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Dodge
08/08/2008, 11:35 PM
Maybe this should be in PreOlympic thread but here goes.
Sports Illustrated have predicted all the medal winners in the Olympics. Only Paddy Barnes picked from Ireland.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/brian_cazeneuve/07/29/medal.picks0804/index.html
Just goes to show the value of the draw. All 4 boxers picked in Ken Egan's weight are in the same half of the draw (meaning only 2 can medal). I honestly believe Egan will win Silver
tricky_colour
09/08/2008, 12:22 AM
I've downloadednot one but two, proxy servers in an attempt to hide my IP address so I can somehow get to watch RTE.ie coverage of the Irish competitiors in action.
Nothing. P!ssing into the wind as usual.
I don't know if this works but it is worth a try.
I expect it won't work but you never know.
http://cupidstunt.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/how-to-get-around-the-rte-geoblock-without-using-an-irish-proxy/
sligoman
09/08/2008, 12:46 AM
Austin O'Connor got joint 9th in the Dressage. I've no idea how it works so don't know if he's finished or what, just saw the standings.
deecay
09/08/2008, 1:18 AM
Austin O'Connor got joint 9th in the Dressage. I've no idea how it works so don't know if he's finished or what, just saw the standings.
Worst category ever
sligoman
09/08/2008, 1:20 AM
Worst category everHave to agree, it's shockingly boring. I've moved on to badminton now:D
zenokelly
09/08/2008, 1:50 AM
Austin O'Connor got joint 9th in the Dressage. I've no idea how it works so don't know if he's finished or what, just saw the standings.
No the dressage isn't over, it's really in the early stages and Austin O Connor and Geoff Curran are 14th and 20th respectively after 23 riders, but it is only the first part of the 3 day event so.....
At the moment Derek Burnett is involved in the trap qualificition in the shooting, but isn't on tele, and Siobhan Byrne is the next Irish competitor in action at 3am!!:p
Siobhan Byrne lost ion the first round of the Fencing. She was the 35th seed with only 3 South African's (token African reps) behind her.
Burnett got 24 out of 25 targets in the shooting. 5 shooters got 25. 12 others got 24
Our 3 day eventing team is 8th after 2 riders each (France isn't ranked as it only has one rider so far with one of their top horses failing the medical).
Individually, O'Connor is 15th and Curran 22nd of 25 riders so far. O'Connor is 13 points off 3rd place.
Burnett had a disappointing 22 in his 2nd round. He's in 21st place with 46. Equal 6th have 48
Scott Evans just lost a tight first set in the Badminton (21-18)
Oh and the Czech republic won the first gold medal (in shooting)
Evans just won 2nd set 21-18 (among much fist pumping and a great crowd reaction)
Also backed Kim Kirchin and Cadel Evans to wins mens cycling road race at 24 and 44 respectively with betfair
Evans lost a very tight 3rd set 21-19
Unlucky...
paudie
09/08/2008, 7:17 AM
Cycling road race on Eurosport.
Group of around 20 are 3 minutes ahead with 90k to go. Spooted both Irish near the head of the chasing group a few minutes ago.
paudie
09/08/2008, 7:41 AM
Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre in the leading group along with Jens Voight. They're the only 2 names I reconnise in the front group.
Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre in the leading group along with Jens Voight. They're the only 2 names I reconnise in the front group.
Kim Kirchen too. A couple of good pros like Gerrins and Bruzeghli.
Egan just won his first round 22-2. Easy start for him
paudie
09/08/2008, 10:59 AM
Cycling road race was won by Samuel Sanchez of Spain
paudie
09/08/2008, 11:00 AM
Irish mens Heavyweight 4's came third in their heat and go straight to semi final, avoiding the repechage.
zenokelly
09/08/2008, 11:20 AM
Chloe Magee in action now in a very good match. She has just levelled it 1 game all with her Estonian opponent. It's live now on BBCi.
Dodge
09/08/2008, 11:31 AM
Cycling road race was won by Samuel Sanchez of Spain
Roche was 64th, Deignan 81st. Roche atacked the peleton at one stage but couldn't get away.
Dodge
09/08/2008, 11:36 AM
Chloe Magee in action now in a very good match. She has just levelled it 1 game all with her Estonian opponent. It's live now on BBCi.
