Aussies Aussie Watch - RIO 2016

[serial_thrilla]

So who are our remaining medal chances?
Boomers. K4-1000? K1-200? Mountain biking?

 

[pazza]

That gold by Esposito was a real surprise.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Today's Update. (Paddle your Boat Saturday)

AOC predicted medals. These were done 12 months ago and may be out of date to the actual chances.

Currently 8/11/10 (29). 8th
Predicted 13/14/10 (September 2015)

Italic means they are completing. underline are new sections.
GOLD:
(5 short of what was predicted)
We had an unexpected gold in the greatest modern warrior test called pentathlon.

SILVER:
Jared Tallent (Athletics, 50km walk), SILVER!!!!!! Probably not fully fit but become our most successful T&F athlete.
Caroline Buchanan (Cycling, women’s BMX), (2nd in TT) s Crashed in the semi.

BRONZE:
(All done)

Spoiler: Results

AOC got 1 prediction right. bronze to the 3M diving girls. just picked the wrong team members
one prediction got gold(Tom, Sailing)
2 got silver(Mens TP, 4x100 girl medley),
5 others all didnt medal. (Cycling, team sprint-4th just), Opals-quarters, men’s 4x200m freestyle relay(4th, just....), Cate Campbell(5th and fading fast) Jessica Ashwood(7th)
we currently have 9 Bronze.

ABC Outsiders, or not mentioned:
Men's K4 1000m, probably looking for a bronze. top 2 teams(Czech + Germans) finished the heats by 2 seconds behind the best 2.
Boomers,(bronze medal game.... so sad)
Sam Willoughby (BMX) Semis. 3 wins) was the red dog in the final, with dead the number 2. and then we didnt medal........


Todays medal chances.
K4- 11pm
thats it today. minor chance in the triathlon, less in the mountain biking. the 4x400m girls are in the final but will need 5 teams to drop its bundle. still good effort by them.

 

[serial_thrilla]

Nothing from the K4-1000 guys. Looks like we'll be relying on a miracle in the triathlon or mountain biking.


EDIT: No miracles in the triathlon. Just a shameful 6th.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Today's Update. (Final Sleep Sunday)

AOC predicted medals. These were done 12 months ago and may be out of date to the actual chances.

Currently 8/11/10 (29). 8th
Predicted 13/14/10 (September 2015)

Italic means they are completing. underline are new sections.
GOLD:
(5 short of what was predicted)
We had an unexpected gold in the greatest modern warrior test called pentathlon.

SILVER:3 short of prediction.


BRONZE:Prediction the right amount.

4th Ribbons: 156.

ABC Outsiders, or not mentioned:
Men's K4 1000m, Aussie fourth. slightly disappointing but no shame.
Boomers,(bronze medal game.... so sad)



Todays medal chances.
Boomers Bronze 12:30am

 

[pepsi]

4th Ribbons: 156.

This made me laugh.

 

[Bremner20]

Some of you people need to look back to years such as 1976 and 1980 where we won bugger all.

That was pre AIS days we put a lot of funding into this (Olympics) results are terrible ingrained near enough is good enough attitude .Needs to start at grass roots level school sports days every kid doen't need to get a prize only the winners .

 

[DrEvil_]

We're Ninth! Go Richmond, I mean Australia!

 

[kreglze]

This is what it feels like to be Richmond...

 

[two blue tiger]

This is what it feels like to be Richmond...

Already know how that feels....sigh.....

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Aussies come 4th in the basketball. I wonder what our 4th tally is up to now? Must be at least 20

 

[BobbyMorri]

I might try to do a list in a couple of days as I am very interested as well. Hopefully a newspaper article beats me to it though

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[2006_Eagles]

This made me laugh.

I used to like my 4th ribbons at school

I didn't know it at the time, but I was being Australia'd

 

[Amazing Bombers]

http://www.afr.com/business/sport/w...oser-according-to-john-coates-20160818-gqw83q
Is worth a read.


In particular, Coates – who is also a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and chair of the coordination commission for the Tokyo Games – is concerned the team could slide even further down the medal tally in four years time and that Winning Edge has caused the sports to neglect long-term planning.

"What worries me is that there have been demands on the sports to perform or lose funding has meant the large part of their funding has been directed towards Rio. I don't think there's sufficient attention being paid to the next group of athletes coming through."

 

[2006_Eagles]

http://www.afr.com/business/sport/w...oser-according-to-john-coates-20160818-gqw83q
Is worth a read.


In particular, Coates – who is also a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and chair of the coordination commission for the Tokyo Games – is concerned the team could slide even further down the medal tally in four years time and that Winning Edge has caused the sports to neglect long-term planning.

