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Monday, August 18th, 2008 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineAnother gold (Cycling, men's team pursuit) and another silver (Sailing, men's 470 class) today. Narrowly missed out on a bronze in the gymnastics as Beth Tweddle came fourth on the uneven bars - with a score higher than when she won gold at the World championshops a couple of years ago.
This means that Team GB are in third place overall in the medals again, after falling to fourth behind Australia for a little while earlier today. And we've beaten our gold medal haul from Sydney 2000, which is regarded as our flagship achievement in the modern Olympics. We've still got some excellent chances to medal further - in athletics, plus more in cycling and sailing, and we're guaranteed a medal of some colour in boxing.
All the newspaper front pages today were covered with athletes in red, white & blue with gold medals. And inside, lots of articles about how awesome Team GB are, particularly when compared to the solitary gold medal won at Atlanta in 1996. Plenty of "Where did it all go right?" speculation, and talk about how it bodes well for hosting the Olympics in 2012. And it's not over yet ♥
This means that Team GB are in third place overall in the medals again, after falling to fourth behind Australia for a little while earlier today. And we've beaten our gold medal haul from Sydney 2000, which is regarded as our flagship achievement in the modern Olympics. We've still got some excellent chances to medal further - in athletics, plus more in cycling and sailing, and we're guaranteed a medal of some colour in boxing.
All the newspaper front pages today were covered with athletes in red, white & blue with gold medals. And inside, lots of articles about how awesome Team GB are, particularly when compared to the solitary gold medal won at Atlanta in 1996. Plenty of "Where did it all go right?" speculation, and talk about how it bodes well for hosting the Olympics in 2012. And it's not over yet ♥
