Team GB Daily: Day 2

[Orangehair43 251]

5 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

Rosie eccles just got fucked in the boxing, excuse me language, that is a joke

I honestly wouldn’t care if they shut our boxing programme down. Corrupt sport. 

[G-ann 113]

Tense times in the hockey with  women 2-1 down in the 1st quarter 

[Mkbw50 438]

4 minutes ago, G-ann said:

Tense times in the hockey with  women 2-1 down in the 1st quarter 

As tense as a pool game with 4/6 going through can be at least...

for the hockey heads here is there any real chance we don't make the quarters?

[G-ann 113]

2 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

As tense as a pool game with 4/6 going through can be at least...

for the hockey heads here is there any real chance we don't make the quarters?

If we don’t win this then yes, should be an easy game for us but losing today won’t bode well. 
 

Pool of:

Argentina 

US

Australia 

Spain 

South Africa 

 

I don’t expect a win against Arg or Aus, US/RSA is 50/50 and today should be a win…!

[cjsavory 44]

I'd say we're likely to lose to Argentina and Australia, and beat South Africa. So we need to finish ahead of one of Spain or USA, and those both feel like 50:50 games. 

[RussB 189]

Just seen the Eccles scorecards...without seeing the fight, strikes me as rather bizarre that she is deemed to have lost that based on the actual scores. One judge gave it to her 30-26, she wins 2-1 outright on the scores of the 5 judges, with 2 others viewing it as a draw but giving the edge to her opponent -> she loses 3-2 on points. 

[Epic Failure 355]

4 minutes ago, RussB said:

Just seen the Eccles scorecards...without seeing the fight, strikes me as rather bizarre that she is deemed to have lost that based on the actual scores. One judge gave it to her 30-26, she wins 2-1 outright on the scores of the 5 judges, with 2 others viewing it as a draw but giving the edge to her opponent -> she loses 3-2 on points. 

I had that thought as well. It's bizarre that it goes down as a defeat on points, when she literally 'won' on points. Even if they wanted to come to that decision, the logistics of it are weird.

[RussB 189]

2 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

I had that thought as well. It's bizarre that it goes down as a defeat on points, when she literally 'won' on points. Even if they wanted to come to that decision, the logistics of it are weird.

it's a bad look with the fighter who got a deduction for an infringement winning on draws.

[Olympicsnell 300]

Equestrian team done a extremely good job today, shame we couldnt hold top spot in individual but you'd take it at this point within one fault

[RussB 189]

2 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

Equestrian team done a extremely good job today, shame we couldnt hold top spot in individual but you'd take it at this point within one fault

Its a little frustrating, Laura took the "slow" route from what I could see at the last water section which probably cost her making the time. On the team front its really only France within striking distance but GB lead going into the jumping is very healthy