Gemma Gibbons is guaranteed at least a silver in the judo, after winning her semi final.
Silver. She's just lost the final.
Gemma Gibbons is guaranteed at least a silver in the judo, after winning her semi final.
Gutted for Jess Varnish and Victoria Pendleton! Disqualified after making the final as they swapped positions in the wrong place. Their own fault of course, but frustrating as it was a great chance for another gold.
And then China, after winning gold in the final, have been deemed to have done the same, so Germany win the gold medal!
So who got silver and bronze? Surely if we were disqualified then so must the Chinese?
China got the silver, Australia got bronze.
BBC commentators said China only get moved to second because you're disqualified from the current round, not the entire competition. China were in a round of two, so could only finish second.
Eh? Surely it doesn't matter how many are in the round?
The term officially used was relegated.It's not difficult...
China got to the final without being disqualified. There were only two teams in the final. Therefore they got a silver after being disqualified in the final.
GB were disqualified in the qualifying round.
If you are disqualified from an event, you're disqualified from it's entirety, surely?
GB to 4th.
Gold Number 6
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins triumphed in the women's double sculls.
Old Adlington disappoints a nation (apparently) and gets bronze.
Loved her interview after though.... followed a while later by Clare Balding's apology for being too negative!
Two more golds in the cycling and now we're 3rd in the medal table - above our fourth place target! Jess Ennis leads the Heptathlon going into the second day too. And Andy Murray into the Tennis final against Federer - repeat from Wimbledon. Brilliant!
Women's triathlon tomorrow, and a girl who lived in my block in halls in Uni is competing - so excited to see how she does!
Loving this Olympic stuff.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 15 | 36 |
2 | Chelsea | 16 | 34 |
3 | Arsenal | 17 | 33 |
4 | Nottm F | 17 | 31 |
5 | Aston Villa | 17 | 28 |
6 | Manchester C | 17 | 27 |
7 | Newcastle | 17 | 26 |
8 | Bournemouth | 16 | 25 |
9 | Brighton | 17 | 25 |
10 | Fulham | 16 | 24 |
11 | Tottenham | 16 | 23 |
12 | Brentford | 17 | 23 |
13 | Manchester U | 16 | 22 |
14 | West Ham | 17 | 20 |
15 | Palace | 17 | 16 |
16 | Everton | 15 | 15 |
17 | Leicester | 16 | 14 |
18 | Ipswich | 17 | 12 |
19 | Wolves | 16 | 9 |
20 | Southampton | 16 | 5 |