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London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Mint Sauce

Okay, so After Hours doesn't usally do sports threads, barr the odd exception. But with only 11 days* to to one of the biggest sporting fortnights on the earth, and with what is preety much a Home Olympics for us, well its the closest it will ever come here. Prehaps its appropiate that the good folks of After Hours post all their thoughts, amusing observations, the scandel, and prehaps even the odd result here.

So here we go, you excited yet?

*9 days till the Football competition

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

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Pherekydes

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.

keith16

pithater1 wrote: »

Some way to finish it, when was the last time Fed was beaten in straight sets?

Just now.

Mint Sauce

leahyl wrote: »

OMG tears are starting to fall - why did that little boy have to give him a hug dammit!!

Time to get the covers on.

phasers

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

Scanlas The 2nd

pithater1 wrote: »

Some way to finish it, when was the last time Fed was beaten in straight sets?

A couple months ago in the French open semi final.

Mint Sauce

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

He took Federer apart today.

Hope he kicks on from this and wins a Grand Slam.

US Open coming up soon.

Rascasse

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.

P_1

keith16 wrote: »

Just now.

Before that, nevermind him losing, losing in straight sets is just something Fed generally doesn't do.

Pudsy33

irish-stew wrote: »

Pudsy33 wrote: »

19 45 I think, but not sure

9.50

That's the final, he asked about the semi

keith16

pithater1 wrote: »

Before that, nevermind him losing, losing in straight sets is just something Fed generally doesn't do.

True, shocking amount of unforced errors from him.

phasers

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

Guy:Incognito

Monday morning in 8 days is going to be such a come down.

titan18

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.

Guy:Incognito

They should bring out a tray of Lindor Truffles for Federer instead of flowers

keith16

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Monday morning in 8 days is going to be such a come down.

Just becom a heroin addict. That will take your mind off it.

cgpg5

Well done Murray couldn't be happier for him. Another gold for GB! Great stuff

Shryke

I have never been this into the olympics. It's ridiculously compelling.

Guy:Incognito

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

Corruptedmorals

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.

CivilServant

Federer is a class act. Still looked happy and in good spirits receiving silver.

robinph

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

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

Channel 4 have the Paraylympics coverage.

keith16

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

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

I think Channel 4 are covering the paralympics.

phasers

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

leahyl

CivilServant wrote: »

Federer is a class act. Still looked happy and in good spirits receiving silver.

But inside he's seething :-P

Rascasse

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.

marco_polo

titan18 wrote: »

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.

At the time they were relatively new regulations, and it was completely accepted even as the ban was handed down that there was no question of it being anything other than extreme carelessness on her behalf, as she was tested on numerous occasions within weeks either of the missed tests.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/2325245/Dates-prove-Christine-Ohuruogu-is-no-cheat.html

nice_very

Irish guy warming up for the cycling sprint on bbc3

Mars Bar

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Horriffic women's vault final in gymnastics, literally the worst one I have ever seen.

My sister and I were saying the same thing. Quality was terrible!

Anyone

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

Jimoslimos

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.

Just like Kostas Kenteris and E. Thanou?

To miss one test is unfortunate, two is careless and three........

Rio Ferdinand missed one and was banned for eight months, she can consider herself fortunate to only have received a 1 year ban