]

6 minutes ago, Macca said:

Might be a bit tougher to get amongst the medals tomorrow but we are in with a chance in 3 Rowing Finals, the 100m Freestyle for Women and Saya Sakakibara could surprise in the BMX racing

We've had a few really good days, so no shock if we have one or two quite ones.

We've already won the same amount of Gold that we did in both Rio & London after only 6 days, so it's been a very successful Games for Australia so far.

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21 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

We've had a few really good days, so no shock if we have one or two quite ones.

We've already won the same amount of Gold that we did in both Rio & London after only 6 days, so it's been a very successful Games for Australia so far.

Yeah we've got 8 gold in 6 full days of competition but as we know,  once the swimming is over and done with, gold medals are harder to come by.  Be nice if we could keep up that sort of strike rate though TD!  One gold tomorrow would satisfy

Track Cycling,  Sailing,  all the team events,  Equestrian and maybe the Tennis & Athletics remain our best chances

Hockeyroos are making hard work of it against these plucky Kiwi's!

Edited July 29, 2021 by Macca

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Another gutsy 1-0 victory for the Hockeyroos, this time over New Zealand. Assured themselves of a top 2 finish in their group.

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Gold & Bronze for Australia! Well done Emma McKeon winning gold & Cate Campbell coming back in her 4th Olympics to claim bronze. What an amazing effort to both!

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9 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Gold & Bronze for Australia! Well done Emma McKeon winning gold & Cate Campbell coming back in her 4th Olympics to claim bronze. What an amazing effort to both!

Fantastic!  We're now up to 9 gold (we remain ahead of the count TD!)

Magnificent win by Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell swum her heart out (again)

Another great start to the day!

Gold!!! (And Bronze!!)

[MadAsHell 4,215]

7 minutes ago, Macca said:

Fantastic!  We're now up to 9 gold (we remain ahead of the count TD!)

Magnificent win by Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell swum her heart out (again)

Another great start to the day!

Gold!!! (And Bronze!!)

Yep, we've now bettered our Gold medal haul from London & Rio and come equal with Atlanta 96'. Only one Gold away coming into what would be one of our top 5 Gold medal hauls of all time if I'm not mistaken. 04', 00', 08', 56' & 96' being the current top 5 if I'm not mistaken?

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Meanwhile a set back to our Rugby 7's women's team with a shock loss to USA. Will still progress to the Quarter Finals, however our draw won't be as kind as we would have been hoping.

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A sloppy Kookaburras have just missed out on going through the group winning every match, conceding a late goal to draw with Spain 1-1.

This game had no effect on where they would finish as they were guaranteed to finish 1st in their group and it was essentially an elimination final for Spain, with the draw getting them through to the Quarter Finals, where a loss would have left them vulnerable.

Nothing to be concerned about at this stage, as the Kookaburras have saved their best hockey for their best opponents so far (India 7-1 & Argentina 5-2), but would still have liked to go through to the knockout stage with a win ideally.

Edited July 30, 2021 by MadAsHell

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Del Solar/Clancy have lost their final group match against the Russians 21-8, 15-21, 15-12.

The good news here is that the girls didn't play well at all (especially in the first set) but only just lost and fought it out. Will wait to see who they draw in the Round of 16, but it won't be an easy match whoever it is.

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Matt Wearn has secured us another gold in the sailing.

Not official on the tally as yet as the event doesn't finish for a few days, but he's so far ahead he isn't getting caught!

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21 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Matt Wearn has secured us another gold in the sailing.

Not official on the tally as yet as the event doesn't finish for a few days, but he's so far ahead he isn't getting caught!

Wow! That is a surprise

We are currently 2nd in the Men's 470 but the details on some of the women's events are a bit sketchy ... we'll know more in a day or 2

[Macca 17,034]

                Emma McKeon - 100m Freestyle Champion

 

 

 

 

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Dirty day for our womens 7's team. After a shock loss to USA this morning they've lost their Quarter Final to Fiji 14-12 and will not be able to defend their Gold Medal from 2016.

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Ash Barty & John Peers have been beaten in the Mixed Doubles Semi Final in a third set super tie breaker. They'll now have to battle it out for Bronze.

