cgpg5 wrote: » Well done Murray couldn't be happier for him. Another gold for GB! Great stuff
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.
Jimoslimos wrote: » 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
cgpg5 wrote: » Roger Federer is a gent
Guy:Incognito wrote: » Whats the story with all these eejits holding up ipads and taking pictures of stuff 30 metres + away? Its a bloody 5mp camera on a tablet. Do these people not have phones at least or do they just want everone to know they have an ipad?
Corruptedmorals wrote: » 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.
Pherekydes wrote: » Jeez, did you never forget anything?
Rascasse wrote: » 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.
Jimoslimos wrote: » Just like Kostas Kenteris and E. Thanou?
metaoblivia wrote: » It was a shocking final. Maroney had hit 59 consecutive vaults up until that point. She said during the press conference afterwards that she wasn't disappointed with her silver medal - she was disappointed with her performance. Class. And Izbasa was the deserved winner. I'm American, but I would have been uncomfortable with an Olympic champ who had fall. Frankly, I'm uncomfortable with the silver medalist having fall, but Maroney does have such a huge advantage over everyone else in both difficulty and execution. And how about that men's pommels final? Britain has to be feeling a little undone by this competition. First, the fluke in team finals, sending them from silver to bronze, and now a tie breaker that worked out in favor of Berki instead of Smith (although I've personally always preferred Berki to Smith).
leahyl wrote: » So Federer let Murray win? JUST KIDDING!
Rascasse wrote: » 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.
Jimoslimos wrote: » The ones she missed seem to be out-of-competition. Rather important in the context of athletes cycling their doping regimes to be clean during competition time.
el diablo wrote: » leahyl wrote: » So Federer let Murray win? JUST KIDDING! Murray wanted it more.... Simple.
titan18 wrote: » If you had to be at a meeting to save your job, would you forget it? Or worse, forget it 3 times.
Guy:Incognito wrote: » Jimoslimos wrote: » The ones she missed seem to be out-of-competition. Rather important in the context of athletes cycling their doping regimes to be clean during competition time. Would all traces be gone in 3 days?
Corruptedmorals wrote: » I am fed up of tiebreakers. How many are we at now? Aly Raisman screwed entirely, Denis Ablyazin misses silver due to one and now again in pommel horse Smith loses gold. Still seven events to go! Scoring has been shocking so far. Just give both the meal if they have the same score! Berki IS better, but Smith has the higher difficulty..tough to call that one. Still, Whitlock's bronze was pretty unexpected...TF bronze, a silver and bronze in EF and still have Beth to go..that's a pretty phenomenal Olympics in GB gymnastics' book. I think McKayla deserved that silver, her difficulty and execution just put her so far ahead. So close to the gold shows how great she is. Gutted for her.
Guy:Incognito wrote: » Would all traces be gone in 3 days?
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.
patmac wrote: » Not ignorant sh1te, she was banned for drug offences for missing 3 tests, I would rather accept the IOC's decision than your opinion.
