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Wednesday 20 AugustOriginally posted by ShaggyAlonso View PostWhen's the final?
1200-1552: Men's 800m round 1, women's hammer final, men's 5000m round 1, men's pole vault qualifying, men's 110m hurdles semi-finals, women's 200m semi-finals, men's 200m final, women's 400m hurdles final.
Not sure of the exact time though mate.
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Kenneth Egan makes it two guaranteed medals for the Irish team!Originally posted by The Erectile Banana View PostIreland has just won it's first medal of the games
Paddy Barnes has secured at least a bronze medal after beating Lukasz Maszczyk 11-5 in the light-flyweight quarter-final.


Egan will take on the British fighter in the semis.A humble guy with healthy desire.
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It's scheduled for 3:20pm tomorrow, i'm fully expecting the world record to go, i just hope he keeps going right until the line and see how much he can really knock off it instead of just beating itOriginally posted by ShaggyAlonso View PostWhen's the final?We managed to rectify it, though, because it now says, "Cook" where it once said "Cock", and "Pass" where it once said "Piss", so it’s slightly less rude.
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I don't think Johnsons record will ever be beatOriginally posted by Gaz View PostIt's scheduled for 3:20pm tomorrow, i'm fully expecting the world record to go, i just hope he keeps going right until the line and see how much he can really knock off it instead of just beating it
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Superbly timed run, looked as though she was well out of it for so long, then she turned on the power and glided past all before her, magnificent.Originally posted by livvy145 View PostChristine Ohuruogu wins the 400m. What a day!
But this drug **** is a real fog on the whole thing, it was the first thing i thought of, i'm ashamed to say, but she has never been tested positive, just missed tests.
So then she has to be given the benefit of the doubt, especially when hearing how the testing is done and arranged, i think.
But the way she came through, so easily, and her build, she's quite a powerful lass, all just made me think.
**** it must be horrible to win clean, and to have always been clean, all the time knowing your efforts will be for ever scrutinised, and worse demeaned, all because of drug cheats.
Well done to her anyway, she was cool as ice on that track, breathing, rhythm, everything coming together for a Gold Medal run.
Proving in the process the World Championship win was no fluke.Last edited by Vermilion; 20-08-08, 12:02 AM.
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what the **** is BMX racing in the olympics for
totally absurd"When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah
"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
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Originally posted by Harveybirdman View Postwhat the **** is BMX racing in the olympics for
totally absurd
It really is but **** it as GB are on for another medal. 
I suppose though it's no more absurd than having baseball in, which is a sport of interest to about 3 countries. And not only that, but they have now allowed softball in as well.
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In Iceland it's all about ...
handball. We've just reached the semi-finals, beating the World Champions Germany
and snatching a draw against Denmark
, the European Champions, in the group stages, and this morning we beat Poland
, which lost the WC final to Germany. So Iceland is at least playing for the bronze. 
Iceland finished fourth at the '92 Olympics in Barcelona, what will happen now?
Not that any of you giants of handball in the former British Empire care.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
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woohoo! 3rd boxing medal for ireland. darren sutherland comprehensively beats world number 2 to go through to semis. whatever the boxers did needs to be studied by the irish olympics council for future reference. instead of giving foreign holidays to arrogant overrated runners we should send a team made up of genuine competitors?Felching ≠ Gerbilling
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Originally posted by omara View Posthandball. We've just reached the semi-finals, beating the World Champions Germany
and snatching a draw against Denmark
, the European Champions, in the group stages, and this morning we beat Poland
, which lost the WC final to Germany. So Iceland is at least playing for the bronze. 
Iceland finished fourth at the '92 Olympics in Barcelona, what will happen now?
Not that any of you giants of handball in the former British Empire care.
Handball...i feel so sorry for the keepers.
Hurling is another one where i i cringe when someone shoots.
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I'm gonna miss it as well weather permitting, ah well
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