Offside! One medal and counting?
PR dla Zagranicy
Danuta Isler
28.07.2012 12:00
It’s been a week since the Olympic Games started in London and the week has so far seen mediocre performance of Polish athletes despite general expectations that that they should do no worse than four years ago in Beijing when they grabbed 10 medals
Tomasz Majewski: photo - wikipedia
Number 2 seed Agnieszka Radwanska was knocked out of the Olympic tennis tournament in the first round while another Polish medal hope, swimmer Otylia Jedrzejczak failed to qualify for the final of the the 200m butterfly. The gold medalist in the Athens 2004 Olympics finished with the slowest time of all 16 competitors in the semis. The weekend's forecast looks much brighter with shot putter Tomasz Majewski defending his Olympic title.
Also in this edition of Offside!:
- we'll also be talking to Robin Barnett, the British Ambassador to Poland about many other than sports aspects of the Games
Offside! is presented by Danuta Isler with a contributing report by John Beauchamp.
Update: Tomasz Majewski won gold in the shot put and Adrian Zielinski won the 85-kilogram category weight lifting gold llast night. Poland also picked up a bronze in the women's double sculls rowing in Poland's best day at London 2012 so far on Friday.