Men's 200m Backstroke Finals

Gold: Tyler Clary (Usa) olympic record

Silver: Ryan Lochte (Usa)

Bronze: Ryosuke Irie (Jpn)

Only the second Israeli swimmer to be in the finals, my yog bias Toumarkin! See you in Rio 2016. :)) Another underdog story today with Tyler Clary. Love them underdog stories. 

Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals

Rebecca Soni is the only swimmer to ever successfully defend a title at these games! And for the first time Japan is getting a silver instead of bonze! First women to ever swim under 2:20s, she's the only person who can do this. Congrats!

Gold: Rebecca Soni (Usa) world record

Silver: Satomi Suzuki (Jpn)

Bronze: Efimova (Rus)

Men's 50m Freestyle Semifinals

Cesar Ceilo (Bra)

Cullen Jones (Usa)

Anthony Ervin

Eamon Sullivan (Aus)

Fratus (Bra)

Schoeman (Rsa)

Bovell (Tri)

Manadou (Fra)

(not in any order)

2 times world champion, Ceilo won in the first round. Another Brazillian Also in the race is YOG star Andrei Goborov is here as well. He almost broke WR last time at Singapore Sports School here. James Magnussen failed to make it into the finals. Still affected from that lost? :( Finals is happening 2 games later.

Sculls!

Sculls! Sculls! Sculls!

What can I say about this one? 

I have never seen these things before. I have never seen such narrow....boats. The water is so calm, the river so narrow, the grass so flowy and green. The spectators so cute, some of them running. And the press (I suppose) on their bikes, keeping up with the rowers. I want to row a scull too!

Women's All-Round Artistic Gymnastics Finals

I thought that USA coach looked familiar. He's Liang Chow, the coach that was made famous by coaching world champion Shawn Johnson. Received another education from my younger self here. I actually look forward to seeing Shawn get that gold back then. I didn't realize how short-lived their careers are and could only make it to at most (normally), 2 olympics. One before their peaks and one during their peak. And the turn over rate for women is quicker. 

Gabrielle Johnson is just one precarious child. From the start, she never rests. She kept on stretching, jumping around, her head in the game. She didn't even look at the cameras, didn't glance at the leader boards too much. My mum decided after seeing her at her first apparatus that she would win gold, and went to sleep. How spot on! 

Also in the competition is Viktoria Komova, who shined in Youth Olympic Games and is hot favourite to become champion. An article I scanned 2 years ago (I was so much more crazier then) predicted that she will be the future olympic star. Both of them are 17 years old this year. She led from the qualifiers but lost to Douglas in the end...I think both of them are maybe, equally great. But Douglas won that mental bit. She was more composed, more calm. 

I had goosebumps after seeing Komova mouthing 'oh my god', with tears glistening in her eyes. She's still as calm as always. She's such a fighter, she lives with a host family in another state just so she could train with Liang Chow. Komova broke down upon receiving the results. :(( Aww.

Men's All-Round Artistic Gymnastics Finals

My family and I don't understand the sport at all, no matter how the commentator helped. We just watched. We praise good steady landings, because that's the only thing we laymen can see. Kohei Uchimura finally won gold. I thought his name sounded familiar. Received an education from my 17 year old self here ; he made his name known in 2008, became the first man to ever win 3 consecutive world championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This fighter kept up, become better, maintained...all the hard work paid off when he finally got a taste of sweet victory. Now he can step down in style or continue to shake the world. I''m so happy for you!

End of Day 5: Fish finishes last...

le - you know what it is

Hello Day 5. I actually felt quite refreshed today and didn't feel sleepy at all...until now that is. I haven't covered any events due to a project that's due tomorrow. But for the first time I sat on the couch and really did nothing but enjoy the ride. I couldn't let go of not rushing back and typing the details down but I guess I was too tired to move. Oh well. The story will go like this:

on day 5, the Olympic fish finally call it quits! For the first time ever I have decided to go to bed instead of battling it out filling up the games coverage. 

-fast forward 5 hours -

This is by far the day with the lowest efficiency. It's Thursday and I have never been this late to go to work. What's this? Without coverage and being late for work? I am a double loser! Oh my...delirious text alert. So far, no one had successfully defended their title, Rebecca Soni looks set to be the first one to do so after breaking the world record with the semifinals. Feng Tian Wei, representing Singapore in the Table Tennis events won our first individual medal after 52 years. During the Bronze medal match, it's Singapore versus Japan right, and beside a couple Singaporean supporters, there's a chinese waving a china flag. :/

I feel quite sad for the Japanese because halfway through maybe the second round, she's already defeated. She and her coach had tears in their eyes, I know at any other occasion this young Japanese would have cried out loud. But she's so strong to keep going, her heart already elsewhere. :( But she's really young, and she's already the world no. 4. There's at least 2 more olympics for her to get that gold and I'm sure she'll get it. Go girl!

xoxo

fish is very late