statesaver wrote: » What's the story with Annalise Murphy, something to do with a red flag on committe boat. Hope nothing to do with our girl
Brian017 wrote: » How does the sailing work? Has she built up a lead to 2nd and 3rd overall?
Pudsy33 wrote: » There are ten races, you get a point equal to the position you finish. So 4 1st gives her 4 points. Belgium are in second with 16 points. Lowest points win obviously. After the 10 races, there is a medal race, for the top ten competitors, where the points are doubled and added to your total.
Brian017 wrote: » Ah thanks for that. Long way to go so.
Lyaiera wrote: » She's won four races from four races. I didn't hear anything about a protest underway. So I presume she's coming first. There are ten races. If you come first you get 1 point, second 2 point, 3 three points etc. The person with the least amount of points after all the races gets the gold. The last race is worth double points so first gets 2 points, second 4 points etc. I don't know if you're allowed to discard the worst two or three of your performances. I would hope you would be allowed because a rope could break or a sail rip and you have to retire means someone could go from first to way down the table with no chance of recovery all because of a technical failure in the equipment, which would just be unlucky. So far Annalise has 4 points and the person in second place has 16 points.
Lapin wrote: » I'm sick of commentators telling us that he or she will have their sights set on Rio in 4 years time when yet another one of our competitors is knocked out. Its the same thing every 4 years. We heard it all in Beijing. FFS these are the games where Ireland should be winning medals. They're practically on our doorstep. Fek waiting for Brazil in 2016.
statesaver wrote: » I understand where your coming from but CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN Though Chloe does seem very young
Samich wrote: » And who is this Chloe one? I was watching the Irish Badminton player?
Pudsy33 wrote: » You discard your single worst run afaik
Shryke wrote: » This does rankle a bit. It wouldn't have been too much to invest in athletes when the event is in London. Katie Taylor didn't have so much as a bathroom at her disposal. She would use the one in the pub next door from where she was training. There was little to no funding going toward that lad we had in the gymnastics as far as I know. I was watching the Beeb and they were talking about his history and what an amazing underdog story it was, including how he had to do a load of fund raising to get himself there in the first place. That was embarrassing to listen to.
keano_afc wrote: » We just dont have the funding to invest properly in athletes. We could adopt GB's approach and concentrate on one or two sports to increase our chances.
garv123 wrote: » Chloe magee.. The player you were watching
Lapin wrote: » I'm quite calm. I just have a low tolerance to horse shít when I hear it. I'm no expert on Badminton, but is 23 considered young for the game? BTW, I wasn't trying to single out Magee there, my gripe is with the commentators and their back slapping, gallant performance, better luck next time response. Call it as it is, we're not good enough. We weren't 4 years ago and won't be in 4 years time.
