London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Sea Filly

FUCKINGTON!

cgpg5

Putting all his eggs in one basket for the medley?

leahyl

He's pissed off!

Mars Bar

Tough for Lochte to have to swim again so soon

Tox56

One of the GB cyclists is half-German and was asked did he intentionally fall in the first race and 'pull a fast one'. His English isn't great and he said 'yes I wanted to go fast'.

cgpg5

Don't know about ye but if I were British I'd definitely come out with no headphones! Hearing that roar alone must be incredible

Hercule Poirot

westendgirlie wrote: »

Just out of interest, what sports did you all participate in via your schools curriculum and what country was that in?

Would be interesting to see a range of different countries to make comparisons with.

Did a bit of everything:

Rugby, Soccer, Javelin, Hockey, Shot Putt, High Jump, and f**king Cross Country to name a few

Mars Bar

westendgirlie wrote: »

Just out of interest, what sports did you all participate in via your schools curriculum and what country was that in?

Would be interesting to see a range of different countries to make comparisons with.

Olympic Handball was our game in primary school. There was no football coz we were an all girls school.

I captained the hockey team in first year but they pulled us coz they didn't want to be spending money on us going here and there. Gaelic football was the game in our secondary school.

Colmustard

Mars Bar wrote: »

Olympic Handball was our game. There was no football coz we were an all girls school.

I did handball as well, I use to enjoy that.

But it wasn't the olympic game it was the GAA game played in a kind of squash court and a small but pretty hard ball.

I did boxing as well till I got battered and that was all i wanted of that.

DebDynamite

westendgirlie wrote: »

Just out of interest, what sports did you all participate in via your schools curriculum and what country was that in?

Would be interesting to see a range of different countries to make comparisons with.

PE classess twice a week I think, at 45 mins each. A bit of basketball, badminton, indoor hockey, tumbling and stuff. Coming into the summer, we might have a few classes of tennis, and a week or so before school sports day, we'd do shot put, discus, long jump. etc.

It was pretty rubbish really in my school!

keith16

DebDynamite wrote: »

PE classess twice a week I think, at 45 mins each. A bit of basketball, badminton, indoor hockey, tumbling and stuff. Coming into the summer, we might have a few classes of tennis, and a week or so before school sports day, we'd do shot put, discus, long jump. etc.

It was pretty rubbish really in my school!

Nothing worse than forgetting your gear on PE day.

westendgirlie

Colmustard wrote: »

What is the atmosphere like over there? did you get to go to the Olympic park?

I live in Leitrim

Colmustard

westendgirlie wrote: »

I live in Leitrim

Ohhh Westendgirlie I assumed you lwere a west end girlie from London.

LOL

DebDynamite

keith16 wrote: »

Nothing worse than forgetting your gear on PE day.

The ol' bag would still make us go out in poxy spare gear they kept there. A few complaints of "stomach cramp" would put a stop to that

DebDynamite

That Nordie swimming guy on RTE, Andrew, is cute. Nice twinkly eyes

Max_Charger

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

What did he say?

He said he knew he got a bad start, so basically threw himself to the ground to get a restart.

Colmustard

Max_Charger wrote: »

He said he knew he got a bad start, so basically threw himself to the ground to get a restart.

Oh, now that is controversial. That is something he should not have said.

H2UMrsRobinson

westendgirlie wrote: »

Just out of interest, what sports did you all participate in via your schools curriculum and what country was that in?

Would be interesting to see a range of different countries to make comparisons with.

Athletics, hockey, tennis, netball, swimming, and rounders. All girls school in London.

opinion guy

Wow Phelps kicked ass in 200m medley

Mars Bar

Phelps swam well there!

shruikan2553

PE was 9/10 times football for boys, basketball for girls. The odd time we might do something new but that led to complaints about how we werent doing football. We did to swimming once and I surprised most people by actually being good at a sport, I found football to be incredibly boring hence I must not be into any sport. Having an allergy to rises in body temperature I got a note from the doctor so I didnt have to do PE.

Could join the gaelic team, hurling wasn't popular at home. Joys of college I now get a huge range

Colmustard

We did rugby once and never again, there was bleeden murder on the pitch. I think the principle threw the rugby ball out after that afternoon.

Diabhal Beag

The pundits for the swimming are great. Not up their own holes and decent for the aul joke.

Mars Bar

Oh we did swimming too.

If I won a medal and our anthem was played, I'd be a blubbering mess. I really would!

garv123

PE twice a week 1,2,3 years together and 4 5 and 6 together..

Had a choice between hurling, football, soccer, handball, basketball athletics and the girls could do hockey.

You picked at the start of the term and had to stick it till xmas and then pick again after.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Bill suggesting that we apply the 'granny rule' in recruiting better swimmers for Ireland. Sounds a bit desperate really.

Mars Bar

garv123 wrote: »

PE twice a week 1,2,3 years together and 4 5 and 6 together..

Had a choice between hurling, football, soccer, handball, basketball athletics and the girls could do hockey.

You picked at the start of the term and had to stick it till xmas and then pick again after.

Was that in Ireland?

Never heard of P.E arranged like that. Sounds great though.

DebDynamite

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Bill suggesting that we apply the 'granny rule' in recruiting better swimmers for Ireland. Sounds a bit desperate really.

Other counties don't seem to have a problem doing it when it comes to table tennis :pac:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/582164_10151140652401042_1188607066_n.jpg

Hercule Poirot

DebDynamite wrote: »

Other counties don't seem to have a problem doing it when it comes to table tennis :pac:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/582164_10151140652401042_1188607066_n.jpg

Two questions:

Where did you find this?

And how long have you been waiting for a reason to use it?

garv123

Mars Bar wrote: »

Was that in Ireland?

Never heard of P.E arranged like that. Sounds great though.

Hurling and football might give it away

Senior cycle had it on a tuesday 2 classes before lunch for a hour and 20 mins and then again thursday evening last 2 classes for a hour and a half

Using forth, fifth and sixth years meant there was over 300 people doing it so each sport had plenty of people to do training and get games going. GAA was always the biggest followed by soccer.

It also meant that the GAA could get a full training session in without having to do it after school when people had study.

The school was big into GAA, athletics and handball.