Team GB Daily: Day 13

[Surreal 5]

48 minutes ago, Jon said:

So am I right in thinking our remaining Gold Medal hopes are:

• Women’s Madison
• Men’s Madison
• Women’s Sprint (Finucane)
• Women’s Pentathlon

 

Events underway are Women’s Heptathlon which is going better than expected, and Men’s Pentathlon which is going worse than hoped. 

Not sure if any of our remaining taekwondo fighters are favoured? And the rest of our opportunities are really just to medal rather than realistic shots at Gold? 
 

I think we will be lucky to hit 15 Gold. 

I really don't see the Men's Madison doing anything special, this combination of Hayter/Wood only finished 8th in a meeting in Ghent at the end of June involving many of the Olympic combinations, I'd be more confident if Tarling was in there.

5th or 6th in the medal table looks likely with 4th perhaps possible. 3rd is almost impossible as we have to win all of the Women's Madison, Sprint, Modern Pentathlon, the Heptathlon and have one of our taekwondo fighters step up to Gold + hope Australia don't win any further Golds.

[Rich 21]

3 minutes ago, Surreal said:

I really don't see the Men's Madison doing anything special, this combination of Hayter/Wood only finished 8th in a meeting in Ghent at the end of June involving many of the Olympic combinations, I'd be more confident if Tarling was in there.

5th or 6th in the medal table looks likely with 4th perhaps possible. 3rd is almost impossible as we have to win all of the Women's Madison, Sprint, Modern Pentathlon, the Heptathlon and have one of our taekwondo fighters step up to Gold + hope Australia don't win any further Golds.

I don't think you needed that 'almost' in front of the word impossible 😀

[Olympicsnell 300]

I've made my peace with australia and france catching us, i think 2 golds will be enough to stay 5th, finishing below that is a disaster (in my personal opinion, and i think for the team management as they stated top 5) 

KJT is better than thiam at Long Jump and 800 still....right? I know for sure she doesn't usually have a day 1 lead over her
 

i still have faith in all our track options, i think not putting tarling on the endurance team was a huge mistake though

Edited August 8 by Olympicsnell

[Epic Failure 355]

12 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

I've made my peace with australia and france catching us, i think 2 golds will be enough to stay 5th, finishing below that is a disaster (in my personal opinion, and i think for the team management as they stated top 5) 

KJT is better than thiam at Long Jump and 800 still....right? I know for sure she doesn't usually have a day 1 lead over her
 

i still have faith in all our track options, i think not putting tarling on the endurance team was a huge mistake though

LJ is about even, on both SB and PB. Nafi is about 15m better on javelin PBs, Kat 6 seconds on 800m PBs.

 

If both were to record slight PBs in all 3 events tomorrow, Nafi would win by about 150 pts. Obviously, there's a lot of ifs in there.

 

 

 

I doubt the team management would see finishing 6th or 7th as a disaster. A disappointment, sure, but not a disaster. Especially if it were to come down to, say, 1 gold to make that difference. I think they would point to the number of total medals and the placing table as a defence and say it was just a case of narrow margins.

[RussB 189]

20 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

I've made my peace with australia and france catching us, i think 2 golds will be enough to stay 5th, finishing below that is a disaster (in my personal opinion, and i think for the team management as they stated top 5) 

KJT is better than thiam at Long Jump and 800 still....right? I know for sure she doesn't usually have a day 1 lead over her
 

i still have faith in all our track options, i think not putting tarling on the endurance team was a huge mistake though

Thiam still clear favourite for me. 10m plus better thrower in javelin (or more on a good day) and long jumps are basically equal (both SB and PB). The 800m differential for points is always not as vast as you think

[RussB 189]

And yes this is precisely why I moaned excessively and loudly on here when Tarling was not included in the track team. It was a decision I really didn’t understand then and still now.

 

good news out of today was the fence by Kate and Kerenza. They should be in contention.

 

looking for a surprise gold medal from somewhere; maybe Hector in the Seine, one of the taekwondo fighters or the men’s 4x4 relay (that would make the games for me if we somehow took down USA)

[Jon 43]

I would really love for Thorpe and Shortman to medal. It could do really great things for their sport in this country. 

[Orangehair43 251]

Do the other two Takewondo have medal chances. Wouid be a sad end of an era for a sport has been strong to have no medals and consequences that can bring if neither them of don’t win anything

[Orangehair43 251]

2 hours ago, Epic Failure said:

They haven't got official targets but the sports and UK Sport have apparently discussed them - apparently each sport has outlined their own internal targets, per this article - https://www.skysports.com/olympics/news/15234/13175218/paris-2024-olympics-uk-sport-expects-team-gb-to-win-at-least-50-medals-and-top-five-finish-in-medal-table

 

 

Hard to see if any of them met them except shooting. Diving would babe wanted 5 medals or at least one gold. 

[Orangehair43 251]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Not to make everyone more stressed, but I think  can catch us, they have got a good lot of very strong events coming up.

That will cause major issues, UK Sport will be obliged to cut funding if they don’t make top 5.