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Duffy as imperious as ever. We can claim it as a bit of an English medal - both her parents are English and she went to school in Devon! Looks like the conditions got to GT-B a bit, she must be getting tired at being second to Flora all the time.
Pleased for Beth Potter to get on the podium. She's had a solid season and this is just rewards for that.
Even more pleased that I managed to get both podiums spot on! (yes, i do predictions for almost every large sporting event these days!)
09:00 Weightlifting Men 55kg Final
11:45 Weightlifting Men 61kg Final
15:45 Weightlifting Women 49kg Final
16:30 Track Cycling Women 3000m Individual Pursuit Final
17:12 Track Cycling Women Sprint Final
17:26 Track Cycling Men 4000m Individual Pursuit Final
18:17 Track Cycling Men Keirin Final
19:00 Artistic Gymnastics Women Team Final & Individual Qualification Subdivision 4
19:07 Swimming Men Men's 50m Butterfly Final
19:12 Swimming Women Women's 50m Breaststroke Final
19:43 Swimming Men Men's 200m Freestyle Final
19:51 Swimming Men Men's 50m Freestyle S13 Final
19:57 Swimming Women Women's 50m Freestyle S13 Final
20:15 Weightlifting Women 55kg Final
20:49 Swimming Men Men's 400m Individual Medley Final
20:58 Swimming Women Women's 100m Butterfly Final Final
21:05 Swimming Men Men's 100m Backstroke Final
21:26 Swimming Women Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
21:43 Swimming Men Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
09:00 Weightlifting Men 55kg Final
11:45 Weightlifting Men 61kg Final
15:45 Weightlifting Women 49kg Final
16:30 Track Cycling Women 3000m Individual Pursuit Final
17:12 Track Cycling Women Sprint Final
17:26 Track Cycling Men 4000m Individual Pursuit Final
18:17 Track Cycling Men Keirin Final
19:00 Artistic Gymnastics Women Team Final & Individual Qualification Subdivision 4
19:07 Swimming Men Men's 50m Butterfly Final
19:12 Swimming Women Women's 50m Breaststroke Final
19:43 Swimming Men Men's 200m Freestyle Final
19:51 Swimming Men Men's 50m Freestyle S13 Final
19:57 Swimming Women Women's 50m Freestyle S13 Final
20:15 Weightlifting Women 55kg Final
20:49 Swimming Men Men's 400m Individual Medley Final
20:58 Swimming Women Women's 100m Butterfly Final Final
21:05 Swimming Men Men's 100m Backstroke Final
21:26 Swimming Women Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
21:43 Swimming Men Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final
Individual pursuiting, excellent. Has been canned from the OG.
And you thought athletics commentary was bad……..
I read on a rugby forum that a commentator on the women’s sevens reckoned that one of the Kiwi players would take down SAFP in a foot race! Quite enjoyed pointing out that we think Jonny May is a jet heeled male winger and that SAFP has equalled or bettered his best 100m time 10 times. A female rugby player wouldn’t even be in the same postcode.
That’s quite possible. Rugby, esp sevens, is huge there, athletics just isn’t. But generally, what looks electric on a rugby field would look pretty pedestrian on a track.
I remember Nigel Walker switching to rugby after missing the 1992 Olympic team in the 110H. He ended up playing on the wing for Wales. I think at this time he was considered the fastest player in World Rugby but was probably at this time at best about a 10.6/10.7 100m runner.
There's definitely a bunch of NFL players who had the potential to be decent track athletes. I suspect that there were a few rugby players out there who might have been the same had they stayed with athletics rather than rugby. But having the potential at 18/19 is very different obviously from actually being able to do it now!
NZ have turned up in a big way at the velodrome. They were always going to be good but they've been even better than that thus far, if that makes any sense?
09:00 Artistic Gymnastics Men Individual All Around Final
09:30 Weightlifting Men 67kg Final
11:01 Triathlon Men Paratriathlon Final
11:06 Triathlon Women Paratriathlon Final
14:00 Weightlifting Women 59kg Final
14:30 Artistic Gymnastics Women Individual All Around Final
14:31 Triathlon Mixed Relay Final
15:02 Track Cycling Men Tandem B - Sprint Final
15:18 Track Cycling Women Tandem B - 1000m Time Trial Final
15:53 Track Cycling Women 25km Points Race Final
16:32 Track Cycling Women 500m Time Trial Final
17:42 Track Cycling Men Sprint Final
18:30 Weightlifting Men 73kg Final
18:42 Track Cycling Men 15km Scratch Race Final
19:28 Swimming Men Men's 200m Butterfly Final
19:35 Swimming Women 100m Backstroke S8 Final
19:42 Swimming Men 100m Breaststroke SB8 Final
19:50 Rugby Sevens Women Bronze Medal
20:05 Swimming Women Women's 50m Freestyle Final
20:12 Rugby Sevens Men Bronze Medal
20:22 Swimming Women 200m Breaststroke Final
20:38 Rugby Sevens Women Gold Medal
20:45 Swimming Women 100m Backstroke Final
20:51 Swimming Men 100m Breaststroke Final
21:04 Rugby Sevens Men Gold Medal
21:13 Swimming Women 4x200m Freestyle Relay
It's not a vintage England team, frankly. We've lost a lot of the old guard to retirement and there's a generation of strong English cyclists that are skipping the track and going straight out onto the roads/mountain bikes.
A lot of the best British track riders right now are Welsh/Scottish. Katie Archibald would have been contending for a bunch of medals but lost her battle to be fit for the games.
Only just seen Joe Truman's crash. That was one of the worst I've seen on the track in a good while. Reminder how dangerous that sport can be.
Yep. Those guys go at some serious speeds and nothing Truman could have done about that, looks like he was probably out cold for a little while. It’s a dangerous game whether in the velodrome or outside. The women have been falling off all over the place in the Tour de Frances Femmes - there was a 50 rider pile up the other day.
I'm more used to seeing the really bad crashes on the road (Jakobsen etc) and obviously there's a death every now and again (mostly in training crashes when a car hits them but occasionally in a race - Fabio Casartelli springs to mind).
The track has less things for them to hit so often is less bad but there's a few famous ones - Aziz Awang getting a huge shard of wood straight through his leg in Manchester sticks in the memory because I was in the building for it!
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