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Clearlier · 18-08-2016 04:36PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

The fact you can be disqualified from just one false start is very harsh IMO. The Puerto Rican runner was in bits.

There have been various rules around how many false starts can happen. In the end though so long as there was an opportunity to false start without being DQ'd people were choosing to try and anticipate the start.

The Lost Sheep · 18-08-2016 04:38PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

The fact you can be disqualified from just one false start is very harsh IMO. The Puerto Rican runner was in bits.

Maybe and its the same in swimming now. It is tough but the margins can be so tight and with athletes trying to pre-empt the gun what would you do?
There has been a reprieve and then next false start is dq'd but I don't see any change happening

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2016 04:42PM

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Maybe and its the same in swimming now. It is tough but the margins can be so tight and with athletes trying to pre-empt the gun what would you do?
There has been a reprieve and then next false start is dq'd but I don't see any change happening

There was a swimmer false started in the heats last week and he was bawling his eyes out as he collected his stuff and walked off the pool deck. Next thing the judges let him back in. There's a rule about crowd noise but there was hardly any crowd at the time. Didn't make a difference in the end as he finished last in his heat but the commentators were arguing that it could set a precedent. Hardly ever see a false start in the swimming though.

thomond2006 · 18-08-2016 06:08PM

Shades of the Mathieu Bastareaud case in NZ years back?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37115778

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2016 06:17PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Shades of the Mathieu Bastareaud case in NZ years back?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37115778

Forgot about that.

Only difference is there doesn't seem to have been any reason for Lochte making this story up.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2016 06:20PM

MacKenna seems to have deleted that tweet from earlier about Barr being beaten by a cheat.

thomond2006 · 18-08-2016 06:22PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

MacKenna seems to have deleted that tweet from earlier about Barr being beaten by a cheat.

They got to him.

thomond2006 · 18-08-2016 06:23PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Forgot about that.

Only difference is there doesn't seem to have been any reason for Lochte making this story up.

Eh? This seems reason enough no?

One of the athletes broke the door to the bathroom and a row ensued when attendants asked the Americans to pay for the damage, they said.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2016 06:30PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Eh? This seems reason enough no?

Not really.

They could have gone back to their hotel/village and said nothing about it. Good chance that nothing would have come of it. Why make up a story that you were mugged at gunpoint to cover up something that might never have come out? And what good would it have done even if the guy at the petrol station had reported them? It's not like they said a guy at a petrol station started a fight with them in order to get their side of the story out first, they made up some ridiculous story to cover something that probably didn't even need covering.

Unless one of them had visible injuries and they needed an explanation, a la Bastareaud, I see no reason to make anything up.

b.gud · 18-08-2016 08:07PM

I'm getting a bus up to Belfast tomorrow to get a car and am wondering can anyone tell me of a cafe in or near to the Europa bus station that I can buy a coffee and a sambo and pay for it with card, don't want to bother changing any money to sterling. Thanks

Pudsy33 · 18-08-2016 08:09PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

No idea, I Googled all 3 of them but can't find anything. You've got an American, a Kenyan and a Cuban running for Turkey, so take your pick.

MacKenna RT'd a joke the other day about him questioning how the wind at the sailing can go from 6 knots to 30 in a few seconds.

It was the Turk that Ewan was referring to. He had struggled to break 49 seconds until he hit 28, and then won an Olympic medal running a sub 48 second time.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2016 08:17PM

Regarding the Lochte thing, I saw a comment under an article suggesting that he was so drunk that he actually thought he was being mugged.

The original story was that guys dressed like police, badges but no car, mugged them but only took their wallets, not their phones or anything else. This would make sense if it was security guys just trying to get them to pay for the damage.

It'd actually a fairly plausible explanation and answers my previous question as to why they thought they had to make anything up in the first place.

Lochte thinks they were mugged, calls his mother in a panic, she talks to the media and then it all kicks off.

Who knows. Funny how this particular story seems to be getting more attention than the actual scandals happening.

