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TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 01:02AM

connemara man wrote: »

Hopefully as we do have the natural facilities for it.

I remember a few years ago that they were kinda gonna do the centres of excellence thing focusing on sports we should be good at in a get a good few medals for our population size.

Great that sports campus was built. Great to see a diversity of sports getting serious funding and attitude

The way a lot of sports seem to work, especially the less popular ones, is funding is dependent on results. It makes sense, I suppose, but there's always the argument that you need to invest first. I think the UK did well with their cycling and rowing programs, they targeted individuals with the sole intention of making them Olympians, and it worked. We should be much better at the cycling sports too. There is talk of a velodrome being built in the Sports Campus too, but there's no sign of it yet.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 01:09AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

What did you do?

Yesterday I was watching the swimming on RTE. Their commentary was pretty poor. The "expert" they had as co commentator was some guy who swam in Atlanta in '96. Nick O'Hare. I wasn't the only person complaining about it mind, a fair few on twitter weren't impressed. I suggested the last time O'Hare watched any swimming was when he was in Atlanta. I didn't @ him or RTE or anyone. Today I get a tweet from the main commentator saying "go *blank* yourself", suggesting I fill in the blank myself. :eek:

A little while later one of the RTE producers "liked" the tweet

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 01:52AM

I'm tempted to alert Balls.ie or Joe about it. Just to see what happens. Pretty poor behaviour from RTE employees. I pay my TV license and therefore their wages... that's how that works, right?

Yeah_Right · 08-08-2016 02:01AM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I'm tempted to alert Balls.ie or Joe about it. Just to see what happens. Pretty poor behaviour from RTE employees. I pay my TV license and therefore their wages... that's how that works, right?

Go on. Start a social media war with RTE.
Make sure you keep us updated on here as I'm not on Twitter. This will keep me entertained each day till the Olympics coverage starts.

I know Swiwi will be interested as well

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 02:19AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Go on. Start a social media war with RTE.
Make sure you keep us updated on here as I'm not on Twitter. This will keep me entertained each day till the Olympics coverage starts.

I know Swiwi will be interested as well

Nah, I thought it was quite funny.

I've had an interesting day on twitter, I've had China and Russia attack me for talking about their doped up swimmers and then RTE came at me too

Yeah_Right · 08-08-2016 02:42AM

The Aussie swimmer who called Sun Yang a drug cheat after their final, has been getting death threats on social media. I hope you got a few death threats. If you didn't then you needs to lift your game.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 02:53AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

The Aussie swimmer who called Sun Yang a drug cheat after their final, has been getting death threats on social media. I hope you got a few death threats. If you didn't then you needs to lift your game.

No death threats. I did get called a "retarded regressive leftist" by a Russian though.

Buer · 08-08-2016 03:08PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I did get called a "retarded regressive leftist" by a Russian though.

So.....a communist?

thomond2006 · 08-08-2016 03:31PM

Paddy Barnes is awesome on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/paddyb_ireland/status/761965387810496512
https://twitter.com/paddyb_ireland/status/761907359375564800

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 03:47PM

They've been winding McIlroy up all week, he's taken it well though.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 03:52PM

What was the thinking behind not having the male boxers wear headgear anymore?

Podge_irl · 08-08-2016 03:56PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

What was the thinking behind not having the male boxers wear headgear anymore?

Some studies saying it didn't make it any safer and potentially less safe to the perception of being more protected.

irishbucsfan · 08-08-2016 04:05PM

Shame for Barnes but can't really argue with the decision too much, fair play to the young Spaniard.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 08-08-2016 04:26PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Shame for Barnes but can't really argue with the decision too much, fair play to the young Spaniard.

Barnes said after that he probably shouldn't have been fighting at that weight as it took too much out of him to maintain it. Was his normal weight group not in the Olympics this year or are there better fighters in it? Wonder what the thinking was.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 09-08-2016 03:02PM

Update from the Dutch cyclist who crashed in the Rio Road Race on Sunday.

https://twitter.com/AvVleuten/status/762992458288488448

CatFromHue · 09-08-2016 04:30PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Paddy Barnes is awesome on Twitter.

