Michael Scott

Day 4 Review 
A rough day for Australia was saved at the end thanks to Kaylee Mckeown defeating smith in the swimming 100back final. That result is also crucial for our chances in beating the US in the swimming gold medal tally, which is very much possible. 
 
The day started positively with our men defeating Serbia in the water polo, but things very quickly started to turn bad a few hours later with the Boomers losing to Canada, then James Willet bottoming out in the mens trap final, doing much more poorly than in qualifying. 

Whilst that was happening, it was also absolute chaos at the Rugby 7s as our woman strongly favoured to make the gold medal final and contend against NZ was defeated by Canada. Then to make matters worse, they go on to lose the bronze medal final against the US. 
This was giving London 2012/Rio 2016 vibes at this point, with poor results happening all over the joint.
 
Mens hockey then go on the lose to Belgium 6-2 which is a concern.
 
But thankfully Kaylee critically saved the day with that massive result, as Smith was always gonna be more likely to take the 100back crown from her compared to the 200.
 
Mens 4x200 relay was fine and gave us our first bronze of the games 
 
Medal Count After Day 4
Gold  6  Silver 4  Bronze 1 
 
We are now also only 2 golds away from matching the amount won in London and rio. 
 

Another medal in swimming in M 4x200m free realy. The first bronze in the games!!

Kaylee saves the day
MASSIVE
 
 
thank god 😂😂

Yeah pretty ordinary day so far. We haven't dropped any expected gold medals but we have dropped a few medals. 

Some positives:
 
Mens Water Polo Penny Smith looking good to qualify for the Womens Trap Final despite a poor start in the first round Ebden/Peers moving the Men's Doubles QF where they will probably be favourites. Granollers/Carreno Busta weren't an easy pair to beat so that was a good win. Grae Morris working his way back into the top 10 after looking not so great at the beginning although he isn't going to get the express route to the semis or final it seems. Chalmers looks great for the 100m Free and looks like Qin Haiyang might not be as big of a threat to ZSC now as initially thought. Martin and Diehm got the job done in BMX qualification
Other than that quite a bit of bad. Like yourself, my copium for the rugby is NZ would have been favourites in the 7's final and they've got a core of really good young players for the next olympic cycle 

McKeown's a massive one. In terms of saving the day it's probably the perfect event given the US-AUS swim rivalry. I'm also curious to see what the intent will be with the 4x200m relay. They could potentially have a very strong team on paper but I'm not expecting it given the timing of the 800m and 100m events. 

Yeah pretty ordinary day so far. We haven't dropped any expected gold medals but we have dropped a few medals. 

Some positives:
 
Mens Water Polo Penny Smith looking good to qualify for the Womens Trap Final despite a poor start in the first round Ebden/Peers moving the Men's Doubles QF where they will probably be favourites. Granollers/Carreno Busta weren't an easy pair to beat so that was a good win. Grae Morris working his way back into the top 10 after looking not so great at the beginning although he isn't going to get the express route to the semis or final it seems. Chalmers looks great for the 100m Free and looks like Qin Haiyang might not be as big of a threat to ZSC now as initially thought. Martin and Diehm got the job done in BMX qualification
Other than that quite a bit of bad. Like yourself, my copium for the rugby is NZ would have been favourites in the 7's final and they've got a core of really good young players for the next olympic cycle 

McKeown's a massive one. In terms of saving the day it's probably the perfect event given the US-AUS swim rivalry. I'm also curious to see what the intent will be with the 4x200m relay. They could potentially have a very strong team on paper but I'm not expecting it given the timing of the 800m and 100m events. 

This day has really turned ugly quickly, but it was always gonna eventually happen….
Just poor results everywhere you look bar the win over Serbia in water polo.

That rugby result is horrible. I’m coping with it by saying that if we won that we would’ve lost to NZ anyway in the final. 
 
 
We BADLY need Kaylee to win later in the 100 back to rescue today.

The 800m just got even more interesting. Huge swim by McIntosh.

The 800m just got even more interesting. Huge swim by McIntosh.

The 800m just got even more interesting. Huge swim by McIntosh.

One of the most infuriating matches as an Australian supporter.

- Captain gets himself sent off for a deserved red card.
- South Africa score a try off a blatant forward pass and not to mention they got possession off a phantom knock on call when we had a prime attacking opportunity.
- South Africa should have had a player sent at the end.
- Longbottom plays no part and Toole shows why he should have been receiving a lot more minutes throughout the tournament. 

One consolation is if we were to lose to anyone then I would have picked South Africa.

Was announced will have 22 person delegation at the Opening ceremony (Athletes and team staff included) so probably renting a canoe would be enough

Fair play to Germany, dismantled us 

Germany far too good. We were extremely lucky it was only 3-0 as well. Could have been a lot more. 

Nothing sharpens the mind like the prospect of a medal!

Unfortunately he had to withdraw due to injury.

Seems like Australia will be rejecting the mens quota. They announced Genevieve Janse van Rensburg for the womens but no male.