"What worries me is that there have been demands on the sports to perform or lose funding has meant the large part of their funding has been directed towards Rio. I don't think there's sufficient attention being paid to the next group of athletes coming through."

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get

 

[Whit3y]

if there was a tinder/twitter/facebook games

im sure our athletes would really shine

 

[Reynolds Number]

We bought in Kitty Chiller to deal with the drunk behaviour and even a woman who hates drunks like her has made bo difference. Made things worse if anything.

 

[Belnakor]

So what were the "locks" we missed out on re: golds?

100m/50m freestyle women?
100m freestyle men?

it was really the swimming that messed up hitting the target?

 

[pepsi]

So what were the "locks" we missed out on re: golds?

100m/50m freestyle women?
100m freestyle men?

it was really the swimming that messed up hitting the target?

Men's hockey
Women's water polo
Jarred tallent 50km
Sam Willoughby bmx

All favourites for gold

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

So what were the "locks" we missed out on re: golds?

100m/50m freestyle women?
100m freestyle men?

it was really the swimming that messed up hitting the target?

Aus won that event. It was just a different guy than expected.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

So what were the "locks" we missed out on re: golds?

100m/50m freestyle women?
100m freestyle men?

it was really the swimming that messed up hitting the target?

- Jessica Fox (should have won based on her year performances)
- womens Waterpolo, may not have won but to be eliminated when they did was a shocker.
- Cate 'Choker' Campbell and her sister!
- BMX (especially the men), I love Caroline Buchannon but even at her best she was not beating the Columbian girl.
- Jarrod Tallent (albeit I feel fitness played a part here, missing a bit of training due to injury hurt)

 

[Im New]

So what were the "locks" we missed out on re: golds?

100m/50m freestyle women?
100m freestyle men?

it was really the swimming that messed up hitting the target?

Emily Seebohm & Mitch Larkin are both current world champions in the 100/200 backstroke and both failed to win gold. Seebohm in particular would be disappointed in her Rio results.

 

[Belnakor]

Emily Seebohm & Mitch Larkin are both current world champions in the 100/200 backstroke and both failed to win gold. Seebohm in particular would be disappointed in her Rio results.

Seebohm is a noted under performer at big events and Larkin didn't really fire a shot. Disappointing but didn't have either down as a lock.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Okay, here we go. I will try and do most 10 ten finishes/times they made the final round or got a final placing. Some i may miss(like rowing), when there weren't much more than 10 competitors and they missed the final 8.

Final Position - 10th
Finals Postions (1/2/3 etc)
8/11/10/12/15/9/13/11/9/8. Not including Lost Quarters Finals or fields where they finsihed in the bottom half and didnt make the finals in the comp but have finished in top 10 due to low numbers of athletes. This is mostly Rowing/Canoes and Sync Swimming

Gold (8) :
Mack Horton (Swimming - 400M Mens))
Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay(Swimming - Relay)
Kyle Chalmers (Swimming - 100M Mens)
Catherine Skinner (Shooting - Womens Trap)
Australia women's national rugby sevens team (Rugby)
Kim Brennan (Rowing - Women's single sculls)
Tom Burton (Sailing- Laser)
Chloe Esposito ( Modern pentathlon Women's)

Silver (11)
Madeline Groves (Swimming - Women's 200 m butterfly)
Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay (Swimming)
Mitch Larkin (Swimming - 200M Back)
Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (Swimming)
Men's quadruple sculls (Rowing)
Men's coxless four (Rowing)
Men's team pursuit (Cycling)
Nacra 17 (Sailing)
Men's 470 (Sailing)
Men's 49er (Sailing)
Jared Tallent (Athletics - 50KM Walk)

Bronze (10)
Men's team (Archery)
Women's 3 m synchronized springboard (Diving)
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (Swimming)
Emma McKeon (Swimming - 200M Free)
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (Swimming)
Team eventing (Horseys)
Jessica Fox (Canoe - Women's slalom K-1) Men's K-2 1000 m (Canoe)
Anna Meares (Cycling - Women's Keiren)
Dane Bird-Smith (Athletics - 20KM Walk)

Ribbons for 4th (12)
Alana Boyd (Athletics - Pole Valut W)
Dani Samuels (Athletics - Discus throw W)
Boomers(Basketball - Mens)
Murray Stewart (Canoe - K-1 1000 m)
K-4 1000 m (Canoe)
Matthew Glaetzer (Cycling - Mens Sprint)
Men's team sprint (Cycling)
Women's team sprint (Cycling)
Sam Griffiths (Horesys - Eventing)
Mitch Larkin (Swimming -100M Back)
4 × 200 m freestyle relay (Swimming Mens)
Bronte Campbell (Swimming - 100M Free W)

