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Olympics: Day 4 on Nine

Gold up for grabs today includes swimming, gymnastics, equestrian, shooting, judo, diving & canoe slalom.

Fifteen gold medals are up for grabs today in swimming, gymnastics, equestrian, shooting, judo, diving, canoe slalom, weightlifting and fencing.

Karl Stefanovic hosts Day 4 of competition from London.

This session may include:

Swimming
– Men’s 100m freestyle: After the disappointment on finishing out of the medals in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay, “The Missile” James Magnussen returns to the pool for his individual event. Magnussen and team-mate James Roberts will be looking for good times to get the best lanes in the semis.

– Women’s 200m butterfly: Chinese swimmers dominated in Beijing but watch out for 2008 bronze medallist Jessicah Schipper and fellow Aussie Samantha Hamill.

– Men’s 200m breaststroke: Queenslander Brenton Rickard won the silver at Beijing in this event and again faces his nemesis the great Kosuke Kitajima from Japan.

– Men’s 200m freestyle relay: The French and the Americans are the favourites in this event teams. This is a new-look Australian team (bronze medallists at Beijing) spearheaded by Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Kenrick Monk.

Equestrian
Can Great Britain win in front of the home crowd when the eventing gold is decided in the team’s and individual events? Will the Royals have their first gold medallist in Zara Phillips, the Queen’s grand-daughter? Australian rider Andrew Hoy aims for an individual medal in his seventh Olympic campaign?

Rowing
Australia’s men’s double sculls, defending champions David Crawshay and Scott Brennan, and the Aussie lightweight four featuring five-time Olympian Anthony Edwards, will race in the semi-finals. Kim Crow will contest the quarter-finals in the women’s single scull.
There will also be repechages, with the Australian women’s eight one of the crews trying to get through to the finals.

Basketball
This is one of the key matches for the Australian Boomers as they face Spain, the world number two, a basketball powerhouse. Spain features NBA All-Stars Pau and Marc Gasol, while the Boomers will look for scoring punch from Patty Mills.
Shooting
Clive Barton and Keith Ferguson return to the Royal Artillery Barracks for the second qualifying session in the men’s skeet. The top qualifiers will then shoot for gold.

Diving
The third of the eight diving gold medals will be decided. It is the women’s synchronised 10m platform where Australia’s Rachel Bugg teams up with two-time Olympic medallist Loudy Wiggins. Wiggins has made a comeback to the sport after having a baby.

Water Polo
The Aussie Sharks return to the pool for their second water polo preliminary match facing Kazakhstan.

Canoe Slalom
Gold will be decided in the men’s canoe single (C1) on the Lee Valley whitewater course. Our representative is
Kynan Maley. The 30-year-old Olympic rookie is through to the semi-final of the men’s C1 and hoping for a strong showing on the white water course to ensure a finals berth.

*Times stated are for the East Coast markets.
*As with all major sporting events there can be unforeseen changes to the schedule and times are subject to change.

6.30pm London Live on GEM
6.50pm on Nine

4 Responses

  1. Worst coverage ever! Every time I turn on CH9 all they ever seem to show is equestrian, swimming repeats and interviews with Aussie athletes.

    There are heaps of great sports geting no coverage and others where the sole coverage is of the Aussie participant. What about the rest of the world.

    A little less Karl and a little more action please!

  2. I think you’re mainly right @Ranco, the main problem is replaying the Magnussen clips and not showing the other sports. I have seen some of the other sports on Nine but it’s mainly swimming. Perhaps the lack of other sports could be due to the time (some of them are shown in the morning session after 12am until 6am).

    @Paul007 GEM is not allowed to show alternate sports to Nine. It can only be simulcast. But they have to cut between sports so that we get to see everything.

  3. But they’re only going to show swimming which is fine but they replaying the same races, going on about Magunssen can be extremely annoying.

    Why not show some other sports like badminton, tennis, table tennis, diving??

  4. Is it just me or is CH 9’s coverage of the first few days of the Olympics been lackluster, My main gripes are

    1) too much swimming and equestrian.
    2) Gem not showing alternative events
    3) Not enough variety of sports being shown
    4) When something is interesting or a game is close Ch 9 seem to cut to another sport.
    5) Some of the lesser known sports not being seen at all which does link into point (3)

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