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You make a good point Jim,makes you think something must be up and i'm sure it will come out. No shame if that is what has happened.
The head coach did go out of his way to say that McEvoy was not sick... Cate Campbell qualified fastest for the final... Taylor McKeown qualified fastest for the final.
They do carry a lot of expectations... we just expect that we are going to win gold in the pool.
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I can't believe no one has floated stillnox yet...
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Dane Bird-Smith, great!!! I couldn't believe he was paying $34 for a win so I jumped on each way. Being my sport I know these guys very well, he was always going to come top 5 at least.
Seems the reason Cate Campbell struggled is she moved early on the blocks, pulled herself back and missed the start very badly. After that she panicked, went too fast. and blew up. Technically she could well have been dq'ed as you're not supposed to move at all on the blocks. Certainly something not right with McEvoy and Bronte, who were simply brilliant only 4 days previously, and Em Seebohm.
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Just watched the Matilda's go down. Bugger. We are definitely not having much luck these Olympics. But I did have to go to Wikipeadia to check the rules for penalty shoot outs and found this:
The keeper is forbidden from moving off the goal line to narrow the shooter's angle.
Be interested to hear from anyone who knows the game intimately (ex-players?) and whether they think the Brazilian crossed the line (no pun intended).
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(08-13-2016, 05:09 AM)IvanAwfulbigone link Wrote:Just watched the Matilda's go down. Bugger. We are definitely not having much luck these Olympics. But I did have to go to Wikipeadia to check the rules for penalty shoot outs and found this:
The keeper is forbidden from moving off the goal line to narrow the shooter's angle.
Be interested to hear from anyone who knows the game intimately (ex-players?) and whether they think the Brazilian crossed the line (no pun intended).
Sometimes they declare a retake but you'll find that keepers leave the line early a lot of the time and get away with it.
It's one of those rules not harshly enforced because the penalty is more of a lottery than anything else for keepers whilst it's stacked heavily against them.
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Aus well beat by Serbia in the mens basketball.....the latter play traditional Euro basketball where defense is the focus and they just choked us for opportunities and we threw up some real NBA rubbish shot wise. Bogurt and Baynes had their hands full with the athletic Serb talls and I think Bogey lost a bit of interest when he realised it was going to be a tough night. They gave us no open looks and our star small guards couldnt buy a basket, probably having the two small guards came back to bite us defensively. Onto Spain for the Bronze..the Spanish have their fair share of NBA talent but dont play as intense on defense as the Serbs and rely on blowing teams away with offense. I'd expect us to go back to a more conservative style and grind out the win vs the Spanish who are very talented but temperamental and we should claim our first basketball medal....
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I thought the Serbs might have had a let down after getting over the Croatians... Our boys really stunk it up.
Got to bounce back now.
