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London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

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  • #5102
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    So Mr Sturridge, how do you feel? oooooohhhhh, that bad? Never mind. Over to you Mel.


  • #5103
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Team GB have been knocked out on Penalties. Bit like watching England.

    :(


  • #5104
    markie29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭markie29


    fionnsda wrote: »
    out you go brits Ha

    dont think many British people would care about these over hyped footballers after all the glory they have had in the velodrome,rowing,track and field and other sports they have won medals in.


  • #5105
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,379 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Tox56 wrote: »
    Ronan O'Gara was born in San Diego, I doubt the US will be making a claim for him anytime soon

    Probably because they don't give a fúck about rugby.


  • #5106
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Sturridge had a howler of a match tbh, he shouldn't have taken a penalty


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  • #5107
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Mountainlad wrote: »
    It's importatn they get their dues.

    Anyone know what the deal is with Victor Costello on RTE? Is he a sports editor of a national paper, or what was the reasoning behind him being on to talk about the athletics?

    It's RTE so it doesn't have to make sense. They probably needed an expert for the discus and rang him going, "ah shure Victor, you must have thrown a frisbee once or twice in your time"


  • #5108
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Colmustard wrote: »
    I won't watch the Olympic mens football I don't regard it as an Olympic event, women's yes because they are all amateurs, I have the attitude to the tennis.

    I don't understand how professionals are allowed to play in these events, when boxers can't enter the Olympics once they turn professional. :confused:


  • #5109
    youreadthis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭youreadthis


    Colmustard wrote: »
    I won't watch the Olympic mens football I don't regard it as an Olympic event, women's yes because they are all amateurs, I have the attitude to the tennis.

    Yeah and Bolt's an amateur sprinter.


  • #5110
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Mountainlad wrote: »
    It's importatn they get their dues.

    Anyone know what the deal is with Victor Costello on RTE? Is he a sports editor of a national paper, or what was the reasoning behind him being on to talk about the athletics?

    Used to play No8 for Leinster and Ireland, also was national champion at Shot Putt at some stage if memory serves me right.


  • #5111
    donfers
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭donfers


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Unbelievable. One of the great Olympic nights

    for team gb - yes

    but the quality of the 10,000 metre field and long jump field were poor, a lot of top performers out injured

    great win by south korea in the football, they deserved it too, better team on the night and nice to see a celtic player hit the winning pen

    jessica ennis - absolutely brilliant, class of the field by a distance, i was hoping she'd get to 7,000 points plus to become the truly elite in heptathlon all time but she was just short, if i was here i would definitely go for the 100 metre hurdles title and double up

    only disappointment of the night was bekele in the 10,000 metres, he ran ok but is a shadow of his former self


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  • #5112
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Originally Posted by Colmustard
    I won't watch the Olympic mens football I don't regard it as an Olympic event, women's yes because they are all amateurs, I have the attitude to the tennis.

    Most Women's footballers are playing pro either in the US, Sweden, France, Germany or Russia. The UK is a Semi-Pro league.

    Great night for the British
    born somalia!

    He moved to the UK when he was 8. Spent his formative years there and identifies himself as British.


  • #5113
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    youreadthis wrote: »
    Yeah and Bolt's an amateur sprinter.

    A lot are professionals but if you are going to field a pro football team why doesn't the best players want to play in it. So if they win they wont be the best in the world.


  • #5114
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,744 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    fionnsda wrote: »
    out you go brits Ha
    Whatever makes you happy, I guess.


  • #5115
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,355 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Tox56 wrote: »
    Ronan O'Gara was born in San Diego, I doubt the US will be making a claim for him anytime soon

    To be fair, when you look at the comment that the poster was replying to, it's a valid one to make

    'surprised that the Africans dropped off towards the end'

    eh.. Africa isn't a country, it's obvious that the poster was referring to ethnicity rather than nationality. And you'd be hard pressed to say that Mo Farah isn't of East African ethicity =p


  • #5116
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    Have ta say, delighted they left the Chinese lad in the 1500m back in after he dived to early. It's understandable that something like that might happen, the nerves and tension mean it's no surprise.

    Would have been very harsh. Fairplay to him for overcoming that and putting in a super race, and clearly meant a lot to him!


  • #5117
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,164 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I haven't been keeping up with Ireland's progress ... not a single medal so far? Ouch. Pull your socks up, people! ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5118
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Mountainlad wrote: »
    Have ta say, delighted they left the Chinese lad in the 1500m back in after he dived to early. It's understandable that something like that might happen, the nerves and tension mean it's no surprise.

    Would have been very harsh. Fairplay to him for overcoming that and putting in a super race, and clearly meant a lot to him!

    But how the hell did he beat the WR by 3 seconds.

    :eek:


  • #5119
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Has Andrew the swimming analyst just come from a wedding??


  • #5120
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    Colmustard wrote: »
    I won't watch the Olympic mens football I don't regard it as an Olympic event, women's yes because they are all amateurs, I have the same attitude to the tennis.

    I'm not bothered whether they're pro or not...I just won't support them because they are seem like a bunch of arrogant stuck up *beep*.

    Then you look at the women footballers and they're fantastic to watch.


  • #5121
    Brian017
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭Brian017


    Colmustard wrote: »
    A lot are professionals but if you are going to field a pro football team why doesn't the best players want to play in it. So if they win they wont be the best in the world.

    Because you're only allowed 3 players over 23 in your squad of 18


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  • #5122
    telekon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    fionnsda wrote: »
    out you go brits Ha

    The fenian is strong in this one...


  • #5123
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Holy jebus the height of the Russian girl, she's still taller than jess even on the podium!


  • #5124
    markie29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭markie29


    bnt wrote: »
    I haven't been keeping up with Ireland's progress ... not a single medal so far? Ouch. Pull your socks up, people! ;)

    Kazakhstan with the philosophy win or nothing at all!...5 gold medals and no other medals to their name.


  • #5125
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    I have a big mad happy grin on my face, this is just a great sporting night.


  • #5126
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Jess is such a class act. Deserves every ounce of her success.


  • #5127
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Brian017 wrote: »
    Because you're only allowed 3 players over 23 in your squad of 18

    Ohh I didn't know that.


  • #5128
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Magnificent showing from Britain at the stadium tonight. Three gold in the space of a half hour.


  • #5129
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,514 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    telekon wrote: »
    Was watching the female discus earlier...the winning throw was a full 10 metres behind the distance set by some east German "woman" back in 1985!!!

    Even madder...that East German's record is over 2 metres farther than the men's record!


  • #5130
    el diablo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,789 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Most Women's footballers are playing pro either in the US, Sweden, France, Germany or Russia. The UK is a Semi-Pro league.

    Great night for the British



    He moved to the UK when he was 8. Spent his formative years there and identifies himself as British.

    And his father is English.

    Orange pilled.



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  • #5131
    telekon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Even madder...that East German's record is over 2 metres farther than the men's record!

    :D

    I think the women's discus is lighter though....


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