Month End Number of Posts per Olympic sport

We got news from Sportsworld about the second batch of tickets on 10th January, but had to submit for the next batch for the 24th. Again we got around half the tickets we wanted!

British divers get their opportunity to achieve qualification for Beijing at the World cup event in Beijing from 19-24 February.

	Archery	10 posts		Athletics	27 posts
	Badminton	7 posts		Baseball	1 post
	Basketball	3 posts		Beach Volleyball	2 posts
	Boxing	7 posts		Canoe - Kayak Flatwater	8 posts
	Canoe - Kayak Slalom	4 posts		Cycling - BMX	1 post
	Cycling - Mountain Bike	1 post		Cycling - Road Race	5 posts
	Cycling - Track	21 posts		Diving	2 posts
	Equestrian	4 posts		Fencing	1 post
	Football	2 posts		Gymnastics - Artistic	8 posts
	Gymnastics - Rhythmic	2 posts		Gymnastics - Trampoline	0 posts
	Handball	3 posts		Hockey	8 posts
	Judo	10 posts		Modern Pentathlon	4 posts
	Rowing	7 posts		Sailing	13 posts
	Shooting	6 posts		Softball	0 posts
	Swimming	22 posts		Synchronized Swimming	0 posts
	Table Tennis	2 posts		Taekwondo	7 posts
	Tennis	1 post		Triathlon	6 posts
	Volleyball	1 post		Water Polo	2 posts
	Weightlifting	1 post		Wrestling	0 posts

Ainslie wins World Championship Gold

Double Olympic champion, Ben Ainslie, secured his fifth Finn world championship at the Finn Gold Cup in Melbourne, Australia.

Ben Ainslie secured the win with a second placing in the medal race, consisting of the top ten sailors from the previous nine races. Ainslie had lead New Zealander by just one point at the start of the day.

Ben Ainslie (Great Britain) 39
Dan Slater (New Zealand) 46
Jonas Christensen (Denmark) 53
Pieter Jan Postma (Netherlands) 65
Johan Tillander (Sweden) 78
Chris Cook (Canadian) 80
Ed Wright (Great Britain) 86
Aimilios Papathanasiou (Greece) 92
Peer Moberg (Norway) 102
Ivan Klajkovic (Croatia) 103

The Olympic medal race takes place on 16th August 2008.

Cook wins Bronze in Olympic Qualification Tournament

Aaaron Cook secured a quota pace in the Taekwondo at the European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.

Louise Mair, from Elgin, missed out on qualification by one point as she was beaten in her bronze medal match of the -49kg category, by the German Sumeyye Gulec.

Qualifiers in the Men's -80kg category

1st : Bahri Tanrikuku (Turkey)
2nd : Rashad Ahmadov (Azerbaijan)
3rd : Aaron Cook (Great Britain)

The Taekwondo Men’s -80kg category takes place on 22nd August 2008.

Robinson wins quota place for Team GB

Tyrone Robinson secured a quota pace in the Taekwondo at the European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.

Qualifiers in the Men’s -58kg category

1st : Pedro Miguel Moreira Povoa (Portugal)
2nd : Tyrone Robinson (Great Britain)
3rd : Juan Antonio Ramos Sanchez (Spain)

The Taekwondo Men’s -58kg category takes place on 20th August 2008.

Silver for Morrison and Rhodes

2007 champions, Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes had to settle for the silver medal at the 49er World Championship, in Melbourne, Australia.

Morrison and Rhodes had been level with the Australian team at the start of the medal race, but completed the final race in third place, behind the Australian crew.

Nathan Outteridge & Ben Austin (Australia) 60
Stevie Morrison & Ben Rhodes (Great Britain) 64
Rodion Luka & George Leonchuk (Ukraine) 79
Piero Sibello & Gianfranco Sibello (Italy) 87
Tim Wadlow & Chris Rast (United States) 88

The Olympic medal race takes place on 17th August 2008.