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Generally a mixed day for us:
The Rowing started well with Victoria Thornley winning her Single Sculls heat, and the Men's Double Sculls team qualifying in second in their heat. However, both of the Quadruple Sculls teams failed to qualify, coming third in their respective heats and went to the repechage.

 

The Archery was generally poor. For Women, Sarah Bettles did the best in 15th, with Byrony Pitman in 39th and Naomi Folkard in 47th giving themself tough draws. For Men, Patrick Huston came 25th, James Woodgate 38th, and Tom Hall 48th, leaving none of them in a good place for a medal.

As now we come across the world
To share these Games of old
Let all the flags of every land
In brotherhood unfold

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Day 1 Schedule:

0030 Shooting 10m Air Rifle Women's Qualification (Seonaid McIntosh in action)
0130 Rowing Women's Pair Heat 2
0140 Badminton Mixed Doubles Group B: :GBR Ellis/Smith vs Gicquel/Delrue :FRA
0149 Archery Mixed Team - :CHN vs :GBR
0240 Rowing Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Heat 3
0245 Shooting 10m Air Rifle potential Final
0300 Cycling Road - Men's Road Race (Four Brits in action)
0300 Judo Men's -60kg Round of 32: :GBR McKenzie vs Huseynov :AZE and potential Round of 16, and Quarterfinal
0300 Tennis Women's Singles First Round: :GER Friedsam vs Watson :GBR
0300 Tennis Men's Doubles First Round: :GBR Murray/Salisbury vs Herbert/Mahut :FRA
0300 Tennis Men's Doubles First Round: :ARG Molteni/Zeballos vs Murray/Skupski :GBR
0320 Rowing Women's Four Heat 1
0350 Rowing Men's Four Heat 2

0410 Rowing Men's Eight Heat 2
0420 Badminton Men's Doubles Group A: :INA Gideon/Sukamuljo vs Lane/Vendy :GBR

0420 Rowing Women's Eight Heat 1
0615 Archery Mixed Team - Potential Quarterfinal
0630 Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Qualification (Subdivision 2)
0731 Archery Mixed Team - Potential Semifinal

0745 Table Tennis Women's Singles Round 1 :IND Batra vs Ho :GBR
0825 Archery Mixed Team - Potential Bronze Medal Match

0830 Table Tennis Men's Singles Round 1 :GBR Drinkhall vs Alamian :IRI
0845 Archery Mixed Team - Potential Gold Medal Match
0900 Equestrian - Dressage Grand Prix Qualifier 1 (Three Brits in action)
0900 Judo Men's -60kg Potential Repechage, Semifinal, Bronze Medal Match, and Final
0915 Boxing Women's Feather - :GBR Artingstall vs Kenosi :BOT
1003 Boxing Men's Feather - :THA Butdee vs McGrail :GBR
1030 Hockey Men's Pool B: :GBR vs :RSA

1113 Swimming Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 3 (Two Brits in action)
1130 Football Women's Group E: :JPN vs :GBR

1135 Swimming Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 5 (Harriet Jones in action)

1154 Swimming Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 4 (Kieran Bird in action)

1218 Swimming Women's 400m Individual Medley Heat 3 (Aimee Willmott in action)

1235 Swimming Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 5 (James Wilby in action)
1240 Badminton Women's Doubles Group A: :JPN Fukushima/Hirota vs Birch/Smith :GBR
1240 Swimming Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 7 (Adam Peaty in action)
1243 Swimming Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Heat 1

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3 hours ago, Mkbw50 said:

Generally a mixed day for us:
The Rowing started well with Victoria Thornley winning her Single Sculls heat, and the Men's Double Sculls team qualifying in second in their heat. However, both of the Quadruple Sculls teams failed to qualify, coming third in their respective heats and went to the repechage.

 

The Archery was generally poor. For Women, Sarah Bettles did the best in 15th, with Byrony Pitman in 39th and Naomi Folkard in 47th giving themself tough draws. For Men, Patrick Huston came 25th, James Woodgate 38th, and Tom Hall 48th, leaving none of them in a good place for a medal.

Thornley the only boat today who looks she might be be able to contend for medal on a good day. 
 

 

Rowing is one of the sports looking ahead already to 2024 and hoping funding doesn’t get before hand. 

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The GB medal total will end up back in the dumps like Atlanta within a games or two. What other country would allows a non winning atttude to dictate policy. And it will be impossible to then switch back because the criticism will be led by the likes of Piers Morgan. 

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A mixed day again today, with no medals, although none were really expected.

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Let all the flags of every land
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22 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

A mixed day again today, with no medals, although none were really expected.

On the Gracenote predictions one predicted bronze medal was lost - Peter McGrail in the boxing. The Men’s eight also look long way from a medal and they are predicted to win silver. Adam Peaty, Max Whitlock, Karriss Artingstall and the Men’s four remain on track to be in the hunt. The dressage team were not predicted any medals but seem to be in with a chance of a team medal along with Aimee Wilmott and the Women’ 4 x 100 relay in swimming.

 

Tommrow we will see if Jade Jones can win again and if Bradley Sinden can also win a medal. Ben Whittaker and Duncan Scott also get their events underway where Gracenote have predicted medals plus they other interesting chances to me like Luke Greenbank and Kathleen Dawson who have final potential as well as being important for relay events to challenge for medals. 

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9 hours ago, Mkbw50 said:

A mixed day again today, with no medals, although none were really expected.

The road race was the only realistic chance (10m is not Seonaid's event, she basically used it for warm up), and in the end, despite Calamity Thomas eating gravel AGAIN, both the yates twins and Dan Martin of Ireland were in the pointy end of the race - Perhaps losing Thomas reduced the ability to break up that big group earlier, but the Yates twins at the sharp end was a perfectly defensible result. Podagar and WvA are ridiculously strong, while Carapaz is an absolute rascal. Other than that, no-one expected anything at the judo, getting to the quarters in the archery was actually slight overachievement, the swimmers seem to be off to a decent start, the tennis results for the men's doubles were fantastic, and both Drinkhall in the TT and the XD in badminton won what they were supposed to.

 

McGrail's loss was disappointing, but no shock if you saw him at the Euro qualifiers.

 

Good wins in Soccer, hockey

 

In the gymnstics, given the shambles the sport is in, their secure 5th place team result, Whitlock and Fraser in their respective apparatus finals, and Fraser generally very strong on AA represents an acceptable return. If whitlock brings back silver or better, the works done in terms of justifying the sport.

 

The rowing, however......

 

 

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8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Rowers were poor, as we have already discussed.  Swimmers look to be where they were a few weeks ago - generally the best in Europe, but an unknown quantity against :USA & :AUS. Definitely medals to be won though. 

GB has never really won many medals in one Games in the swimming - pretty sure 6 is the modern record. Anywhere near that will be a solid return.

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