Day 7: Part 3

Ok, now for the rest of today's results

Womens's Team Foil: I was able to watch some of this after I finished watching the Gymnastics on the internet, but I have to admit I was having a hard time following along with the action.  I wasn't really sure how the scoring system was working with four people.  Oh well, guess I will have to do some more research next time.  I did not watch the Gold medal match, in which Team Italy took Gold and Team Russia took Silver, but I did watch the Bronze medal match between Korea and France.  Korea seemed to win the medal quite decisively over France, but again, I had a hard time understanding, so that could just be my interpretation.  All I know is that Korea did win Bronze.

Women's Half Heavyweight: This is a story that does warm the heart.  Kayla Harrison of the US won the Gold.  She persevered after years of sexual abuse by her first coach to prevail as Olympic Champion with the second coach, who did everything in his power to get her here.  Its nice when people succeed after facing terrible odds and terrible events in their lives.  Here is a nice story about her- Kayla Harrison wins Gold.  Great Britain's Gemma Gibbons picked up the Silver and Audrey Tcheumeo of France and Mayra Aguiar of Brazil both picked up Bronze medals.  There is a reason for the two Bronze medals, but I am not sure I understand so I am just going to link the official explanation.

Two bronze medals are awarded due to the repechage brackets in Judo ladder tournaments.

From Wikipedia [1]:

In karate, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling tournaments, single-elimination brackets are used to determine the two athletes who will compete in the final for first and second place. The repechage bracket is built from athletes who were knocked out by the finalists and building brackets to determine third place. Repechage addresses the possibility of two top competitors meeting in an early round, allowing the loser a chance to compete for a bronze medal.

The full system is pretty complicated (see [2]), but the gist of it is that if you lose to a finalist somewhere along the way, you enter a repechage (second chance) bracket that allows you to fight for the Bronze. The higher up in the original bracket you reached, the less fights you have to deal with in the repechage bracket.

There are two repechage brackets, each constructed by the losers to the different finalists, and in each one a bronze medal is awarded to the winner.

 You got that?....No.....Me neither.  Moving on.

Men's Half Heavyweight: Russia's Tagir Khaibulaev won Gold, Mongolia's Tuvshinbayar Naidan won Silver, and the two Bronzes went to Dimitri Peters of Germany, and Henk Grol of the Netherlands.

Men's Double Sculls: Nils Jakob Hoff and Kjetil Borch of Norway won Gold, Scott Brennan and David Crawshay of Australia won Silver, and Stephan Krueger and Eric Knittel of Germany won the Bronze.

Men's Lightweight Four Without Coxswain: Team South Africa pulled off an upset and won the Gold over Team GB who won the Silver. Team Denmark took the Bronze over Team Australia who were expected to medal in this event.



Women's Eight With Coxswain: The US women took the Gold in this event, Canada got the Silver, and the Netherlands got the Bronze.

Men's Double Trap: Great Britain's Peter Robert Russell won Gold, Vasily Mosin of Russia won Silver, and Fehaid Aldeenhani of Kwait won Bronze. Can't be too many other medals that Kuwait has won.

Men's Singles: China went 1-2 in this with Jike Zhang taking the Gold and Hao Wang taking the Silver.  Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany won the Bronze (I would have sworn that he was Russian with a name like that)


That's all she wrote medal wise for today

In Other News
The US Men's Water Polo team soundly beat Great Britain in their prelim match today, with Prince William looking on.

The US men and women won their Beach Volleyball matches today to move on to the next round.

Also,

Aren't they adorable watching Chris Hoy and team GB take the Gold at the Velodrome!

Tomorrow's Medal Events:

Men's Individual 70m: Jacob Wukie and Brady Ellison compete to try and win another medal in these Games

Mixed Doubles Final

Men's Team Pursuit

Women's Keirin

Men's Team Sabre

Men's Trampoline Final

Women and Men's Heavyweight

Women's 200m Backstroke: Missy Franklin and Elizabeth Beisel compete

Men's 100m Butterfly: Michael Phelps last race ever!!!!! Alongside him will be teammate Tyler Mcgill

Women's 4x100m Medley Team Relay

Men's 4x100m Medley Team Relay

FIRST DAY OF TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS!

Men's Shot Put: Americans Ryan Whiting and Reese Hoffa compete

Women's 10,000 meter Final: Janet Cherobon-Bawcom, Amy Hastings, and Lisa Uhl compete.

Women's 69-75 kg

Men's 77-85 kg

Too tired to do anymore than tell you that the US is now leading the medals race with equal Golds to China, and 3 more total medals.  Go Team USA!  Night