The 2008 Olympics Thread

**Dodge** · 09/08/2008, 8:18 PM

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 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.

**Dodge** · 10/08/2008, 9:01 AM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

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.

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

Originally Posted by Dodge

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?

**pete** · 10/08/2008, 2:58 PM

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.

**Dodge** · 10/08/2008, 4:24 PM

Originally Posted by pete

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.

**Dodge** · 10/08/2008, 4:37 PM

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

Amateur Boxing use to be the (only?) sport that you didn't actually know what the score was as the bout progressed.

**pete** · 11/08/2008, 10:35 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.

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

Originally Posted by pete

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

Originally Posted by Dodge

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

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

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

Originally Posted by paudie

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...g.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/olym...an/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/eque...14435080.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/...ND-11Aug08.PDF

Overall team at the moment FEI website
http://www.fei.org/olympics/results/...AM-11Aug08.PDF

**Dodge** · 11/08/2008, 1:32 PM

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

**pete** · 11/08/2008, 1:56 PM

Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce

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...