Magee won the third and is through to last 32
Good on her
harpskid
09/08/2008, 11:44 AM
When does she play again Dodge? Any word of who she plays, Augustyn or Jae-youn?
osarusan
09/08/2008, 12:15 PM
Japan is in mourning because one of the national darlings, Ryoko Tani, lost her semi-final in the 48kg Judo. She was going for her third gold in a row.
shakermaker1982
09/08/2008, 12:36 PM
Egan won in the boxing and now faces a Turkish lad who didn't look anything special (bout straight after - I was a bit hungover this morning and not my usual sharp self so forgot the name!!!). Decent chance of a medal if he boxes as well as he did today.
Torn-Ado
09/08/2008, 12:49 PM
Andrew Bree came second in his heat just there. Well done.
sligoman
09/08/2008, 1:42 PM
Fair play to the rowers too, they finished 3rd(out of 4, top 3 go through). A couple of seconds behind the winners Australia. They're through to the semi's on Wednesday now.
DmanDmythDledge
09/08/2008, 1:51 PM
Evans lost a very tight 3rd set 21-19
Unlucky...
Was extremely unlucky. Great effort to come back in the second set and pull ahead in the third. In the end nerves got to him when 18-15 up in the decider. Fair play to Zwiebler though for keeping his cool.
He deserved to go through I felt, although obviously a bit biased. A couple of unforced errors cost him the first set. If he can cut them out he'll shoot up the rankings.
Reaction (http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics2008/2008/0809/evans.html).
When does she play again Dodge? Any word of who she plays, Augustyn or Jae-youn?
Fantastic victory, major scalp. Well done Chloe.
Playing Jae-young next- world no.12. It will be on early Sunday morning Chineese time, so middle of the night over here.
paudie
09/08/2008, 2:06 PM
Andrew Bree came second in his heat just there. Well done.
Broke the irish record. he has 2 more events left.
Broke the irish record. he has 2 more events left.
Just the one, his main one, 200m breast stoke. He'd be hoping for a semi final place here
I'll have the Sunday diary up soon :)
zenokelly
09/08/2008, 4:27 PM
Just the one, his main one, 200m breast stoke. He'd be hoping for a semi final place here
I'll have the Sunday diary up soon :)
RTE were saying that he was also competing in the 200imedley?
Great win for Magee in the badminton, Evans was awful unlucky. I felt that Evans was more worthwhile for the win, as the Estonian playing Magee in fairness did make an awful lot of silly mistakes.
The eventers did ok apart from our best hope Geoff Curran. His complaint was that the big screen showing his test was too low, thus his horse was concentrating on watching himself on the screen:ball: Geoff looked very dissatisfied with the outcome, and is now lying 38th of the 44 who competed today. Austin O' Connor and Louise Lyons, lying in 26th and 35th place respectively, seemed pretty content with their tests. The team are lying 2nd last at the moment.
Good to see the men's 4 qualify, but it will be a big ask for them to qualify for the final.
Derek Burnett will be disappointed to be only ranked 15th at this stage, and being 3 shots off the final qualifying place, it will be a miracle if he qualified for the final but who knows.
RTE were saying that he was also competing in the 200imedley?
Yeah, so he is. Didn't realise he had qualified for that.
bennocelt
09/08/2008, 6:13 PM
Egan won comfortably today. Joyce has a tough one but if he gets past the Hungarian he could go all the way, but that is a big ask
I think the rowers did excellent today
What did ye guys make of the opening ceremony? i thought it was a bit boirng but then thats not really my cup of tea. The Fireworks over the city to the stadium were cool though
paudie
09/08/2008, 6:25 PM
RTE were saying that he was also competing in the 200imedley?
Great win for Magee in the badminton, Evans was awful unlucky. I felt that Evans was more worthwhile for the win, as the Estonian playing Magee in fairness did make an awful lot of silly mistakes.
The eventers did ok apart from our best hope Geoff Curran. His complaint was that the big screen showing his test was too low, thus his horse was concentrating on watching himself on the screen:ball: Geoff looked very dissatisfied with the outcome, and is now lying 38th of the 44 who competed today. Austin O' Connor and Louise Lyons, lying in 26th and 35th place respectively, seemed pretty content with their tests. The team are lying 2nd last at the moment.
Good to see the men's 4 qualify, but it will be a big ask for them to qualify for the final.
Derek Burnett will be disappointed to be only ranked 15th at this stage, and being 3 shots off the final qualifying place, it will be a miracle if he qualified for the final but who knows.
