WOMENS 200M BREASTSTROKE GOLD MEDAL

Prices at: 13:27, 19 Aug 2004 AEST

Selection Price
A Beard (USA) $1.25
L Jones (AUS) $5.50
B Hanson (AUS) $9.00
M Tanaka (JPN) $11.00
H Qi (CHN) $17.00
A Poleska (GER) $31.00
A Kovacs (HUN) $41.00
M Jukic (AUT) $126.00

Amanda BEARD, Leisel JONES & Qi HUI have all gone under 2:23.00

Current world record holder Amanda BEARD the warm fav but I'm not writing-off the Aussie duo Leisel JONES or Brooke HANSON, in particular Leisel. Go Girls!!

Hey Paddy.Why muck around with small fish.
The Chas Brownlow medal has got over 500 runners.
Go Paddy.Oi.Oi.Oi.

a man with a beard by a whisker,that joke was leisel wasnt it,just jukicing
cheers

love your workz sportz

Amanda BEARD - GOLD
Leisel JONES - SILVER :smile: Oh so close! :sad:
Anne Poleska - BRONZE

Brooke HANSON - 8th

Jodi HENRY - GOLD :smile: :smile:
Inge De Bruijn - SILVER
Natalie Coughlin - BRONZE

Current Medal Standing

United States 14 11 10 Total 35
China 14 9 6 Total 29
Japan 9 4 2 Total 15
Australia 7 5 7 Total 19
Ukraine 5 1 1 Total 7
Italy 4 5 3 Total 12
France 4 3 4 Total 11
Germany 4 2 7 Total 13
Russia 3 8 10 Total 21
Great Britain 0 3 4 Total 7
NZ 0 0 0 Total 0

Took 100/1 for Brett Hawke (50M Freestyle) as a bit of an interest.

Boy am I interested now :smile:

Are we on track for 13 gold medals (that was the mark set by betfair "over /under")I didnt have a bet but thought over 13 wasnt a bad bet

Read and noted somewhere that some expert predicted the USA to win 93 medals, followed by Russia (83), China (57) Germany (55) and Australia (54).

He predicted the same 5 countries to win the gold medal race with a slight change in ordering, USA (37), Russia (29), China (27), Australia (14), and Germany (13).

Interestingly he left out Japan, who are going pretty well at the moment.

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[ This Message was edited by: 4theboyz on 2004-08-20 07:08 ]

Think I read same source 4theboyz.
A couple of professors from memory.
Made a copy of their predictions.
Predicted Japan would get 6 gold only!

We should go close to that 13 golds. Depends on our Cyclists and Rowers. There's possibly 2 or 3 more golds in the swimming. Can't really see us winning any in athletics though, so the 2nd week certainly won't be as good for us as the first!

Jodie Henry is my absolute favourite, so although I thought she was brilliant value at $3.50 pre-games, I didn't dare back her for fear of jinxing her. Bad luck for Liesel last night. It was a good performance and she went so close.


[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-08-20 10:18 ]

Who do you reckon they should choose for the relay, Liesel Jones or Brooke Hanson. Brooke finished .01 secs ahead of Liesel in the individual race, but Liesel is the world record holder and I'm sure she'll be so damn determined to put in a big one. Then again, Brooke's faster starts might be more suited to relays. Don't know about that one. Anyway, we'll probably be about 1 to 1.5 seconds behind the US after the backstroke, so it'll be up to Petria Thomas and either Brooke or Liesel to give Jodie a chance to mow them down in the last 100. I reckon the world record will probably go in that event. I just hope that it's us.

[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-08-20 10:07 ]

Gday sportznut. I hope they pick Liesel. I reckon she shut up a few of her critics with that gutsy swim last nite. I was gutted 4 her, but, I reckon she's probly actually a better swimmer than Brooke and I reckon she will swim a bottler in the relay

have to be liesel

Hello boys
Do you remember last week how I missed the lions -23.5 by 1/2 point,well i found that 1/2 point in the womens basketball
Russia V Japan
Russia -22.5=$2.10 (sport odds)
Result wait for it
Russia 94
Japan 71
Pass the vodka Dmitri
cheers

Women's 50m Freestyle-Gold Medal

I De Bruijn (NED)
$1.15
L Lenton (AUS)
$4.00
M Engelsman (AUS)
$6.00
T Alshammar (SWE)
$21.00
J Thompson (USA)
$41.00
K Joyce (USA)
$41.00
M Metella (FRA)
$51.00

Hot fav Inge De Bruijn, world & Olympic record holder.

Therese Alshammar 2nd fastest in the world to-date.

Aussies Lisbeth Lenton & Michelle Engelsman 2nd fastest & 5th fastest qualifiers respectively. Go girls!

Men's 1500m Freestyle-Gold Medal

G Hackett (AUS)
$1.10
L Jensen (USA)
$9.00
D Davies (SCO)
$9.00
Y Prilukov (RUS)
$21.00
C Stevens (AUS)
$67.00
S Gianniotis (GRE)
$81.00
D Coman (ROM)
$201.00
G Smith (GBR)
$201.00

Fastest qualifier David Davies.
Others to break 15:00:00 in the past – Yuri Prilukov, Larsen Jensen & of course Grant Hackett, who surprised a little with a relatively slow qualifying time.

GOLD for Grant!

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay-Gold Medal

Australia
$1.55
USA
$2.30
Germany
$21.00
China
$26.00
Great Britain
$51.00
Japan
$81.00
Netherlands
$101.00
Spain
$151.00



USA hold the world & Olympic records.
Likely Oz line-up of Petria Thomas, Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones & Jodie Henry to serve it up to the Yanks. Ozzie GOLD!!

