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Rio 2016 Olympics Megathread

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  • #2432
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    Bored_lad wrote: »
    The Irish government has given over 10 million to support Irish participation in the Rio Olympics. The Olympic council of Ireland also receive yearly funding from the Irish government, which is quite substantial in terms of their overall income. I don't care what the Olympic movement thinks intervention is needed.

    They don't care that you don't care . Government intervention would just draw the ire of the international Olympic movement . They have stood up to a lot bigger fish than the Irish government .

    Both themselves and FIFA very quick to act on any perceived interference


  • #2433
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    holy sh1t


  • #2434
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    If there is one sport I can't stand it's handball. Looks like something a lad made up after a few pints.

    I know it's difficult for them, but the goalkeepers always come across as absolutely useless in handball.


  • #2435
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    recylingbin wrote: »
    Dutch lad just anointed the track, with his face.

    And some rolled up paper stuffed into the gash, and gaffertape to fix the track.


  • #2436
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    I had never seen this wunderkind Simone Biles before.....

    on RTE 2 now.... f*ck sake, that was savage.


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  • #2437
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    marienbad wrote: »
    You know - I was going to say in my previous post please don't base your argument on the current ticket issue , I assumed you would be basing your argument on more that that .


    Are you basing your argument on more than that ? As yet there is no connection with this fiasco and Hickey .

    If I was bothered, I could get into it. I'm not. I think time will prove exactly what sort of person and operator Pat Hickey is. As it stands, I'm just looking forward to the track and field events tomorrow, and the rowers. You can continue posting your support for Hickey here.


  • #2438
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,605 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Simone Biles is something else. Talk about domination.

    She was flawless!


  • #2439
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    I have noticed also that there seems to be a great comradery between all the gymnastics competitors . Its great to see. Hugging eachother after routines, consolling eachother and chatting among eachother.


  • #2440
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    And some rolled up paper stuffed into the gash, and gaffertape to fix the track.

    Mcgyver is the commissar


  • #2441
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    The Talking Bread wrote: »
    I have noticed also that there seems to be a great comradery between all the gymnastics competitors . Its great to see. Hugging eachother after routines, consolling eachother and chatting among eachother.

    Have been to competitions (not on this scale) but on a European level, and yes the comradery is brilliant. Just a great feeling really


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  • #2442
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,634 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    recylingbin wrote: »
    Mcgyver is the commissar

    McGyver would have been some gymnast the way he rolled under that garage door.


  • #2443
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,316 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    Look lads Pat Hickey has said everything is fine and the OCI will be cleared in due course. Is that not enough?

    In other news Putin has said that his intentions for Ukraine are all good and he will be cleared of any Russian involvement in eastern ukraine.

    Now that you mention it, Hickey was speaking up for Russia recently as well during the "will they, won't they" ban them for the Olympics.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #2444
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    K-9 wrote: »
    Now that you mention it, Hickey was speaking up for Russia recently as well during the "will they, won't they" ban them for the Olympics.

    He did not want Russia to be banned from the games.


  • #2445
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    The Talking Bread wrote: »
    I have noticed also that there seems to be a great comradery between all the gymnastics competitors . Its great to see. Hugging eachother after routines, consolling eachother and chatting among eachother.

    It really is great to see. Commented in it the other day. Obviously some good people coaching them too


  • #2446
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    marienbad wrote: »
    They don't care that you don't care . Government intervention would just draw the ire of the international Olympic movement . They have stood up to a lot bigger fish than the Irish government .

    Both themselves and FIFA very quick to act on any perceived interference

    In that case all funding to the Olympic Council of Ireland should be withdrawn. A number to countries including the US don't receive government funding. It is clear that the current people involved in the Irish Olympic Committee are unfit to lead.


  • #2447
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    What has been the general opinion of Pat Hickey over the years? Do the media respect him? I want a general overall consensus, not one based on this scandal


  • #2448
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    Have been to competitions (not on this scale) but on a European level, and yes the comradery is brilliant. Just a great feeling really

    ha, no, I used to jump around the hayshed when I waas a kid though and swing off the beams! I was great in my hay day (unintentional pun!)


