London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

cgpg5 · 02-08-2012 05:06PM

They don't seem to know the exact reasoning. Talks Pendleton went to early or something along those lines.

GB indeed disqualified it seems

cgpg5 · 02-08-2012 05:08PM

"Pendleton/Varnish relegated for making an early change: out of medals. Velodrome hears its first boos."

Awful disappointing

Tox56 · 02-08-2012 05:08PM

Shame, they were clearly very fast

Beefy78 · 02-08-2012 05:10PM

Bugger. On the other hand I now don't have to race home to catch the 5.59 start for the final.

The_Kew_Tour · 02-08-2012 05:10PM

Dont think its been bad olympics so far. Hopefully Murphy can get medal in sailing although I think she will just miss out(hope im 100% wrong).

Craig reaching the salmon final was excellent and Equestrian team finishing 5th overall. Few Sailers at least should be in Top 10.

Only real disappointment so far have been the swimmers. Pity cause they had potential to reach couple of semi finals and in Murphys case a Final.

I know its nice to win medals, but we are starting to see improvement in many events then 8 years ago in Athens where we were disaster in everything we touched.

Mars Bar · 02-08-2012 05:10PM

Women's All Round gymnastics is on at the moment

opinion guy · 02-08-2012 05:12PM

Colmustard wrote: »

We only have one Olympic pool that is not even 10 years old so we don't have a swimming tradition. Perhaps in time.

Really pisses me off the if you go to the NAC as a member of th epublic the pool is split into two 25's. So f**kin stupid.

FYI there is private a 50m pool in Clontarf - though not technical Olympic its good for training.
AFAIK UL has a 50 pool and I tihnk the new UCD pool is 50m

DebDynamite · 02-08-2012 05:13PM

Colmustard wrote: »

We only have one Olympic pool that is not even 10 years old so we don't have a swimming tradition. Perhaps in time.

I would love to see Ireland pump some money into to swimmng here and try to nurture some of our young swimming talent. If we produce our own Michael Phelps, he/she could win us 8 golds in 1 Olympics!

The_Kew_Tour · 02-08-2012 05:16PM

I can tell you guys that swimming is becoming very serious at underage level. My Brother has won few All Irelands and the training he is doing is some amount.

Think by 2016 we will have the first crop of decent swimmers for world stage and by 2020 I think we will have at least some medal hopes.

But of course every other country will be doing same, just matter of can we do it right.

Bacon and Cabbage · 02-08-2012 05:20PM

Jimmy Magee:
"Win lose or draw, well there are no draws in boxing of course"

Colmustard · 02-08-2012 05:22PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Really pisses me off the if you go to the NAC as a member of th epublic the pool is split into two 25's. So f**kin stupid.

FYI there is private a 50m pool in Clontarf - though not technical Olympic its good for training.
AFAIK UL has a 50 pool and I tihnk the new UCD pool is 50m

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

Colmustard · 02-08-2012 05:26PM

Team GB cycling duo has got disqualified.

Tough break for them Victoria seems philosophical about it, but she has other events.

opinion guy · 02-08-2012 05:29PM

Colmustard wrote: »

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

Well having swum in the pool I can tell you its 100 times better than training in a 25m pool in terms of distance and building fitness.

I didn't have a problem doing tumble turns (well other than my usual problems with tumbles turns

) - but then I wasn't training for high level competitions.

keith16 · 02-08-2012 05:30PM

Colmustard wrote: »

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

I think the new one in UCD is Olympic standard.

bilston · 02-08-2012 05:33PM

Colmustard wrote: »

Team GB cycling duo has got disqualified.

Tough break for them Victoria seems philosophical about it, but she has other events.

Annoying but rules are rules.

NegativeCreep · 02-08-2012 05:34PM

keith16 wrote: »

I think the new one in UCD is Olympic standard.

The American synchronised swimmers have been practicing in the Aquatic Centre in Blanch for the past week. I thought the one in Blanch was the only olympic sized one in Ireland. I'm probably wrong though :L

garv123 · 02-08-2012 05:34PM

Anyone see the british lad boxing? He got flaked around the place in the last round, barely keeping on his feet against the world no.1 and was then given the win on a second count. Rte commentators and the studio were talking about it there and they said it was a disgrace.

bilston · 02-08-2012 05:35PM

nice_very wrote: »

Hannah Craig currently in gold medal position

Good effort in making the final. That wasn't expected or was it?

Richard Hillman · 02-08-2012 05:35PM

DebDynamite wrote: »

I would love to see Ireland pump some money into to swimmng here and try to nurture some of our young swimming talent. If we produce our own Michael Phelps, he/she could win us 8 golds in 1 Olympics!

