The Olympics

[The_weatherman]

i was lafin at u, im wid shaggy didnt even know what handball was. iceland is a nice country though lad.

Don't know why I bother with you rednecks

[Vermilion]

mmmmmmm trust me duckie....this is how we teach the Heimlich Maneuver here................

[Shaggy]

Totally agree, 1st thing I thought when I saw it, Mario Kart on Bikes

Waluigi Stadium

[Bari]

Waluigi Stadium

yep, although they should have modeled the bmx racing on DK jungle track with a rising ramp. Any chance S Reade actually slipped on an invisible bananna thrown by the french lass.

[Shaggy]

[Guest]

Is this thing still going ? Haven't had a snip of this competition.

[omara]

Un-bíb-beivable

Iceland just beat Spain in the semi finals, playing France sunday morning at 9 for the gold, this is a feat the surpasses Phelps and Bolt by far :bird:

We have beaten Russia, Germany and Spain, drawing with Denmark and Egypt and losing to S-Korea by a single goal!

This is just too good to be true, and you forget about our win against Poland, who drew against France in their group. This could be the greatest achievement in team sports since their invention. Perhaps Norwegians would disagree after beating Russia in the women's final. Every Icelander and his dog will be up at 8 am gmt for the men's final. And we have two of the best players in the world: our captain/philosopher (and beeper) and the best left-handed player, and our playmaker. And our First Lady says that we are "stórasta" (something like "biggerishist") country, she's from Britain you know.

[Slim]

Saw the handball. Iceland got well beat.

[The_weatherman]

They got well beat yeah, but I think it was more down to a change in attitude than anything else, they had been really upbeat and positive for the other games but they looked more serious now, it was like they were thinking about winning this one at all costs rather than just playing as well as they could and staying positive.

Still a magnificent achievement, I think this is the first time a country with less then a million inhabitants wins a medal in team sports (we are about 310.000).

[omara]

Saw the handball. Iceland got well beat.

It was disappointing to see France full of confidence and hunger to win (and a goalie out of this world!), but our players finally couldn't override their usual bad spell, against the best team in the world. That doesn't take anything away from our lads great heroics; silver is always nice.

[SouthAfricaRed]

Steph Rice nabs our first (of many) gold in the pool

I see Miss Rice is dating Michael Phelps

If They have a kid, I reckon it will walk on water

[Pablo]

[sarcasm/]Where's the next Olympics being held then? You'd have thought it would have been publicised on TV or summat, havent even heard a a mere whisper about it.[/sarcasm]

[Jayesh87]

[sarcasm/]Where's the next Olympics being held then? You'd have thought it would have been publicised on TV or summat, havent even heard a a mere whisper about it.[/sarcasm]

London 2012

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[Shaggy]

Asafa Powell has just run 9.72 in Lausanne! The second fastest time ever.

Why oh why can't he do it when it matters. Imagine if he'd turned up in Beijing!

[Pablo]

Phenomenal stuff. Now I dont want to start another thread like the Paula Radcliffe one but I cant helping thinking this sudden, massive improvement in Jamaican sprinting is very suspicious.