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What are Team GB's Targets?
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I'm interested in what targets were/are aimed for by the British team.
Does anybody know in hard numbers what they hope to achieve?
Gold Medals?
Overall medal count?
As I understand it they hoped to get 8 Golds on the athletic track. Is this correct?
Anyone know where we stand at this stage in the competition compared to what we expected of ourselves?
Also can anybody who has a wider knowledge of sport than me and knows what's to come tell me where they think the best chances of gold medals are to come from?
One final question I'd like to ask is as we're about halfway through, well lets use yesterday as the absolute halfway mark with 14 golds, is it realistic to think that we can double the amount of golds from 14 to 28?
We got 2 Golds today, so that would mean an average of 2 Golds everyday until Sunday to get 28, is this possible or at all realistic?
Does anybody know in hard numbers what they hope to achieve?
Gold Medals?
Overall medal count?
As I understand it they hoped to get 8 Golds on the athletic track. Is this correct?
Anyone know where we stand at this stage in the competition compared to what we expected of ourselves?
Also can anybody who has a wider knowledge of sport than me and knows what's to come tell me where they think the best chances of gold medals are to come from?
One final question I'd like to ask is as we're about halfway through, well lets use yesterday as the absolute halfway mark with 14 golds, is it realistic to think that we can double the amount of golds from 14 to 28?
We got 2 Golds today, so that would mean an average of 2 Golds everyday until Sunday to get 28, is this possible or at all realistic?
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20 golds
48 medals overall
I don't know the answers to your other questions but I don't think 28 golds is realistic, but you never know. I do think we'll achieve the gold and overall medal targets above though
Athletics target is up to 8......that is medals,not necessarily gold.
28 golds is not realistic,though I think beating Beijing is very possible
The athetics target wasn't 8 golds - that would have been insane, we didn't even come within a mile of that in the 80s with boycotts - but 8 medals with at least one gold. I think we're well on for the eight medals (I'd expect more) and we've obviously smashed the 'at least one gold' bit. With more to come - Go Robbie, Dai, Perri, Shana, Mo (again) and the relay teams!
Actually, maybe insane medal totals are possible...
Oh, and Holly and Goldie!
And Philips if he makes it - sorry, keep forgetting people!
I'm just back from a weekend in London. One of the best things is seeing so many miserable Aussies everywhere. To make matters worse they are even behind New Zealand in the medals table.
I don't want to put a dampener on things as the team are doing extraordinary well, but there's already been at least a few almost-nailed-on golds that ultimately didn't convert and ended up silver or bronze (Star class sailors, Purchase and Hunter in the rowing, Louis Smith, Rebecca Adlington, Murray and Robson in the doubles, although to be fair Murray was probably shattered after his singles victory). It helps to be a bit cautious, I think.
If four of these had been gold, the Beijing total would have already been exceeded.
On the flip side there's been some pleasant surprises - I honestly thought Ben Ainslie had let it slip away this time, and I never expected Greg Rutherford or the lightweight double sculls girls to win or that we'd get a gold in the shooting.
I strongly suspect GB will exceed Beijing though, or at least exceed the total count but achieve an equal number of golds.
To be honest Murray and robson were certainly not "nailed on gold". In fact I wouldn't have expected them to get a medal at the start.
I disagree, we are at 16 now. We have 4 excellent shots at gold in cycling alone, also BMX cycling. Still have lots of boxers who are only 1 fight away from a medal. 2-3 good gold medal chances in canoeing. Several chances in athletics, especially Mo Farah in the 5000m. Modern Pentathlon. Only 2 sailing medals out of 10 have been awarded. We currently lead both individual and team dressage and are strongly placed in team showjumping.
Oops sorry, My mistake. I meant to say medals instead of golds. Honestly that was a mistake.:o
You're right that would be insane.
Archery 0-1 (0 so far)
Athletics 5-8 (4)
Badminton 0-1 (0)
Boxing 3-4 (1)
Canoeing 3-4 (2)
Cycling 6-10 (8)
Diving 1-3 (0)
Equestrian 3-4 (1)
Fencing 0-1 (0)
Gymnastics 1-2 (3)
Hockey 1-2 (0)
Judo 0-1 (2)
Modern Pentathlon 1-2 (0)
Rowing 6 (9)
Sailing 3-5 (2)
Shooting 0-1 (1)
Taekwondo 1-3 (0)
Tennis 0-2 (2)
Triathlon 1-2 (0)
Every other sport - 0
Thanks for all that info. I wasn't aware of all that. From what you say with the knowledge of where we stand on sports that are still going on it sounds more promising than I initially thought.
For one I didn't realise that only 2 out of 10 sailing events have been run. I thought sailing was probably about over now. And I wasn't aware that so many boxers were doing so well, Plus the horse based sports I didn't have a clue how well we were doing.
Yes, especially after seeing GB's women's world champion only finishing 5th...
Bound to win more cycling golds...Mo Farah may make it a double gold if he wins the 5000m..Robbie Grabarz has a chance of a medal in the high jump..
Thank you for this list. I appreciate you posting that.:)
Swimming isn't on the list though.