Sunday, August 5, 2012

Just saying....

What you may have missed yesterday at the Olympics, by watching BBC 1 in the evening.

Michael Phelps retired from swimming after gold in the 4x100m medley relay. The British team were fourth.
The United States women's team won their 4x100m medley relay. GB was eighth.
Sun Yang of China won gold in the Men's 1500m freestyle. Daniel Fogg was eighth.
Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands won the women's 50m freestyle title; Francesca Halsall, GB, was fifth.
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce retained her 100m title.
In weightlifting, Russia's Alexandr Ivanov won the men's 94kg snatch. GB's Peter Kirkbride came 19th.
Nicola Spring of Switzerland won the Women's Triathlon. Team GB's Helen Jenkins came fifth.
Jessica Rossi of Italay struck gold in the shooting, in the Trap final, as did Jamie Gray of the States in the women's 50m rifle 3 x 20 final.
World champion Mirka Knapkova of the Czech Republic won the Wommen's Single Sculls.
Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist of Denmark got gold in the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls.
Rosannagh McLennan of Canada won the Women's Trampoline gold; Katherine Driscoll of Team GB came equal eighth.
Korea won gold in the Team Epee fencing (as well as seeing Team GB out of the football)
Sandra Perkovic of Croatia won the Women's Discus.
Chen Ding of China won the Men's 20km walk - there were no Brits in the top 50.

In many ways, the proliferation of channels is a cop-out for the editors at BBC Sport; in the old days of Coleman Olympics, there would at least be an update/round-up of other results.

OK, it was an extraordinary night for British sport. It was also an extraordinary night for British VT editors - different teams cutting highlights for the end of Lineker, the news titles, the four news sports packages, and the opening sequences of the Gabby Logan round-up. Another trite flap doodle from sports editor David Bond (and plenty of sports guests elsewhere) failed to offer any notion of explanation for this "day-without-parallel" for Brit sport. Better training ? Better facilities ? Better pay ? More strategic sports investment ? More sponsorship ? Better school sport ? Improving diet ? A rebirth of British grit and determination under the wobbly Coalition ?  I did it for BoJo ? Let's have some proper analysis and reporting.


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