London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Little piece on Jimmy Magee getting a replica torch, his 14th Olympics which in anybody's book is frankly amazing, well done Jimmy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Watching the hockey now, the bodies on these women are absolutely perfect for me, I would crawl through a mile of glass to be in the same postcode as any of them...
Or I could just get on the tube to Stratford!
Also Barry Davies commentating, what a man and voice, loved when he did football, so much better than the over the top Sky nonsense nowadays.

Barry Davies is still the finest commentator out there. He always brings class to any occasion. He was absolutely shafted by the BBC for football with his lack of big games. They always gave Motson the big matches (until he went a bit mad).

My name is URL wrote: »

Gary Lineker is seriously annoying. "Well that was a terrific display.. let's have a look back now at the terrific moments from today.. well, wasn't that all just terrific?"

Is he being sarcastic or have all those terrific crisps clogged up the language part of his brain?

Dan Walker on BBC3 is a super cool and likeable presenter - they really should be reversed.

I noticed that when they don't do really well at the swimming, Australia don't get many medals.

I suppose i'm a bit late realizing that there's more to sport than GAA and Soccer but you never stop learning. I'm surprising myself at how easy it is to get into and really enjoy other sports.

keith16 wrote: »

Nothing like the Olympics for getting into a load of sports. How was that burger?

I think I broke two records, lifting and eating it.

Was just down in the gym at my local pool and the place is jammed with Michael Phelps wannabees, the swimming bug has caught on. These aren't children either, 35 year old fellas thrashing in the water like fish on hooks.

I'll give it 2 weeks at best before their interest wains.

There's the record for highest score gone

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Was just down in the gym at my local pool and the place is jammed with Michael Phelps wannabees, the swimming bug has caught on. These aren't children either, 35 year old fellas thrashing in the water like fish on hooks.

I'll give it 2 weeks at best before their interest wains.

Commonly known as "Wimbledon syndrome"

Mars Bar wrote: »

Deng LinLin looks about 7 years old.

LOL she got this last time around too, so much so that she was investigated. She's 20. Chinese gymnasts are never ever tall, it's not in their nature as a nation anyway. Occasionally one comes along that genuinely looks old enough to compete though.

That was a pretty crappy all-around as far as they go. Two top contenders were injured- Larisa Iordache had to water down her routines so much that she was well out of the running, has developed severe heel pain. Yao Jinnan has a thigh injury and has been well underpar at these games and Jordyn Wieber the current world champion was screwed out of qualifying by the 2 per country rule. Awful to see Komova's crappy vault landing and know she couldn't catch Gabby after that. Gabby was excellent today and hit everything, however her scores were extremely bloated, very overscored. She was not the only one, but hers were more out of line. It would have made it much more exciting to watch if everyone was scored fairly. Sad to see Mustafina fall and not be able to do the same vault as the others, which took her out of contention. And for Aly Raisman to fall foul of a tiebreaker rule. Funnily enough, the gymnastics governing body said earlier this year they were getting rid of it- it also caused much controversy at the 2008 games. Once again, it causes outrage and screws someone out of what they thought was a legit tie. Well done to Gabby but very sad to see such a depleted field and ridiculous scoring.