August Special - Predicting for the Women’s Olympic Soccer event.
Deadline 3pm on Saturday 6th
From August 3rd – 19th, there are
group and elimination stages for the Women’s Olympic Soccer event.
Please predict which countries win:
·
Gold medal
·
Silver medal
·
Bronze medal
Group F – Australia, Canada, Germany, Zimbabwe
Group G – Colombia, France, New Zealand, USA
(Groups A-D are for the Men’s teams)
Correctly predicting a country on the podium – 3 pts per
country
Correctly predicting that country’s medal – extra 2pts per
country
Maximum points awarded – 15 for getting all three medals
correct
Bonus – 5 points for finding a connection between the
Women’s Olympic Soccer event and WWFC.
Results
An impressive final with Sweden playing till the last
second.
Everyone’s prediction favourite, USA, were dumped out by
‘cowardly’ Sweden.
Everyone’s other prediction favourite, Brazil, also fell to
the Swedes.
Looks like the Germans, also a popular prediction, didn’t
get the memo.
Gold – Germany
Silver – Sweden
Bronze – Canada
Eight people managed to get two of the countries right.
8 points (one medal correct, one close)
JIWAL, Paris Wolf, Tom Banks
6 points (two close)
Berkswolf, DoJIWAL, Kieron Dawson, Singwolf, Wombourne Wolf
5 points (one medal correct)
Canterbury Wolf, Nick Curtis, Paul Carter, Peter Pakeman
3 points (one close)
Cannock Wolf, Clive of Burton, Colonel Mustard, Dave
Fiddler, David Morgans, DoJB, Eanna, Grandadwolf, Jim, Kevin Rogers, Kiwiwolf,
Maltwolf, Mancwolf, Matt in Cheltenham, North Bank Wolf, Pennine Wolf, Sid
Perks, Simon Powell, Staines Wolf, Toro, VVVS 4Jackett
0 points
AlexF, Clive in Cheltenham, Exeter Wolf, Phil Bradley,
rdgc, Vintage, Virginia Wolf, Wokingham Welsh Wolf
Bonus – points for finding a connection between the
Women’s Olympic Football event and WWFC.
I’ve given points depending on how tenuous the link.
·
Rachel Unitt (Toro) – ex-Wolves Women player that
was selected to represent Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics (but missed out
with a sore foot) – 4 points.
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Jacqueline Anne Oatley, MBE (Clive in Cheltenham,
Phil Bradley, Grandadwolf) was BBC Television reporter with the Great Britain
women's Olympic football team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. – 3 points
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Wolverhampton Olympic FC (Paul Carter) – 2 points
for the team that plays at the Chris Jewkes Fitness Centre
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Baroness Heyhoe Flint (JIWAL, Wombourne Wolf,
Vintage) – 1 point for suggesting a WWFC woman
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The letter W (Nick Curtis) – 1 point
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WWFC play like girls (Kiwiwolf) – 1 point
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K. Kyle (Paris wolf) – Kaylyn Kyle, reserve for the
Canadian women’s team, has a similar name to Kevin Kyle, ship’s cleaner and
ex-WWFC forward. – 1 point
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Ex-Wolves player coaching one of the women's teams
(Singwolf) – couldn’t find anything for this guess.
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Fosums sponsoring the Chinese team (rdgc) – couldn’t
find anything for this either.
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WWFC and Olympic Women: neither have ever played at
The Molineux (Alexf) – I assume this means ‘against each other’