Is the horse's name Christiano Ronaldo?:D
SUNDAY'S IRISH COMPETITORS
12.12am Patricia Ryan 3 day eventing Dressage
2.00-5.00am Derek Burnett Shooting Mens Trap Qualification Rounds 4 & 5
2.27 Niall Griffin 3 day eventing dressage
3.10am Chloe Magee v Jaeyoun Jun (South Korea) Badminton Round of 32
7.00am-12.00pm David Goodbody Sailing Finn class Races 3 & 4
7.30am John Joe Joyce v Gyula Kate (Hungary) Boxing Light Welter (64kg) Rd of 32
8.00-8.45am Derek Burnett (if he qualifies) Shooting Men's Trap Final
9.20am Ireland (Griffin, Archiblad, Moynihan, Towey) Rowing Lightweight Mens Four Heat 3
10.33 Aisling Cooney Swimming 100m backstroke Heat 4
paudie
09/08/2008, 9:39 PM
In the 3 day event dressage is it the best 4 of 5 riders score for the team?
kingdom hoop
10/08/2008, 3:14 AM
Chloe just lost 21-12, 21-14.
Didn't see it as I, I must assume, am mentally retarded and forgot to watch it but looks like she was behind throughout (http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/BD/C73/BDW001515.shtml#BDW001515) really. Still, far from a disgraceful result against a decent player who's won a few good tournaments. And at least she's young and has yesterday's win to fondly remember.
harpskid
10/08/2008, 6:59 AM
Hard luck Chloe but, as you say kingdom hoop, she is still young and has a fantastic day yesterday to look back on fondly. London four year time is her stage to shine I think...
JOhn Joe Joyce just beat the Hungarian - superb display from John Joe. Excellent start from the boxers so far!
OwlsFan
10/08/2008, 8:09 AM
Is it just me or are referees in amateur boxing matches overly fussy? They seem to stop the boxing every 5 seconds to admonish one of the boxers for some minor infraction instead of letting them get on with it. :mad:
Is it just me or are referees in amateur boxing matches overly fussy? They seem to stop the boxing every 5 seconds to admonish one of the boxers for some minor infraction instead of letting them get on with it. :mad:
Depends on the ref, and the fighters really. Joyce's fight was stop tart, I@ve watched others with a better flow.
Fabulous result for Joyce. Still a tough route for him to medal though.
Lightweight 4 rowers disappoint with 4th in heat. Thy must go through reperchage
paudie
10/08/2008, 9:14 AM
Depends on the ref, and the fighters really. Joyce's fight was stop tart, I@ve watched others with a better flow.
Fabulous result for Joyce. Still a tough route for him to medal though.
Lightweight 4 rowers disappoint with 4th in heat. Thy must go through reperchage
Worst performance of the morning from Myles Dungan who completley wrote off the Poles at the start of the race, saying they would be tailed off.
Considering Ireland only took one of the last 2 qualifying places and the Poles presumably qualified from last years World Championships ahead of us it sounded a bit silly.
paudie
10/08/2008, 9:15 AM
Jeannie Longo is in the women's cycling road race at the age of 49!! At the front near the end as well.
paudie
10/08/2008, 9:35 AM
Nicole Cooke from Wales won the cycling women's road race.
First GB medal?
Best entertainment so far was Scott Evans in the badminton even though he lost.
3 Day Eventing team 10th after Dressage. I am sure they will improve but have to wonder why we bother sending them as only 11 teams in the competition.
3 Day Eventing team 10th after Dressage. I am they will improve but have to wonder why we bother sending them as only 11 teams in the competition.
Yep, but loads of teams want to qualify. As it hapens, we didn't qualify a team, we qualified 5 individual riders so they were allowed form a team.
MONDAY'S IRISH IN ACTION - (All times are Irish times)
01.18 Austin O'Connor 3 Day eventing Cross Country RUn
02.00 Geoff Curran 3 Day eventing Cross Country RUn
02.45 Louise Lyons 3 Day eventing Cross Country RUn
03.30 Patricia Ryan 3 Day eventing Cross Country RUn
04.15 Niall Griffin 3 Day eventing Cross Country RUn
09.22 Eoin Rheinisch Canoe/Kayaking Mens K1 Slalom - Run 1
11.14 Eoin Rheinisch Canoe/Kayaking Mens K1 Slalom - Run 2
geysir
11/08/2008, 9:37 AM
I'd have a look at sports that I wouldn't have a look at in a blue moon.
I'm glad RTE assume almost total ignorance and usually have an explanation for dummies segment.
The Boxing looks quality stuff.
When Ken Egan got knocked down, his opponent did not score a point for that punch. What more evidence would the Judges need :confused:
Amateur Boxing use to be the (only?) sport that you didn't actually know what the score was as the bout progressed.
