Tokyo Olympics

[mightytiges]

Matildas 2-1 NZ .

Olyroos 2-0 Argentina   .

https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1418161319375630339
https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1418182195139784706

 

[mightytiges]

Ch 7's opening ceremony commentary last night had Johanna Griggs bringing up each country's wars/atrocities and other irrelevant oddities while Hamish was comparing each country's population size to the MCG  .

Mongolia enters ...
Johanna Griggs: (quoting wikipedia) "Bruce, it's the world's most sparsely populated."

Iraq enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "This is still their eleventh olympics since 1980 despite all the Iraq-related wars."

Myanmar enters ...
Johanna Griggs: 'Better known as Burma... the coup ... Aung San Suu Kyi.'

Rwanda enters ...
Bruce McAvaney: "Rwanda have been through some terribly hard times..."

Johanna Griggs: "But they've still managed to make it to ten Olympics, Bruce."

Niger enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "Interesting fact, 70% of the population of this country is under 20" [ed. due to conflict]

Oman enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "Isla Fisher, our fabulous Australian actor and partner of Sasha Baron Cohen, was actually born there."

Cambodia enters ...
Johanna Griggs: '... "activities" of the Khmer Rouge ...'

China enters ...
Bruce McAveney: "China is not as strong at swimming as they once were."

Johanna Griggs: "Yeah, there's probably a reason for that."


Johanna Griggs:  "I'm excited for the Americans vs USA in the pool."


And every time a small nation entered the stadium ...

Hamish McLachlan: "Hey Bruce, did you know their whole nation's population could fit inside the MCG."

[Tigeritis™©®]

 

[mightytiges]

Matildas will hopefully still get through as one of the best 3rd place sides (or beat the Americans). Our girls played well for most of the game against Sweden but just lacked the polish of the Swedes when it mattered. It didn't help that VAR didn't give us a penalty just before half-time when Kerr was brought down in the box. Although, when we did get a penalty in the second half Sam failed to put it away to level the scores. Sam is brilliant in general play but penalty taking is her weakest trait. Unfortunately, there's no else willing or more capable to take penalties.

[one-eyed]

2nd gold to Australia  .



Race: https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1419486634005856258
Medal presentation: https://twitter.com/BAFLD/status/1419491029657415689

[one-eyed]

Kaylee McKeown won the 100m backstroke goal medal breaking the Olympic record. That's our 3rd goal.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-27/kaylee-mckeown-wins-gold-100m-backstroke-tokyo-olympics/100326408

[one-eyed]

3 gold so far today 

Tiger Titmus won gold again in the 200m freestyle.

https://twitter.com/AUSOlympicTeam/status/1420200281430581249

And both our men and women's rowing fours won gold.


Jess Morrison, Annabelle McIntyre, Rosie Popa and Lucy Stephan.
https://twitter.com/AUSOlympicTeam/status/1420203190285332482


Alexander Purnell, Spencer Turrin, Jack Hargreaves and Alexander Hill.
https://twitter.com/AUSOlympicTeam/status/1420191533081399301
https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1420212048567443460

[mightytiges]

Woeful coaching by Graeme Arnold stuffed up the Olyroos .

Goes into the game with a negative mindset not chasing the win against a winless opposition that hadn't scored & no surprise we end up losing and getting knocked out .

Those long throws into the box was apparently his secret weapon straight out of the 1980s NSL  .

Not to mention bringing on a CB to play up front with us behind needing to score .

[one-eyed]

Izaac Stubblety-Cook brings it home for Australia in the men's 200m breaststroke final  .

https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1420564094306988038



The breaking news is an American pole vaulter has tested positive for covid. So our athletics squad is now isolating from the rest of the Aussie team.

[Andyy]

Great name.

Stubblety-Cook

[WilliamPowell]

Jess Fox just won gold

 

 

What a star

Champion 

[one-eyed]

Ninth Aussie goal. Emma McKeon in the 100m freestyle. Olympic record too.

Cate Campbell won bronze in the same race.

https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1420929265466429445

 

[mightytiges]

Matildas 4
Brits      3

Fantastic result, Matildas 

Micah absolutely brilliant in goal. What a garbage penalty call by the way that wasn't VARed by the ref . Karma for it to be saved and then us going down the other end to score via Fowler's deflected shot .

Sam Kerr showed her class & poise once again and delivered twice when it mattered.

Heart in your mouth stuff though as we need to learn to control time and the ball when protecting a lead & not just fall back deep giving away all possession.

[Chuck17]

Go Sameeeeeeeeeeee

[one-eyed]

Poms went the early crow  .





https://twitter.com/Nater69/status/1421071626917924872