OLYMPIC GAMES 2012

[Interrail]

So far Serbia has 52 qualified athletes in 8 sports for London. And we expect more than 100 qualifiers until games start.

+3 (Taekwondo) today.

 

[aletem]

The draw for the male Olympic basketball tournament was made and here are the groups:

Group A:
Greece
Puerto Rico
Jordan

Group B:
Lithuania
Venezuela
Nigeria

Group C:
Russia
Dominican Rep.
South Korea

Group D:
Macedonia
New Zealand
Angola

 

[Scooby]

Good luck Macedonia. I hope you will qualify for Olympics

 

[mariusz_pol]

Did you see medal prediction on USA today?
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olymp...al-tracker.htm

According this site Poland will win even 15 medals, but only 2 gold...
Our medals by USA today:
Gold:
M. Walczykiewicz - canoe K1 200m
A. Zieliński - weightlifting 85 kg
Silver:
M. Włoszczowska - mountain cycling
P. Siemionowski - canoe K1 200m
K. Czerniak - swimming 100m butterfly
D. Janikowski - wrestling 85 kg
P. Miarczyński - sailing RS:X
Bronze:
K. Graczyk - boxing lightweight
B. Mikołajczyk/A. Konieczna - canoe K2 500m
J. Michalska/M. Fularczyk - rowing double sculls
Z. Noceti-Klepacka - sailing RS:X
P. Małachowski - discus throw
M. Dołęga - weightlifting 105 kg
men's team volleyball
M. Kusznierewicz/D. Życki - sailing Star
4th places
T. Majewski - men's shot put
canoe women's K4 500m
women's team - fencing foil
M. Polaczyk - canoe slalom K1
P. Korzeniowski - swimming 200m butterfly
A. Rogowska - women's pole vault
5th places
P. Wojciechowski - men's pole vault
Fijałek/Prudel - beach volleyball
women's team - fencing epee
M. Lewandowski - men's 800m
A. Włodarczyk - women's hammer throw
K. Tymińska - women's heptahtlon
6th places
S. Ziółkowski - men's hammer throw
M. Wojtyra - cycling track omnium
men's team handball
men's team - rowing eight
7th places
K. Chudzik - women's heptathlon
Ż. Glanc - women's discus throw
sen's team - fencing foil
women's team - rowing lightweight double sculls
men's team - rowing lightweight four
8th places
M. Pyrek - women's pole vault
A. Kierzkowski - gymnastics parallel bars
T. Kaczor - canoe C1 1000m
Woszczyński/Grzybowski - canoe C2 100m
R. Kawecki - swimming 200m backstroke
S. Gruchała - fencing foil
women's team - rowing eight
M. Karpińska - weightlifting 48kg

What's your hopes for medal in London?

 

[vatroslav_cro]

As I can see for my country, it would be 8 medals clinched (total).....2 golds, 3 silvers, 3 bronzes...hm, not bad.

Now, who would reach gold? I am not sure, but most likely it would be:

1. Blanka Vlašić (you know the discipline, I won't repeat, lol)...but she had some surgery on her leg few days ago, will miss the indoor season, so I don't know how the situation will develop...although she announced a good season;

2. Handball team, men (MAYBE)...however it depends about their form, they showed a lot in the past European handball championship in Serbia, so....let's hope

Silver:

1. Rowers,
2. Cayak-canoists,
3. Gymnasts


Bronze:

1. Water-polo team, men (hm, hm, I am really suspicious, after this disaster in EWC in Eindhoven...9 th place only, yuck)
2. Shooting
3. Taekwandoe, women

But, as I said, it all remains to be seen!

 

[Destroyer]

Croatian water polo team will not be in olympic games . So they can't and will not take the bronze .

I can't wait for olypmpic games to start tough... It's going to be insane .

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Really? ... you know that already? well the Olympics pre-qualification tournament is yet to be held....dear neighbour

 

[mariusz_pol]

Croatian water polo team has already qualified for the Olympics. They won a bronze medal in World Championships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_polo_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics

 

[vatroslav_cro]

well he obviously didn't see it.....

 

[vatroslav_cro]

175 days left till the beginning of the Olympic games!

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Wooo cant wait for London!!

 

[vatroslav_cro]

I will tell that in London I would like at least 1 golden medal and....6 or 7 medals for us in total. Not more than that, indeed! I am a modest man in any expectations. The Olympic games will obviously be the only sport event this year where we can expect and hope for some success and pride....because our sportsmen/sportswomen suck in almost all other "sport areas", that means disciplines and competitions...

 

[mariusz_pol]

I hope Poland will win more than 3 gold medals and more than 10 at all, wchich is more than we had in Beijing, but it can be really hard. My the biggest favorite to gold medal is Maja Włoszczowska, in her case, as for me, even bronze medal will be failure.

 

[vatroslav_cro]

In which sport discipline does she compete, sorry?

 

[mariusz_pol]

In mountain cycling, in Beijing she was second, year ago she won gold medal in world championship, this year she was second, but she lost only a few seconds with Canadians, I think she would win but her bicycle broke down on route.

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Oh...bad luck....it happens to our athletes as well...very often, lol

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

The Olympic Rings have sailed down the River Thames in London to celebrate 150 days until the start of the Olympics, stopping outside some of the most prominent landmarks

Some pics...
- Tower Bridge

- HMS Belfast / The Shard / City Hall

- Tower of London

- Greenwich

- 02

Also, they've been hung from the ceiling of London Saint Pancras rail station

 

[AlekS]

gr8:

 

[Terorero]

I'm waiting for women's pole vault

 

[vatroslav_cro]

So far, 43 croatian athletes fulfilled their qualification norms for the upcoming Olympic games. The last one, Sandra Perković, the european champion in discus throw (w) from EC in athletics in Barcelona 2010, did it few days ago.