The Olympic Thread

[Plymouth Gull]

All in all, great weekend for us. Delighted for Murray.

[stevegull]

All in all, great weekend for us. Delighted for Murray.

But would he have traded in that gold in exchange for a Wimbledon title? I think so. And IMO olympic sports should be the pinnacle of the events they contain.

Don't get me wrong, he did very well and it's nice to get another gold in the pot, and I'm sure he worked immensely hard for it, I'm just not sure about tennis at the olympics.

[stevegull]

Watching it all last night though was electric. So pleased that so many events have so many fans creating such a big atmosphere. Ennis is a delight and I'm pleased that Rutherford seemingly came from nowwhere to win the gold. And Mo Farah, he certainly knows how to finish a long distance race!! Phenomenal.

[cambgull]

Water Polo, what a sport. Only in a game invented by the British could you have a country which ends up the group stages on 0 points with the least goals scored and the most goals conceded get through to the Quarter Final, and then when we lose that, we get to play in another round. Proof that it really IS the taking part that counts! And the worst thing? We didn't even do as well as the Chinese who had half a team which couldn't even stand up in the shallow end. I'm not even joking or being racist, it's true...

[Wisconsin_gull]

Have the health and safety got involved in the design of the olympic podia?
Silver is only 40 thou higher than Bronze and Gold is barely 18" off the deck....
Other than that - quality all round. Games should be in London all the time!
Delighted with my Team GB cycling jersey, just need a couple of field mice and some double sided tape and I would look like the great man himself!

[AustrianAndyGull]

Podia?!!!!!

WTF is that?!!!

Sounds like the car FIAT forgot to make!

[cambgull]

Had an interesting evening tonight, my local pub was chosen by BBC Look East (our local news, like Spotlight) as the local place for Robbie Grabarz. I got interviewed but it didn't get shown. I did get on TV though! Good on Robbie Grabarz though, ended up with a bronze in the High Jump. Feel quite proud to have met him a couple times.

[AustrianAndyGull]

Saw him on the telly. He was genuinely overjoyed to get the bronze and good luck to him.

Also, Victoria Pendleton without make-up............what's all the fuss about?

Also, Mark Cavendish. TIT

[Scott Brehaut]

Saw him on the telly. He was genuinely overjoyed to get the bronze and good luck to him.

Also, Victoria Pendleton without make-up............what's all the fuss about?

Also, Mark Cavendish. TIT

Andy,

I heard that you aren't all that without the makeup either.

[AustrianAndyGull]

I know mate but i'm better looking than Victoria Pendleton!

[Scott Brehaut]

Each to their own I guess.

Personally, if she ever had the fortune to find herself in my bed, I wouldn't kick her out - makeup or not

[Southampton Gull]

Scott, if you ever find her in "your" bed, trust me mate, you're lost

[Regiment]

i've really gotten into the olympics. I was so fed up at having applied for tickets for all sorts of stuff and ended up with sweet fa, that i thought to hell with it. but right from the opening ceremony, i've been hooked, and watched so much of it. i am even more pi**ed now that i didn't get any tickets, and not even being able to get into the olympic park without a ticket sucks ass. Being in and around London has been brilliant though.

Having always considered myself English, not British, always the St George, never the Union Jack, i've become a proud Brit over the past 2 weeks (still hate Andy Murray though, not because he's scottish, just because he's a **** - credit where it's due though, he played really well and deserved his gold).

In order to go to SOMETHING Olympic related, i'm off to coventry tomorrow for the bronze medal match in the girlies footy. had half expected GB to get that far, but i'll have to settle for Canada v France.

and I've got tickets to the Paralympics now, so we'll be there to see the athletics and wheelchair basketball, and be totally put to shame by all those remarkable people.

[happytorq]

as an exile I've been really proud to see the Olympics taking place in London. I mean, London isn't usually a place I care that much about, but seeing all the stuff that's going on there I've been way prouder than I thought I would be. Must admit to being a bit choked up when I watched the opening ceremony.

I miss the BBC though. Coverage here has been a joke. And they make the BBC bias towards the Brit athletes look second-rate.

[EmetEdadsBeard]

One of the very reasons i have little interest in the Olympics these days is currently being shown live NOW!
Some posh tvvat on a horse, wearing atop hat ffs (the posh tvvat, not the horse) prancing around doing pirouettes to what the commentator has just described as 'lovely music' wit a massive mark foe 'artistic impression'.
Ballroom dancing on horses is not sport.