London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

fryup

Pdoghue wrote: »

From the IT Olympics blog this morning:

"BBC Northern Ireland last night made quite an audacious and factually incorrect claim - that Northern Ireland had won its fourth medal of the Olympic Games after Michael Conlan secured a medal in the ring last night.

First – The Chambers brothers from Coleraine both received a medal as part of the British men’s lightweight fours but in reality, it should count as one medal not two. That's how it is tallied in the medal chart. That means Northern Ireland (and technically it’s Great Britain and Northern Ireland) have won two medals. Alan Campbell won bronze in the men’s single sculls.

Secondly (and more importantly) – Michael Conlan is from Belfast but boxes for Ireland. He did not win a medal for Northen Ireland last night.
It seems that everyone wants to claim the Irish boxers."

well in fairness didn't RTE try to claim The Chambers brothers from Coleraine last week as irish

Guy:Incognito

opinion guy wrote: »

Well personally I would not like to see horse racing in the olympics. BUT - I do think it is more a sport of the massess than all this dressage ****e - which imho should be turfed out of the games

Its only a sport of the masses because the masses like to bet huge amounts of money on the outcome.

How many people follow it in the same way as football etc?

Richard Hillman

If equestrian is in it (which shouldnt IMO), then there is no reason why horse racing shouldnt be in it. The thing is, despite most of the best horses being Irish, the owners are not.

If there were 5 different races: 6 furlongs, 1 mile, 1 mile 2f, hurdles race and a national hunt race the winners would probably be

6f: Black Caviar (Aussie owned)
1 mile: Frankel (Saudi owned)
1 mile 2f: Camelot (Irish and British owned. 3 owners, 2 are british)
Hurdles race: Big Bucks (British owned)
National hunt: The gold cup winner has died but the winner before that was Long Run (British owned)

Maybe Team GB should be pushing for it to be included :pac:

Guy:Incognito

fryup wrote: »

well in fairness didn't RTE try to claim The Chambers brothers from Coleraine last week as irish

They probably had'nt heard of them.

opinion guy

The Saudi Arabian track and field women's entrant ran in the 800m heat.

Miles off the pace but got a good cheer from the crowd

BraziliaNZ

Pherekydes wrote: »

High Jumping? Long Jumping? Throwing?

Funnily enough, Ireland was traditionally very strong at these events, but now...

Well I suppose I meant running/sprinting we're not good at. I watched Coe's 1500m from Moscow last night, there were only white people in the race. Funny how it changed. The countries dominating now just weren't developed enough at the time to make it to the olympics and the world wasn't as globalised.

racso1975

Well the Saudi Arabian hoody did not provide any aero dynamic advantage

kfallon

Richard Hillman wrote: »

If equestrian is in it (which shouldnt IMO), then there is no reason why horse racing shouldnt be in it. The thing is, despite most of the best horses being Irish, the owners are not.

If there were 5 different races: 6 furlongs, 1 mile, 1 mile 2f, hurdles race and a national hunt race the winners would probably be

6f: Black Caviar (Aussie owned)
1 mile: Frankel (Saudi owned)
1 mile 2f: Camelot (Irish and British owned. 3 owners, 2 are british)
Hurdles race: Big Bucks (British owned)
National hunt: The gold cup winner is died but the winner before that was Long Run (British owned)

Maybe Team GB should be pushing for it to be included :pac:

Not sure everyone would agree on turf racing for the flat races btw, the US of A might disagree

And if the Hurdles race was over 2m I'd not say Big Bucks was a shoe in either.

John Magnier is the brains behind the Coolmore operation, Camelot would be trained in Ireland so he'd be going down as Irish imo! Derrick Smith is just there for his money and to get in every photograph possible after a win. He's like Sangster in the old days, Magnier, the man from Cork, is the brains of it all!

Colmustard

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Its only a sport of the masses because the masses like to bet huge amounts of money on the outcome.

How many people follow it in the same way as football etc?

I would have thought so to.

But I just asked my da that question and he said "you better believe they do" apparently its not only about gambling, he said most the races I watch I don't have a bet on.

Anyone

racso1975 wrote: »

Well the Saudi Arabian hoody did not provide any aero dynamic advantage

Not sure about that, she got a Saudi record

kfallon

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Its only a sport of the masses because the masses like to bet huge amounts of money on the outcome.

How many people follow it in the same way as football etc?

I do! I have reduced my betting on horses significantly over the past 12 months but I still watch racing every day. Plus I have my fav jockey (see my username), trainer and horses who I follow religiously!

westendgirlie

Had a convo with the bf last night and I asked why shot putters, hammer throwers, discuss flingers were so big. He said they needed the extra weight to carry the thing further.

But i've just seen hammer thrower from Belarus. She is quite slender. Good distance thrown too.

DEFTLEFTHAND

westendgirlie wrote: »

Had a convo with the bf last night and I asked why shot putters, hammer throwers, discuss flingers were so big. He said they needed the extra weight to carry the thing further.

But i've just seen hammer thrower from Belarus. She is quite slender. Good distance thrown too.

Technique as well as strength is needed.

kfallon

westendgirlie wrote: »

Had a convo with the bf last night and I asked why shot putters, hammer throwers, discuss flingers were so big. He said they needed the extra weight to carry the thing further.