  • #2449
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    If I was bothered, I could get into it. I'm not. I think time will prove exactly what sort of person and operator Pat Hickey is. As it stands, I'm just looking forward to the track and field events tomorrow, and the rowers. You can continue posting your support for Hickey here.

    I don't support Hickey at all - as a matter of fact I have very little time for him - but at least give him the benefit of due process .

    Your not an athletics man by any chance are you ?


  • #2450
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    I’ve Been Waiting For This Day For ****ing Months” Zika Mosquito Says As Golf Begins

    “FRANKLY there has been a lot of ****e being talked over the last few weeks and months and I’m just looking to put that behind now that the golf is starting. I’m ready to compete”.

    The words of Buzz the mosquito, a Rio based parasite looking to make his mark on the 2016 games. You can appreciate where Buzz is coming from; he’s been slandered, defamed and his name has been dragged through the mud but now the talking is over.
    “You just want to get out there and do what you do best as a virus carrying mosquito,” he added while repeatedly charging into a net in one of the bedrooms at the Olympic village.

    There have been injunctions issued against leading golfers with McIlroy, Spieth and Day among their number, a campaign to restore Buzz’s good name is underway, but now all that is left to do is produce the goods.

    “Oh trust me, my plan is to get out and really put myself about the place. The time for talking is done, the time for ****ing **** up has begun,” a determined Buzz added, admitting the golf represented his best chance of success at the games.
    “The indoor events don’t agree with me, I’m best operating out in the open, and in fairness the golf course is immaculate. Who wouldn’t want to perform in those conditions?”

    Buzz can be seen at the golfing event in Rio today.


    WATERFORD WHISPERS: never fails!!


  • #2451
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    The Talking Bread wrote: »
    What has been the general opinion of Pat Hickey over the years? Do the media respect him? I want a general overall consensus, not one based on this scandal


    Tyrant is one word I would use.


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  • #2452
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    Bored_lad wrote: »
    In that case all funding to the Olympic Council of Ireland should be withdrawn. A number to countries including the US don't receive government funding. It is clear that the current people involved in the Irish Olympic Committee are unfit to lead.


    Some sports are exceptionally well run and others less so , you can't tar them all with the same brush


  • #2453
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    marienbad wrote: »
    I don't support Hickey at all - as a matter of fact I have very little time for him - but at least give him the benefit of due process .

    Your not an athletics man by any chance are you ?

    What difference would that make? There is a big team out there representing Ireland.


  • #2454
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    Tyrant is one word I would use.

    based on what though. Disregarding this, what scandals have surrounded the running of the OCI. That is a query by the way, not questioning your opinion. Im just interested is the OCI respected. And if not, why not?


  • #2455
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    All this talk of streamlining technology in the bikes and skinsuits on the track, and then Team GBs Bradly Wiggins turns up with a load of facial fluff!

    :D


  • #2456
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    All this talk of streamlining technology in the bikes and skinsuits on the track, and then Team GBs Bradly Wiggins turns up with a load of facial fluff!

    :D

    Wiggins thinks he's Noel Gallagher on wheels. He wishes


  • #2457
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Going to play GB in the final.

    Some achievement for them considering this is the first time they've competed as one nation in Sevens.
    The Talking Bread wrote: »
    haven't they won the world cup a few times and various other top Rugby 7s competition though?? They were favourites going into the tournament.
    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    England have, not GB.

    The team only got together 10 weeks ago. Most of the other nations are specialised sevens sides who play together on the the sevens circuit throughout the year. They'd be much more used to each other and settled as teams.

    Sorry, I was referring to Fiji, not GB. Thats who I thought people were praising. I only copped on to the "3 nations bit then!"


  • #2458
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    It's a shame we don't have an O'Rourke, or an O'Sullivan, or a McKiernan taking part in T&F. The best we can hope for are a semi final place, which is a huge achievement in itself.


  • #2459
    ahlookit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    Wiggins thinks he's Noel Gallagher on wheels. He wishes

    Paul Weller ;)


  • #2460
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    What difference would that make? There is a big team out there representing Ireland.

    Because athletics have always opposed Hickey , and that from day 1 . There are some in the athletics family that believe as it is The Olympic sport the IOC President should be from that code .


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  • #2461
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Great try by South Africa


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