OLYMPIC PREVIEW DAY 8 – AUGUST 11TH – PHELPS v LOCTE, WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

Each day I’ll be previewing a few of the biggest events for the day at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Now, I won’t preview every event but I’ll pick 3-10 each day and give my quick prediction for who will win. This isn’t supposed to necessarily be an in-depth prediction article, but I will give you times and TV stations of a few events to watch for the day, with added emphasis to contests involving the US, as most of this websites viewers are from there.  Anyway, without further ado, let’s begin!

Men’s Golf

*Starts at 6:30AM ET, GOLF Channel
*Since this isn’t the finals I’m only predicting who will finish 1st in the 1st round, not the Gold, Silver, Bronze.

Round 1
The Pick:  Rickie Fowler (United States)

Men’s Rugby

*4:30PM ET, NBCSN

Final and Bronze Medal Game

Gold:  Fiji
Silver:  South Africa
Bronze:  Great Britain

Women’s Archery

*2PM ET, NBCSN

Individual Final
Gold: Ki Bo-bae (South Korea)
Silver: Choi Mi-sun (South Korea)
Bronze:  Kim Yun-hee (South Korea)

Beach Volleyball

*Starts at 2PM ET, NBC

Women’s Group Stage (A) – Fendrick/Sweat (0-2) (United States) v  Birlova/Ukolova (0-2) (Russia)
The Pick: Fendrick/Sweat (United States)

Men’s Group Stage (C) –  Dalhausser/Lucena (2-0) (United States) v  Lupo/Nicolai (1-1) (Italy)
The Pick:  Dalhausser/Lucena (United States)

Women’s Gymnastics

*Starts at 3PM ET, Live Stream

Individual All-Around Final
Gold:  Simone Biles (United States)
Silver:  Aly Raisman (United States)
Bronze:  Aliya Mustafina (Russia)

Women’s Judo

*Starts at 3:40PM ET, NBCSN

78 Kg Final
Gold:  Kayla Harrison (United States)
Silver:  Mayra Aguiar (Brazil)
Bronze:  Anamari Velenšek (Slovenia)/  Audrey Tcheuméo (France)

Swimming

*Starts at 9PM ET, NBC
*In the semifinals I will only pick who I think will finish 1st in the qualifying, for the finals I will predict gold/silver/bronze

 Men’s 50m freestyle semifinals
The Pick: Florent Manaudou (France)

Men’s 100m butterfly semifinals
The Pick: Michael Phelps (United States)

Men’s 200m individual medley final
Gold: Michael Phelps (United States)
Silver: Kosuke Hagino (Japan)
Bronze: Ryan Lochte (United States)

Women’s 100m freestyle final
Gold: Cate Campbell (Australia)
Silver: Sarah Sjöström (Sweden)
Bronze: Bronte Campbell (Australia)

Men’s Volleyball

Group Stage (A) – Brazil (2-0) v United States (0-2)
The Pick: Brazil