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7 hours ago, orangeman said:

 

Yeah, pretty much.  If Brianne can finish ahead of KJT and Jones in javelin she'll be in a good position for bronze because her 800m is very strong and you can get a lot of points there.  Thiam and Ennis-Hill would both basically have to not get a mark in javelin for her to get the gold.  Another worry is Schafer in 6th, just behind Brianne.  But her 800m is much weaker.  

And Brianne sets a personal best in the Javelin beating those two. Fingers crossed for something special here!

1 hour ago, orangeman said:

 

Yeah, GB performed much better here than they have recently (like, the last 4 years) and the Americans have been very good this year, too.  So they probably saved themselves for this race.  They also got lucky with the Aussies sucking in the first round and giving the Kiwis the place in the bronze race.  Well, idk if 'lucky' is the right word since the Aussies didn't look good here at all.  

I hate the hypothetical scenarios, but I think we would have certainly beat Australia too.

7 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Well, the good news for diving is that Abel wasn't as good as she can be today and still finished 3rd by a large margin.  If she's clean tomorrow a medal will be attainable, maybe gold if the Chinese screw up.  Also, Ware makes the final as well.  

When she was on she was on. This is going to be interesting tomorrow. 

And fantastic for the Team Pursuit, they didn't look on until today's race. I think they knew all along they were probably in it for the bronze, but it was surprise for all of us. 

This is unreal!!!!

17 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Theisen-Eaton had a bit of a slow start in the 100m hurdles, but made up for it in the high jump.  She's currently in 5th place with 2151 points.  She was in 5th with 2105 at the WC last year, so doing a bit better so far.  Unfortunately, so are her competitors.  113 points from 1st, 91 from the podium.  She'll need to pick it up.  

That seems like a small enough margin to be able to catch up in 5 events though.

56 minutes ago, juddy96 said:

Oleksiak

Masse

Nicol

Ruck/Van Landeghem

 

Our medley relay team suddenly has a big chance. If they medal again it would be 5 in as many events for Penny. But regardless of how amazing she is, without those other girls she would be in Hosszu's position with no relay medals

Is that what Canada's going to do? I wouldn't be surprised if Savard or Thomas swims the fly and Oleksiak swims the free just to have her on the last leg.

Just now, orangeman said:

 

Well now it seems like the best they'll do is bronze.  GB looks unbeatable (again).  

That is very true. My fingers are crossed but I am not hopeful.

48 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Well, the Canadians looked like crap.  

I hope that was just a one off flub, they certainly looked technically very bad, even worse than the other lower place teams.

43 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Harvey out, what a great placement for her. She for sure will get funding from OTP now as she is only 21 and a top 8 finish. 

That was a fantastic result for her. I am very impressed!

What an epic 5 minutes Canada beats Brazil in Beach Volleyball and Valois-Fortier wins.

Nestor/Pospisil winning, the amazing and incredible Basketball comeback, seeing Jennrich and Obee looking super solid, not too mention two bronze medals, today's highs outweighed the lows.

It was also fantastic to see the Canadian Men's Volleyball team beat the US. What a great result for a team that needed a last chance qualifier that was down to the wire. The confidence seems there. 

Considering no one really expected Canada to contend for medals in the pool, this has been a completely thrilling first couple of days. Extremely disappointed by the flub in the diving today and the poor performance in gymnastics, but elated that Penny won the silver. 

Canada also won more fencing bouts this year than in 2012 (we have 2 this Olympics and only 1 in the previous). 

Penny was amazing today. This is a true star.

That was a truly thrilling moment! The first time in 20 years a Canadian woman has won a swimming medal. And look at this team, it certainly won't be the last. 

PENNY!

2 hours ago, orangeman said:

 

Seems like Canada has had a lot of tough draws so far at these Olympics.  Bad luck.  Now watch De Grasse get a first round heat with Bolt, Gatlin and Gay.  

Canada always seems to have bad luck at the summer Olympics. Haha. 

6 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Valois Fortier's first round opponent (from France) has beaten him every time they have faced each other (minus once). 

Reyes faces the European champ (from Netherlands) of all the unseeded people he drew him

 

Oh that's annoying. Valois-Fortier though, that's super frustrating, sometimes people have those opponents you just can't break.

23 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Disaster draw for Canada 

How so?

The other Ryan Cochrane and Hugues Fournel have been added in the K2 200m after a DQ from Russia. So 315 altogether.

12 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Which sport(s) do you think is optisimistic?

Omnium, wrestling particularly. But a bunch of others could not pan out easily (golf)

36 minutes ago, intoronto said:

My medal predictions for Canada:

 

Athletics: 6 - De Grasse in either the 100 or 200, Barber, Drouin, 4x100 relay (men), Warner, Brianne Theisen-Eaton. I don't think Bishop can beat three men ahead of her (sorry to be blunt).

Basketball: 1 - Women's team. Canada can beat any team in group A imo, but Spain/Serbia/USA in Group B will set the tone.

Boxing: 1 - With luck both women will need just one win to medal. Hopefully one can pull it out.

Canoeing: 1 - De Jonge in the K1 200

Cycling: 3 - Women's team pursuit; either Batty or Pendrel in the mountain biking, Beveridge in the omnium 

Diving: 3 - Both women's synchro events and Jennifer Abel in the 3m individual event. 

Golf: 1 - Brooke Henderson (hopefully, but this is probably the hardest sport to predict).

Gymnastics: 1 - MacLennan in trampoline

Judo: 1 - Again this is a hard sport to predict. However with three seeded athletes (Valois-Foriter, Beauchmin-Pinard and Zupancic) I believe 1 is possible. Others such as Reyes and Margdelion are young and have potential as well.

Rowing: 2 - Women's eights and Women's lighweight double sculls

Rugby sevens: 1 - Women's team

Wrestling: 3 - Gallays, Yeats and Wiebe to medal

 

24 in total

Yes I predicted 0 for swimming, but realistically I see no medals for Canada in swimming.
 

Your predictions seem to be a tad optimistic in some sports but to be perfectly honest if the cards fall right we may have the potential for more chances (one of the men's rowing crews, Van Koeverdan or Oldershaw repeating, or as you said swimming). So it'll probably even out, with our typical Canadian luck in some sports. 

As as for swimming I think Canada has the potential to make the finals in many events and hopefully that will lead to a surprise medal somewhere. One of the young team members could be a breakout star. 

19 minutes ago, Canada4thewin said:

What is the reason?

Zika.

4 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Another Zika related casualty it seems. Must be embarrassing for ITF since they just published an article about him.

He was just interviewed by the CBC saying how excited he was about going to the Olympics.