yesteryeargames Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 First gold medal for Cornwall and great britian :P 10.10 wednesday morning with my old friend from school get in
Ville Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 And from there would be expecting of themselves to perform best in that event, if they also qualified for another event which happened to take place before the one they feel they are best at I can kind of see how some might think "I'll use this to warm up for my main race later" But yeah as you said would be better for them to also think "but you never know I do have the ability to cause an upset" You know, the US female swimmer Missy Franklin proved all this "gotta be extra careful" thinking wrong on Monday. First, she had a 200m freestyle heat, in which she came 4th, which got her to the final. 15 minutes after that she was scheduled to swim in the 100m backstroke final, which the commentators really doubted, "15 minutes, too short a time to recuperate, not a good choice". Well, whaddaya know, she just said eff that, and friggin' won the race! Now that's more like it, not giving up, but kicking ass all the way!
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 (edited) @Mokong X\-C, can you make a thread named "Sexism at the Olympics?" please. Edited August 1, 2012 by Fierce_LiNk
Mokong Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Done, I copied your Post above to be the First post in it so you can edit that for whatever you wanted to say about it.
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Done, I copied your Post above to be the First post in it so you can edit that for whatever you wanted to say about it. MoKING. Cars, of which there are 10.
yesteryeargames Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Olympic Gymnast Garcia Rodriguez performs floor routine to Legend of Zelda medley WOW
Tales Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Aww, I wish I knew beforehand. Otherwise, I find this sport impressive athletic/strength wise but very boring. I have seen plenty of this so far, but I don't pay attention to the teams and who is winning.
Mokong Posted August 6, 2012 Posted August 6, 2012 Since nobody else seems to be watching the boxing (or using the thread) just wanted to say, YAY, Ireland finally gonna get on the medal table. Banthamweight John Joe Nevin won his 1/4 final fight last night and moves to the semis so is guaranteed a medal (in Boxing there's no 3rd place play-off off, both losing semi finalists get bronze)... so now it just a matter of which Medal can he claim
Murr Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 Tell you what, doing shots for every Medal GB earned was a great idea weekend just gone. On a stag do, the Stag hated Saturday evening, we loved it (excluding the football)
Mokong Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 To add to the medals we will be getting in the boxing (just a matter of which medals they'll be before we get on the table) it seems Irish Boxing fans (and I guess British...though they were in fairness out-chantted by the Irish) set a new Olympic Noise Record at any event of 113.7 decibels during the Womens Lightweight 1/4 final fight between Katie Taylor (IRL) and Natasha Jonas (GBR) Now that is loud http://www.iaba.ie/olympic-record-for-noise-levels-at-taylorjonas-bout/
Mokong Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 (edited) Hey guys, firstly like congrats on Team GB getting so many medals well done....but what is with the Daily Telegraph trying to claim Irelands Katie Taylor as British.... ye have a ton of medals your not claiming our best medal hopes as one of yours Edited August 8, 2012 by Mokong
bob Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 To be honest i don't really understand why we're competing as GB and not UK. (Not that that would matter regarding R. of Ireland) Technically atheletes from Sark etc aren't even from Great Britain.
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 To be honest i don't really understand why we're competing as GB and not UK. (Not that that would matter regarding R. of Ireland) Technically atheletes from Sark etc aren't even from Great Britain. I think we should compete as EUROPE. Then, apart from swimming (USA) and Gymnastics (Chinaaa), we'd win everything else!
bob Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 And table tennis and badminton and archery and all the other sports than asia do so well at.
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 And table tennis and badminton and archery and all the other sports than asia do so well at. Maybe EURASIA, then?
bob Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 How about we just get rid of some of the sports. I read that if you got rid of swimming, we'd be in second place ahead of USA. Seriously, who needs swimming when you can row and sail instead? Much faster. Then remove diving and badminton, because 1) without swimming, we would have no need to enter the pool so flashily and 2) fuck badminton. And voila, United Kingdom are number one!
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Track Cycling should now become the number1 way to travel. We need to alter all of the UK roads to accommodate this change. Would make it much quicker (and exciting!) getting to work. We don't need any form of gymnastics, so that should be out. Maybe we should introduce darts!
MoogleViper Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 How about we just get rid of some of the sports. I read that if you got rid of swimming, we'd be in second place ahead of USA. Seriously, who needs swimming when you can row and sail instead? Much faster. Did you read it on here perchance? America got 16 Golds in swimming. That means that if you took away the swimming events, we'd be 4 Golds ahead of them. EDIT: we'd actually be 8 golds ahead now
bob Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 No it must have been somewhere else i read it. Somewhere better.
Mokong Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Finally Ireland is (officially) on the Medal Table and it's not even for Boxing (those still be to decided which colours we'll get) 1 Bronze in Equestrian Show Jumping Individual
Ville Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Ha, we have one silver for some sort of sailing / whatever. Finland, you suck : (
Mokong Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Ha, we have one silver for some sort of sailing / whatever. Finland, you suck : ( Dude a medal is a medal is a medal, be proud of your Athlete that got it... unfortunately we can't all be China, USA, GB and the like.... the rest of us minows gotta be content with what we can get. I saw earlier some Aussies being upset that they aren't getting as many medals as they expected.... they have something like 25 medals an they are upset???? 25 medals (so far) from the one Olympics.... Ireland total number of medals before London2012 started in the history of the Olympics was 23. In one games they can get more than what most countries have gotten in the history of the games... how can you be upset with that
Ville Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 (edited) Dude a medal is a medal is a medal, be proud of your Athlete that got it... unfortunately we can't all be China, USA, GB and the like.... the rest of us minows gotta be content with what we can get. I saw earlier some Aussies being upset that they aren't getting as many medals as they expected.... they have something like 25 medals an they are upset???? 25 medals (so far) from the one Olympics.... Ireland total number of medals before London2012 started in the history of the Olympics was 23. In one games they can get more than what most countries have gotten in the history of the games... how can you be upset with that Haha, good point. Yeah, those bigger countries have a huge advantage since they have so much more people. I mean the UK has a population of something like 62 million, whereas Finland has 5.4 million and Ireland 4.5 million, so what can you expect...Not saying I'm completely happy with the shitty "oh we have lost it already" attitude of some Finnish athletes, but still, the numbers play a part as well of course. Edited August 8, 2012 by Ville
MoogleViper Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Haha, good point. Yeah, those bigger countries have a huge advantage since they have so much more people. I mean the UK has a population of something like 62 million, whereas Finland has 5.4 million and Ireland 4.5 million, so what can you expect...Not saying I'm completely happy with the shitty "oh we have lost it already" attitude of some Finnish athletes, but still, the numbers play a part as well of course. Over the history of the olympics, Finland has the highest number of medals per capita.
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