The Official Olympic Thread

[Fredo]

He's referring to Seb Coe, you idiot.

Judo sparring partner?

[Bender]

where are GB on the medals table ?

[Fredo]

where are GB on the medals table ?

None

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=olympics%20medals&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=9280096ef5b2ad4c&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1366&bih=682

[Bender]

[Neil Young]

I'm not going to deny I don't fully understand it (neither am I going to pass an oppotunity to have a dig at Rugby League )

Just you wait till you have to explain the Kerin!!!

Yeah, the Keirin is pretty crazy.

Cycling is a really complex sport. It's an individual sport and team sport. It's a sport where you compete against other riders but also benefit from their presence. It's a sport where each rider or team is out for themselves but can also forge alliances with other riders and teams. It suits riders with all sorts of different strengths and any one of those different types of rider might win the same race, depending on what happens in the race. There are races that last a day but also races that last up to three weeks, each day of which is composed of a single race but that also adds up to the overall race. The courses vary from dead flat to high mountains. It takes place in almost any conditions from sunshine at 36ºC in dead calm to snow and fog and strong winds.

And that's before we get to time-trialling, let alone track cycling, BMX and mountain biking.

I don't mind at all that people don't understand it, it's the idea no one does that is mildly infuriating!

The other thing to say is ignore what you can of the mainstream media. Or at least keep in mind that they're probably oversimplifying massively, either to make it approachable for the uninitiated or, more likely, because they don't understand it themselves!

[Gibbo]

Another Druggy bites the dust.

Uzbekistan gymnast this time.

[Neil Young]

Judo sparring partner?

Yes. It does conjure up quite an image.

[Fredo]

Yes. It does conjure up quite an image.

So Coe is close to the Tories then?

[Red_Polo]

So Coe is close to the Tories then?

Used to be a Tory MP.

[Neil Young]

So Coe is close to the Tories then?

In the sense he used to be a Tory MP, yes, I suppose so.

[Neil Young]

And in the sense he used to grapple with William Hague in a dressing gown, then yes, very close indeed.

[Fredo]

Ah. Thanks.

[Suarez]

Will they ever have MMA at the Olympics?

[Fredo]

The women's cycle race is being run in very different conditions than the men's yesterday.

[Suarez]

The women's cycle race is being run in very different conditions than the men's yesterday.

Yep, theres not one man in the peleton, not one

Being serious though, this is also half the distance, why I don't know. The same with tennis, why can't the women play the best of 5 sets?