The action finally gets under way tomorrow with medals up for grabs in various sports. Team GB has a chance of a medal in the 400m individual medley where Hannah Miley was the world championship silver medal winner; furthermore her picture is on the back of my cornflakes packet!
Olympic match of the day
In the Women’s football Japan and Sweden clash having both won their opening games.
Scandinavian bragging rights are at stake in Group b of the women’s handball competition with Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the same group. Denmark plays Sweden tomorrow with the Dane’s favourites apparently.
We are competing in Volleyball for the first time and we are not expected to do too well. We face the powerful Russian side tomorrow in the women’s competition. A heavy defeat looks on the cards!
The golden shot
Shooting will provide the first gold medal of these games with the women’s 10m air rifle event being decided at lunchtime tomorrow.
The gentler sex
Back in 1943 employers were advised to “Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day. You have to make some allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick and wash her hands several times a day. The women’s 48kg weightlifting gold will be decided tomorrow. We have to wait a little longer for the women’s wrestling and boxing to get under way!
Boxing
The men’s boxing starts tomorrow with the first round of the bantamweight division. Back in 1948 Emmanuel B. Aghassian representing Iran lost in the first round of the bantamweight competition to Spaniard Vicente Namdjou. Ahassian was the father of tennis star Andre Aggassi.
Luke Campbell is our bantamweight man in London. He had a bye in the first round and will meet either an Italian or a boxer from Namibia in round 2. Our middleweight Anthony Ogogo faces a boxer from the Dominican Republic.
Cycling
There is a gold medal up for grabs in the men’s 155 miles cycling road race. Hopes will be high for a GB medal here. In the London 1948 games the men’s road race was won by the Frenchman Jose Beyaert who had been in the French resistance. Our highest placed competitor was Robert Maitland who came 6th.
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