London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Bill said that ..."when i was a lad badminton was a protestant sport"

don't think he meant in a sectarian way, but it just sounded crass esp in this day and age

Happyman42 wrote: »

It was a leading question to get his guest to talk about the development of the sport in Ireland....'When I was growing up babminton was seen as a Protestant sport.....'

And people are going mad about that comment? Thats funnier than the actual comment!

Hope this hasn't being posted already but sure just in case

http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/28/interactive-panorama-inside-the-opening-ceremony/

A gigapan photo of the opening cermony of the olympics. Hours to great voyeuristic zooming fun to be had.

westendgirlie wrote: »

Jeez, the sailing is well confusing. I have no idea what all the lines on the screen are about in the one man boats. And the two man boats, they are all going in different directions



Oh Ireland just went trough the finish line, I think in 4th or 5th

They were 4th, great result. Really sets them up to do well this afternoon.

There are two races today, and imagine two every day bar the last day when there'll be three. Eleven races raced, something like six, seven or eight of your best results counted. The less races raced overall (because of weather conditions messing stuff up) the less races you get to discard from your final result.

I don't know what stream your watching but I imagine the lines will be some of the following. One line would be wind speed, fairly obvious to know why. Another line will be which boat is in front and a line will be drawn out of them parallel to the mark they have to go round. This is helpful, but there could be a boat much closer to the mark on the perpendicular but further behind on the parallel. The closer you get to the mark in parallel the more important it is to be closer perpendicularly. Another line could be coming straight through the boat, from stern to bow and sticking out a bit. This will show the absolute direction of the boat. This is important because it lets you compare who is pointing more towards the mark they're all about to go about.

The course in sailing (there can be a few but a basic one) would be one mark up the course where people would have to go straight into the wind to get to it, and another straight down the course where you go perfectly with the wind to get to it. Obviously because the wind is a natural phenomenon you can't control it so these marks won't be in exactly the right place to be into and from the wind. And because the boats have to zig zag back and forth to get where they're going one particular zig might be faster than the other zag because of the way the wind is changing.

There's a lot of other things to it but that's basically it.

keith16 wrote: »

Does any one know what's happening with the eventing? Delayed...seems like it could be an injury??

The Canadian women was down any way. They showed her on the ground(she was conscious) and then the horse off rambling around.

That horse stuff is so boring. Watching water polo now. Tough viewing really. Not very exciting.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Hannah Craig didnt do too well in the kayaking

But neither has anyone else so far. I don't now how many more runners there are but it seems the person in first place did a blinder.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Hannah Craig didnt do too well in the kayaking

Currently, she can do no worse than 16th, and she's wearing #16, so she's exactly in line with her seeding.

Maybe she'll have a better 2nd run.

Lyaiera wrote: »

But neither has anyone else so far. I don't now how many more runners there are but it seems the person in first place did a blinder.

A bit obvious.

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Top 16 qualify right?

15. She's currently 13th, with one more to go.

She finishes 14th in the first run, but everyone gets a second shot, so she will probably need a better second run to stay in the top 15.

And just to add that her seed number is 15, not 16 as I stated earlier.

Two 1st place finishes for the Annalise Murphy in the Sailing. That's some going considering there were 40 others competing against her. They still have 6 more races or something like that though so she's still got a long way to go.