London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

mike65

Whoops, mind you someone else published a picture of the Australian Equestrian team that didn't win gold yesterday when they of course intended to show the British team.

Sea Filly

paulgeog wrote: »

Missy Franklin and Rebecca Soni weren't bad.

Agnel, the French swimmer, should be up there too.

bluecode

RikkFlair wrote: »

A line in the Daily Telegraph

"Can anyone beat Britains Katie Taylor"

Oh you rascals you *wags finger*

Well considering her Dad's from Yorkshire, she would qualify as British. Team GB would have snapped her up given half a chance.

But she's Irish and ours, thank God for that. If it wasn't for her and the rest of the boxers the whole Olympics would be a pointless exercise for Ireland.

It's just ironic that we seem to do well in sports that involve fighting!

opinion guy

bluecode wrote: »

It's just ironic that we seem to do well in sports that involve fighting!

Well they don't allow competitive drinking :pac:

Kerrydude1981

If they are claiming Katie,we'l take Peter Charles gold medal and the bronze medal that lad from Coleraine won in the rowing last week

Cheeky buggers trying to claim our Katie!!!
Thats a paddlin

Colmustard

I keep hearing "the greatest ever Olympian" and it seems to go to the men or women with the greatest number of medals. I think that is plain wrong. Sprinters can win multiple medals, so can swimmers as can gymnasts as their disciplines just require aerobic fitness and a burst of speed and power.

But how about the disciplines like rowing or long distance running that require anaerobic fitness when after the heats and the event they are spent and to bolloxed to enter another event. You are not going to get a marathon runner in the 10000 or 5000 in the same competition. Or a rower entering multiple events, or a boxer or Judo athlete who can only enter 1 competition in their weight category.

So I think this category should be judge on not the amount of medals an athlete achieves, but how many gold medals they have across numerous games. So IMO Steve Redgrave is the world's greatest Olympian because he has 5 medals in 5 games.

LordSutch

bluecode wrote: »

Well considering her Dad's from Yorkshire, she would qualify as British. Team GB would have snapped her up given half a chance. But she's Irish and ours, thank God for that.

Katie Taylor's dad is English? are you sure?

RikkFlair

Cian O'Connor just tweeted that he is in the final! One horse has withdrawn. Some story if he went on and won gold :pac:

leahyl

RikkFlair wrote: »

A line in the Daily Telegraph

"Can anyone beat Britains Katie Taylor"

Oh you rascals you *wags finger*

:eek::mad: Those Brits! Typical! They always try to claim what isn't theirs:D

kfallon

Shouldn't we be starting a new thread, I thought no thread was allowed go over the 10,000 post mark??? Sure I read that somewhere in the footy forum?

Mods?

EDIT: I thought there was 20 posts to a page, dum-dum!! :rolleyes:

kfallon

leahyl wrote: »

:eek::mad: Those Brits! Typical! They always try to claim what isn't theirs:D

Don't worry, Katie showed them on Monday, that shot that knocked the snot out of Jonas, there was 800 years of anger in that :pac:

ThisRegard

mike65 wrote: »

Whoops, mind you someone else published a picture of the Australian Equestrian team that didn't win gold yesterday when they of course intended to show the British team.

Dutch, while wearing bronze medals. It was the Express.

kfallon

RikkFlair wrote: »

Cian O'Connor just tweeted that he is in the final! One horse has withdrawn. Some story if he went on and won gold :pac:

Just enough time to get the drugs into the horse

bluecode

LordSutch wrote: »

Katie Taylor's dad is English? are you sure?

Well if you can call a Yorkshireman, 'English'.;)

pc7

Colmustard wrote: »

So I think this category should be judge on not the amount of medals an athlete achieves, but how many gold medals they have across numerous games. So IMO Steve Redgrave is the world's greatest Olympian because he has 5 medals in 5 games.

Hoy said exactly that in his post race interview yesterday that Steve was the greatest because of them being in different games.

