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[henrik777]

Moves afoot to change lanes for the rowing today to give the best qualifiers the most advantageous lanes.

Sandy

what source is that? doesn't seem fair to me

5live.

Competition has been halted so they can alter all the screen graphics etc.

It wouldn't be fair if you won through and the repecharge guys got an advantage.

Sandy

[TightEnd]

changed the rowing draws

If the same applies tomorrow, this puts the Rubbish Aus bet for tomorrow on the agenda without the "lottery" element of therandom  draw to contend with

[henrik777]

Lawrence Barretto, BBC Sport at the rowing at Eton Dorney
"We're back under way at Eton Dorney after a 30-minute delay. Fisa, the sport's governing body, decided to re-allocate lanes for the B finals and medal races because of a strong crosswind. The crews who qualified fastest have been moved from lane four and three to five and six which are more sheltered. Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins go for gold in the women's double sculls at 1210 from lane five with Australian rivals Brooke Pratley and Kim Crow in lane six."

Sandy

[MereNovice]

Norway's women play Denmark at handball at 9:15pm tonight.
It's a big game.
http://www.london2012.com/handball/event/women/index.html

[Doobs]

I think Nole will win gold

Can you, err, expand upon that a tad?

Who is Nole, & what exactly does he do rather well?

Nole= Novak Djokovic.

He is a rather good Mens tennis player and Brent believes he will be Murray in the semi and win the final.

Oh I seeee.

Jeez, I am such a clot. He put up Novak to win, & I ended up laying Novak......

Sorry Brent!

PS - Help me Doobsy, help me!

No he put up Novak to lose, you followed his recommendation

Brave recommendation, but you followed it!

Without 6 years of supporting stats, too. Ultra brave

For clarity (eventually), Brent thinks Novak will win, Doobs goes for Murray.

I went with Doobs, but never realised what Brent was saying.

It is what it is, we went with Doobs/Murray.

May the best man win & all that....

Well Nole* has drifted from 1.52 (last night) to 1.54 (this morning) to 1.58/1.59 now.  So if nothing else, we have at least got another good value loser for the thread!

I didn't mention that I think 3 sets rather than 5 should favour Murray.  He has been wilting at the end of these 5 set matches vs top opposition.

Doobs

* Getting down with the kids

[Simon Galloway]

Men's volleyball (indoors)

This is the only sport where I could expect to know more about the game than the average odds complier..

There is a massive divide between those teams that can, and those that have absoutely zero chance.

Group A is the soft group.  Bulgaria are noticeably improved, won every game so far and in Sokolov, have a fantastic go-to man in times of need.  Poland and Italy are other "possibles" and everyone else "any price you like"

Group B is the group of death.  Brazil, USA and Russia ~ no need to look any further.  Brazil as clear leaders in FIVB rankings came in as hot favourites, last night got their arse handed to them by USA.  It was a great game, definitely worth a look if you can get it on video replay.

The USA team were highly effective, the stats support it but as most won't understand the stats, I will turn it into layman's language.

Clayton Stanley plays in the key role opposite setter, was frighteningly effective, an olympic veteran.  The Brazilian block were unable to get anything on him, and Stanley was equally impressive when attacking from the back court as he was from the net.

Lambourne was an impressive Libero, almost unnoticed by the untrained eye.  His backcourt pickups were as you would expect from a world class libero, his service reception was amazing, just about everything landing on the setter's head.  (i.e. points where they should be in trouble returning, were now fine counter-attacking opportunities)

Suxho as setter is obviously pivotal.  His distibution of the ball at the net was good, his ability to organise and execute 3man combination attacks mid-rally is one of the main reasons the Brazillian block was ineffective.  His ability to turn awful first ball into A1 attacking opportunity was lovely to watch - where most setters are content to use a backcourt option as an out or simply a high ball to position 4, our man would think nothing of producing a perfect fast ball through position 2, whilst at full stretch in the opposite direction.

Priddy whilst a short-arse has a jump like Alton Byrd (who remembers him?) and an uncanny ability not to be inconvenienced by the presence of a 3man block.