I think those tweets are an example of why clubs do social media training. Some people may find them funny but a lot wouldn't and I'm sure Rory McIllroy wasn't too happy to see them either.

Whatever about the tweet of the bed in the mosquito net going to Rory's ex and then one of Rory's competitors to goad him is a bit of a dick move tbh.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 09-08-2016 04:35PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

I think those tweets are an example of why clubs do social media training. Some people may find them funny but a lot wouldn't and I'm sure Rory McIllroy wasn't too happy to see them either.

Whatever about the tweet of the bed in the mosquito net going to Rory's ex and then one of Rory's competitors to goad him is a bit of a dick move tbh.

Rory responded quite well to them, to be fair. He's hardly going to call them out on twitter though. He could have ignored them, I suppose.

I did think the Wozniacki one was a step too far.

CatFromHue · 09-08-2016 05:08PM

Rory had no other option to respond well to them.

He's already the bad guy so him telling the lads to Feck Off, which he would have been fully entitled to do if you ask me, makes him an even worse bad guy.

Yeah_Right · 09-08-2016 05:36PM

Rory should respond with -Bad luck Paddy. Too much tweets, not enough speed work?

Note, I don't think his tweets had anything to do with him losing. I think he deserves to get some **** though.

CatFromHue · 09-08-2016 05:41PM

Rory could do that, and would be fairly entitled to, but it would be PR suicide if he did.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 09-08-2016 05:52PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

Rory had no other option to respond well to them.

He's already the bad guy so him telling the lads to Feck Off, which he would have been fully entitled to do if you ask me, makes him an even worse bad guy.

He could have ignored them, he was under no obligation to respond in any way.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-08-2016 03:54AM

Michael Phelps, eh?

thomond2006 · 10-08-2016 11:03AM

Fair play to Dundalk, only €12 into the Aviva for their UCL qualifier.

I'm on the bandwagen.

Synode · 10-08-2016 11:04AM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Fair play to Dundalk, only €12 into the Aviva for their UCL qualifier.

I'm on the bandwagen.

That must be one of the corners?

http://www.the42.ie/dundalk-legia-warsaw-champions-league-first-leg-tickets-2919515-Aug2016/

thomond2006 · 10-08-2016 11:08AM

Synode wrote: »

That must be one of the corners?

http://www.the42.ie/dundalk-legia-warsaw-champions-league-first-leg-tickets-2919515-Aug2016/

Yes, one of the corners! That will do me tbh.

Yeah_Right · 10-08-2016 02:16PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Michael Phelps, eh?

He's pretty good. The Richie McCaw of swimming.

Bazzo · 10-08-2016 02:21PM

I saw an amazing headline the other day:

If Michael Phelps were a country he would 39th on the all-time Olympic gold medal table.

How amazing is that?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-08-2016 02:28PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I saw an amazing headline the other day:

If Michael Phelps were a country he would 39th on the all-time Olympic gold medal table.

How amazing is that?

It is pretty amazing.

I keep seeing people trying to dismiss it by saying oh, we could all have that many medals if we were allowed compete in 100 events every Olympics.

He's not just swimming the same event over and over, there's different distances and different strokes. What he does would be like Usain Bolt competing in the 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 400 hurdles, 4x100 and 4x200 relays. Any track athlete could compete in all those events if they ran the qualifying times in trials, point is none of them do, none of them even try.

Yeah_Right · 10-08-2016 02:42PM

Yeah if it was so easy to be brilliant at so many different swimming events then why hasn't it happened before. He's a freak and deserves the accolades.

irishbucsfan · 10-08-2016 02:44PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Yeah if it was so easy to be brilliant at so many different swimming events then why hasn't it happened before. He's a freak and deserves the accolades.

Ian Thorpe?

It's obviously easier to be competitive in multiple swimming events than it is in any other sport. It's not really in question.

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