Not much to report from here, with all of 4 medals total for Romania, gold for women's epee team fencing, silver for men's doubles tennis and bronzes for women's 8+1 rowing and men's 85 kg weightlifting. President of the Olympic Committee resigned and all, but not like it was a surprise. Even the official target was 6 medals total (not met, but anyway, way below past results), nothing about which kind even for those.
Pity about the women's handball team though. Coming on quite a high but started with a defeat to Angola, then were trashed by Brazil (26-13), then the wins against Montenegro and Spain weren't enough when in the last group stage round they lost 28-27 to Norway and Angola failed to defeat Spain, so went home from the group stage.
Speaking of Spain, that had to be gutting, their QF match against France, lead by 7 goals at half time, still have 3 ahead with 3 min to go, get equalized at the end, then lose in extra time, with the last shot trying to equalize again and go into the 2nd extra time hitting the post, bouncing to the wing but the winger failing to grab it to try another shot at the last second.
There were also some hopes for women's judo, but one was leading but got defeated 20 sec from the end and another went into a long extra time and finally the opponent scored after over 3 min of extra time, so nearly twice the normal duration of a women's judo fight.
But on the topic of fighting, was zapping around the broadcasts I think a couple of night ago or so and caught a taekwondo match, no clue how that works (not that I knew how judo worked), where supposedly the favorite, think he was Turkish, was leading 4-0 10 sec from the end, got penalized by 1 point then, then the opponent managed a 3-point hit 2 sec from the end to take it to extra time, where he quickly scored the winning point too. That must have been either awesome or awful, depending on which side you were on.
Post edited August 21, 2016 by Cavalary
