Yeah, Moe, that team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked. I've seen teams suck before but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
For team - see Australia. Two more of our teams crashed out of the Olympics on Day 10 in what is quickly becoming every big a failure as the disaster of London 4 years ago. The Hockeyroos ended a horrible tournament without a medal after being bundled out in the Quarter Finals 4-2 by New Zealand. For the first time since 1984 neither our men or women will win a hockey medal. Our Women's water polo team were also eliminated from competition. In true Australian fashion they blew a 5-1 lead against Hungary, eventually losing in a shootout - one of the better efforts in #chokefest2016.
Our mediocrity at the cycling continued in perpetuity with flag bearer and defending champion Anna Mears failing to get through to the medal rounds in the Women's sprint, and Glenn O'Shea - viewed as a great medal prospect, finishing a disappointing 7th in the Men's Omnium. Our swimmer in the Women's 10k marathon was hunting for medals for the first 2-3km, but faded over the second half of the race to finish 16th. She doesn't deserve to be named.
The one highlight was Ella Nelson who put in a huge effort to finish 2nd in her heat of the Women's 200m at the track - and will move on to the Semi Finals tomorrow night. Hopefully she has an outside hope of making the final. Only Raylene Boyle, Melinda GT, and Cathy Freeman have run faster 200s for Australia at the Olympics. Things were not so good for Discus thrower Dani Samuels who was so professional she dumped her first throw into the net! However, she did recover to be one of only 4 athletes to auto qualify for the final. Australia may have another chance at gold in the Men's K1 1000 in the kayaking, with Murray Stewart (who win gold in the K4 in London) through to tonight's final as the fastest qualifier.
Outside of the choking Aussies the highlight of the day had to be the Men's 800m with David Rudisha becoming the first man to defend the gold medal for over 50 years with a stunning display in the last 300m. His Kenyan teammate, Alfred Kipketer set a cracking pace earlier, before Rudisha overtook him in the back straight on the second lap. 1500m champion Taoufik Makhlouti (Algeria) looked the only danger in the home straight but couldn't get near Rushida who won easily to write his name into Olympic history.
Medal Tally
1 - US - 26-23-25
2 - GB - 16-17-8
3 - China - 15-14-17
9 - Australia - 6-7-9
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