Winners
The women’s cycling road race provided a thrilling sprint finish in the pouring rain. The 11/10 favourite, Marianne Vos of the Netherlands just held off GBs Lizzie Armitstead who was quoted at 9/1 over the weekend. Our first medal!
Team GB gained a second medal on day 2 of the games, this time in the pool where Rebecca Adlington did well to take bronze from lane 8 in the 400m freestyle after qualifying from the semis in the slowest time. Gold went to Muffat of France.
In the women’s hockey team GB got there campaign off to a winning start against Japan 4.0 with all the goals coming in the first half. Earlier in the day Argentina put down a market thrashing South Africa 7.1.
In the men’s water polo Serbia are looking real medal contenders after beating Hungary 14.10 while the USA edged out Montenegro 8.7.
There was another medal for Italy in the fencing thanks to Diego Occhiuzzi in the sabre but gold went to the Hungarian Aron Szilagyi. This kept up a proud tradition for Hungary in the event as it was their 13th gold.
There was success for team GB in the women’s beach volleyball where Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin edged out the Canadian pair 2 sets to one.
Our men’s football team kept their hopes of at least a quarter final place very much alive beating a skilful UAE side 3.1. Good to see Giggs open the scoring with a header. Although UAE equalised in the second half goals from Sinclair just 52 seconds after coming on as sub and Sturridge with a delicate chip after being put through by Clevrley saw us through. Craig Belamy provided the assists for the first two goals. In the other game in our group Senegal surprisingly beat Uruguay 2.0 despite playing much of the game with 10 men.
There was a hugely entertaining handball game between Denmark and Hungary where fortunes fluctuated back and forth with the Danes finally prevailing 27.25.
And losers
In the men’s basketball Team GB went down 95.75 to Russia despite leading early on. In the water polo and handball we were beaten as expected 13.4 and 44.15 by Romania and France respectively.
The biggest shock of the football competition was the elimination of Spain, beaten 1.0 by Honduras.
Anyway, with Argentina leading Lithuania 48.37 in the men’s basketball I’m off to bed.
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