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Can we make 30?
elena
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I don't know what chances we have left.. But is it possible we could get 30 golds!?
I wouldn't be despondent if we didn't.. No matter what happens from here on in our performance has been stratospheric.. But 30.. That's getting into US/China/Soviet Union territory :eek:
I wouldn't be despondent if we didn't.. No matter what happens from here on in our performance has been stratospheric.. But 30.. That's getting into US/China/Soviet Union territory :eek:
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We'd already have 30 if the near-misses who got silver or bronze had hit.
Actually that's very true.
The vast majority of our Gold Medal performances have been very very convincing, winning by a considerable margin (a few exceptions in sailing and equestrianism excepted).
Meanwhile just the slightest bit of luck (or another day) would have given golds to those scullers, tweddle, smith, cavendish, pendleton x2, Jamieson, any of the individual show jumpers (still cant get over not one could maintain even a medal), womens football and maybe a few others.
Although I doubt anything could have got our underperforming mens and womens hockey failures or mens footballers to perform where they could be.
Still another 6 to 9 golds is very very achievable - that means we should be expecting 31 to 34 golds as the final tally.
Hopefully Shanaze Reade
Four boxers at the semi final stage.
Shanaze Reade in Womens BMX
Mo Farrah in the Mens 5k
Womens 470 Sailing
Outside bets
Tom Daley in the Mens 10m Platform
Liam Phillips in the Mens BMX
Mens 470 Sailing
Sarah Stevenson Taekwondo 67kg women
Lutalo Mohammed Taekwondo 80kg men
Mens 4x400m relay
I have no idea about the 4 remaining Flatwater canoeing events or the Modern Pentathlon. I think the Canoeing we are SoL but in Pentathlon their medal target is 1-2 and there's only two medals, historically we've done well so I suspect we have a chance in both mens and womens
So I make that 7 good chances of Gold, 6 outside chances of Gold plus however the Pentathlon pans out.
Mo Farrah - 5K
Shanaze Reade - BMX
Women's Sailing 470 already guaranteed medal and good chance of gold
Boxers guaranteed bronze - presumably some serious contenders there
9 you say?
I just saw your post with the list of events, and yes on paper it looks possible. Difficult for everything to go right on the day, but still doable.
Tomorrow alone has many gold hopes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19200494
Yes there have been "Certainties or Big Hopes" that disappointed that always happens to every country, not to mention "oh but for a fraction of a wobble........" but we've also done unexpectedly amazingly in several events. Most recent Champion Jade Jones anyone?
Hmmm, BMX is a hit and miss event, she could easily get thrown off her bkie than win...but Im hoping she wins.
Yeah. Quite a few golds have been pleasant surprises - Jade Jones, Nicola Adams, Greg Rutherford, Copeland & Hosking, Peter Wilson, the dressage and team showjumping peeps to name but a few.
I think 30 is definitely do-able, but a bit of a stretch if I'm being honest. Realistically I'm gonna go for 2-3 medals max. Then again we may have some more Jade Jones moments, before today I hadn't even heard of her and then she topples the top 2 seeds to win gold, literally coming out of nowhere :eek:
She only missed out on being World Champion by 1/100th of a second a few years ago and looks to of finally got back to that level after injury struggles , theres a chance here for her hopefully she grabs it.
we have the hot favourite in the mens k1 200m event, Ed McKeever
Your comments about the hockey are very unfair. Both teams progressed to the semi finals, and they both go in to the bronze medal play off games. Considering we haven't won a hockey medal of any colour since 1992 in the hockey, I think turning your nose up at two teams making the bronze medal play off is rather churlish. It's not as though either side were hot favourites to win.