Day 3 of the London 2012 Olympics and the big news is that Team GB has won its first mens' team gymnastics medal in 100 years. At first it seemed like they'd won silver but they ended up with a bronze and they were still over the moon! Congratulations to Daniel Purvis, Max Whitlock, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas and Sam Oldham.
It was lovely to see their reaction to their historic success, both while waiting during the tense ten minutes of the Japanese appeal and on the podium. They were delighted and so was the crowd. After initial boos when the result was changed the crowd cheered the Japanese team, celebrating their excellent performance. But the stars are the five lads with bronze who couldn't believe they'd won an Olympic medal. Well done lads and good luck in the individual competition!
Other highlights of the day included Zoe Smith coming in 12th in the womens' weightlifting competition, setting a new GB record. Zoe featured in the documentary 'Girl Power' a couple of weeks ago, that followed three Olympic hopefuls over the past year and their training in weightlifting. Zoe was the one who went through to the Olympic trials to represent GB. She's only 18 so has a lot of years of competition ahead of her. Well done Zoe!
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins broke the Olympic record in the double scull in rowing and are through to the final on Friday. Of course, that means the pressure's on them so lets keep fingers crossed...
I also
caught the latter stages of the archery competition taking place in the
Lord's Cricket Ground to see a tense competition being won by Larry
Godfrey to take him through to the last 16. It was fascinating watching
them take aim and fire to hit that target so far away and keep scoring
10 points in the centre of the target. How on earth do you do that?
Taking into account the breeze buffering around Lord's, the distance,
controlling the little tremors as they hold the bows and then whoosh! An
arrow sticks into the yellow core of the target. I'll need to make sure I watch the next stage of the competition.
It was lovely to see their reaction to their historic success, both while waiting during the tense ten minutes of the Japanese appeal and on the podium. They were delighted and so was the crowd. After initial boos when the result was changed the crowd cheered the Japanese team, celebrating their excellent performance. But the stars are the five lads with bronze who couldn't believe they'd won an Olympic medal. Well done lads and good luck in the individual competition!
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins broke the Olympic record in the double scull in rowing and are through to the final on Friday. Of course, that means the pressure's on them so lets keep fingers crossed...
I also
caught the latter stages of the archery competition taking place in the
Lord's Cricket Ground to see a tense competition being won by Larry
Godfrey to take him through to the last 16. It was fascinating watching
them take aim and fire to hit that target so far away and keep scoring
10 points in the centre of the target. How on earth do you do that?
Taking into account the breeze buffering around Lord's, the distance,
controlling the little tremors as they hold the bows and then whoosh! An
arrow sticks into the yellow core of the target. I'll need to make sure I watch the next stage of the competition.
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