Rivalries Stretching Across New Sports - 2012 Olympic Games Day 11 Open Thread

Well, we are now into the last week of the Olympics. It's amazing how time can fly, eh? Especially when Canada still only has 1 gold medal... Could've landed a spot in a gold medal match yesterday for women's soccer if not for those damn Americans.......
Anyways, as we approach the end, you'll notice that the format after the jump has changed a little bit. For one, I am now pointing out quarterfinal and semifinal rounds now as well as the medal rounds. This is because almost all the events have reached that point in their schedules. You'll also notice that I've listed Canadian participants in the square brackets and italics following all the events, so that we can try to see where we have medal hopes. As always, check out CTVOlympics.ca and London2012.com for plenty of coverage.

Athletics - Track (Women's 100m Hurdles Final 1:00pm PDT, Men's 1500m Final 1:15pm), High Jump (Men's Final 11:00am), Horizontal Jumps, Throws (Men's Discus Throw Final 11:45am) [Women's Hurdles going into semis: Jessica Zelikna ranked 6th, Phylicia George ranked 9th, Nikkita Holder ranked 13th. Men's High Jump: Derek Drouin ranked 10th, Michael Mason ranked 12th]

Basketball - Women's Basketball (Quarterfinals: Canada vs USA 6:00am) [Seriously, another CAN-USA match???]

Beach Volleyball - Men's Beach Volleyball, Women's Beach Volleyball (semi-finals for both sexes)

Boxing - Men's Fly 52kg, Men's Welter 69kg

Canoe Sprint - Men's Kayak Four K4 1000m, Men's Canoe Double C 1000m, Women's Kayak Single K1 500m, Women's Kayak Double K2 500m

Cycling - Track - Men's Keirin (medal round at 9:57am), Women's Omnium (medal round at 8:53am), Women's Sprint (medal round at 9:26am) [Joseph Veloce in Keirin heats, Tara Whitten ranked 4th in Omnium so far]

Diving - Men's 3m Springboard (semi-finals at 2:00am, medal round at 11:00am) [Francois Imbeau-Dulac going in ranked 7th, Alexandre Despatie going in ranked 10th]

Equestrian - Individual Dressage, Team Dressage (Grand Prix Special for both, medals for Team)

Football - Men's Football (semi-finals)

Gymnastics - Artistic - Men's Parallel Bars (medal round at 6:00am), Women's Beam (medal round at 6:47am), Men's Horizontal Bar (medal round at 7:37am), Women's Floor Exercise (medal round at 8:23am)

Handball - Women's Handball (quarterfinals)

Hockey - Men's Hockey

Sailing - Men's 470, Women's 470, Men's RS-X, Women's RS-X, Women's Elliott 6m [Zac Plavsic going into Men's RS-X ranked 8th, Nikola Girke going into Women's RS-X ranked 10th]

Synchronised Swimming - Women's Duets (medal round at 7:00am) [Elise Marcotte & Marie-Pierre Boudreau-Gagnon going in ranked 8th]

Table Tennis - Women's Team (Bronze medal match: Korea vs Singapore 3:00am, Gold medal match: China vs Japan 7:30am)

Triathlon - Men's Triathlon (medal race starts at 3:30am) [Simon Whitfield, Brent McMahon, Kyle Jones all participating]

Volleyball - Women's Volleyball (quarterfinals)

Water Polo - Women's Water Polo (semi-finals)

Weightlifting - Men's +105kg (medal round at 7:30am)

Wrestling - Men's 66kg Greco-Roman (medal rounds starting at 9:45am), Men's 96kg Greco-Roman (medal rounds start at 9:54am)