Commonwealth Games 2018

[intoronto 5,638]

14 minutes ago, juddy96 said:

 

Weather affects everyone. Warner's loss was his own fault, that isn't unlucky. He's been around long enough, it was his mistake to not come in earlier. Qualification doesn't mean anything if you can't perform in the final, again that's not bad luck, nerves and tiredness are totally different. PNG lifter was the defending champion, it wasn't out of nowhere. The only true bad luck was Batty if she did have bike issues, because she can't control that and nobody else had to deal with it.

It was out of nowhere, he had not lifted that wait in "years" according to the announcers.

[juddy96 171]

9 minutes ago, intoronto said:

It was out of nowhere, he had not lifted that wait in "years" according to the announcers.

 

Regardless, the majority of the Canadians that have won medals here have been the up and comers PB'ing, such as Lovett in the HJ and Ruck in the swimming. Many of our top track (and other) athletes either didn't get into shape to prepare for this or just didn't bother entering. Schultz in the Heptathlon another up and comer looking to PB and get a medal too. Hopefully she will stay as Canadian as she has mentioned looking to switch allegiances before

Edited April 13, 2018 by juddy96

[juddy96 171]

Well clearly Canada has declined in Rhythmic Gymnastics, I think it's silly to have medals for all the individual disciplines, for me it's not like Artistic where there are clear specialists on some apparatus that would warrant that

[nitinsanker 202]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

I agree but there has been a lot of unluck as well

-Damian Warner

-Emily Batty (her bike had problems apparently yesterday)

-Benefito yday was leading and overtaken by an Australian on the last day (who imo was overscored) 

-Women's 3m springboard synchronized had problems with the weather, they were gold medal faves

-Darsigny/Santavy were unlucky to win gold, they were both faves. PNG lifter in the men's event came out of no where. 

-Rhythmic gymnasts should have won gold in the team event had they performed the same as in the all-around. 

-The women's artistic team should have swept the golds (judging by qualification), but I guess ran out of stamina by the time individual finals came around.

=9 golds that should have tilted too Canada.

-32!!! Fourth place finishes so far as a bonus

 

yes the PNG lifter did an amazing lift ...... santavy was not there in the range  .... he did have some bad luck in the snatch though where he missed one lift due to time out but Still he came out with an amazing lift in his final attempt ... even with three that might have been it .... and if gymnasts did not perform in the final that is their poor performance not luck .....  India did top most of the rifle qualifications - almost all but came up short in the finals ... that was not bad luck but lack of focus ....... Batty yes I give you that ......

 

India - Canada both won a gold today so the margin is still 2 ....................

[intoronto 5,638]

Wow that Indian boxer (Solanki) escaped. Very lucky the bout was not stopped, and thus he won the fight.

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

After five 4th place finishes in lawn bowls it looks like Canada will win a medal.

[nitinsanker 202]

what happened in 4*400 m for men ... nigeria disqualified and ENG did not finish ...... ?????

 

Opens a small window for India to medal on the positive side 

[juddy96 171]

2 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

what happened in 4*400 m for men ... nigeria disqualified and ENG did not finish ...... ?????

 

Opens a small window for India to medal on the positive side 

 

Nigeria stepped on the line, Australia had their runner in the wrong position during the changeover, and England had a hamstring injury 50m into the race

[bestmen 2,817]

A Singapore athlete has been banned from competing at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Australia after a positive doping test.

[Griff88 1,952]

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