Looks like a competitive basketball game has broken out.
Spain 84 vs 85 America
4th Quarter.
Spain 84 vs 85 America
4th Quarter.
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The USA win in the basketball
We come not to play.Comment
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The shooting and running looks to be going quite well.Oh I don't know.Comment
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Silver.Oh I don't know.Comment
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Desperatly watching the Water Polo as I don't want it all to be over.
*Except Michael, who died.Comment
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Sad isn't it. Very sad.
Are we winning?Comment
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It's all over
Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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It's going to leave a big hole in my life
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Time for a backlash...
Seriously, I'm starting to get tired about the deification of Jessica Ennis. One of the numerous (and seemingly interminable) BBC montages featured all the great athletes that stand out from all the other gold medal winners. Phelps, Bolt, Hoy, Ainslie are true Olympic greats. Farah gets in there. But Ennis? Really? Maybe I'm missing something about her achievement - she didn't set a world record, did she? - but surely she's just one winner who happens to be better looking than most (even then, she isn't Pendleton).
I'm not having a go at her - she's obviously a fine athlete and seems a very nice, as well as very attractive, young woman.
It's not her fault but the media are exploiting her to chase ratings and get click throughs and sell papers..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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That's what I was referring at earlier, think it was a couple of weeks ago, but everyone missed the point.Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
Are we winning?Comment
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I think two weeks of Olympics has been quite enough, otherwise, there's a risk of oversaturation. They've been a great Games, full of humility and sporting genius.Comment
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The closing ceremony can't top the opening one cant it? Anyone excited?Oh I don't know.Comment
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She was the poster girl for the Olympics before hand though and so it's only natural that her success has been a little overplayed. Having said that, surely it is better to promote the likes of Ennis as role models for youngsters rather than the usual Only Way Is Essex types that fill the media space?Originally posted by Neil Young View PostComment
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Feels like someone very close to me is going away for a very long time....
"Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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Of course. But that isn't really the choice here. It was a montage about the individuals whose performances have stood out from the rest. To me, hers didn't.Originally posted by captainfog View Post
It's a minor issue of course as the BBC's coverage has, in general, been excellent. I just think they've gone the balance a bit wrong on Ennis on occasion, especially the one I'm referring to.
Now, Simon Barnes' perving over her in The Times it is that pays him to lech and then write about it, that's odious. Maybe that's unfair though since I've only read the odd excerpt. Except it isn't. (And also his style is pretentious and dull.).
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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