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!!

Oi.Oi.Oi!!

Yeh awesome effort by the girls and hackett.

And thank you Dream Team. Took Lithuania +2.5 but when the inbetting got out to +9.5 I pulled the trigger.

Result? Lithuania sink two 3 pointers in a row near the end to take the lead :smile:

:grin: All went to plan. What a swim by Petria.

Inge De Bruijn - GOLD
Malia Metella - SILVER
Lisbeth Lenton - BRONZE


Michelle Engelsman - 6th

Grant Hackett - GOLD
Larsen Jensen - SILVER
David Davies - BRONZE


Craig Stevens - 8th

Australia - GOLD in new world record time 3:57.32
USA - SILVER
GERMANY - BRONZE

Current Medal Standing

United States 20 16 12 Total 48
China 18 13 10 Total 41
Japan 12 5 5 Total 22
Australia 11 7 11 Total 29
Germany 10 9 11 Total 30
Russia 7 13 14 Total 34


Great Britain 5 7 7 Total 19
NZ 1 0 0 Total 1

Womens 3km Indiv Pursuit(Cycling Track) -Gold Medal

Sarah Ulmer (NZL)- $1.28
Katie MacTier (AUS) - $3.40

Katie MacTier broke Sarah Ulmer's old world record in her first hit-out leading up to the final, only to see her time subsequently bettered twice by Sarah Ulmer.

SILVER at least to Katie. If GOLD goes to NZ I certainly won't begrudge it. Good luck to both girls.

Unfortunately, I think Sarah Ulmer is a pretty good thing, but I hope Katie proves me wrong.

Speaking of good things, what about the U.S Softball team? Before tonight, they'd scored something like 41 runs to nothing, and they are currently thrashing us for the 2nd time in the tournament (and we're the 2nd or 3rd best team in the world)

[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-08-22 21:13 ]

Yes. Not a bad looker sportznut.

Imagine winner will set a new world record to boot :wink:

Yeah, you're right Paddy, but I wasn't actually commenting on her looks. I meant that I thought Sarah Ulmer was a pretty good thing to win the Gold medal.

Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal

Semifinals tonight Greece time.


Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS)
$2.25
Sheena Johnson (USA)
$4.25
Jana Pittman (AUS)
$4.75
Fani Halkia (GRE)
$6.50
Lashinda Demus (USA)
$13.00
Brenda Taylor (USA)
$13.00
Athletes Not Quoted
$17.00
Tetyana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR)
$26.00
Yekaterina Bikert (RUS)
$51.00
Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)
$101.00
Debbie-Ann Parris (JAM)
$101.00
Androula Sialou (CYP)
$101.00

Still amazed to see Jana in the semis given events of recent past.

Jana has drawn the toughest semi. Includes current world record holder Yuliya Pechenkina (52.34), Sheena Johnson (52.95) & Brenda Taylor (53.36)

Fingers crossed Jana gets through to the final & unscathed.

Really :eek: :lol:



Cheers sportz :smile:

Sarah ULMER (NZ) won the Women's Individual 3km Pursuit Gold medal race against Katie MACTIER (AUS) in a time of 3:24.537, breaking ULMER's day old world record of 3:26.400, winning NZ'z first ever track Cycling Gold medal. Katie MACTIER
finished with Silver.

Told you she was a good thing. I got $2.10, but even the price last night was good value. :smile:


[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-08-23 10:01 ]

Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal (25/8)


Lane 1 Tetiana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR)
Lane 2 Brenda Taylor (USA)
Lane 3 Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (ROM)
Lane 4 Fani Halkia (GRE)
Lane 5 Jana Pittman (AUS)
Lane 6 Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS)
Lane 7 Yekaterina Bikert (RUS)
Lane 8 Sheena Johnson (USA)


Great effort by Jana (54.05) to finished 2nd behind Yuliya Pechenkina (53.31) in the 1st semi.

Local Fani Halkia clocked 52.77 (new Olympic record) to win the 2nd semi.


A great final assured. Go Jana!!


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May the luck of the Irish be with you!



[ This Message was edited by: Paddy on 2004-08-23 07:57 ]

Don't know what odds the greek girl will be after the semi but she looks a great bet.
Easily the best time and did it easy.

Thought Jana and Yuliya Pechenkina a lot up the sleeve in their semi. Fani Halkia most impressive in her semi. Likely tri?

Just updating your medal tally Paddy

China 22 14 10 Total 46
United States 21 21 15 Total 57
Japan 13 6 7 Total 26
Australia 12 8 12 Total 32
Germany 10 9 12 Total 31
France 8 8 7 Total 23
Russia 7 13 16 Total 36


Great Britain 5 7 7 Total 19
NZ 2 0 0 Total 2

Latest market Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal (25/8)

Fani Halkia (GRE) - $1.95
Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) - $2.45
Jana Pittman (AUS) - $6.00
Sheena Johnson (USA) - $21.00
Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (ROM) - $26.00
Tetyana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR) - $34.00
Yekaterina Bikert (RUS) - $67.00
Brenda Taylor (USA) - $101.00

Men's Team Pursuit (Cycling) - Gold Medal Winner

Australia - $1.16
Great Britain - $4.65

The Australian team of Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee & Luke Roberts have set new world & Olympic records on the way to the final & are understandably hot favs for the GOLD. Go Oz!