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How ridiculous that the BBC said this a.m. that if you want to watch the swimming watch at 1.55 p.m. and the screen showed that time and yet the Red button was different; Idiots.
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Great NR by the 4x100m Free Women. Gold is absolutely locked in but there's an outside chance of bronze medal there for them I reckon. Litchfield and Wilmott probably less so but if you've got a lane... Peaty doing Peaty things.
Another win for the GB women in football and the Men in Hockey. Both Murrays and (currently more successful) doubles partners won their first round matches.
Rowing a mixed bag (Men's Four looked supreme, others less so).
Gymnastics likewise - comfortable qualification to the team final and a few individual finals, but nothing that will scare the world.
All in all, a pretty solid day for GB though.Comment
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Looking at todays swimming it suggests that medals this week will be incredibly hard to win. 6 or 7 I cannot seee. 4 I think unless Duncan Scott is on fire then maybe 5 or 6.Comment
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On Aimee Wilmott, I think she's got more than an outside shot at the podium.... Unless Hosszu was ultra-sandbagging in that semi-final swim, she didn't look like the dominant force that's ruled the 400 m IM for the past decade today. A dominant Hosszu would absolutely try to win the heat and semi-finals to assert her will on the rest of the field. She didn't do that today and her usual strengths like the backstroke (reigning world 200 backstroke champion) didn't come through for her against that American and Wilmott.
If Wilmott doesn't medal in the final, I think she'll be disappointed, especially with how strong she looked on the breaststroke, back and freestyle in the semi-final.Comment
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Has been a very rough day technically for Discovery & Eurosport. Lots of things going wrong - although they got lots of pictures they have had horrible trouble getting multilingual commentaries to work, and even several medal finals were left with no commentary at all. A long way short of the standard needed.Comment
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Here's tomorrow's medals. We really should break our duck at some point.
02:30 Swimming Men 400m IM Medal Final
02:52 Swimming Men 400m Freestyle Medal Final
03:12 Swimming Women 400m IM Medal Final
03:15 Shooting Women 10m Air Pistol Medal Final
03:45 Swimming Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay Medal Final
04:25 Skateboarding Men Street Medal Final
05:00 Road Cycling Women's Road Race Medal Final
07:00 Diving Women synchronized 3m platform Medal final
07:30 Shooting Men 10m Air Rifle Medal Final
07:50 Weightlifting Men 61kg Group A Medal Final
08:15 Archery Women Team Medal Final
09:00 Judo Women 52kg Repechage & Medal Final
09:00 Judo Men 66kg Repechage & Medal Final
10:00 Fencing Women Foil & Men Epée Medal Final
11:50 Fencing Women Foil Individual Bronze Medal Final
11:50 Weightlifting Men 67kg Group A Medal Final
12:20 Fencing Men Épée Individual Bronze Medal Final
12:30 Taekwondo Women 57kg Bronze Medal Final
12:45 Fencing Women Foil Individual Gold Medal Final
12:45 Taekwondo Men 68kg Bronze Medal Final
13:00 Taekwondo Women 57kg Bronze Medal Final
13:15 Fencing Men Épée Individual Gold Medal Final
13:15 Taekwondo Men 68kg Bronze Medal Final
13:30 Taekwondo Women 57kg Gold Medal Final
13:45 Taekwondo Men 68kg Gold Medal FinalComment
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Today's swimming was not necessarily a good guide for GB success. Peaty aside, none of the events were ones that we are seriously expected to medal in. Both Litchfield & Wilmott could medal but they aren't favoured to. Swimming will always be tough but we'll have a lot of decent shots through the week.
Weightlifting is an interesting one. There have been mass restrictions at these Olympics on a bunch of nations with serious doping histories. 4 countries completely banned and others restricted to only a couple of athletes.Comment
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The message on the swimming is surely clear now, that is, the morning finals and the semis are already showing the pressures and toughness of morning swims, and perhaps increasing the chances of surprises, like the men's 400m win for the young Tunisian, who did not drop off like the Europeans. I think the European guys swam badly in tactical terms.How fasinating that the Tunisian guy only got into the final by a minute part of a second and from the outside lane he did the business.
. As i have said the idea of a hatful of British medals is clearly not realistic and the change in pattern of swimming times has got more surprises for us yet.
Delighted with O'hashi's Gold in the 4 IM; some really good heat swims have turned out to be not replicated in the final or semis; more surprises to come and we better get ready for our likely only individual Gold , AP of course, who looked majestic
First world record by the Aussies, no surprises there, but we lost our chances in the relay with Hope's slightly poorer leg. I am looking forward to seeing Abbie Wood and Anna Hopkin performing during this Games..Comment
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Re the relay - whilst they might be slightly disappointed, it's important to recognise the context and measure of how far they have come. We broke the British record again. Let's not forget that we've not even entered a team at Olympics or Worlds since 2012! To go from that to 5th here is something to absolutely be proud of and all of that team can realistically look to Paris.
I didn't have us medalling in any of the 4 events tonight, so I'm not remotely worried about our chances. 5th was what I expected, at best, from that relay, 4th from Litchfield was better than I expected. Wilmott is maybe the only slight disappointment but certainly not a shock.
We might not get the hatful of medals but judging it based on these swims, as I said in my last post, is not the way to prove that.
Fabulous swimming from the Aussie 4x1 women. They were always the class and always a decent shot to break the world record. Have to say that the Tunisian fella winning the 400m free will probably go down as one of THE shocks of the entire Games. Fair play to him.Comment
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