Olympics

[dublinbluenose]

Did they not trial bmx in 2012?

 

[roydo]

Did they not trial bmx in 2012?

Yep. The track is still open too.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Yep. The track is still open too.

If only I'd kept my chopper from the 80's - i could've been a contender.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

BMX is ridiculous as an olympic sport. It looks daft.

So is skateboarding, but at least there the kids are pissing themselves laughing and look like they know how absurd it is for their activity (I wont call it a sport) to be co-opted by mega sports corporations and the establishment's biggest sport event. Good on them for taking the piss and their money off them.

Your right Dave, we should get rid of this working-class nonsense and rage that Eton/Oxbridge favoured rowing isn't up to standard ?

 

[ToffeeTim]

BMX is ridiculous as an olympic sport. It looks daft.

So is skateboarding, but at least there the kids are pissing themselves laughing and look like they know how absurd it is for their activity (I wont call it a sport) to be co-opted by mega sports corporations and the establishment's biggest sport event. Good on them for taking the piss and their money off them.

I watched a bit of it on highlights last night and I enjoyed it.

Couldn't get into the skateboarding at all though

 

[wandyr79]

Superb performance by the Womens Rugby Sevens.

 

[davek]

Your right Dave, we should get rid of this working-class nonsense and rage that Eton/Oxbridge favoured rowing isn't up to standard ?

No, as I said: good luck to them getting the Lottery cash. They are laughing all the way to the bank and having a laugh about it. I dont begrudge them. The rowers are a different kettle of fish though.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

No, as I said: good luck to them getting the Lottery cash. They are laughing all the way to the bank and having a laugh about it. I dont begrudge them. The rowers are a different kettle of fish though.

Did you not have a BMX, mate?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Or a Hoverboard

 

[Tigger]

No, as I said: good luck to them getting the Lottery cash. They are laughing all the way to the bank and having a laugh about it. I dont begrudge them. The rowers are a different kettle of fish though.

There was no funding for the bmx girl I read earlier, She had to do a GoFundme and work as a teaching assistant.

 

[Wizard]

They've been utterly pampered through life in private schools then red brick universities or Oxbridge before choosing to go professional with whatevever meagre talent thay have, and then the country hands them a kings ransom from the lottery...and they end up a humiliation, crashing boats and picking up a couple of runner up medals.

£125M poued into 'Team GB' rowing. Way more than for any other sport.

The Times and The Sunday Times e-paper

The Times and The Sunday Times e-paper

epaper.thetimes.co.uk

Once again, as I said, you only post to be negative. It's boring. You are boring, Don't like the rowing because they are all pampered, don't like the BMX because it's not a sport. Can't wait for you complaining about the 100m because they have legs and javelin because they have arms

 

[Simon Buttle]

There was no funding for the bmx girl I read earlier, She had to do a GoFundme and work as a teaching assistant.

Think that is shocking tbh considering how much some of the other sports get.

 

[ToffeeTim]

GB going to extra time in the quarter final. Finished 2-2

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I watched a bit of it on highlights last night and I enjoyed it.

Couldn't get into the skateboarding at all though

Think the street skateboarding is one of those sports where the incredible skill required just doesn't translate into a spectacle. Hardly alone there in the Olympics, but with it being new they might bin it off as a failed experiment.

 

[Wizard]

GB going to extra time in the quarter final. Finished 2-2

Looked like a dive there from Parris. Missed it anyway