London 2012 Olympics

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 1st Aug, '12, 19:08

YAY!!! First British gold of the games! Well done girls!

edit - just watched the race - wow! Didn't they destroy the opposition! Well done indeed!

Aussies came back from 4th at the half way mark to get 2nd, with kiwis in 3rd. But fantastic race by two H's.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 1st Aug, '12, 19:41

Followed up by a fantastic race in the Men's 8s, well done Germany, put under a lot of pressure by the Brits but pulling away in the last 500m, and the Canadian team stripping the silver off the Brits in the last 300m.

Great work by all teams and well done Germany, Canada and Britain.

nev · Post by **nev** » 1st Aug, '12, 22:40

This unbelievably sweet dad couldn't stop gushing. Too cute.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 1st Aug, '12, 23:15

Fat Bob wrote:Look at the size of the one that bit!

Nice try, but I imagine you're still embarrassed at your countrymen's moaning and struggling to come to grips with the fact that the "whinging" title has now without question been handed to GB for enternity.

Seriously, it was a shocking way to start Day 1 of the Olympics.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 1st Aug, '12, 23:24

Go Wiggo! And Wiggo went indeed!

Well done, a great follow up to the Tour de France win, and good runner-up place to Tony Martin and 3rd to Chris Froome.

And now 7 Olympic medals surpasses Sir Steve Redgrave's bag full, and includes 4 Golds. Fantastic indeed. I think arise Sir Wiggo, Sports Personality of the Year.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 1st Aug, '12, 23:29

baloo wrote:
Fat Bob wrote:Look at the size of the one that bit!
Nice try, but I imagine you're still embarrassed at your countrymen's moaning and struggling to come to grips with the fact that the "whinging" title has now without question been handed to GB for enternity.

Seriously, it was a shocking way to start Day 1 of the Olympics.

I could go and post a lot of things from the internet and then pretend that I didn't bite....

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 2nd Aug, '12, 00:14

Fat Bob wrote:
I could go and post a lot of things from the internet and then pretend that I didn't bite....

You could, but then you'd whinge about it if you didn't win.

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 2nd Aug, '12, 02:55

Meant to post the other day..

You guys don't even need us to prove your whinging supremacy. You own newspapers are more than capable

http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/news-lon ... 22vgi.html

That said, I've read calls for us to adopt Ian Thorpe (who is doing punditry for the BBC) as he is such a good bloke

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 2nd Aug, '12, 02:57

Oh Silver in the 200 breaststroke for Michael Jamieson - excellent stuff

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 2nd Aug, '12, 03:20

And well done Singapore. Bronze in table tennis.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 2nd Aug, '12, 07:15

BoD wrote: That said, I've read calls for us to adopt Ian Thorpe (who is doing punditry for the BBC) as he is such a good bloke

My sister said, "we've got an aussie commentating, no idea why...is he gay?"

edit: thinking about it, you may have to have read an awful lot of Australian press to know how obsessed with that the media is.

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 2nd Aug, '12, 08:11

and good riddance to 4 cheating teams of BADminton players....

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 2nd Aug, '12, 08:18

Morrolan wrote:and good riddance to 4 cheating teams of BADminton players....

Cheating ? Hardly. The rules were setup in a way that their best chance of winning gold meant losing their match. What athlete would deliberately make t harder for themselves ?

It's whoever conceived the round robin format and not a knockout like the tennis that needs to be banned.

While what they did isn't in the spirit of the games, it's hardly cheating.

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 2nd Aug, '12, 11:55

rigging the outcome of the game, whether by buying off the other side or deliberately losing yourself is always cheating, AFAIK.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 2nd Aug, '12, 11:59

Morrolan wrote:rigging the outcome of the game, whether by buying off the other side or deliberately losing yourself is always cheating, AFAIK.

I see your point and can agree. But in this instance I think the governing body need to cop a fair bit of the blame for devising a comp that makes losing a game the best way to have an easier run to the final.

Farce, yes, but for Badminton as a sport.

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 2nd Aug, '12, 12:04

baloo wrote:
Morrolan wrote:rigging the outcome of the game, whether by buying off the other side or deliberately losing yourself is always cheating, AFAIK.
I see your point and can agree. But in this instance I think the governing body need to cop a fair bit of the blame for devising a comp that makes losing a game the best way to have an easier run to the final.

Farce, yes, but for Badminton as a sport.

oh, no doubt, especially since this has been going on for a while, but never so blatant...

Lichtgestalt · Post by **Lichtgestalt** » 2nd Aug, '12, 14:34

baloo wrote:
Morrolan wrote:rigging the outcome of the game, whether by buying off the other side or deliberately losing yourself is always cheating, AFAIK.
I see your point and can agree. But in this instance I think the governing body need to cop a fair bit of the blame for devising a comp that makes losing a game the best way to have an easier run to the final.

They already changed the format for world championships a while back to prevent exactly this but haven't done so for the Olympics

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 2nd Aug, '12, 15:03

The word here (Indonesia, although on an international news channel) is that the athletes are upset, they didn't want to throw it but they were instructed to.

Contrast that with the Chinese player quitting the sport because she says they were using the rules to rest up before a more important match (I'm paraphrasing) and what has happened to them is unfair.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 2nd Aug, '12, 15:47

Indos and Chinese both have valid reasons for doing what they did.

The federation should be knocked out of the Olympics and replaced with Aussie Rules Football.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 2nd Aug, '12, 19:11

Oops

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... 31891.html

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 3rd Aug, '12, 02:45

Sorry to distract, but 3 Golds and 3 Silvers so far today

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 3rd Aug, '12, 08:02

Bloody good day for Team GB, well done.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 3rd Aug, '12, 17:40

And they are the track - Jessica Ellis breaks the 100m hurdle British record....whilst competing in the heptathlon! Well done Jessica, keep up the good work!

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 4th Aug, '12, 22:42

Serena Williams wins Gold after thumping Sharapova 6-0, 6-1. On for Gold in the Doubles with Venus later ?!

BoD · Post by **BoD** » 5th Aug, '12, 00:43

Ennis looking good

Murray in the men's final and Murray/Robson in the mixed doubles

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