Personally loving the Olympics, great run by Usain Bolt. Also great run by Steve Solomon 2 pbs aged 18 and in the 400m final, huge effort, and the coach did not want him there.
Probably an unpopular opinion among many but think we are going ok, we have 20 medals and probably win maybe at least another 10 with cycling, sailing, track, hockey, basketball, bmx, water polo all chances to win medals. Unfortunately we have being accustomed to winning and 12 silver is not deemed good enough. We are like Greg Chappell when he sqid he was batting all right I just keep getting, we are doing good we just keep coming second.
swimming apart from Magnussen we were not really expected to win good. The Poms keep getting in our way in rowing, cycling and long jump otherwise we may have won 6 more gold. Still great efforts though.
Have enjoyed watching in the last week but stupidly have never invested foxtel as never home enough to justify it but with a week off for the Olympics I should have. Channel 9 coverage has being ok and on a par with channel 7 and acknowledge it is hard to cover when there is so much happening at once but some things stagger me.
- Ken Sutcliffe is terrible just really is clueless and provides nothing. As does Karl, Cameron and Leila, all are really embrassing,
- Michael Slater is terrible at the diving nd talks over his co commentator on irrelevent stuff, Brayshaw and Russell should stick to footy. Looking forward to Bill and Tony at the synch swimming.
- Amount of replays, the swimming was live at 0430, replied again at 7 then again at 9am, but never any highlights of weightlifting (one of my fav sports), minimal of archery, boxing, gymnqstics.
- Shocking error of judgement with Anna Meares starting her keiren race, Ken S comes on says we are going to commercial break for a special reason. The special reason an interview with Prince William and Harry while live spo is on ( and involving an Australian big contender), just record it qnd show it at a later time. channel 9 were so happy with the interview they replayed it twice more, but still no weightlifting or even sailing ( which i know is not great tv viewing but we are doing ok in it).
- The womans marathon was covered well and a great race, but disappointing not to show the Aussies come home, Lisa Weightman (Fleas cousin was only 4 minutes behind, trengove 6 minutes , I know hard to show Benita as she was struggling with injury) instead they showed a replay of Karls big noting himself with Daley Thompson and Michael Johnson which was shown 3 hours earlier.
Apart from that the sport has being good, looking forward to more aths, relays will be good as with 1500. We are doing ok on the trqck without medaling, several athletes setting pbs. Watt jump may not have being too expectation but still a silver and nobody seemed to be jumping well.
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