5th (15)
Rohan Dennis (Cycling - Mens TT) (would have probably got a medal without a broken handlebar)
Women's team pursuit(Cycling) (they crashed hard in training)
Melissa Wu (Diving - 10 m platform W)
Maddison Keeney(Diving - 3 m springboard)
Chris Burton (Horesys - Eventing)
Marcus Fraser (Golf) (Tied)
James Willett (Shooting - Double trap) (Missed out on 4th(and medals) by a shootout
Laetisha Scanlan (Shooting - Womens Trap)
Mack Horton (Swimming - 1500M)
Jessica Ashwood (Swimming - 800M Free W)
Bronte Barratt (Swimming - 200M Free W) (Tied)
Cate Campbell (Swimming - 50M Free W)
Alicia Coutts (Swimming - 400M IM W)
Belinda Hocking (Swimming - 200M Back W)
Taylor McKeown (Swimming 200M - Brest W)

6th (9)
Kathryn Mitchell (Athletics - Javelin throw)
Sam Willoughby (Cycling - BMX)
Esther Qin (Diving - 3 m springboard)
Mens Pair(Rowing)
Thomas Fraser-Holmes (Swimming - 400 m individual medley)
Cate Campbell (Swimming - 100M Free W)
Tamsin Cook (Swimming - 400M Free W)
Emma Moffatt (Triathlon - Womens)
Womens Water Polo Team(Water Polo) Note only 8 teams in the comp.

7th (13)
Henry Frayne (Athletics - Long Jump )
Madeline Hills (Athletics - 3000 m steeplechase)
Brooke Stratton (Athletics - Long Jump W)
Glenn O'Shea (Cycling - Men's omnium)
Minjee Lee (Golf W) (Tied)
Max Esposito ( Modern pentathlon)
Travis Mahoney (Swimming - 400 m individual medley)
Cameron McEvoy (Swimming - 100 m Free)
David McKeon (Swimming - 400 m Free)
Jessica Ashwood (Swimming - 400M Free W)
Bronte Campbell (Swimming - 50M Free W)
Emma McKeon (Swimming - 100M But W)
Emily Seebohm Swimming - 100M Back W)

8th (11)
4 × 400 m relay Womens(Athletics)
Stephen Bird(Canoe - K-1 200 m)
K-2 500 m Womens (Canoe)
Katrin Garfoot (Cycling - Womens TT)
Patrick Constable (Cycling - Mens Sprint)
Annette Edmondson (Cycling - Womens omnium)
Anthony Dean (Cycling - BMX)
Mens Rugby Sevens(Rugby)
Jake Lilley (Sailing - Finn)
Brianna Throssell (Swimming - 200 m but W)
Madison Wilson (Swimming - 100 m back W

Quarters Final Losses (7)
(If a placing game happened after, the final position is that)
Taylor Worth (Archery- Mens Solo) (Lost in a sudden death shoot-out to gold medalist)
Opals (Basketball - Womens)
Kookaburra (Hockey - Mens)
Hockeyroos (Hockey - Womens)
Matildas (Football - Womens)
Safwan Khalil (Taekwondo - Men's −58 kg)
Womens Beachvolley Pair (Volleyball)

9th (9)
Ryan Gregson (Athletics - 1500M )
Chris Erickson (Athletics - 50KM Walk )
Eloise Wellings(Athletics - 5000M W)
Genevieve LaCaze (Athletics - 3000 m steeplechase)
Regan Lamble (Athletics - 20KM W)
Edwina Tops-Alexander (Horeseys - Jumping) (tied)
Rhys Grant (Rowing Single Sculls)
Ashley Stoddart (Sailing- Laser Radial)
Aaron Royle (Triathlon -Mens)

10th (8)
Fabrice Lapierre(Athletics - Long Jump )
Damien Birkinhead (Athletics - Shot Put )
Madeline Hills (Athletics - 5000M W)
Eloise Wellings(Athletics - 10000M W)
Anna Meares (Cycling - Womens Sprint)
Matthew Glaetzer (Cycling - Men's keirin)
Keith Ferguson(Shooting - Skeet)
Ryan Bailie (Triathlon -Mens)

 

[BobbyMorri]

So, to Summarise, The Swimmers had a problem finishing 4th, so they decided 5th was a much better number. Shooters likewise. Everyone else was happy to come 4th, especially the sprinters on the velodrome.

We nearly had as many people finishing 4th-5th as 1-3rd. dont know if that is normal or not