Team GB Daily: Day 15

[Jambo 9]

Combat sports snagged us a whopping 1 silver and 1 bronze 

[Olympicsnell 300]

Ignore golds, can we pick up four medals to equal most, 67 from rio?

Finucane, girls in modern pentathlon so two more? Omnium at a stretch.....is that it? 

Oh weightlifting (edit) 

Edited August 10 by Olympicsnell

[Mkbw50 438]

Still a chance in Women's 5 and probably some cycling but yeah not looking great (but not awful)

[Epic Failure 355]

16 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Damn, how did we as a nation get so hung up on the GSB arrangement of the medals table?  It is perfectly obvious that the total number of medals is the only true measure of sporting excellence.  

I know you're (at least partially, I presume) joking, but I would argue that it is a better measure of general sporting excellence.

 

Whereas golds are a better measure of performance on the day. Both have value. And post games we should be looking at where we might be able to make the infamous marginal gains to potentially change the ratio in LA.

 

We're going to hit about the same number of medals and top 8 finishes as we had in London/Rio/Tokyo. The only real difference in the games is the number of golds.

[Jon 43]

It feels like every time we’ve had a shot at gold it’s slipped through our fingers. Silver nothing to be sniffed at though and Caden is young enough to have another crack at it in LA28. 
 

All hopes on Finucane or the Modern Pentathlon to bring us to a nice round 15 golds. If we don’t get there hey ho it’s disappointing but overall medal count is impressive and it would be great to get to above the total medals of Tokyo.

 

Before people jump down my throat, I’m not saying our performance is disappointing, I’m not diminishing any of the athlete’s performances, or any of the amazing medals hard earned. I’m just saying it’s unfortunate every time we’ve just needed a little bit of luck to land the gold it seems to have never gone our way. 

[Surreal 5]

So tomorrow we need either 2 Golds or 1 Gold and 3 silvers + hope France don't win any more Golds/Silvers tomorrow besides (hopefully) a silver in the Women's basketball final. Long shot but just about doable with Finucane, Campbell, French/Bryson, Carlin to come for us tomorrow.

Edited August 10 by Surreal

[cjsavory 44]

1 minute ago, Jon said:

It feels like every time we’ve had a shot at gold it’s slipped through our fingers. Silver nothing to be sniffed at though and Caden is young enough to have another crack at it in LA28. 
 

All hopes on Finucane or the Modern Pentathlon to bring us to a nice round 15 golds. If we don’t get there hey ho it’s disappointing but overall medal count is impressive and it would be great to get to above the total medals of Tokyo.

 

Before people jump down my throat, I’m not saying our performance is disappointing, I’m not diminishing any of the athlete’s performances, or any of the amazing medals hard earned. I’m just saying it’s unfortunate every time we’ve just needed a little bit of luck to land the gold it seems to have never gone our way. 

Yep! It's sort of the anti-London. 29 Golds from 65 medals in 2012 was a ridiculous ratio, even accounting for the fact it was a home Games. To drop down to 14-15 from what looks like it'll end up being 65+ total medals is not far off equally ridiculous in the other direction. Them's the breaks sometimes, I guess! 

[Surreal 5]

6 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

Ignore golds, can we pick up four medals to equal most, 67 from rio?

Finucane, girls in modern pentathlon so two more? Omnium at a stretch.....is that it? 

Oh weightlifting (edit) 

Carlin in the Keirin much more likely to medal than Evans in the Omnium.

[Olympicsnell 300]

All sweden beach volleyball team aren't we ot

Just now, Surreal said:

Carlin in the Keirin much more likely to medal than Evans in the Omnium.

Depends if she just goes out there for her jollies like the mens endurance squad since the TP, Carlin shows much more fight but against the big 2 he's pretty much fighting for bronze

[Epic Failure 355]

3 minutes ago, Jon said:

It feels like every time we’ve had a shot at gold it’s slipped through our fingers. Silver nothing to be sniffed at though and Caden is young enough to have another crack at it in LA28. 
 

All hopes on Finucane or the Modern Pentathlon to bring us to a nice round 15 golds. If we don’t get there hey ho it’s disappointing but overall medal count is impressive and it would be great to get to above the total medals of Tokyo.

 

Before people jump down my throat, I’m not saying our performance is disappointing, I’m not diminishing any of the athlete’s performances, or any of the amazing medals hard earned. I’m just saying it’s unfortunate every time we’ve just needed a little bit of luck to land the gold it seems to have never gone our way. 

I think we're forgetting some of the early results in the relatively disappointing week 2.

 

We had both good and bad luck in the mountain biking, for example. We also had one of the German riders not making it round the cross country, and the Chinese top qualifier in the trampolining mucking up.

 

I'm not disagreeing with your assessment generally that the top step has escaped us more than we would like, or that seems reasonable. But it hasn't *all* gone wrong in that way.