Day 6 - Car Crash

OMFG - after a golden night in the pool last night, Day 6 in Rio will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of Australia swimming as the Australian swim team put in possibly the greatest collective chokefest in the history of human Civilisation. It was capped off by the Campbell sisters. Cate Campbell - world record holder - and fastest qualifier for the final - an unbackable favourite - led to the 15m mark before absolutely collapsing in the last 15m to miss the medals completely. She was even over taken by little sister Bronte who was second for most of the race before tiring to finish 4th. I'm so mad I don't even know who got medals. While it had been Chokedy McChokfeind in the earlier races I thought Cate Campbell actually had some substance about her and wouldn't get sucked in. She would save the day. Our great white hope. I WAS WRONG! In a race we were hoping to quinella -  WE GOT ABSOLUTE NOTHING. F M L. The Falcon's pre-games medal estimates are now in complete tatters.



If that wasn't bad enough Cam Hackevoy did the unthinkable - he has actually performed worst than James Stillnox Magnussen did in London. Expected to win up to 3 gold - Hackevoy couldn't even get through to the final of the Men's 50 freestyle, crashing out by finishing 7th in his semi final. He'll go home with just a bronze which he won in the relay. Taylor McKeon, who had qualified fastest for the Women's 200m breastroke, was a shadow of herself in the final, fading over the final 100m to miss the medals completely. Luckily The Falcon predicted this and had a little something on the winner, Japan's Rie Kaneto, at $3. Mitch Larkin saved some face taking silver in the Men's 200m backstroke. He was expected to win double gold in Rio but will go home with just a silver after the US's Ryan Murphy instead did the double - once again the Americans just know how to get the job done when it matters most. Australia doesn't. His girlfriend, Em C-Bomb, who was also fancied to do the double - did even worse - missing the final of the Women's 200m backstroke in what has been a horrible meet for her. Perhaps the only thing more horrible is the ridiculous gangsta jackets the US team walks out in before each race. Seriously, is the pool in Rio or Green Bay?


The highlight in the pool was Michael Phelps recording his 22nd gold medal winner, breaking a 2000 year-old record by winning his 13th individual gold medal in one of the all time great swimming performances - destroying the field in the Men's 200 IM. He becomes only the third athlete in Olympic history to win an individual event at 4 consecutive Olympics. He is quite simply the greatest Olympian in the history of human civilisation.


For Australia - #chokefest2016 wasn't just confined to the pool.Australian's Men's quad sculls, favoured to win gold, were roughed up by the Germans - who stormed to an earlier lead which they held for the remainder of the race. Try as they might, the Aussies couldn't peg them back and finished with silver. Australia's Jessica Fox, favoured to win gold in the Women's K1 slalom, copped a penalty for hitting a gate, and instead finished with shameful bronze.


Our Australian cyclists also disappointed, expected to challenge the mighty Team GB in the Men's and Women's team pursuits - neither did so, and finished a long way behind their Commonwealth rivals in qualifying. Our Men's Team Sprint team were also defeated in the Bronze medal race, but this was largely in line with expectations.


The Opals remain undefeated in group play, thanks to a big comeback against Japan, while the Hockeyroos continued to get their campaign back on track with a tight fought 1-0 win over Argentina. There was also good news for Australia at the golf, with Marcus Fraser leading the field by 3 shots after shooting a 63 in the first round.


The highlight of the day was Fiji getting their first ever Olympic medal, a gold in the Men's Rugby 7s. And it was made all the more enjoyable as they won it by hammering Team GB 43-7! The US continued their domination in the Women's Gymnastics collecting gold and silver in the Women's individual all around final having easily won the teams event earlier in the week. They were only denied a clean sweep by rules which limit 2 athletes to each country in the final.


Channel 7 Bullshit Metre


A couple of points - if you watched Channel 7 you'd think the Gymnastics had been removed from the Olympics? They have completely ignored it for pretty much all off week one. Second - a good start in the swimming according to Basil Zemplis must mean that you managed to get into the water. EVERY Aussie swimmer in EVERY race this Olympics has had a good or great start. Now this is either a once in a universe type statistical anomaly or Basil has NFI - I'm guessing it's the latter.


Social Media Call Of The Day


Get these ******* Swisse add off my TV. I'm never going to take your vitamins, I'm scared I will choke on one.


The problem with the Aussie swimmers Is they all seem to be doing law/pharmacy/engineering degrees.  I don't think Phelps and Lochte can even read.


Medal Tally


1 - United States - 16-12-10
2 - China - 11-8-11
3 - Japan - 7-2-13
4 - Australia 5-4-6