OLYMPICS LONDON 2012: Team GB schedule - Friday August 10th
By Sportsbeat staff, London 2012
TOM Daley's journey to London 2012 reaches its final destination, as he begins the preliminary rounds of the 10m platform diving.
GOING FOR GOLD: Tom Daley will be looking to put his synchro heartache behind him as he
goes in the individual round
Elsewhere Sarah Stevenson will hope to end a nightmare year with a fairytale ending in the -67kg taekwondo, while Lutalo Muhammad will also be looking to justify his controversial selection ahead of Aaron Cook in the -80kg weight category.
There will be a bronze medal on offer the women's hockey as well as Danny Kerry's team hope to salvage something from their 2-1 semi-final defeat to Argentina.
09.37: CANOE SPRINT - Ed McKeever races in the men's K1 200m heats, followed by Richard Jefferies in the C1 200m heats.
In action in the women's equivalent race is Jess Walker in the K1 200m heats and later on the Great Britain's men take to the water for their K2 200m heat.
10.30 TAEKWONDO - Sarah Stevenson will have to defeat USA's Paige McPherson to progress past the Women's -67kg preliminary round.
For Great Britain's men, Lutalo Muhammad is in action against Farkhod Negmatov in the -80kg preliminary round.
12.00 RHYTHMIC GYMNASTIC S - Francesca Jones competes in rotation three on the second day of the individual qualification round, followed by rotation four at 13.18.
12.00 SWIMMING - Daniel Fogg goes for gold in the men's 10km marathon; can he win a medal after Keri-Anne Payne's disappointing fourth place?
13.00 SAILING - Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark feature for Great Britain's women in the 470 medal race and will be hoping to take a medal as they currently sit joint top of the overall standings with New Zealand.
And after the cancellations from Thursday, Britain's men's 470 will race for gold in their medal race.
14.15 BOXING - Luke Campbell takes to the ring for his Bantam semi-final against Japan's Satoshi Shimizu, knowing that a bronze medal is guaranteed but hoping to reach the final and go at least one better.
Anthony Ogogo then boxes at 15.00 in his middleweight semi-final against Esquiva Falcao Florentino of Brazil as he too looks to secure a silver or gold medal.
14.50 RHYTHMIC GYMNASTIC S - Team GB compete in the group all-round qualification rotation two, after completing rotation one on Thursday.
15.00 BMX CYCLING - Shanaze Reade represents Great Britain in the women's semi-final and will have three runs to try to qualify in the top four from her heat for the final.
Liam Phillips will do the same in the men's semi-finals, having made a remarkable comeback from a broken collarbone in May.
15.30 HOCKEY - After losing 2-1 to Argentina in their semi-final, Great Britain's women face New Zealand in a bronze medal match as they look leave the Games with Britain's first hockey medal for 20 years.
19.00 DIVING - Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield compete against each other this time in the men's 10m platform preliminary round.
19.00 ATHLETICS - Steven Lewis competes for gold in the men's pole vault final and Sophie Hitchon aims to add to Great Britain's medal tally in the women's hammer throw final.
Great Britain's women will hope to follow the men into a 4x400m relay final when they run in their round one heat, and the men are in action in the 4x100m relay round one heat.
In the women's 5000m final, Julia Bleasdale and Jo Pavey represent Great Britain before Lisa Dobriskey and Laura Weightman take part in the 1500m final.
21.30 BOXING - Freddie Evans faces top seed Taras Shelestyuk of the Ukraine in his welter semi-final bout before Anthony Joshua fights Ivan Dychko in the super-weight semi-final for a place in the last round.
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The human spirits of the
The human spirits of the Olympics
It shows the best of us and the worst of us during the Olympics.
First started the US Olympic attires are made in China. What attires are made in USA?
Despite Olympic committee of no positive testing, John Leonard accused the Chinese 16-year-old swimmer ‘suspicious’. Another US swimmer from nowhere did the same and no one accused her of doping. Guess which country is among those whose athletes have been tested positive? Not China. He represents the silly swimming coaches, but not me.
Then the media got into the wagon as controversy sells. The ‘prestigious’ Nature magazine did apologize in the web; due to sponsors? Some pointed out the human suffering of the athletes in China. They forgot the same suffering by US athletes and their parents. Some were bankrupt and many do not get good jobs after the game despite a fistful of former medalists making good money. At least there is no sexual abuse reported on Chinese coaches. If they do to a 14 year old or below, it is death penalty. If we have the same rule, many coaches in US should die and we do not have clergymen molesting altar boys as part of the sport.
Some argued China should win as their population is four times ours. From this logic, India should be #2. They forgot it is not the population, but the resources per capita or GNP per capita that matters.
China never wants to be #1 as US always wants. I’m glad China is behind in medal counts by now. The disqualification in badminton game is good. The timing is bad as it happens before. It is the rules of the game to be blamed, then the coaches who plan for win according to the game rule, and then the athletes. I would be angry to watch the game paying good money for it.
The better human spirits are shown by the Muslim girl. I wonder what they wear in beach volleyball. Religion needs to adapt to the global culture to some extent. The amputated athlete won our hearts. He could be the only one who participates in two Olympics in the same year. The Malaysian diver just lifted the spirit of a nation, same as the one Hong Kong won a long while ago. These are the treasures and why we enjoy Olympics.
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