Saturday, August 21, 2004

5 Golds for the Olympic Brits in One Day

Britain's golden day

I think we need to freeze today for posterity as the Great Britain team won 5 gold medals as well as 3 silvers and 4 bronzes on Saturday alone - and were actually in the top ten in the medals board for a while (jumping up from nowhere)

Today's medals includes:
1 gold in rowing (coxless 4's) as well a 1 silver (womens pairs) and 1 bronze (scull)
2 golds in sailing (finn and yngling) and 1 silver (470)
1 gold in cycling (4km pursuit)
1 gold in 3-day eventing (after being promoted) as well as a silver and bronze
1 bronze in swimming (1500m freestyle)
1 bronze in athletics (womens heptathlon)

The highlight was clearly Pinsent winning his 4th gold in the rowing - with the potential of emulating Steve Redgrave's 5 if he decides to continue to the Beijing games in 2008 - and David Davies' bronze in the 1500m freestyle swimming in a time that slashed 12 seconds off the British record and really pushing Aussie winner Grant Hackett throughout the race showed some great potential

We have a few real chances for more medals including Paula Radcliffe in the Marathon, bright young thing, Amir Khan, in the boxing and even Kelly Holmes finding good form in the 800m.

All in all, after the pretty dull start, the Olympics is really starting to take off for us eternally optimistic Brits

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posted by jo @ 10:13 PM   4 comments

4 Comments:

At 1:49 AM, pellj said...

My prediction is that Team GB will end up with 12 golds to beat the 11 won in Sydney.

In addition to the 6 already won we will win the following:
Women's Marathon = Paula Radcliffe
Cycling Mens Team Pursuit
Cycling Keeren (whatever that is)
Women's Modern Pentathlon
Star Sailing
Boxing Amer Kahn

and one for luck

Women's 10,000 Metres - Paula Radcliffe (yes you heard it here first)

 
At 1:49 PM, jo said...

ok - but are you willing to put your money where your mouth is
Betfair currently has Team GB to win more than 9.5 golds at 5.0

 
At 3:16 PM, pellj said...

now you mention it, i think i'll take that.

 
At 3:45 AM, Gamblog UK said...

Now I know why Paula flopped.

There is a jinx in the country heheh.

I think that 4-1 on the 9.5 golds looks a decent bet right now no? What, is it 8 we are on with the boy Khan looking good and Holmes in the 1500.

Maybe I just jinxed that one hah, hope not, J.

 

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