I was actually talking to my mate the other day about something similar. With the thousands of delinquent children in the country that are frequently in the courts, maybe we should create an Olympic programme to get these people to turn their lives around. If they break the law, they get shunted into the Olympic Programme and if they fail or show no real effort they get shunted off to prison for their crimes.

The kids will have no choice in what they are entered in and are divided by physical stature and genetics. The tall ones go off to the likes of rowing and swimming and the smaller/mid sized ones go to the likes of Cycling, Table Tennis, Archery, Badminton. Again if they are not interested, they go to prison. Plus we will never have to listen about how they had little opportunity in life.

Its cheaper than shunting them off to prison and a lifetime of social welfare.

Richard Hillman · 02-08-2012 05:37PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The American synchronised swimmers have been practicing in the Aquatic Centre in Blanch for the past week. I thought the one in Blanch was the only olympic sized one in Ireland. I'm probably wrong though :L

Clontarf was the first one. It was the one good legacy Michelle De Bruin left the country as it was commission straight after her "Success"

Mars Bar · 02-08-2012 05:38PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I was actually talking to my mate the other day about something similar. With the thousands of delinquent children in the country that are frequently in the courts, maybe we should create an Olympic programme to get these people to turn their lives around. If they break the law, they get shunted into the Olympic Programme and if they fail or show no real effort they get shunted off to prison for their crimes.

The kids will have no choice in what they are entered in and are divided by physical stature and genetics. The tall ones go off to the likes of rowing and swimming and the smaller/mid sized ones go to the likes of Cycling, Table Tennis, Archery, Badminton. Again if they are not interested, they go to prison. Plus we will never have to listen about how they had little opportunity in life.

Its cheaper than shunting them off to prison and a lifetime of social welfare.

I'd love to be in an Olympic programme but I'm not and never will be a criminal. Why do jackasses get the chance at something class and not law abiding citizens?

Chuck Stone · 02-08-2012 05:38PM

Watching them do their thing on the balance beam gives me the heebie jeebies.

keith16 · 02-08-2012 05:39PM

garv123 wrote: »

Anyone see the british lad boxing? He got flaked around the place in the last round, barely keeping on his feet against the world no.1 and was then given the win on a second count. Rte commentators and the studio were talking about it there and they said it was a disgrace.

I actually flicked over thinking it was a foregone conclusion. I cannot believe that.

Mars Bar · 02-08-2012 05:43PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Watching them do their thing on the balance beam gives me the heebie jeebies.

I can't watch it as I feel they are gonna mess up. Gabby Douglas just nailed it though!

Richard Hillman · 02-08-2012 05:44PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'd love to be in an Olympic programme but I'm not and never will be a criminal. Why do jackasses get the chance at something class and not law abiding citizens?

The decent folk get the option of joining the programme in whatever genre they want. The "jackasses" have no option and if they show no interest in their selected genre or dont become supreme athletes they go to prison and therefore select their ****ty lives.

garv123 · 02-08-2012 05:44PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The American synchronised swimmers have been practicing in the Aquatic Centre in Blanch for the past week. I thought the one in Blanch was the only olympic sized one in Ireland. I'm probably wrong though :L

UL have a 50meter Olympic pool, often have I been in it splashing like a drowning dog after the sauna. :pac:

Floor at the shallow end can drop from .4m to 2m

NegativeCreep · 02-08-2012 05:45PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

I can't watch it as I feel they are gonna mess up. Gabby Douglas just nailed it though!

Saw one girl fall straight onto her flange the other day. It looked so painful! don't know how they do it, it's brilliant :L

Colmustard · 02-08-2012 05:54PM

Originally Posted by garv123
Anyone see the british lad boxing? He got flaked around the place in the last round, barely keeping on his feet against the world no.1 and was then given the win on a second count. Rte commentators and the studio were talking about it there and they said it was a disgrace.

I was talking to my father and he follows boxing the way others follow football and he was saying the general standard of judging is the worse he has seen and about that particular fight he said the judgement was so dreadful that it was as if the judges were corrupt.

Lets hope they get it together for our fights.

Colmustard · 02-08-2012 05:55PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The decent folk get the option of joining the programme in whatever genre they want. The "jackasses" have no option and if they show no interest in their selected genre or dont become supreme athletes they go to prison and therefore select their ****ty lives.

They will all pick shooting:D

opinion guy · 02-08-2012 05:57PM

Does Ireland even have a velodrome ??

I'm assuming not. I've never heard of one.

Could be a laugh if you could drink beer and place bets like for the dogs

London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

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