EVERY MORNING, WE bring you all of the info you need to make sure you don’t miss a second of Olympic gold.
Team Ireland kept the show on the road yesterday with Annalise Murphy leading the charge at Weymouth, taking her fourth win from four in the sailing.
But, as someone said in the office: we were ‘sadminton’ when Chloe Magree’s Olympic dream ended in a three-game thriller against by 16th seed Pi Hongyan. While away from the action, Grainne Murphy admitted her London adventure was over due to illness. Sad stuff.
Here’s what we’ve got lined up for day five however…
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Time lords: He may not have been able to get his pal Mark Cavendish over the line on Saturday in the road race, but Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins will fancy his chances of taking gold in the time trial this afternoon. “This is going be a piece of piss now compared to [the Tour],” Wiggo said yesterday. “It’s just an hour and not three weeks. It’s been the best preparation. That’s the baseline of worst-case scenario of pressure and expectation, with three weeks lying ahead of you. And we handled that pretty well, so an hour time trial to make history should be a doddle.” Let’s see, shall we? The first of the riders gets off at 2.15pm.
Even keel: Eoin Rheinischtook the first step in overcoming the heartbreak of four years ago on Monday in the K1 slalom heats. He booked his place in today’s 10-man semi-finals and now has his sights set on going one better than the fourth of Beijing. “It never feels comfortable on these big race days,” he told us on Monday. “I’ll just come down here and we’ll do the same preparation that we did for today — look at the course with the coach, come up with a plan of action and hopefully it’s enough to get through to the finals.” The semi-finals will start at 1.30pm.
Boxing clever: John Joe Nevin — one of Ireland’s brightest medal hopes — faces Kanat Abutalipov of Kazakhstan in London’s ExCeL Arena t. The two-time world medallist controlled his opening bout against Denmark’s Denis Ceylan on Saturday from the opening bell and ran out winner by 15 points, 21-6. Abutalipov won his last 32 bout against Wessam Slamana of Syria 15-7. Pool
Who’s flying the flag?
Boxing: John Joe Nevin. 56kg. The round of 16. 2pm. Get it done, JJ.
Cycling: David McCann outshone his more illustrious team-mates, Nicholas Roche and Dan Martin on Saturday in the road race. He goes tomorrow in the time trial with even less pressure on his aerodynamic shoulders.
Canoeing: Eoin Rheinisch as mentioned goes in the semi-finals after 1.30pm.
Sailing: There’s plenty to enjoy here. Annalise Murphy leads the field after four wins from four Laser Radial class races so far. You can watch race five at 12pm and her next an hour or so later. No pressure but here’s how the medal race works. Elsewhere, Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern are in sixth and get going at 12pm today, as does James Espey.
Do not miss…
Tennis
Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis face each other for a place in the men’s singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon in a repeat of their dramatic late-night match under the roof at SW19 a month ago.
Gymnastics
Japanese star Kohei Uchimura is expected to dominate the field in the final of the ‘Artistic, Men’s’.
What are you looking forward to on day five? What have we missed? Let us know in the comments >
Olympic breakfast: There's no show like a John Joe show
EVERY MORNING, WE bring you all of the info you need to make sure you don’t miss a second of Olympic gold.
Team Ireland kept the show on the road yesterday with Annalise Murphy leading the charge at Weymouth, taking her fourth win from four in the sailing.
But, as someone said in the office: we were ‘sadminton’ when Chloe Magree’s Olympic dream ended in a three-game thriller against by 16th seed Pi Hongyan. While away from the action, Grainne Murphy admitted her London adventure was over due to illness. Sad stuff.
Here’s what we’ve got lined up for day five however…
Top of the bill
Time lords: He may not have been able to get his pal Mark Cavendish over the line on Saturday in the road race, but Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins will fancy his chances of taking gold in the time trial this afternoon. “This is going be a piece of piss now compared to [the Tour],” Wiggo said yesterday. “It’s just an hour and not three weeks. It’s been the best preparation. That’s the baseline of worst-case scenario of pressure and expectation, with three weeks lying ahead of you. And we handled that pretty well, so an hour time trial to make history should be a doddle.” Let’s see, shall we? The first of the riders gets off at 2.15pm.
Even keel: Eoin Rheinisch took the first step in overcoming the heartbreak of four years ago on Monday in the K1 slalom heats. He booked his place in today’s 10-man semi-finals and now has his sights set on going one better than the fourth of Beijing. “It never feels comfortable on these big race days,” he told us on Monday. “I’ll just come down here and we’ll do the same preparation that we did for today — look at the course with the coach, come up with a plan of action and hopefully it’s enough to get through to the finals.” The semi-finals will start at 1.30pm.
Boxing clever: John Joe Nevin — one of Ireland’s brightest medal hopes — faces Kanat Abutalipov of Kazakhstan in London’s ExCeL Arena t. The two-time world medallist controlled his opening bout against Denmark’s Denis Ceylan on Saturday from the opening bell and ran out winner by 15 points, 21-6. Abutalipov won his last 32 bout against Wessam Slamana of Syria 15-7. Pool
Who’s flying the flag?
Boxing: John Joe Nevin. 56kg. The round of 16. 2pm. Get it done, JJ.
Cycling: David McCann outshone his more illustrious team-mates, Nicholas Roche and Dan Martin on Saturday in the road race. He goes tomorrow in the time trial with even less pressure on his aerodynamic shoulders.
Canoeing: Eoin Rheinisch as mentioned goes in the semi-finals after 1.30pm.
Sailing: There’s plenty to enjoy here. Annalise Murphy leads the field after four wins from four Laser Radial class races so far. You can watch race five at 12pm and her next an hour or so later. No pressure but here’s how the medal race works. Elsewhere, Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern are in sixth and get going at 12pm today, as does James Espey.
Do not miss…
Tennis
Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis face each other for a place in the men’s singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon in a repeat of their dramatic late-night match under the roof at SW19 a month ago.
Gymnastics
Japanese star Kohei Uchimura is expected to dominate the field in the final of the ‘Artistic, Men’s’.
What are you looking forward to on day five? What have we missed? Let us know in the comments >
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