Soldato
Does anyone know how many golds we've won where Australia have won silver?
What is wrong?
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think the OP shot his load early on this one
Well done to the whole teamGB - they have done fantastically well imo
A few of the youngsters have seemingly sprung out of nowhere (although Im sure they have bust their guts for months / years before the games to get where they are)
Proud to be British - especially consisdering the crazy amounts of sponsorships most fo the American athletes get
What amazes me is that we've reached this monumental achievement despite some of the more high-profile athletes not quite living up to their billing.
Cavendish, Pendleton, Addlington, Dailey*, Tweddle... the list goes on – They have all under-achieved for one reason or another.
However, we've made history in the Men's Gymnastics, Tennis, Double-trap Shooting and Equestrian.
It's been fantastic!
*He may still do well in the individual event.
Cavendish, Pendleton, Addlington, Dailey*, Tweddle... the list goes on – They have all under-achieved for one reason or another.
However, we've made history in the Men's Gymnastics, Tennis, Double-trap Shooting and Equestrian.
It's been fantastic!
*He may still do well in the individual event.
Soldato
5 times:
Athletics - Men's long jump
Track cycling - men's team pursuit
Rowing - Men's 4
Rowing - women's pair
Rowing - women's double sculls
Caporegime
Nah, this is more tiresome by far I can assure you. They have taken plenty into account in those tables yet will have ignored hundreds of others factors. Climate, use of facilities, how their youth setup works, not just the funding etc.
We are doing much much much better than we should be or ever expected. We are beating our traditional rivals in the table and doing really well.
I think its a little harsh slating a couple of those
Yes its possible to say the tactics for the Men's road race was wrong, but either way it was obvious other teams were not going to help GB (even though they would stand a better chance of getting a medal as well). From the GB's team point of view it was a lose-lose situation (ie they take off with Wiggo /Froome and "protect" Cav and build a healthy lead but no -one else comes with them, so they get swamped before the end anyway or they stick with the group)
Still think it was very harsh on VP being relegated on the 1st ride of three given Anna Mears bumped her to start with . Adlington came up against one of those swimmers that appear once in a generation (I think that was what Foster said in commentary anyway). Tweddle had an operation on her knee not long ago - she did excellently just getting to the games imo.
Sometimes the press inflate expectation far too much - its not under-performing thats the issue
Soldato
Far more medal hopes have performed when the pressure could have gotten the better of them.
Ennis, Farah, Ainslie, Wiggins, Hoy, Kenny, Murray, all of the rowers...
Ennis, Farah, Ainslie, Wiggins, Hoy, Kenny, Murray, all of the rowers...
Soldato
only the americans do a table based on total number of medals..so they keep above china, though as it happens they have more gold now as well
Soldato
The gloating is going to be insufferable for a few days if USA win 
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I'm not knocking our achievements, I just think it's a bit silly to start bringing in other factors into how well we've done, when there are a lot of countries below us that are having even more remarkable achievements in those areas.
It didn't sound like he was "slating" them to me, just that those were some of the pre-Olympics names that were touted as our biggest gold favourites, and they've not managed it. That's the beauty of the Olympics for me - sometimes the favourite just can't perform on the day. You get some great underdog stories from that.
Soldato
Soldato
To be fair we did start off very slow and it did highlight some of the events we need to work on. Swimming in particular.
Exactly this. I wasn't blaming any of them, just saying that despite some of our 'guaranteed' gold medal winners not winning, we've done incredibly well.
I know this has been covered in the swimming thread an I know we didn't achieve our medal target, but GB got more swimmers into finals than any other country apart from China and America (and a GB record).
They might not have won medals in those finals, but it's still an achievement to be built on, rather than a failure to be criticised.
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Soldato
I haven't watched any events today as I have been enjoying the sun, just checked the medals table and Russia are almost caught up to us 
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Please tell me they don't have enough events left to get more golds.
.Please tell me they don't have enough events left to get more golds.
Man of Honour
15 more golds to go tomorrow iirc. Not sure what in though. We need to find some gymnasts and weightlifters!
Man of Honour
Absolutely - when I was ending my swimming a few years back, it was just getting 'serious' with new programmes being introduced, new coaching methods, etc.
Then there was the good Beijing performance, and new swimmers coming through.
This Olympics has seen people I used to compete with take part, people from my little old club, and other people I knew. I'm sure they'll be back in Rio
I haven't watched any events today as I have been enjoying the sun, just checked the medals table and Russia are almost caught up to us
Please tell me they don't have enough events left to get more golds.
I don't think there are enough events that they're competing in to overtake us.
Plus I believe we have two gold medal hopes in the boxing tomorrow.
Soldato
I wish we could get just 2 more golds and round it up to 30, that would be nice.