The 2008 Olympics Thread

[boovidge]

so there are two bronze medals?

[pineapple stu]

No, there's two semi-finallists with bronze guaranteed as a minimum. If they win their semis, they'll be in the final fighting for gold/silver.

[monutdfc]

Yes, but there are 2 bronze medals awarded - one to each losing semi-finalist

[Big Ears]

Sutherland won't be favourite. Blanco is world silver medallist and beat Darren by 12/13 points in their only bout to date

You're worse than RTÉ , it was 20-13 at the World Championships.
You've probably just confused Darren's score with how much he lost by.

Anyway Egan will be favourite to win a Silver now, although will be the underdog should he reach the final. Barnes chances of progressing are pretty slim and Sutherland is up against it tomorrow but it's not impossible.

Yes, but there are 2 bronze medals awarded - one to each losing semi-finalist

What he's saying is that Barnes and Egan aren't necessarily losing semi-finalists, Egan is actually favoured to do better.

[pineapple stu]

so there are two bronze medals?

Sorry, mis-read that. Yes, there's two bronze medals. But we might yet go better.

[tricky_colour]

He will be up against a Chinese boxer if he gets through to the final, one of the other semi-finalists has been disqualified.
Given as they were giving two bronzes out, should he not be given at least a silver now?
The Chinese guy is guaranteed a silver now because he has a bye into the final.

[geysir]

Great boxing news so far.
I'm looking forward to the Sutherland fight, I better screw fasten my tv to the stand.
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RTE take a commercial break in the middle of the 2nd half of the Brasil V Arg soccer game. I suppose that demonstrates somewhat that this is one of the Olympic disciplines that lacks that oomph.

[superfrank]

They "paused" the coverage though. It went off around 69:50 and came back around 70-something.

Argentina 3-0 up and Brazil down to me now with Lucas sent off.

[superfrank]

Brazil now down to nine in the 85th. Tiago Neves sent off.

[Big Ears]

He will be up against a Chinese boxer if he gets through to the final, one of the other semi-finalists has been disqualified.
Given as they were giving two bronzes out, should he not be given at least a silver now?
The Chinese guy is guaranteed a silver now because he has a bye into the final.

You're a bit confused there, Kurbanov was disqualified against Shynaliyev in the quarter-final today for biting. Shynaliyev(Bronze medallist from the World Championships) will face the Chinese boxer in the semi-final now and on neutral ground he'd be favourite to win that too. He'll possibly still be a slight favourite.

It's Jeffries v Egan and Xiaoping v Shynaliyev in the semi's .

[Dodge]

You're worse than RTÉ , it was 20-13 at the World Championships.
You've probably just confused Darren's score with how much he lost by.

Cheers big Ears. I actually had the right score, I just got typed it wrong (half way through saying he lost by 7 and he lost 20-13)

[HarpoJoyce]

Just noticed this eh...Athlete/Big Kid competing for Australia in the BMX events..Kamakaze indeed.
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...8/240328.shtml

After Edit:
For what it's worth Iceland are beating Poland in a quarter-final of the Handball Men 22-19. Mid-way through the second half.

2nd Edit:
At the finish Iceland 32-30 Poland. I thought Iceland were in trouble with ten minutes left. They were three goals to the good. They had a power-play advantage (7 players to 6) and they missed a free throw and lost two goals in the two minutes. However they regained their three goal advantage. It's been a good tournament for Iceland so far they have beaten Russia Federation and Germany in the Groups and now this.

[bennocelt]

Was away for the last few days so kind of out of the loop, anyone maybe able to fill me in on this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...sandpublishing

[passinginterest]

Sutherland is 9-1 ahead at end of round 3.

[passinginterest]

He won

11-1 I think.

[shakermaker1982]

I love watching Sutherland box. I've taped it so looking forward to watching the replay. Brilliant result for Irish boxing.

[Dodge]

Told you all to back him at 9/1 to medal.

3 medals. Only 2nd time ever to have 3 medallist. makes this thread (and the pre thread all the more worthwhile )

[Dodge]

Semi -final times

Friday
8.00am - Sutherland v Degale (GB)
12.00pm - Barnes v Zou Shiming (China)
2.00pm - Egan v Jeffries (GB)

Looking at the other semis. Nothing would frighten Kenny or Darren. In fact Egan is nearly favourite

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Oh and Cragg made the final of the 5,000m A great achievement giving the year he's ahd

[passinginterest]

Oh and Cragg made the final of the 5,000m A great achievement giving the year he's ahd

That's great. The radio commentators were giving him no chance. They called the pace of his race "pedestrian" and expected the fastest qualifiers to come from the other heats.

[Dodge]

Usain Bolt beat the best WR around by running 19.30 to win the 200m. First time ever that someome has won the 100m and 200m in World Record times.