Olympics best bits

[Maljonic]

Ignoring all the runup politics, I just wondered if anyone is watching the events and which ones/competitors are you most impressed with?

I was most impressed so far with our cyclists and that America swimmer, Pelps (sp?), who swims 5 miles on an easy day's exercise....

However, I just watched the female beach volleyball in the pouring rain, Jebus!

 

[DaGaffer]

Bolt in the 100 and 200M; so far ahead of the rest I have suspicions he's a cyborg.

 

[Will]

I was most impressed with the cycling, but then again, I am obsessed with cycling anyway, and Chris Hoy is local. Well, was, he lives in Manchester nowadays.

 

[taB]

I was most impressed with the cycling, but then again, I am obsessed with cycling anyway, and Chris Hoy is local. Well, was, he lives in Manchester nowadays.

Same for me with the sailing, always love watching it even though I find most people see it as dull as fuck

 

[Jupitus]

Hmmm... one of my favourite bits so far was seeing both USA 4x100 relay teams drop the baton in the heats

 

[mycenae]

the 4 man and 2 man mens rowing was awesome x

 

[Kryten]

The female weightlifter that failed the lift, walked out in floods of tears and smacked her head on the side of the wall Comedy.

And the Australians having a whinge because we're doing better than them in sport - accusing us of cheating etc

 

[chipper]

ive really enjoyed the swimming especially watching adlington blow away a WR by over 2 seconds

phelps was a bit i dunno expected so it really wasnt that exciting

bolt winning the 100m 200m amazing never seen anything like it

cycling GB well wow what more needs to be said chris hoy and romero just destroyed all competition in there path

rowing was very fierce too and im glad we defended our gold in the coxless fours

all in all its been a great olympics china and usa have stormed away up the medal table but its been great to see some of the smaller countries perform so well

 

[rynnor]

Upsetting the Aussies!

 

[DaGaffer]

Here's a wierd thing; China and the USA top the table, and the Russians are up there as well, as you'd expect, all big countries, so their success is 'proportional' to their size. But what about India? 1bn people and only two medals? Do Indians just not give a toss about it then?

 

[rynnor]

Here's a wierd thing; China and the USA top the table, and the Russians are up there as well, as you'd expect, all big countries, so their success is 'proportional' to their size. But what about India? 1bn people and only two medals? Do Indians just not give a toss about it then?

No money spent on it - no doubt India could produce a load of champs if they wanted to focus on it but they have bigger problems currently.

 

[JingleBells]

Here's a wierd thing; China and the USA top the table, and the Russians are up there as well, as you'd expect, all big countries, so their success is 'proportional' to their size. But what about India? 1bn people and only two medals? Do Indians just not give a toss about it then?

Cricket isn't in the olympics

 

[Wij]

Or Kabaddi

 

[chipper]

Cricket isn't in the olympics

nor should it be its a big enough sport on its own that has its own major tournaments


thats why football basketball and baseball should also be removed from the olympics

the olympics should be the pinnacle of any sporting persons career they are at the top of their chosen game etc and theres no bigger stage for them than the olympics

where as football we have the world cup which is always huge probably more so than the olympics

baseball we have the world series which i will remind everyone still only contains US teams

basketball im not actually sure, its not a uk sport and as such gets little to no coverage here so i have no idea if theres a world championships or not if not then fair enough keep it in

i know most of hte other olympic sports have world championships but they dont approach the size or scale of things like the world cup.

 

[Ch3tan]

Football should be in the olympics, but they should remove the overage players rule. Under 23's only.

Tennis has a tournament roughly every two months, should that not be an olympic event?

It's wierd, the olympics is meant to be for amateur sports people, but can you imagine that being the case for football, tennis, etc? Pub teams?

 

[Lazarus]

erm....chets

Tennis and Football ARE in the Olympics

 

[JingleBells]

baseball we have the world series which i will remind everyone still only contains US teams

Last time I looked Toronto was in Canada

 

[Maljonic]

Also there are other baseball leagues that don't take part in the World Series, Japan for instance where baseball is huge. It's also played by a lot of South American countries, African countries and countries in and around the Pacific. In fact I think there was, and might be again in the future, some kind of competition being arranged that really does include all the world's baseball teams, which I believe Japan won the first time around?

Anyway, just looking at the medals, I think it's pretty cool that GB is only one gold medal behind Russia so far, 4th place overall.

 

[Will]

American baseball in the Olympics = drug testing.


Epic Fail.

 

[Maljonic]

Isn't there drug testing with everything in the Olympics?

 

[Ch3tan]

erm....chets

Tennis and Football ARE in the Olympics

Yes I know, I was responding to chippers post. It is why I said football should be in but with a much more strict age restriction.

 

[Sockstuff]

Taekwondo has clearly been the best - BBC NEWS | World | Cuban taekwondo star kicks ref

 

[DaGaffer]

Taekwondo has clearly been the best - BBC NEWS | World | Cuban taekwondo star kicks ref

Seems to have been a huge amount of criticism of the Taekwando judges; I heard the Brit guy moaning about them on the radio, and one of the Brit girls had trouble too.

 

[Gray]

I loved the fact his opponent was dancing around after the decision was made. Him flying the flag. Awesome stuff!

 

[chipper]

Last time I looked Toronto was in Canada

oh right 1 team from 1 country on its border my bad =)

 

[00dave]

stupid Aussies why can't they just accept that they're rubbish

BBC NEWS | UK | 'Sour grapes' at GB success

 

[Raven]

The ending ceremony. Can get back to ignoring more interesting rubbish on TV again.

 

[Maljonic]

stupid Aussies why can't they just accept that they're rubbish

BBC NEWS | UK | 'Sour grapes' at GB success

I think it's more of a case of a BBC reporter interviewing 200 Aussies, then only showing the 4 or 5 clips of people who didn't tell him to piss off and get a life and went along with the usual light-hearted Aus vs UK thing that's always shown when we beat them at anything.

 

[DaGaffer]

I think it's more of a case of a BBC reporter interviewing 200 Aussies, then only showing the 4 or 5 clips of people who didn't tell him to piss off and get a life and went along with the usual light-hearted Aus vs UK thing that's always shown when we beat them at anything.

Hmm. not so sure about that; I was in Oz during the last Ashes and they are vicious when it comes to sport and pom-bashing. Even the TV ads were pretty nasty (stuff no one would dare try in the UK). The Australians can give and take most of the time, but they have a major sports blindspot.

 

[Maljonic]

I guess, but it's not really violent type vicious is it? I always thought it was more of a tradition amongst the sports heads, sort of part of the game or fun, like hating the French. Or did they actually try and beat you up too?