Stheno · 18-08-2016 08:22PM

b.gud wrote: »

I'm getting a bus up to Belfast tomorrow to get a car and am wondering can anyone tell me of a cafe in or near to the Europa bus station that I can buy a coffee and a sambo and pay for it with card, don't want to bother changing any money to sterling. Thanks

There are several in the station, I like cafe Nero myself

18-08-2016 08:23PM

b.gud wrote: »

I'm getting a bus up to Belfast tomorrow to get a car and am wondering can anyone tell me of a cafe in or near to the Europa bus station that I can buy a coffee and a sambo and pay for it with card, don't want to bother changing any money to sterling. Thanks

There's a cafe Nero right outside the bus station. A Starbucks across the road. An a few little sandwich places you'll be fine

b.gud · 18-08-2016 08:31PM

Thanks Stheno and Connemara man. In general are cafes ok with card payments of £10 or less? Some places down here can be fussy about it

bilston · 18-08-2016 08:31PM

b.gud wrote: »

I'm getting a bus up to Belfast tomorrow to get a car and am wondering can anyone tell me of a cafe in or near to the Europa bus station that I can buy a coffee and a sambo and pay for it with card, don't want to bother changing any money to sterling. Thanks

Cafe Nero or there is a place called Yahi in the bus station which does some nice sandwiches. Best expensive though. There is also a wee place called The Platform which does a good fry.

18-08-2016 08:32PM

b.gud wrote: »

Thanks Stheno and Connemara man. In general are cafes ok with card payments of £10 or less? Some places down here can be fussy about it

They'll take it no problem. Most have contactless set up aswell

b.gud · 18-08-2016 08:33PM

Thanks for the suggestions folks

Stheno · 18-08-2016 08:39PM

b.gud wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions folks

Have a good trip

b.gud · 18-08-2016 08:53PM

Stheno wrote: »

Have a good trip

I'll try but having to get up at 3am is gonna make it hard

awec · 18-08-2016 10:09PM

b.gud wrote: »

Thanks Stheno and Connemara man. In general are cafes ok with card payments of £10 or less? Some places down here can be fussy about it

some places will insist on spending a fiver before they'll take card, but most places are fine.

mfceiling · 18-08-2016 10:27PM

b.gud wrote: »

I'll try but having to get up at 3am is gonna make it hard

Just had a vision of awec spitting out his tea reading that. Don't think he's ever been out of bed before 10 a.m in his life!!

Stheno · 18-08-2016 10:47PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Just had a vision of awec spitting out his tea reading that. Don't think he's ever been out of bed before 10 a.m in his life!!

That will change the night before his wedding, I reckon it will be sleepless

Felix Jones is God · 18-08-2016 11:08PM

Stheno wrote: »

That will change the night before his wedding, I reckon it will be sleepless

Strippers?

awec · 18-08-2016 11:27PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Just had a vision of awec spitting out his tea reading that. Don't think he's ever been out of bed before 10 a.m in his life!!

I've to get up early tomorrow cause our cleaner is coming at 9am!

molloyjh · 18-08-2016 11:55PM

awec wrote: »

I've to get up early tomorrow cause our cleaner is coming at 9am!

Jesus you have such a hard life awec. How do you manage at all!?

awec · 19-08-2016 12:21AM

molloyjh wrote: »

Jesus you have such a hard life awec. How do you manage at all!?

I've to drive to west Clare tomorrow afternoon to look at wedding decorations. It's not all good! :pac:

Zzippy · 19-08-2016 12:46AM

awec wrote: »

I've to drive to west Clare tomorrow afternoon to look at wedding decorations. It's not all good! :pac:

Few pints at the Fleadh afterwards, be grand (that's a music festival, not a flea market

)

Also, have you not learned the art of delegation yet? As in, you sort the important stuff, like the stag, and she sorts minor stuff like dresses, table plans and decorations...

mfceiling · 19-08-2016 06:49AM

awec wrote: »

I've to drive to west Clare tomorrow afternoon to look at wedding decorations. It's not all good! :pac:

Look at the time this was posted awec!!

Now on the wedding....Make ridiculous decisions and you'll be stopped from having any input in no time.

Would red and yellow stripes be nice for bridesmaids?

Would spare ribs and chips be a choice for the dinner?

Could we have no wedding band and just do karaoke?

You'll have the feet up in no time!!

b.gud · 19-08-2016 07:14AM

mfceiling wrote: »

Look at the time this was posted awec!!

I've already been up for 4 hours!!
Round about now is when I usually get up to walk the dog

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