Olympic Canoeing/Rowing/Sailing /Kayak thread (7 Gold; 6 Silver; 4 Bronze)

[Calderyon]

Events Schedule (rough):

Rowing Events:

Starting Saturday 28th of July and ending Saturday 4th of August.

Canoeing events:

Slalom: Starting Sunday 29th of July and endind Thursday 2nd of August
Sprints: Starting Monday 6th of August and ending Saturday 11 of August

Sailing events:

Starting Sunday 29th of July and ending Saturday 11th of August.


Full schedules here:

www.london2012.com/canoe-slalom/schedule-and-results/index.html
www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/schedule-and-results/index.html
www.london2012.com/rowing/schedule-and-results/index.html
www.london2012.com/sailing/schedule-and-results/index.html

[Novo]

OLYMPIC RECORD- Great Britain (Rowing women's pair)
Heather Stanning and Helen Glover clock 6 min 57.29 sec as they win their heat.

Olympic Champions Romania didn't even finish in the top 2

[Iceman]

GB second there this morning, looked like they were gonna push for the win.

[Marc]

Go on Ben!

[Jayson]

Why are we so good at rowing

[Marc]

Because we have so many rivers yo

[Novo]

Nash and Satch :worship:

[Jayson]

Think we should be able to get a gold or two from the boaties

[Jayson]

Germany are looking well oiled

[Novo]

A couple of more great heat wins today.. just over New Zealand as well

[Munchkins]

Rowing women's final
we are doing well, i so hope we get out first gold
we are so far ahead atm

[Marc]

OMG OMG OMG

A gold!?!

[Marc]

:amazed:

[Marc]

Glover and Stanning!!! :dance2:

[Marc]

Well done girls! :worship:

First gold medal for Team GB!

[Munchkins]

This is just amazing <3

[Marc]

:lovedup:

[Munchkins]

And we have won our first gold :love:
First ever rowing gold from Females in UK
we are so good at Rowing :lovedup:

[Marc]

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[MTVN]

No problem

[Munchkins]

1 gold, 2 silvers, 2 bronze :love:

[Jordan.]

Yay :amazed:

I got woke up by the commentators going mad :laugh:

[Maia]

A gold!!! :amazed:

[Marc]

Absolutely pantsed the competition :love:

[Munchkins]

Absolutely pantsed the competition :love:

Yup :love: hopefully this is a sign of what to come

[Munchkins]

Awwww Helen Skelton :D
look how happy everyone looks lol

[Novo]

What a great medal presentation that was

[Marc]

What a great medal presentation that was

I think it was the best one we've had this year so far

[MTVN]

This ones getting close

[Marc]

:amazed: ?

[Marc]

Go Go Gooooo!!

[MTVN]

Gonna bottle it

[Munchkins]

Yay we got a Bronze :)

[Jordan.]

Canada :idc:

Bronze atleast

[Marc]

Woop! Bronze is better than nothing

[Munchkins]

Yup, lets just continue to rally up these medals :love:

[Marc]

We'll be shooting up that table in no time, No.1 place here we come :pipe:

[Maia]

We were so close there but Germany and Canada pipped ahead at the last minute, we have a nice bronze for the collection though :pipe:

[Novo]

Don't think we were expected to win that anyway by the sounds of it

[Marc]

No we weren't, I'm sure I heard earlier that we've never been in this final? Perhaps I'm wrong but it's definitely a good thing we won a bronze

[Jordan.]

Close one! We got silver :amazed:

[Novo]

Womens eight final in 5 minutes, Bronze would be good here, USA are strong favourites

[BigSister]

crossing my fingers so much for the rowing tommorow.

[MTVN]

Silver and Gold for GB in the kayaking :worship:

[Black Dagger]

Silver and Gold :amazed:

[Munchkins]

Gold and Silver :O
we are racking up these medals :love:

[Marc]

Two medals in one event?!?!

:amazed: We're amazing!

[Novo]

Wow.. huge upset as well

[MTVN]

Too many good events on at the same time today

[Marc]

:amazed: What a great event!!!

[Marc]

:worship: we're amazing

[Jords]

Another gold and silver, brilliant :D

#TeamGB

[Munchkins]

PRAYING OUR GIRLS WIN!
if she gets silver ,this will be her 4th silver in a row :(
she needs gold!

[Marc]

Aw I hope to god she doesn't get another Silver, bless. She deserves a Gold after all those Silvers :joker:

[Marc]

C'mon girl!

[Marc]

If she comes second... :sad:

[Munchkins]

This is so scary to watch D;

[Munchkins]

If she comes second... :sad:

I will cry with you:bawling:

[Jordan.]

Hope they get the gold

[Jordan.]

Big lead now :amazed:

[Marc]

Go go go go go go go go!!!!!!

[Munchkins]

THIS IS AMAZING
come on girls!

[Marc]

:amazed: Omg omg Catherine Grainger!!

[Jordan.]

Ahhh good girls!

[Marc]

Another Gold medal!

Well done to both but so deserving is Grainger!