But i've just seen hammer thrower from Belarus. She is quite slender. Good distance thrown too.

I saw a shot putter from China the other night, my God, you could have played handball off her arse!! More chins than a Chinese phonebook too!

And as for the wan from Belarus who won it......

http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Photo/06/68/01/66801_FULL-PRT.jpg

:eek:

fryup

talk about over hyping things, Newstalk have the katie fight as their leading headline...jasyus wait till she wins gold at least

racso1975

kfallon wrote: »

I saw a shot putter from China the other night, my God, you could have played handball off her arse!! More chins than a Chinese phonebook too!

And as for the wan from Belarus who won it......

http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Photo/06/68/01/66801_FULL-PRT.jpg

:eek:

Thats actually shane byrne

Pherekydes

fryup wrote: »

talk about over hyping things, Newstalk have the katie fight as their leading headline...jasyus wait till she wins gold at least

Bit of a surprise that. Is it not the latest Manure training session? Or Hooky running over a cyclist?

westendgirlie

kfallon wrote: »

I saw a shot putter from China the other night, my God, you could have played handball off her arse!! More chins than a Chinese phonebook too!

And as for the wan from Belarus who won it......

http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Photo/06/68/01/66801_FULL-PRT.jpg

:eek:

she's a babe

Richard Hillman

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Technique as well as strength is needed.

Yeah technique is king with the strength to back up the technique. Im not muscularly blessed myself but threw the javelin a few times. Its a terrible awkward thing to throw. The athletes make it look so easy.

racso1975

Jez that was a great race in the rowing/kayaking

kfallon

westendgirlie wrote: »

she's a babe

:eek:
I think she used to be in Prisoner Cell Block H years ago!!!

robinph

Pdoghue wrote: »

From the IT Olympics blog this morning:

"BBC Northern Ireland last night made quite an audacious and factually incorrect claim - that Northern Ireland had won its fourth medal of the Olympic Games after Michael Conlan secured a medal in the ring last night.

First – The Chambers brothers from Coleraine both received a medal as part of the British men’s lightweight fours but in reality, it should count as one medal not two. That's how it is tallied in the medal chart. That means Northern Ireland (and technically it’s Great Britain and Northern Ireland) have won two medals. Alan Campbell won bronze in the men’s single sculls.

Secondly (and more importantly) – Michael Conlan is from Belfast but boxes for Ireland. He did not win a medal for Northen Ireland last night.
It seems that everyone wants to claim the Irish boxers."

Well the Chambers brothers only really count as half a gold medal in that case seeing as they were part of a four.

DEFTLEFTHAND

fryup wrote: »

talk about over hyping things, Newstalk have the katie fight as their leading headline...jasyus wait till she wins gold at least

Tom Dunne was behaving like a giddy schoolgirl earlier on. With all this hype, I fear that the poor girl might suffer an angry public backlash if something goes wrong for her.

ballsymchugh

fryup wrote: »

talk about over hyping things, Newstalk have the katie fight as their leading headline...jasyus wait till she wins gold at least

try listening to 5live someday. they've been hyping up every medal chance they've had since the 'made for cavendish' road race at the start. yesterday it was all about victoria pendleton going out on a high, today, mo farah is the headline again for the 5000m heats!
i'm sure a lot of radio stations in different countries are hyping up their own olympians the very same way.

Anyone

Whats the deal with the showjumping? Is it just once around? Only been 2 clear rounds so far, and one of them is Cian O'Connor.

Pherekydes

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Well I suppose I meant running/sprinting we're not good at. I watched Coe's 1500m from Moscow last night, there were only white people in the race. Funny how it changed. The countries dominating now just weren't developed enough at the time to make it to the olympics and the world wasn't as globalised.

Many African nations boycotted Moscow. :rolleyes:

I find it funny that when I suggested we could compete in the jumps and the throws, you changed tack to the running events.

All Irish people are not white, either.

Dave0301

Anyone wrote: »

Whats the deal with the showjumping? Is it just once around? Only been 2 clear rounds so far, and one of them is Cian O'Connor.

There will be a final later on. Best twenty scores from the first round go through I think!

Colmustard

Anyone wrote: »

Whats the deal with the showjumping? Is it just once around? Only been 2 clear rounds so far, and one of them is Cian O'Connor.

I am watching that and it is a good sport to watch:eek: a lot of tension in it. Cian O Connor is joint first.

But the horses, they are truly one of natures beautiful creatures, I never seen horses like that, I much prefer my car.

Brain Stroking

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Tom Dunne was behaving like a giddy schoolgirl earlier on. With all this hype, I fear that the poor girl might suffer an angry public backlash if something goes wrong for her.

No there'll be an angry backlash against ourselves ie why do we get so excited about this stuff when we are so sh1te. Self-loathing begrudgery, a major weapon in the arsenal of any Irish person

Guy:Incognito

ballsymchugh wrote: »

try listening to 5live someday. they've been hyping up every medal chance they've had since the 'made for cavendish' road race at the start. yesterday it was all about victoria pendleton going out on a high, today, mo farah is the headline again for the 5000m heats!
i'm sure a lot of radio stations in different countries are hyping up their own olympians the very same way.

Yes ut we go to such great lengths to say how horrible the british media is with all its jingoism and Team GB love in's . We're better than that apparently.