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                                                 Friday Schedule

• 7.00pm     Football Women's Q/F - Matilda's vs Great Britain
• 8.00pm     Athletics - Heats & Qualification
• 8.00pm     Swimming - Heats
• 8.50pm     Water Polo Women - Australia vs Spain
• 9.30pm     Athletics Men's 10,000m Final (Patrick Tiernan)
• 10.00pm   Basketball Women's - Opals vs China

                                               Saturday Schedule

• 8.30am    Triathlon Mixed Relay Final (Australia)
• 10.00am  Athletics - Heats & Qualification
• 10.00am  Shooting Trap Mixed Team (James Willett,  Laetisha Scanlan)
• 11.30am  Swimming Men's 100m Butterfly Final (Matthew Temple)
• 11.37am  Swimming Women's 200m Backstroke Final (Kaylee McKeown,  Emily Seebohm)
• 11.46am  Swimming Women's 800m Freestyle Final (Ariarna Titmus,  Kiah Melverton)
• 12.30pm  Water Polo Men's - Australia vs Spain
• 12.43pm  Swimming Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final (Australia)
• 12.45pm  Hockey Women's - Australia vs Argentina
• 3.00pm    Diving Women's 3m Springboard S/F (Annabelle Smith,  Esther Qin)
• 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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One of our most famous victories in soccer ever! The Matildas defeat Great Britain 4-3 in extra time. Sam Kerr with a double. What an achievement!

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6 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

One of our most famous victories in soccer ever! The Matildas defeat Great Britain 4-3 in extra time. Sam Kerr with a double. What an achievement!

A remarkable win and a fabulous contest

And a great spectacle

Our Matilda's were magnificent TD and we are right in the hunt for Gold now as the Brits were highly rated

Matilda's 4 Great Britain 3

[MadAsHell 4,215]

So outside the remarkable effort of the Matildas, it continues to be a challenging day for our teams. Womens Waterpolo team have gone down to Spain 15-9. Let's hope the Opals can bounce back against China shortly.

[Pates 9,660]

That Matilda’s win has got to be one of the gutsiest performances by an Australian team I’ve seen. The game ebbed and flowed, it was exciting almost throughout with both teams attacking. That penalty was ridiculously soft (isn’t VAR there to stop that bull****?), but what a response and the Aussie public need to get behind them right now. 

EDIT also how refreshing to see two teams in a knock out actually playing attacking football as opposed to being afraid to concede. 

Edited July 30, 2021 by Pates

[Macca 17,034]

1 hour ago, MadAsHell said:

So outside the remarkable effort of the Matildas, it continues to be a challenging day for our teams. Womens Waterpolo team have gone down to Spain 15-9. Let's hope the Opals can bounce back against China shortly.

From an overall perspective (re the teams) we are still well in the hunt with the Matilda's, Kookaburra's, Hockeyroos, Boomers, the Women's Water Polo team & the Women's Beach Volleyball team.

The Men's Water Polo team are still alive but it's tough to win a medal against the Eastern European Nations

And the Equestrian team in the 3 day event are often in the running for a medal of any colour

Opals need to get a win on the board against China tonight to be in the mix

2 gold out of all that as a conservative prediction?  Has to be at least 1 gold but 3 gold would be an excellent outcome

 

Edited July 30, 2021 by Macca

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Think it's fair to say the Opals era is over. Lost to China by 2 points for an 0-2 start to the campaign. Can still make the Quarter Finals with a big win over Puerto Rico, but can't see us going beyond that the way they're playing. Opals fought to the end tonight, but their lack of star power (no Jackson, Taylor, Timms etc) seems to be the difference.

[Macca 17,034]

As TD mentioned above, the Opals battle hard but we lack star power and difference-makers. 

Even so, we're going to need a couple of results going our way just to advance and then win our remaining game by 30+ points against Puerto Rico (which is do-able as Puerto Rico have been thrashed in their first 2 games)

If everything falls into place we can advance but it's what happens from there which remains problematical

[Macca 17,034]

Wow!!  Kaylee McKeown again!! Gold!!

What a champion!!

The Double!! (100 & 200 Backstroke Gold)

Emily Seebohm takes the Bronze with another fabulous swim

 

Edited July 31, 2021 by Macca
Spelling typo

[MadAsHell 4,215]

Gold & Bronze to Australia! McKeown & Seebohm repeat what McKeon & Campbell did yesterday!

What an effort from Seebohm claiming an individual medal in her 4th games!