Hooray for some of the swimmers meanwhile - though unfortunately Housewife's choice Mark Foster will swim no more in this Olympics.
Bollocks - Folkard crashes out of Archery in Quarters after a nervous display - hope she conquers nerves by 2012.
Boxers doing a bit better, though another one bites the dust. Judo having another shocker, including one who went out on the Judo equivalent of the golden goal - called the golden point. Their prediction of 2 medals looking embarassing, with only one person left in with a chance.
Well, the decision by the selectors to rest the best swimmers in the semi of the 4x200 relay backfired spectacularly, especially as Our Girls were tipped to challenge for a medal. Thing is though, most of the experts thought they made the right call, but are enjoying things with the beautiful benefit of hindsight. Given that the Aussies just took 5 seconds off the world record, and the British record would only have been 6th, it seems unlikely they would have done anything anyway. On the upside it means, as Steve Parry said, that Rebecca Adlington (feels wrong to call her Becky just yet) will now be channelling her rage at missing out into the 800m - where she apparently has a better chance of Gold than she did in the first. Still, all semi-finalists made their finals this morning at least.
Bad luck to Peter Van Den Hoogenband who failed to win the 100m free 3 times in a row - he memorably spoiled the Thorpedo's party in Sydney...
Meanwhile, it's shaping up nicely for the weekend - the beeb has already dubbed it Super Saturday - when we have many chances to win medals - track cycling gets going, and there are a bunch of rowing finals - we already have more finalists than at either of the last 2 Olympics. Did I tell you I saw the Pinsent Gold live at Marathonas in 2004?
The debate rages about whether Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever, just because he's won 11 Golds. He's certainly the "winningest" as one Yank tv person said, but the best? Not for me. Good blog about this here, tends to lean towards Jesse Owens, because of the context & his subsequent behaviour. Reminds us that Carl Lewis did well, but should have been banned for drugs. Obviously, the greatest ever would be either Daley or Sir Steve, goes without saying, but an honourable mention for Emil Zatopek, who famously won 5000m, 10000m and Marathon (first time he ran one) in 8 days in 1952! Or what about these from yesteryear, courtesy of Andy Bull.
One thing is certain - it will never be Moaning McMurray - crash out of the doubles, his brother a lot more devasted than he was by all accounts - he even admitted to not preparing professionally. Should he therefore pay back any money the BOC have passed his way? Should someone who gave a shit been sent instead? Or should tennis (in it since 1896 so not really a new sport) and Murray just fuck off out of it sharpish?
Meanwhile Lampard shows his loyalty to
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