The '2012 London Olympics' Thread

[Phoenix]

We have the super heavyweight left for Joshua. He might get a gold,

[Champ]

Maybe it's just the fact GB has done so well, maybe it's the coverage being so readily available, maybe it's just me getting carried away, but this has to be up there with any sporting event ever held.

 

All I heard for the last seven years was 'we're going to fuck it up, it's going to be shit, etc., etc.', but it's been fucking brilliant. I don't think I've enjoyed a set of events like this.

All of this

[Caramac]

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Night all...take care.

 

[Redder Lurtz]

Maybe it's just the fact GB has done so well, maybe it's the coverage being so readily available, maybe it's just me getting carried away, but this has to be up there with any sporting event ever held.

 

All I heard for the last seven years was 'we're going to fuck it up, it's going to be shit, etc., etc.', but it's been fucking brilliant. I don't think I've enjoyed a set of events like this.

 

Exactly this. I knew we wouldn't fuck it up and for me it's the best Olympics I've ever seen.

 

Be immense if we could get to 30 golds.

 

Been a great haul though. I think I'm right in saying also that GB has the best medals to population ratio of any country at the games.

 

Hate to go all Code on you Fausty but I think it's New Zealand by some distance.

[lifetime fan]

That's a quality photo, pity the beeb muted it when they were interviewed together!

[lifetime fan]

Why oh why do they have to keep wheeling that cunt Beckham out?

 

He has fuck all to do with the Olympics let alone gold medal winners.

[col06]

[Special K]

Night all...take care.

 

 

Fucking brilliant

 

THAT is what sport is all about

[Redder Lurtz]

Why oh why do they have to keep wheeling that cunt Beckham out?

 

He has fuck all to do with the Olympics let alone gold medal winners.

 

He played a massive role in the bid though, bit harsh.

 

He's still a twat though.

 

Col that gif is superb.

[col06]

Col that gif is superb.

 

Seen it on another forum had to be nicked

[kelster]

He played a massive role in the bid though, bit harsh.

 

He's still a twat though.

 

Col that gif is superb.

 

He didn't though. This little myth seems to have grown lately for some reason.

 

The IOC members see themselves as sporting diplomats who like to be treated like royalty wherever they go. They get to meet every sporting icon alive such as in the Pele, Messi and Ali class. They've seen it all before and having Beckham squash their hand would have just passed them by. He's just a mere sportsman while they are the top sporting administrators.

 

And he might be a twat, but it was Blair who played all the cards. The amount of lobbying he done even drew complaints from the French as overstepping the mark. Having a smarmy git who was at the top of his worldwide popularity at the time visiting them personally one-to-one is what impressed them. And Jacque Chirac thinking it was beneath him just played more into his hands. Beckham was just part of the team, no more sway than any athlete who was present at the bid.

[lifetime fan]

He played a massive role in the bid though, bit harsh.

 

He's still a twat though.

 

Col that gif is superb.

 

 

So did plenty of others who are actually from a track and field or olympic related event, we'd not been competing at the f**tball for donkeys years till now.

 

Why bring out some fucking idiot who struggles to even speak when there are so many other athletes I would love to hear speak.

[lifetime fan]

Fucking hell, Sally Gunnell is looking rough.

[Phoenix]

 

Hate to go all Code on you Fausty but I think it's New Zealand by some distance.

 

Jamaica I think

[Cardie]

Maybe it's just the fact GB has done so well, maybe it's the coverage being so readily available, maybe it's just me getting carried away, but this has to be up there with any sporting event ever held.

 

All I heard for the last seven years was 'we're going to fuck it up, it's going to be shit, etc., etc.', but it's been fucking brilliant. I don't think I've enjoyed a set of events like this.

 

It's you getting carried away because it's in the UK.

 

The BBC keep trying to push the same line and all the brits are all for it and lap it up while the foreign athletes/commentators aren't overly bothered. They've used that 'is this one of the best nights in the history of the olympics' (or it's variations) so many times that I think Michael Johnson is going to punch inverdale next time.

[clangers]

It's you getting carried away because it's in the UK.

 

The BBC keep trying to push the same line and all the brits are all for it and lap it up while the foreign athletes/commentators aren't overly bothered. They've used that 'is this one of the best nights in the history of the olympics' (or it's variations) so many times that I think Michael Johnson is going to punch inverdale next time.

 

Yep it's just because it's in the UK, we get to watch very local coverage. I was in the US at the time of the Atlanta Olympics and it was very similar (up until the bombing).

 

Even allowing for a little jingoism, it's been a superb sporting event and I've found myself becoming quite addicted to sports that I wouldn't normally even consider. We should be pretty proud as a nation particularly the huge support that has turned up for every event. We've thrown a more than decent Olympic event, whether it's the greatest ever I seriously doubt but that's for posterity to decide.

[lifetime fan]

It's you getting carried away because it's in the UK.

 

The BBC keep trying to push the same line and all the brits are all for it and lap it up while the foreign athletes/commentators aren't overly bothered. They've used that 'is this one of the best nights in the history of the olympics' (or it's variations) so many times that I think Michael Johnson is going to punch inverdale next time.

 

 

And yet Johnson said it was the greatest athletics event he'd seen in his lifetime.

[Cardie]

And yet Johnson said it was the greatest athletics event he'd seen in his lifetime.

 

Playing to the crowd?

 

It's been a good olympics made to seem better because of the British success on British soil.

[lifetime fan]

Playing to the crowd?

 

It's been a good olympics made to seem better because of the British success.

 

 

 

Bolt 100 & 200m.

New WR's in the mens and women 4X100m.

Michael Phelps.

Katie Ledecky.

David Rudisha's 800m world record.

 

That's just a very quick list without even thinking about it and not using any examples of British athletes or successes.

[Chairman Meow]

Playing to the crowd?

 

It's been a good olympics made to seem better because of the British success on British soil.

 

Hard to say how it compares to others but I don't see Johnson playing to the crowd. He's frequently disagreeing with the others and says what he thinks whether the others agree with him or not.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Cardie spouting shite as usual.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Brendan Foster doing the Mo bot..hahaha. Great interview with Mo and Brendan.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Boxing finals start at 13:30. The two fights involving our boxers are as follows.

 

14:15 - 14:26 Men's Welterweight (69kg) with Fred Evans

 

15:15 - 15:26 Men's Super Heavyweight (+91kg) with Anthony Joshua

 

Not a great deal on today. Men's marathon starts at 11am. men's mountain bike at 13:30. Handball final at 11am.

[Champ]

Good to see him given time for a proper interview......unlike Ncola Adams