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The Soccer Chronicles: Between Matches, a Hallowed English Stadium

Andrea Comas/X90037, via ReutersHeather O’Reilly, center, in a less relaxing moment (the game against North Korea on Tuesday).

Heather O’Reilly, a midfielder on the United States women’s soccer team and a two-time gold medalist, will be writing regularly for the 2012 London Olympics blog. This is her fifth post.
Well, we changed cities once again, which is a good thing! It means we made it out of our group and are continuing on our quest.
This time we traveled by bus from Manchester to Newcastle, as English countryside rolled past. A Starbucks stop before we hit the highway brought us all a little joy and a taste of home on this winding Olympic road that we are on.
I have spent a lot of my time resting, putting my feet up, preparing for games and watching “Friday Night Lights” with Rachel Buehler (great show, by the way).
But I am aware that it is also important to take in the scenery. Although we all have our “eyes on the prize,” we have been doing a great job digging into the Olympic environment. For example, as we were about to sit down for a team meeting, some of the players reminded the coaches that an important swimming final was about to start. Pia [Sundhage] said, “Well, go ahead, then!” and we all excitedly ran out of the team meeting room to the TV and huddled around to see Team USA compete.
I thought it was cool that Pia recognized that even though the meeting was very important, it was also crucial that we enjoy the Olympic scenery. A few days ago, we had a walk-through of Old Trafford the day before our match there. The entire team was in complete awe of the stadium.

Where Was NBC When the Russian Gymnast Fell?

When Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva fell on her face during her floor exercise in the women’s team all-around Tuesday, NBC edited her out of its prime-time broadcast, as if dispatched to a video gulag.

That prompted Nikki Finke of Deadline.com to speculate that NBC had cut the routine out to “create fake suspense around Team USA.”

Finke’s misguided claim missed the point: It was simply unfair to remove Afanasyeva’s routine.

The online replay of the event showed that there was great drama in watching her unfortunate stumble. “Oh, no! Oh, dear!” said one of the announcers. “It’s all come unglued.”

NBC’s crew did not mention her or how much more damaging her score was to Russia’s waning chances against the U.S. team. Al Trautwig, Elfi Schlegel and Tim Daggett fixated on another Russian, Anastasia Grishina, whose floor exercise did not get removed from NBC’s prime-time package.

Using his favorite hyperbolic adjective, Daggett called Grishina’s floor exercise “catastrophic.”

In a conference call Thursday, Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBC Sports Group, said that Afanasyeva was cut out of the broadcast “in the interest of time.” The producer for the event felt that her floor exercise was “immaterial to the outcome.” He added that “all the drama was about the U.S. performance, not about what the Russian team had or had not accomplished.”

Day 8: What to Watch For

SWIMMING Michael Phelps will compete in his final individual race, the 100-meter butterfly, where he is again going for a third consecutive gold in an event. In this race four years ago, he barely out-touched Milorad Cavic. Cavic is in this year’s race, but eyes will instead be on Chad Le Clos, who gave Phelps a taste of his own medicine in the 200 butterfly. The Americans Elizabeth Beisel and Missy Franklin have the two fastest times heading into the 200 backstroke final. But Friday’s session will also feature the shortest men’s race and the longest women’s race. And the story line is redemption in each. James (The Missile) Magnussen has had a disappointing Olympics, as has the whole Australian team; he has one last shot for individual gold in the 50 freestyle. Rebecca Adlington of Britain, shut out of the medals in the 400 free, attempts to repeat as Olympic champion in the 800 free. nbcolympics.com, 2:30 p.m.; NBC, 8 p.m. (taped)

WOMEN’S SOCCER The tournament heads to the knockout stage, with the United States facing New Zealand in the quarterfinals at St. James’ Park in Newcastle. The Americans, who are playing a team that had never advanced to the knockout stage of a World Cup or an Olympics, have a fairly easy draw compared with those in the bottom half. The world champion Japan, which played for a tie in its last group match in order to stay in Cardiff rather than travel to Glasgow for its quarterfinal, created a matchup against high-powered Brazil. France and Sweden meet in a rematch of the third-place game at last year’s World Cup. NBCSN, 9:30 a.m.

TRACK AND FIELD The first day of competition at Olympic Stadium will feature only two medal events — men’s shot put and the women’s 10,000 meters — but the home crowd will be riveted to the popular British heptathlete Jessica Ennis, the world champion in 2009 and runner-up last year. She is making her Olympic debut. NBC, 10 a.m

What We’re Watching: A Day of Firsts and Faces

Tennis moves into the semifinals, track and field gets underway with a star from Botswana beginning her quest for gold and Saudi Arabia’s first woman athlete competes in judo. Jason Stallman has the latest from London.
We’ll be providing daily video updates from London for the duration of the Summer Games. As you watch the video, look for scrolling links to related articles and multimedia at the bottom of the video player. Produced by Jon Huang and Justin Sablich.

Local Hero Ennis Gets Track Under Way

Phil Noble/ReutersJessica Ennis of Britain, foreground, with the American Hyleas Fountain in the 100-meter hurdles of the heptathlon, which kicked off the first day of track at the London Games.

LONDON — For track and field junkies, today is really the day that the Olympic Games began.
A sold-out crowd filled the Olympic Stadium Friday for the first day of track and field, benefiting from good weather and a relit Olympic flame that burned beneath the scoreboard.
The women’s heptathlon 100 meter hurdles was the first track event to take place, while the men’s shot put competitors warmed up nearby. Finishing at the top of the five women’s heptathlon heats was favored Jessica Ennis of Britain, who ran a time of 12.54 seconds, the fastest ever recorded in a heptathlon. The crowd roared its approval as she crossed the finish line.
One of track and field’s most dynamic events, the heptathlon will unfold over two days. Later Friday, the women will also complete the high jump, shot put and the 200 meters, while the long jump, javelin and 800 meters will take place on Saturday.
In the shot put, the American Reese Hoffa (who by the way is also an ace with a Rubik’s cube) put up a qualifying early Friday morning that secured his spot in the evening final. American men have not earned a gold in shot put since the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

Coverage of Friday’s Events

The battle of distance powerhouses Ethiopia and Kenya was won by the Ethiopians in the first medal event of the track and field competitions, as Tirunesh Dibaba pulled away from her Kenyan competitors to claim gold with a time of 30:20.75.

Tennis’s men’s semifinals got started with an epic match between Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro, which Federer won, 19-17, and were capped by a victory by Andy Murray in the other semifinal, 7-5, 7-5, over Novak Djokovic. Murray will again carry Britain’s hopes on Centre Court at the All-England Club in the final on Sunday.

Serena Williams made quick work of Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, winning their semifinal, 6-1, 6-2. Maria Sharapova beat Maria Kirilenko in a semifinal battle of Russian women, setting up a final between Williams and Sharapova.

Michael Phelps is capping his remarkable Olympic career in incredible style and leading a huge American effort. Phelps won his 21st career Olympic medal and 17th gold in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday, coming from far behind in the final 50 meters to win. He came from seventh place at the turn to beat Chad Le Clos of South Africa and Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russia, who tied for silver.

Swimming got started with a bang Friday afternoon when 17-year-old Missy Franklin reeled in another gold medal for the United States team, winning the 200-meter backstroke in world record time. An even younger American swimmer, 15-year-old Katie Ledecky, grabbed a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle.

The U.S. women’s soccer team beat New Zealand, 2-0, in the quarterfinals.

London Live will be covering all of these events (and more) throughout the day