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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!!

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!

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

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)

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)

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!

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

Well done Harry!! The Kazakhstan boxer a tad unlucky as I scored it a draw But you take the win and the assured medal

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!

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

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

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?!

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 .

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

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

I've included Simone in the schedule!

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

Monday Schedule 6.00pm Equestrian - Eventing Jumping Team Final (Australia) 6.00pm Gymnastics 3 Finals (Men's Rings, Women's Floor, Men's Vault 7.05pm Cycling Track - Women's Team Sprint S/F's & Final 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 Gymnastics 3 Finals (Men's Parallel Bars, Women's Balance Beam, 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 .

That's not too bad then TD ... was expecting at least a 30 point win was going to be required. We'll need to fly out of the blocks and maintain it. It's do-able as Puerto Rico have been thrashed in their other 2 games. Fingers crossed!

You make some very good points and although I'm obviously disappointed with the Hockeyroos I've also been completely blown away with our success elsewhere ... and again, it's the sum of all the parts is how I view it all In other words, if the Hockeyroos had have gone all the way but our overall gold medal total amounted to 6 or 7 gold, I'd be far more upset & annoyed with the overall as opposed to being pleased with the Hockeyroos winning. Similarly, I don't care who plays well in our footy team as long as we win! Reckon we're about a 10-12 Gold medal nation so I believe we're already ahead of the count But I'm not making any predictions this week as I do not want to mozz the team! Just remember TD, the 'Medusa Touch' is always lurking around the corner! ? We're a definite medal chance tonight in the Team Eventing - Equestrian (6pm) but we'll need the Brits to drop a number of point penalties to get past them ... but you just never know! (the obstacles might be quite difficult) If the Equestrian is not on the telly it can be viewed on the 7Plus App Other highlights tonight will be the Matilda's, Opal's and the Shark's (Men's Water Polo team)

Not a good record in the last 4 Olympics so they'll do a deep dive into why, TD Listening in only but it's seems we lack dynamic difference makers. So if it becomes a low scoring grind then the lesser team always has a chance in a sport where it's often difficult to score And we had only conceded 1 goal in the group stage but because India scored first and therefore led, we seemed like we were in unfamiliar territory But to me it's the sum of all the parts So any win in any sport brings unbridled joy whilst any loss or elimination brings with it a next-sport-up mentality For instance, I reckon the Kookaburra's got lucky against the Netherlands but now we're in with a chance of doing very well

Australia is currently 2nd in the Equestrian Team Eventing whilst Andrew Hoy lies 7th in the Individual Eventing The Eventing Jumping Team Final is on at 6pm tomorrow with the Brits leading and the team to beat Australia trails the Brits by 18.1 points but each team consists of 3 competitors and every rail knocked down* or obstacle refusal carries a penalty of 4 points There are time penalties as well - 1 penalty point per second or fraction of a second (over the time limit) *A lower rail knocked down that doesn't impact the height or width of an obstacle carries no penalty as long as the horse clears the obstacle

Sunday Schedule 6.00pm Gymnastics - 4 Finals (Men's Floor, Women's Vault, Men's Pommel Horse, Women's Uneven Bars) 8.10pm Athletics - Semi Finals (Rohan Browning, Liz Clay, Charlie Hunter, Peter Bol, Jeffrey Riseley) 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 Final Monday Schedule 10.00am Athletics - Heats & Qualification 11.20am Athletics - Men's Long Jump Final 12.50pm Athletics - Women's 100m Hurdles Final 1.00pm Hockey - Women's Q/F (Hockeyroos vs India) 4.00pm Diving - Men's 3m Springboard Preliminary (Shixin Li) 4.30pm Cycling Track - Team Qualifying & Heats (Australia) 6.00pm Equestrian - Eventing Jumping Team Final (Australia) 6.00pm Gymnastics 3 Finals (Men's Ring, Women's Floor, Men's Vault 7.05pm Cycling Track - Women's Team Sprint S/F's & Final 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 (Probable Australian Representation) 10.00pm Basketball Women's - Opals vs Puerto Rico 10.15pm Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final 10.40pm Athletics - Women's 5000m Final .

Another Golden Day For Australia With a Record 4 Gold Medals in One Day Emma McKeon - 50m Freestyle Champion Champions - Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Logan Martin - Cycling BMX Freestyle Champion Matt Wearn - Men's Sailing Laser Class Champion