Anderson and Lee were the other standouts, more-so in attack than defence, but there is absolutely no weakness on court from a starting 6 from ^^.

USA are available at 5/6 for a top 3 finish. BLSQ.  Feels like it should be waaaaaaay shorter.  Wouldn't put anyone off 4/1 on the outright (LADs) either.

Would strongly recommend the place bet to FRED.

[TheChipPrince]

8/11 in a instant

[Simon Galloway]

PS - the 5/6 getting smashed was obviously me.  8/11 now, still fine to bet.  Poland are 1/4 for a podium, on that basis USA should be similar.

[MereNovice]

Women's football.
Brazil v Japan.

Each team have played 3 games.
Brazil have received 5 yellow cards, Japan have received none.

I may be falling for racial stereotypes but I don't think the Japanese women are prone to receiving cards.

Brazil are 13/10 to receive most bookings.
http://www.oddschecker.com/olympics/football/womens/brazil-women-v-japan-women/most-bookings

It looks a good bet to me.
Recommend £50.

[Simon Galloway]

.....And Poland go 1/3 from 1/4.  Confirmed Bl Sq rep ITT.

[MANTIS01]

I would like to propose a max bet. Jess Ennis to win rear of the year. Oh my lord.

[Dubai]

Men's volleyball (indoors)

This is the only sport where I could expect to know more about the game than the average odds complier..

There is a massive divide between those teams that can, and those that have absoutely zero chance.

Group A is the soft group.  Bulgaria are noticeably improved, won every game so far and in Sokolov, have a fantastic go-to man in times of need.  Poland and Italy are other "possibles" and everyone else "any price you like"

Group B is the group of death.  Brazil, USA and Russia ~ no need to look any further.  Brazil as clear leaders in FIVB rankings came in as hot favourites, last night got their arse handed to them by USA.  It was a great game, definitely worth a look if you can get it on video replay.

The USA team were highly effective, the stats support it but as most won't understand the stats, I will turn it into layman's language.

Clayton Stanley plays in the key role opposite setter, was frighteningly effective, an olympic veteran.  The Brazilian block were unable to get anything on him, and Stanley was equally impressive when attacking from the back court as he was from the net.

Lambourne was an impressive Libero, almost unnoticed by the untrained eye.  His backcourt pickups were as you would expect from a world class libero, his service reception was amazing, just about everything landing on the setter's head.  (i.e. points where they should be in trouble returning, were now fine counter-attacking opportunities)

Suxho as setter is obviously pivotal.  His distibution of the ball at the net was good, his ability to organise and execute 3man combination attacks mid-rally is one of the main reasons the Brazillian block was ineffective.  His ability to turn awful first ball into A1 attacking opportunity was lovely to watch - where most setters are content to use a backcourt option as an out or simply a high ball to position 4, our man would think nothing of producing a perfect fast ball through position 2, whilst at full stretch in the opposite direction.

Priddy whilst a short-arse has a jump like Alton Byrd (who remembers him?) and an uncanny ability not to be inconvenienced by the presence of a 3man block.

Anderson and Lee were the other standouts, more-so in attack than defence, but there is absolutely no weakness on court from a starting 6 from ^^.

USA are available at 5/6 for a top 3 finish. BLSQ.  Feels like it should be waaaaaaay shorter.  Wouldn't put anyone off 4/1 on the outright (LADs) either.

Would strongly recommend the place bet to FRED.

Who the 8/11 with?

[Dubai]

Sorry seen blue square.

[horseplayer]

4-6 now

managed to get a bit of 8-11 thanks

[Rubbish2407]

Not sure if you've been watching the athletics but here's a link to a Jessica Ennis interview.

Basically she set a new British record for the 100m hurdles in a time that would have won the Bejiing Olympics four years ago. At one stage she says "we all now this track is fast".

You can bet on the 100m and 200m World records being broken at 4/1 and 5/1 respectively on Betfair.

Worth a nibble for Fred? I've had a few quid on these and a some others. Anyone have any thoughts on other records that could go?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19112565