Anyone

Colmustard wrote: »

So I think this category should be judge on not the amount of medals an athlete achieves, but how many gold medals they have across numerous games. So IMO Steve Redgrave is the world's greatest Olympian because he has 5 medals in 5 games.

Thats all it is really, a personal opinion. Personally I'd discount the value of team sports or any sport where a person didnt have to qualify to compete.

Phelps record is phenomenal, and wont ever be matched imo. Merlene Ottey competed in 7 Olympics, for a track athlete that is amazing. She also still runs competively at the age of 52 and was close to getting the time to qualify for these Olympics.

robinph

Leslie91 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong Mo ran a great race and I'm delighted for him but..................... it's not like he is not African. He might have grown up in the UK but his DNA is Somalian, hence why he is so naturally talented. I was delighted for his pal Rupp to come in second.

His dad was born in the UK. Mo lived in the UK since age 8.

Kerrydude1981

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

If they are claiming Katie,we'l take Peter Charles gold medal and the bronze medal that lad from Coleraine won in the rowing last week

Nah, we'll keep Katie thanks

kfallon wrote: »

I thought there was 20 posts to a page, dum-dum!! :rolleyes:

20 posts? pfft, n00b. Oh wait. You're not a n00b

danniemcq

Right quick question so sorry if its been asked before but is there any apps or links that can stream the boxing this afternoon live?

I'm gonna be stuck at work and i doubt they'll have it on.

The olympic youtube site won't even let me view videos as they are not available in my area....

Does the RTE or BBC app or similar have a video streaming feature?

westendgirlie

danniemcq wrote: »

Right quick question so sorry if its been asked before but is there any apps or links that can stream the boxing this afternoon live?

I'm gonna be stuck at work and i doubt they'll have it on.

The olympic youtube site won't even let me view videos as they are not available in my area....

Does the RTE or BBC app or similar have a video streaming feature?

you can watch all sports on here. Just scroll to boxing and then look for the live stream http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

Or, watch rteplayer as there will also be commentary

My name is URL

danniemcq wrote: »

Right quick question so sorry if its been asked before but is there any apps or links that can stream the boxing this afternoon live?

I'm gonna be stuck at work and i doubt they'll have it on.

The olympic youtube site won't even let me view videos as they are not available in my area....

Does the RTE or BBC app or similar have a video streaming feature?

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

It'll be on there. Stream number 4

BraziliaNZ

Did Cragg run yet this morning?

pc7

Last update on IrishTimes blog is 11.20 and says its the final lap and he's nowhere in site, waiting on it to update!

eta
: Alistair Cragg finishes the men’s 5000m in 17th position in a time of 13:47.01.

marco_polo

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'm not sure if this has been confirmed yet, but its looking likely that pro boxers will be permitted to take part in Olympic competition from 2016 on wards. That scares me as it will put a swift end to the nice little programme we've got going at the moment.

Potentially it could also see us leave Rio without a single medal in any competition across the board.

Its not open to traditional pros though, only novice AIBA affiliated pros from the soon to be launched (2013) AIBA Professional Boxing (APB) and the World Series Boxing (WSB).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/28/us-oli-boxi-aiba-women-idUSBRE86R0U520120728

Ken Egan, John Joe Joyce, John Joe Nevin and David Oliver Joyce have all previously boxed in the WSB, which does not uses protective headgear and pro style round scoring. WSB boxers get paid fairly modest sums but still get to retain their amateur status. It looks like the new AIBA Professional Boxing is just an extension of the WSB concept.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5377689

opinion guy

Wow Cuban pole-vaulter's pole snapped :eek:

Colmustard

Mo Farrah is looking good in 5000M heats.

Kerrydude1981

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Did Cragg run yet this morning?

Ya,didn't qualify,finished well back

I wish I had taken this week off work.

kfallon

Deleted User wrote: »

I wish I had taken this week off work.

I was off from last Friday to today, seriously missing my Olympic fix this morn! However I know how to watch Katie on my PC in work so I'm sorted....however my tears of joy (please God!) at about 2.11pm may give me away

BraziliaNZ

We should really just give up on athletics and focus on something else. Something white people are better at for starts!