Day 14

Day 14

Ok, quick rundown today, because absolutely have to wake up in the morning.

Today's Medal Winning Events

Men's Final: Germany just squeaked out a win in this Gold medal match over the Brazilians to take the medal.  Latvia won over the Netherlands for the Bronze medal.

Women's Flyweight: Nicola Adams of Great Britain won the Gold over Cancan Reri of China.  Reri beat USA's Marlen Esparaza in the semi final (You know, the girl who is on all the McDonald's commericals).  Esparaza picked up a Bronze medal for Team USA and the other Bronze went to Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (Say that five times fast) of India.

Women's Lightweight: Katie Taylor of Ireland won the Gold over Sofya Ochigava of Russia.  The Bronzes went to Mavzuna Chorieva of Tajikistan and Adriana Araujo of Brazil.

Women's Middleweight: Claressa Shields of USA won Gold over Nadezda Torlopova of Russia.  The Bronzes went to Marina Volhova of Kazakhstan and Jinzi Li of China.

Men's Canoe Doubles: Germany's Kurt Kuschela and Peter Kretschmer won the Gold, Aliaksandr and Andrei Bahdanovich of Belarus won the Silver, and Ilya Pervukhin and Alexey Korovashkov of Russia won the Bronze.

Men's Kayak Fours: Team Australia won the Gold, Team Hungary the Silver, and Team Czech Republic came away with the Bronze.

Women's Kayak Singles: Danuta Kozak of Hungary won the Gold, Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine won the Silver, and Bridgitte Hartley of South Africa won the Bronze.

Women's Kayak Doubles: Germany's Tina Dietze and Franziska Weber won the Gold, Hungary's Natasa Douchev-Janic won the Silver, and Poland's Beate Mikolajczyk and Karolina Naja won the Bronze.

Women's 10m Platform: As expected, China's Ruolin Chen took the Gold and never looked in denger of losing her champion spot on top of the podium.  Brittany Broben of Australia won the Silver, and Pandelela Rinong Pamg of Malaysia won the Bronze.  She is the first women to ever win a medal for Malaysia.

Individual Dressage: Great Britain took the Gold and Bronze in this event with Charlotte Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer taking the medals, respectively.  The Netherland's Adelinde Cornelissen won the Silver.

Women's Final:  TEAM USA WINS THE GOLD OVER JAPAN. FINAL SCORE 2-1.  As much as I dislike Hope Solo, she made some amazing saves today to keep her team on top until the end of the match.  They achieved redemption after losing to Japan in the World Cup last year.  Team Canada won the Bronze medal match....so at least they got a medal.

Women's 10km Marathon: Eva Risztov of Hungary won the Gold, Haley Anderson of the US won the Silver, and Martina Grimaldi of Italy won the Bronze.  I think this would kill me and most of the worlds population in even attempting to do this, so I have crazy respect for them.

Women's Featherweight: Great Britain's Jade Jones (Great Name!) won the Gold over Yuzhuo Hou of China. The Bronzes went to Marlene Harnois of France and Li-Cheng Tseng of Taiwan.

Men's Featherweight: Servet Tazegul of Turkey won the Gold over Mohammad Bagheri Motamed of Iran.  The Bronzes went to Terrence Jennings of the USA and Rohullah Nikpah of Afghanistan.

Men's Triple Jump: USA went 1-2 with Christian Taylor picking up the Gold and Will Claye picking up the Silver.  Fabrizio Donato of Italy won the Bronze.


Men's 800m: Kenya's David Lekuts Rudisha won the Gold, Botswana's Nijel Amos won the Silver, and Kenya also picked up the Bronze with Timothy Kitum coming in third.

Men's 200m: Jamaica went 1-2-3. Wow!!! Of course, the King, Usain Bolt, won the race and looked easy doing it.  I wish he would finish strong. I feel like this guy could have some major world records if he would only properly finish his races.  That is something that annoys me about him.  He has so much talent and potential, and he is just wasting it by not leaving everything out on the track every time he runs.  Anyways, rant over.  Johan Blake won the Silver and Warren Weir won the Bronze.


Women's Javelin Throw: Czech Republic's Barbora Spotakova won the Gold and Germany went 2-3 with Christina Obergfoll picking up the Silver and Linda Stahl picking up the Bronze.

Men's Decathlon:  These men, without a doubt, are the most fit men in the entire world.  USA went 1-2 in this event with Ashton Eaton winning the Gold and Trey Hardee winning the Silver.  Leonel Suarez of Cuba won the Bronze.  I think this would also kill me,  well....duh.

Women's Final: USA won Gold again over Spain. Australia won the Bronze.

Women's Freestyle 55kg: Saori Yoshida of Japan won Gold over Tonya Lynn Verbeek of Canada. The Bronzes went to Jackeline Renteria Castillo of Columbia and Yuliya Ratkevich of Azerbaijan.

Women's Freestyle 72kg: Natalia Vorobeva of Russia won Gold over Stanka Zlateva Hristova of Bulgaria.  The Bronzes went to Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan and Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audicana of Spain (Wow!)


Tomorrow's Medal Winning Events:

Women and Men's BMX Finals.

WATCH THIS...ITS AWESOME!

Women's Final:

Argentina vs the Netherlands

Bronze:

Great Britain vs. New Zealand

Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy

Women's 470 - Two-person Dinghy

Men's Bronze Medal Match

Japan vs South Korea

 Men's 10km Marathon

Team Final

I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS!!! Russia is really really awesome

Women and Men's Welterweight

Men's Pole Vault

Women's Hammer Throw

Women's 5000m: Molly Huddle and Julie Culley compete

Women's 4x100m Relay: WATCH THIS!

Women's 1500m: Shannon Rowbury and Morgan Uceny compete

Men's 4x400m Relay: Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee, will compete here for Team South Africa...a must watch event.

Men's Freestyle 55kg

Men's Freestyle 74 kg

And this is what she wrote folks:

USA                               39                                 25                                26           :          90

China                             37                                 24                                19           :          80

Great Britain                 25                                 13                                14           :          52

Russia                           12                                 21                                23           :          56

Germany                       10                                 16                                11           :          37
Japan                             5                                  14                                14           :          33

France                            8                                   9                                 12           :          29

Australia                         6                                 13                                 10           :          29

I refuse to put GB in fourth place even though they have less total medals than Russia, they have twice as many Golds and deserve to be higher.