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thomond2006 · 13-08-2016 12:55PM

Go raibh maith agaibh!

Bazzo · 13-08-2016 12:56PM

Third the salthouse. Head down shop street, stay left. Past Jurys and over the Wolfe Tone bridge and it's on your right. 5 min walk from Eyre square.

Buer · 13-08-2016 01:01PM

She's right to be. The record from '93 was insane. Everyone knew it was a doped athlete for years until it was confirmed only in recent times.

Yesterday's time blew it out of the water. In fact, the top 4 yesterday would all have broken the Olympic record and are the 4 fastest times in history aside from the '93 record. All the athletes comes from eastern African nations that have huge out of competition testing issues and have been condemned by WADA recently.

I don't buy it for a second. The second half of her run would have broken the Olympic record for the 5,000m!

wp_rathead · 13-08-2016 01:09PM

wait is the premiership starting already

Felix Jones is God · 13-08-2016 01:10PM

wp_rathead wrote: »

wait is the premiership starting already

Yeah, Hull v Leicester on at the moment

wp_rathead · 13-08-2016 01:16PM

fecking hell, euros seem just over

errlloyd · 13-08-2016 02:50PM

I feel like Boards needs some sort of customer service hall of fame - adidas winning it for me today.

Got a pair of Boots in a sale just over a year ago. They were the midrange ones I think (so 130 was original price, I got them half price). They had a combination of molded and unmouded studs. Anyway, after a year one stud broke away from the sole of the boot. Emailed them to let them know, they gave me a full refund a year later and a voucher for 20% off any full priced item.

Slight inconvenience that they broke, but pretty epic customer service.

swiwi_ · 13-08-2016 03:17PM

Love the rowing 8s. One of the great Olympic events. Total teamwork required.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 03:18PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

Love the rowing 8s. One of the great Olympic events. Total teamwork required.

Does the little person who sits in the boat yelling at them get a medal too?

thomond2006 · 13-08-2016 03:20PM

Hmmm Founders All Day IPA....

swiwi_ · 13-08-2016 03:22PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Does the little person who sits in the boat yelling at them get a medal too?

I'm pretty sure they do. I think they are actually a critical component is my understanding.

TeoReid · 13-08-2016 03:23PM

mfceiling wrote: »

You win!! Never been here before...first impressions are good.

On a different note...does anyone have any idea of what to buy your 67 year old father for his birthday?

He's not in to clothes, sports, jewellery, cars, golf ..basically anything?

Expensive bottle of Whiskey/wine/whatever if he's into that

Felix Jones is God · 13-08-2016 03:32PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Hmmm Founders All Day IPA....

Extremely overrated imo

thomond2006 · 13-08-2016 03:33PM

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

Extremely overrated imo

Tried a range of their's recently, good stuff.

Belfast Lager though is my favourite right now.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 03:38PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do. I think they are actually a critical component is my understanding.

Yeah, they were talking on BBC about how important they are but it was Inverdale so I zoned out.

errlloyd · 13-08-2016 03:53PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do. I think they are actually a critical component is my understanding.

I can't imagine how weird it is to be the 55kg best friend and effectively captain of 8 massive lads.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 04:07PM

errlloyd wrote: »

I can't imagine how weird it is to be the 55kg best friend and effectively captain of 8 massive lads.

I couldn't figure out were the rowers very tall or is he tiny, or both?

wp_rathead · 13-08-2016 07:11PM

hon waterford!! savage stuff

irishbucsfan · 13-08-2016 07:25PM

Buer wrote: »

She's right to be. The record from '93 was insane. Everyone knew it was a doped athlete for years until it was confirmed only in recent times.

Yesterday's time blew it out of the water. In fact, the top 4 yesterday would all have broken the Olympic record and are the 4 fastest times in history aside from the '93 record. All the athletes comes from eastern African nations that have huge out of competition testing issues and have been condemned by WADA recently.

I don't buy it for a second. The second half of her run would have broken the Olympic record for the 5,000m!

Yeah WADA gave them a 0/10 for their anti-doping enforcement.

Mo Farah trains there. Just thought I'd say that.

Yeah_Right · 13-08-2016 07:49PM

errlloyd wrote: »

I can't imagine how weird it is to be the 55kg best friend and effectively captain of 8 massive lads.

Basically he's a scrum half.

b.gud · 13-08-2016 08:04PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Hmmm Founders All Day IPA....

Their breakfast stout is the one for me

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 08:12PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Yeah WADA gave them a 0/10 for their anti-doping enforcement.

Mo Farah trains there. Just thought I'd say that.

I thought Farah trained in Oregon?

bilston · 13-08-2016 08:19PM

How many velodromes are there in Ireland and where are they?

I did a google search and found 3, on in Belfast, one in Dublin and one in Kanturk. The one in Belfast is an outdoor tarmav track and not exactly what I'm thinking of

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 08:22PM

bilston wrote: »

How many velodromes are there in Ireland and where are they?

I did a google search and found 3, on in Belfast, one in Dublin and one in Kanturk. The one in Belfast is an outdoor tarmav track and not exactly what I'm thinking of

They're supposed to be building one in the Nation Sports Campus but it's part of the second stage of development so I wouldn't expect to see it for a while.

Buer · 13-08-2016 08:58PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote:

I thought Farah trained in Oregon?

He has trained in both. One of the coaches who was heading up an Ethiopian camp Farrah was involved in was done for wholesale doping offences earlier this year.

Farrah's camp made a statement that he no longer worked with him. Unfortunately, athletics is in such a poor state that most top athletes now perform with a justifiable cloud of suspicion hanging over them.

Felix Jones is God · 13-08-2016 09:34PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters

Think somebody has been .messing with the Ghostbusters wiki page...don't remember Buzz Lightyear in it!

mfceiling · 13-08-2016 11:01PM

Went to Pitt Bros with the younger bro tonight. Meat platter between us. Savage meat sweats during it.

CatFromHue · 13-08-2016 11:27PM

bilston wrote: »

How many velodromes are there in Ireland and where are they?

I did a google search and found 3, on in Belfast, one in Dublin and one in Kanturk. The one in Belfast is an outdoor tarmav track and not exactly what I'm thinking of

the one in Dublin is outdoors and I think on tarmac too

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-08-2016 11:31PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

the one in Dublin is outdoors and I think on tarmac too

According to the Cycling Ireland website there is no indoor one in Ireland.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 14-08-2016 06:58PM

I think I've changed my mind about golf (and other sports) not belonging in the Olympics. They obviously matter to the people who turn up to play there and it's probably not fair to judge a sport based on how famous the competitors are. So yeah, I withdraw all previous objections to the inclusion of golf, tennis etc.

The shooting "sports" are still dumb though.

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