Faster Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Canada remaining medal hopes Wednesday August 20th Taekwondo - Women's 49kg - Ivett Gonda* Wrestling - Men's 74kg - Matt Gentry Softball - Women's - Team Canada Thursday, August 21st BMX - Women's - Samantha Cools Diving - Women's 10m Platform - Emilie Haymens Equestrian - Individual Show Jumping - Eric Lamaze* Wrestling - Men's 84kg - Travis Cross Friday, August 22nd Canoe/Kayak Flatwater - Men's K1 1000m - Adam van Koeverden* Canoe/Kayak Flatwater - Men's C1 1000m - Thomas Hall* Cycling - Women's Cross Country - Marie-Helen Premont* Cycling - Women's Cross Country - Catharine Pendrel Taekwondo - Women's 67kg - Karine Sergerie* Taekwondo - Men's 80kg - Sebastien Michaud* Saturday, August 23rd Athletics - Men's 800m - Gary Reed Canoe/Kayak Flatwater - Men's K1 500m - Adam van Koeverden* Canoe/Kayak Flatwater - Men's C1 500m - Mark Oldershaw So 16 more medal chances, hopefully we cash in on at lest 7 of them. If the remaining SI predictions are correct or correct in who wins a medal, Canada will have won 21 medals, 1 shy of our best ever non-boycotted performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 By the way, the Taekwondo draw is out for Canada and its generaly good news. Ivett Gonda has to face a Chinese competitor in the quarters (assuming they both win there first match), but Sebastien Michaud's and Karine Sergerie's biggest competitors (Steven Lopez and Hwang Kyung-Seon, respectively) are on the opposite side of there draws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 great work canada! You are on a roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Well, its already over for Ivett Gonda. I won't pretend to know all that much about Taekwondo, but from what I saw the judging seemed a little bit suspect. Oh well, it was a Swedish competitor that won. At least one board member here (which I won't name) will be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno Dragon Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Canada believe the judging was suspect too, and have now filed a appeal about it, in hopes of getting a rematch. After looking at myself, it looked like the judging was indeed suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave199 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 I hope the appeal is accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Appeal denied. I've just about had enough of the judged events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 According to the Canadian coach, he believed that Gonda scored between seven and eight points. She was awarded none... Well, Philan, Sweden has now been on both end of crappy judging at those Olympics ^^ (Contrarily to Canada... The Judo judging was already a little weird, and now this...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 That was such a load of crap....it was like watching a kitten fight a hound, yet the kitten is somehow pronounced the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim jones Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 That was such a load of crap....it was like watching a kitten fight a hound, yet the kitten is somehow pronounced the winner. that judgement was absolute garbage and even coaches from other countries Questioned it. It is one thing to think you are getting a raw deal but when fellow competitors are seeing the same thing . Jim jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 What a guy that Whitfield is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil1981 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Sorry for posting way too late - but CONGRATULATIONS CANADA .... 13 medals is not too shabby ... let's hope for Adam van Koeverden and some divers to add a few medals (hopefully some gold for the better rank in the official medal table) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Emile Heymans just won the Silver on the women's 10m platform... nearly broke up the Chinese gold sweep but the last diver was nearly perfect. The Chinese divers are both like 4 foot 5, 60 pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Eric Lamaze is in a jump off for gold in equestrian jumping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Eric Lamaze is in a jump off for gold in equestrian jumping. And he will either equal or surpass Canada's best ever finish in individual show jumping (silver in Montreal). The weather isin't that great in Hong Kong, whit the typhoon coming and all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 First Equestrian gold for Canada since 1968! Great result from Erik Lamaze and Hickstead, the two best Canadian athletes at the Beijing games so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil1981 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Canada in men's relay final !! Wow ... what was that in the 4x100m men's semi-final ? Only 10 of 16 teams passed the finish line ... 2 DSQ and 4 DNF ... that's a pretty weird result ... well, with the USA and Britain not qualified for the final this brings a chance for Canada to win a medal. Probably none of the teams will top Jamaica being the top sprinting nation in Beijing ... but Canada, Trinidad & Tobago and Japan might fight for silver in there ... ?!? Good luck, Canada !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 They'll need a huge run to crack the podium but they've got a chance at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil1981 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 GOLD IN EQUESTRIAN Eric Lamaze and Hickstead made it and brought home Canada's 3rd gold medal in Beijing ... what en equestrian nation you are suddenly This makes Canada being 16th in the medal table with 3G, 7S, 5B ... go, Canada, go !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 They'll need a huge run to crack the podium but they've got a chance at least. Pretty much they need to beat Japan. The times between the top 4 (Canada, Japan, Jamaica, Trinidad) are out of reach from the rest with Nigeria, Great Britain and other countries that could take advantage of the US absence. For some reason I think the final is gonna be similar in that their will be drops and DQs. Canada has about 10 medal chances left, 9 of them fairly good shots. I am just worried that the strong results will get the new funding cut, just like Atlanta's did in the late '90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno Dragon Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I dont see how strong results will get funding cut - with the way the funding model is set up right now top finishes is what gets you funding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadian Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Well now...Canada has just pulled out its 5th best ever medal haul ever (matching results from 1928 and 1932) and there are still a few days left. One more medal and it ties for 4th best (1908) and if we eek out 3 more, we tie our 3rd best from Barcelona. Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 wow.....waking up to another gold and silver, that was really unexpected. congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 The moral of the story would be to not sleep during the Olympics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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