[Munchkins]

Catherine Grainger i love you :love:
Absolutely amazing - gold moment

[Novo]

The Women doing amazing for us in the rowing :worship:

[Munchkins]

WOW We were 3 seconds in front of 2nd place
and 12! in front of 3rd

[Marc]

A bronze and gold, lovely day

[Munchkins]

This and listening to Little Boots, has made my day :love:
even though my laptop charger broke idc lol

[Novo]

Alan Campbell will do well to get Silver or Bronze here, NZ will win

[Marc]

Hopefully win something

[Marc]

Go on Alan!

[Marc]

Woohoo! Bronze!

Two Bronze and 1 Gold today. Notching them up

[Munchkins]

YAY BRONZE!
was tense watching that

[Marc]

My ass muscles getting a work out during this olympics

[Munchkins]

My ass muscles getting a work out during this olympics

Lmfao, my vocal chords are getting a workout
I probs sound like a rabid hyena

[Black Dagger]

A bronze nicely there.

We should get some more medals in Cycling & Swimming later, so it's all good.

[Marc]

We're on for two medals in two sailing events; Men's Finn and Men's Star (Ainslie and Simpson/Percy) both finals on Sunday. :)

[Novo]

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[Novo]

Another 4 rowing finals tomorrow in the last day of the event and we have a really good chance of getting in the medals in all of them

[Novo]

Another gold this morning and another two races to come

[Marc]

:worship:

Sailing later today

[Novo]

Another Gold :worship:

[Marc]

Another :worship:

[Black Dagger]

And still another final... come on GB.

[Black Dagger]

Oh no. =(.

[Marc]

What happened? :(

[Marc]

Oh we broke something

[Novo]

had to be within 100 meters when they stopped

[Novo]

hope it doesn't happen again now..

[Marc]

go go go goooo

[Marc]

ah crap silver

[Jack_]

Bloody Denmark :bored:

[Marc]

http://www.thedigichick.com/forums/images/smilies/rollingpin.gif

[Black Dagger]

2 golds and a silver in half an hour/hour...

Not something terrible, I'm pleased.

3RD. :amazed:

[Marc]

:cheer:

[Black Dagger]

'Sorry to everybody we let down'

Is he being ****ing serious? How can we be 'let down' with a silver medal? I'm proud of em.

[Jayson]

On now, we need to stay 6th or higher to win gold as Sweden are in 1st

[Jayson]

Think we've finished 7th :(

[Black Dagger]

What the **** happened then?

Could be the start of SILVER SUNDAY.

[Jayson]

Ben Ainslie looking like he'll pick up gold

[Jayson]

Well now he's 8th, but if Denmark finish behind GB then we'll get gold

[Munchkins]

Praying that he will get Gold :love:

[Jayson]

If NZ don't beat Netherlands then we wont get gold either

[Jayson]

Netherlands are in 5th :amazed:

[Jayson]

GOLD! :cheer2:

[Marc]

Did he win?!

[Marc]

:amazed: awesome!

[Munchkins]

So glad he won! :D :D

[Novo]

Big Ben retiring :(

[Jayson]

btw someone needs to change the title to 6 ; 4 ; 3

[Marc]

GB:

McKeever through to the Men's Kayak Single (K1) 200m final
Walker through to the Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m final
Heath/Schofield through to the Men's Double (K2) 200m final

Ireland:

Jezierski through to the Men's Canoe Single (C1) 200m final

[Black Dagger]

GB:

McKeever through to the Men's Kayak Single (K1) 200m final
Walker through to the Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m final
Heath/Schofield through to the Men's Double (K2) 200m final

Ireland:

Jezierski through to the Men's Canoe Single (C1) 200m final

Got a Gold medal. <3

[Marc]

Gold :worship:

The other girl came 7th loooolololooool we'll forget about her

[Marc]

Bronze for our duo

[Black Dagger]

The two guys just got a bronze as well.

Pipped by Belarus for silver.

[Marc]

:laugh2: our guy was throwing up and the camera's caught it, looooovely

[lostalex]

There are far too many boat sports for my liking. There's like 20 medals just for riding in a boat. What's the next olympic boat event?

how about log flume??

http://0.tqn.com/d/gonewengland/1/0/Y/l/santasvillage17.JPG

[Black Dagger]

'Just for riding a boat'

Do you know how much strength and stamina is needed for these sort of events?

[Jayson]

I don't like how to win a gold in football you have to play 5 or 6 games, each lasting 90+ mins, over the course of 2 weeks, whereas to win a gold in things like archery and shooting you have to spend a total of about an hour firing a gun.

[lostalex]

I don't like how to win a gold in football you have to play 5 or 6 games, each lasting 90+ mins, over the course of 2 weeks, whereas to win a gold in things like archery and shooting you have to spend a total of about an hour firing a gun.

I totally agree. We've seen the team sports competing for 2 weeks now, and they are just now getting medals, and their medals just count as 1 medal. I think the medals should be counted for every player. if 11 players win the football gold, then it should count as 11 medals.

[lostalex]

'Just for riding a boat'

Do you know how much strength and stamina is needed for these sort of events?

I know, i was just teasing. :wink:

[Black Dagger]

I know, i was just teasing. :wink:

Oh you. :tongue: