London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

patmac wrote: »

Girl is a loose term here, well known druggie Christine O'muireheartaigh hope to God she doesn't win, not because she is British but because she is a drugs cheat, same goes for Gatlin and Chambers in the 100m.

The usual ignorant sh1te. She's not a druggie or a drug cheat. She had a ban because of three missed tests. Athletes are allowed miss tests, just not 3. Sh1t happens. Anyone can miss a test.

phasers wrote: »

what time is the mixed doubles final? Murray is playing brilliantly in these games

It was scheduled for 4pm. I hope they give him 15 mins to get his breath.

irish-stew wrote: »

Pudsy33 wrote: »

19 45 I think, but not sure

9.50

That's the final, he asked about the semi

Rascasse wrote: »

It was scheduled for 4pm. I hope they give him 15 mins to get his breath.

Jayney what a schedule! Hopefully the adrenaline will help him

Pherekydes wrote: »

The usual ignorant sh1te. She's not a druggie or a drug cheat. She had a ban because of three missed tests. Athletes are allowed miss tests, just not 3. Sh1t happens. Anyone can miss a test.

Anyone can miss a test, true. You miss 3 tests and you're either hiding something or you're so stupid that you have trouble tying your shoelaces.

Horriffic women's vault final in gymnastics, literally the worst one I have ever seen. Canadian Elsabeth Black crashes her first vault, is injured on it and balks after running for her second one and doesn't vault. First (and second) receive a zero, but it's another controversial zero (a vault is zeroed if anything other than your feet hit the mat first) as it looks like she MAY have got her feet down.

Dominican Republic's Yamilet Pena Abreu spectacularly crashes her impossible vault- which few men attempt at all, nevermind women. She has sat the thing for over a year now, but gets a score as her feet hit first. Normally happy to be alive after vaulting (people predict her death when she throws that vault) she is absolutely gutted not to medal- must have been insane pressure on her, sad to see.

Russia's Maria Paseka comes off the mat entirely which is a huge deduction..and isn't deducted for it. She gets bronze and screws over the two very clean and ON the mat vaults by Germany's Janine Berger.

The outright favourite McKayla Maroney whose vault screenshot from team finals went viral as it showed judges with their mouths open at how spectacular it was SITS her second vault. This was seen as the only sure-thing gold in all of gymnastics, male or female. She would have won with a huge margin if she had vaulted like she did in qualification. Even with the sit-down and a non-perfect landing on her first vault- she loses gold by only one tenth, an absolutely tiny margin, which shows how fantastic her vaulting is. Sandra Izbasa takes gold, deservedly- great vaults. But this was a sickening final.

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

BBC are hardly going to have such blanket covered of the paralympics are they? Be great of they were.

Afaik channel 4 broadcast the Paralympics

titan18 wrote: »

Anyone can miss a test, true. You miss 3 tests and you're either hiding something or you're so stupid that you have trouble tying your shoelaces.

It was found that it was impossible for her to have doped as she was tested in between and after the two missed test (the third was from a previous year).

From the Telegraph:

Tests she missed:
Oct 12 2005: Testers waited for an hour at Mile End stadium, but Ohuruogu failed to appear.

June 28 2006: Ohuruogu tried to drive across London when she realised she had not notified testers she had switched training venues from Mile End to the Olympic Medical Institute in Harrow. She failed to make it in time.

July 25 2006: A school sports day at Mile End forced her to relocate at the last minute to Crystal Palace. In the panic to drive to the venue, Ohuruogu forgot to tell the testers.

Tests she passed:
July 16 2006: Ohuruogu underwent a random test following her run in the 200m at the European Championship trials in Manchester where she finished fifth. Result: negative.

July 28 2006: Finished last in the 400m at the British Grand Prix at Crystal Palace. Again chosen at random to be tested. Result: negative.

Irish guy warming up for the cycling sprint on bbc3

F00king hell, the womens weightlifting.....Russian woman just lifted 149kg(about 23 stone in old money). New world record.