MadAsHell

Finally gold!!!! Well done Kim Brennan!

Brave effort by the Matildas, and going down 7-6 to Brazil on penalties is a shattering way to go. Especially when we had a kick to win it after having saved their 5th kick, we just needed to put our 5th away for the win. However not to be.

Brave race by the mens pursuit team. Although we now seem stuck in a loop of silver and bronze medals as a whole. With the days competition at Rio drawing towards an end, we''ve now knly won 1 gold in the last 4 days of competition.

Another silver in the rowing! Well done boys. Kim Brennan likely are last chance for a gold in the rowing now. And another gold would be nice after the last 24 hours.....

First article i've seen where questions are now being asked: http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/australias-rio-olympic-campaign-rocked-to-the-core-after-a-horror-day-of-results/news-story/cfa7860f709f1305546868f853760557

Look forward to him following in his old mans footsteps and playing with Viney & Stretch.

Love your optimism Macca. I do believe we are still capable of around 12 gold medals. Bit to play out still. Especially in the pool for mine. Tomorrow morning i can't see us do anything more then two bronze medals at best. But sunday morning we have the opportunity to go out on a high.

Nope, don't see the need. Watch Essendon or Richmond panic and pick him up instead.

Might be another review for Australian swimming coming up. Mitch Larkin world champ in 100 & 200m backstroke with results of 4th & 2nd Emily Seebohm world champ in the same races = results of 7th & knocked out in semi finals Cam McEvoy silver medalist in 100m freestyle in worldchamps with a finish of 7th here. Cate Campbell world record holder in 100m freestyle and misses medals here. Bronte Campbell world champ in 100m freestyle and misses medals here. As far as the pool goes, with only two nights of comp left I can only see 3 more races I think we're a gold medal chance in. The womens 4 x 100m medly relay if (and big if) Seebohm & Cate Campbell can rediscover some form along with Emma McKeon with her butterfly. Cate Campbell to bounce back in the 50m freestyle and Mack Horton to hopefully win a spiteful 1500m freestyle. Questions will asked I suspect despite the improvement from london. Also worth noting that at london, despite only the 1 gold, our swimmers won 10 medals. So far at Rio, we've won 8.

Disaster!

Vickery is a free agent, so we wouldn't have to deal with richmond, we can just sign him. The issue is though that he's bog ordinary and I'd rather we re-draft Newton then go near Vickery.

Another silver, this time to Mitch Larkin in the 200m backstroke. Looks like I was far to optimistic with my claiming at the least we could ge 8 gold by stumps tonight.... Lets hope one of the Campbell's can come through for me and at least get us up to 6!

Great start to the morning with the Opals coming from 16 points down early in the last quarter to pinch a 6 point wkn over Japan. Liz Cambage with over 35 points, shooting 75% from the field. And also the Hockeyroos gutsy 1-0 win over World Champs Argentina. That win should help ensure to avoid the dangerous Dutch in the quarter & semi final cross over. Finally well done to Jess Fox on her bronze medal overnight.

Another silver medal, this time in the quad sculls. The aussies just gave up a bit to big a start to the Germans to reign them in.

Thanks for the run down again Macca. I don't want to jinx anything, but this could be a huge 15 hours coming up with Australia genuine gold medal chances in up to 7 events. The mens quad sculls and coxless pair in rowing. Jess Fox in the kayak, mens cycling sprint team and then in the pool, Mitch Larkin, the Campbell sisters and even Taylor McKewan who qualified fastest in the 200m breaststroke in a field she shouldn't fear. Not saying we'll win all 7, it could be 0. But every reason to feel optimistic we coukd be knocking on the door of around 10 gold by stumps on Day 6, or at least equalling what we got in London!

And another silver for Australia in the women's 4 x 200m relay. What a way for Bronte Barratt to bow out.

Feel for McEvoy swimming more then a second slower then his best and finishing 7th, but handled himself with class. This result was a bit like Jodie Henry (one of my favourites) up staging Libby Lenton at Athens in 2004. Now it seems withdrawing McEvoy from the 4 x 200m relay has cost us silver or bronze. But it's all academic now. Congratulations to Chalmers, and lets hope the womens 4 x 200m relay team can also cause a boilover later on for another gold.

Chalmers from the clouds!

Madeline Groves wins our first silver of the games in the 200m Fly. Touched out by .03 of a second. Great swim by the girl swimming a PB in an Olympic final.

Kookaburra's get a much needed 2-1 victory over Great Britain and break a 15 quarter goalless drought while at it. Hopefully this victory will be the shot in the arm they need to get going again. Next match against Brazil should be a training run and then they can move onto the quarter finals.

Great effort by the boomers, however giving up over 20 offensive rebounds and some great shooting by Carmelo Anthony & Kyrie Irvine saw the Boomers go down 88-98. Hope they use that as fuel to push on for a medal now. They got two seemingly easier games coming up against China & Venezuela that they need to make sure they win to keep the momentum up. They may also use it to rest Bogut as much as they can given his come back from injury and he looked very lethargic towards the end of the match. Meanwhile the Kookaburra's are 0-0 at half time against Great Britain. Lets hope they can get a win there to get themselves back in form.

Mens Rugby 7's unable to repeat their win over South Africa and have been knocked out in the quarter finals. The loss to France first up cost them a much nicer draw come the quarter finals.

Our 2nd womens beach volleyball team of Laird & Del Solar have been eliminated, loosing their 3rd straight group match, this time to China. Clancy & Bawden left to carry the flag with our beach volleyball hopes from here in.

Confirm 7:30am match v South Africa in the Rugby 7's. Nice lead in to the Boomers v Dream Team match. Interesting that in the final pool match Fiji defeated USA 24-19. If USA had of converted their 3rd try or managed another try for the upset win then it would have eliminated New Zealand. Instead with Fiji winning by more then 3 points they've booked themselves a quarter final against the Kiwis. Good to see there's no tanking, but surely Fiji must have thought long and hard about the potential benefit of conceding a try right at the end.

Looks as though the Australian Mens Rugby 7's team will likely be on at 7:30am v South Africa. This will be confirmed within the hour however pending the last couple of group results. Failing the 7:30am start time, it will be 6:00am v one of Fiji, USA or Argentina, but it's still TBC.