The Olympics Thread, London 2012, Games of the XXX Olympiad, 27th July - 12th August

[DanEFC92]

Oh my.

I can't believe that our coverage has been 100000000000000000000x times better than theirs. I'm used to us being comparatively gash in the televisual department.

I thought them editing out the 7/7 tribute was a absolute disgrace. Heard coverage throughout has been gash too.

 

[bluejock]

Mate of mines out there just now, says all they're showing is events involving the US,

 

[Allezfan]

No we're not saying that mate, we're just saying that compared to these amazin Olympic athletes, footballers are bells and could learn a lot from Olympians

And I think you're generalising. I think a young brazilian or cameroonian lad who worked his way out of the gutter to support his family by playing football is a much more inspiational figure than a rich american who had the best swimming training in the world.

 

[Cena]

And I think you're generalising. I think a young brazilian or cameroonian lad who worked his way out of the gutter to support his family by playing football is a much more inspiational figure than a rich american who had the best swimming training in the world.

I made a post earlier mate aswell saying 90% of football is boss, its the 10% that ruin it

 

[The Esk]

Good night all!

So looking forward to tomorrow night, will post pictures when I get home

Schedule:

Men's Long Jump Victory Ceremony
Women's 400m Hurdles Round 1
Men's High Jump Qualifying Rounds - Groups A & B
Women's Triple Jump Final
Men's 100m Semifinals
Men's 10,000m Victory Ceremony
Men's 1500m Semifinals
Men's Hammer Throw Final
Women's 100m Victory Ceremony
Men's 400m Semifinals
Women's Marathon Victory Ceremony
Women's 400m Final
Women's Triple Jump Victory Ceremony
Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
Women's 400m Victory Ceremony
Men's 100m Final

 

[Cena]

Good night all!

So looking forward to tomorrow night, will post pictures when I get home

Schedule:

Men's Long Jump Victory Ceremony
Women's 400m Hurdles Round 1
Men's High Jump Qualifying Rounds - Groups A & B
Women's Triple Jump Final
Men's 100m Semifinals
Men's 10,000m Victory Ceremony
Men's 1500m Semifinals
Men's Hammer Throw Final
Women's 100m Victory Ceremony
Men's 400m Semifinals
Women's Marathon Victory Ceremony
Women's 400m Final
Women's Triple Jump Victory Ceremony
Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
Women's 400m Victory Ceremony
Men's 100m Final

Plenty, plenty of pics please esk!!!

 

[Phyllis Stein]

what kind of idiot brings a baby to a tennis match

Dunno, she served pretty well alongside Murray like.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

Good god 176 - 235. Better get me specs on.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

Yeah, like wtf was that about, why didn't they just get a just below the cut Kenyan to set the pace, like they do in the Athletics...

Naughty, but I like it. +rep if I could.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

A stuff crust calzone, where the whole base is stuffed with filling??

Pineapple upsidedown cake? (Learning slowly!)

 

[Phyllis Stein]

GB volleyball lasses up now. Losing this game would be catastrophic, but a win would be great.

Superb, the womens Volleyball providing my Everton emotions fix. My cardiologist will be pleased.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

WR for the female team pursuit, nearly four seconds ahead of the very fast yanks. They were half a second up after the first lap.

The bronze-off was faster than the septics managed for silver in the final. Luck of the draw I suppose.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

There was a good point on that in the Guardian's coverage of the Tour de France - basically it claimed that whilst the rest of the cycling world was engaged in an ever-escalating arms race of drug cheating, the British looked at all the legal ways that you could improve performance (especially in terms of coaching, lets face it Brailsford is one of the greatest coaches ever in the sport), added them all together, invested a lot of money in infrastructure and development of talent and kept trying to improve.

Once the UCI clamped down* on the drug cheats it meant that the British ended up being miles ahead of everyone else.

* albeit not very hard

Move over Sir Clive Woodward. The bitter element is that it is paid for in part by some scum bag that was paying his employees to access peoples phone calls so he could sell newspapers and tarnish the good names of those he chose to persecute. Every golden summer has a kernel of disease.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

this event in the velodrome reminds me of my sexual experience. you start off all slow, building momentum slowly but you don't want to start off all rapid otherwise it will be over too quickly. you slowly build up momentum, before bang, all of a sudden you start thrusting really hard for about 30 seconds (2 laps) untill it's all over - leading into the slow thrusts you do after for no reason whatsoever i.e. slowing down on the bike

Firstly "laps".
Secondly, your a two pump squirt kinda guy. You aint fooling anyone.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

Ohhhh. Bookmarked this one!

'Cycling' and 'clean' dont usually go together. It'd be a brave man to claim that nothing will turn up amongst this lot in the future...a very brave man.

Historically speaking who do the French dislike the most? If they had an atom of evidence against any British cyclist it would be an on running international incident that would dwarf the Falklands issue. Be under no illusion, the respect for our cyclists is begrudged and although these cyclists are considered gods they would be happier worshipping them if they represented any other nation. Any.
The campaign against Armstrong is about as close as the GB cyclists are being watched. Worldwide.