3 Day Event team up to 8th place after cross country. RTE reporting have a chance of a medal although don't see how those numbers add up as about 90 points behind 3rd place.
Eoin Rheinisch 18th of 21 after first run. Needs a big improvement to make the top 15 cut after 2nd run.
Dodge
11/08/2008, 10:57 AM
3 Day Event team up to 8th place after cross country. RTE reporting have a chance of a medal although don't see how those numbers add up as about 90 points behind 3rd place.
Unless horses have to pull out from about 6 teams we won't medal. 5 points for a fence down in the showjumping part so we'd need 3 clear rounds and hope that the rest have about 20 fences down (per team)
Eoin Rheinisch 18th of 21 after first run. Needs a big improvement to make the top 15 cut after 2nd run.
He's made the top 15 for tomorrow's semi. He was ranked 12th in the 2nd run 9an that was with 2 penalties. He'd have been 13th overall without them.
zenokelly
11/08/2008, 11:07 AM
Unless horses have to pull out from about 6 teams we won't medal. 5 points for a fence down in the showjumping part so we'd need 3 clear rounds and hope that the rest have about 20 fences down (per team)
There's 29 competitiors, and he's made the top 15 for tomorrow's semi
Only 21, unless your counting the gates:D
Eoin did well to get through after having the 2 second penalty, but was lucky that the American received a 50 point penalty. It is a good sport to watch I must say and the kind of sport that nearly everyone in the field can medal, although I'd say Eoin would need a bit of luck to get in the top 3.
Melanie Nocher finished 7th in her heat after stopping to adjust her goggles in the middle of the pool:confused: but it wasn't her main event. The commentator said he had never seen that happen before in a major comp.
Schumi
11/08/2008, 11:36 AM
Ger Owens and Phil Lawton won the second of their ten races in the 470 sailing class. They were well down the field in the first one but can discard their worst score at the end of the competition.
HarpoJoyce
11/08/2008, 12:32 PM
Jeannie Longo is in the women's cycling road race at the age of 49!! At the front near the end as well.
Radio says she was given wrong sized swimming cap and her googles filled with water. I have questions about support team and also rules on discarding equipment during race.
Georgia and Russia shared an Olympic podium today. In the 10metre Pistol Shooting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/10/olympicsshooting.olympics2008
"Nino Salukvadze took bronze for Georgia in the women's 10m air pistol, with Russia's Natalia Paderina collecting silver. After the medal ceremony the two posed together for photographers, their arms on each others' shoulders, and Paderina gave Salukvadze a kiss on the cheek."
Regarding the Three-Day-Eventing....stuff happens to change places..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/equestrian/3578698.stm
(2004 Athens Olympics)
There are medals for each disciple in both Team and Individual so there is still a chance for the five in the showjumping
http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/equestrian/n214435080.shtml
This page the FEI website links to PDF docs for the dressage and Cross country results (hopefully will have showjumping results)
Ind. placing after Dressage and Cross-country (Clue 35th,36th,39th,41st and 47th horsey-types do hang around in groups)
http://www.fei.org/olympics/results/2008Results/Documents/Eventing-XC-results-IND-11Aug08.PDF
Overall team at the moment FEI website
http://www.fei.org/olympics/results/2008Results/Documents/Eventing-XC-results-TEAM-11Aug08.PDF
Tuesdays Irish in Action
6am-12pm Ciara Peelo - sailing - Laser races 1 & 2
6am-12pm Owens/Lawton - sailing - 470 races 3 & 4
8.40am Eoin Rheinisch - Kayaking Slalom - Semi final
10am Ireland - Rowing - Lightweight four Repechage (First 3 qualify for Semi)
10.20am Eoin Rheinisch - Kayaking Slalom - FINAL (if qualified)
12.15-2.45pm Ireland (and individuals) - 3 Day Eventing - Showjumping (Final)
12.36 Andrew Bree - Swimming - 200m Breastroke Heat 4
2.15pm John-Joe Nevin v Abdelhalim Ourradi (Algeria) - Boxing - Bantaweight Rd of 32
Radio says she was given wrong sized swimming cap and her googles filled with water. I have questions about support team and also rules on discarding equipment during race.
You can excuse some things to inexperience but wearing wrong size goggles must be like footballer wearing incorrect sized boots. I am sure the swimmer is disappointed but hard to excuse that.
Good that sailors won a race as maybe shows they can win again.
Boxers & female badminton seem to be the only performers so far as the remainder of the results have been poor (taking rankings etc... into consideration) so far...
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