Hamblin’s gesture nice but it’s hardly worth wow factor
class, which is appearing on the Olympic sailing programme for the first time in Rio.
The women’s 470 crew Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie are in the medal hunt today following a remarkable recovery yesterday.
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders then gave themselves every chance of claiming a podium spot yesterday in the Nacra 17 medal race.
In fifth spot heading into the deciding race, the Kiwi crew took out the race following a brilliant effort off the startline. But the pair’s rivals for the bronze medal, the Australian and Austrian crews, also had strong races, leaving Jones and Saunders just outside the medals.
Josh Junior finished seventh overall in the Finn class, after a fourthplace finish in his medal race. Zealand — who will never get mentioned anywhere. The starving, the poor, the war-ravaged, the disenfranchised on this planet — they won’t be blubbering over this overhyped Rio romance.
There are great Olympic stories in this day and age, about those who overcame the odds. British running star Mo Farah’s is one of them. But Stumblin’ Nikki Hamblin and friend don’t qualify.
Cycling posse
Judging by the comments coming in to the Herald, there is a posse out there with cycling in its sights after the so-called Rio failure. Our track cycling has proved that it is world class, even if it dipped badly against expectations in Rio. So don’t give up on it now. If we are to fund our elite sport at the existing level, cycling
7am: Football
semifinal. team final. final.
10.30pm: Golf
Men’s 2nd
7am: Wrestling
Women’s 48kg, 58kg, 69kg medal matches. Men’s 69kg final. Women’s 2nd semifinal (NZ v Great Britain). Men’s
7.30am: Boxing 8am: Hockey 10.30am: Table tennis 11.30am: Athletics
Men’s javelin qualifying (Stuart Farquhar); 12.15pm, women’s long jump final; 1pm, men’s 200m final; 1.55pm, women’s 100m hurdles final. Noon: Taekwondo Medal matches women’s 49kg (Andrea Kilday), men’s 58kg.
3pm: Beach volleyball
Women’s round two (Lydia Ko).
12.08am: Canoe sprint
Men’s K2 1000m final; 12.23am men’s C1 200m final; 12.47am men’s K2 200m final; 1.11am women’s K1 500m final (Lisa Carrington). Men’s shot put qualifying (Jacko Gill, Tom Walsh); 3am men’s 400m hurdles final. Men. Men’s bronze medal
12.55am: Athletics 2am: Triathlon 3am: Hockey
match.
4.05am: Sailing
Men’s 49er medal race (Peter Burling, Blair Tuke); 5.05am women’s 49er FX medal race (Alex Maloney, Molly Meech).
4.30am: BMX
Trent Jones).
6.30am: Boxing
final.
7am: Diving 7am: Wrestling
Women’s Men’s quarter-finals Women’s 81kg Women’s 10m platform final.
There are citizens who regularly perform more selfless acts.
Women’s 53kg, 63kg, 75kg medal bouts.