The Official Olympic Thread

[CJ]

Shaggy

totally agree.


oh and Australia are 2 up against pakistan that means i will see aus gb holland and germany in the semis and then two of them again in the bronze match

great news

[Phoenix07]

Was just thinking about the Paralympics....to be honest I am not in the least bit interested and it kind of bothers me that I'm not. It's discriminatory, isn't it? Is anyone honestly arsed about it? It doesn't sit easily with me, I feel bad for having zero interest.

I don't know about you, but I've heard next to nothing about it. I didn't even know it's starting in 3 weeks time until today.

I've heard nothing about potential competitors or anything.

[dom9]

Was just thinking about the Paralympics....to be honest I am not in the least bit interested and it kind of bothers me that I'm not. It's discriminatory, isn't it? Is anyone honestly arsed about it? It doesn't sit easily with me, I feel bad for having zero interest.

I am going to try to get tickets for the stadium for the Paralympics. I want to go and see it all. But no, im not really fussed about it. Well apart from seeing Pistorius maybe.

Me too.

Was thinking about going, just to see the place and have a look around, and watch some sport. There's no way it's all sold out so there must be loads of tickets available.

Est Paralympic meet up anyone?

[captainfog]

With regard to money spent on swimming, I guess there is a lot of swimmers (endless number of events) and they all need to be supported financially. If we want to do well then our athletes need to treat it as their full time job and they need financial support to do that.

[CJ]

and they are not sponsered by murdoch unlike the cyclists.

[Neil Young]

First the velodrome cost, now this. What's your ****ing problem with cycling?

[CJ]

4- 0 at half time

[Tee]

4- 0 at half time

What match?

[captainfog]

First the velodrome cost, now this. What's your ****ing problem with cycling?

Have you ever been riding in Lanzarote? Went on holiday there earlier on in the year and it was perfect cycling conditions. Lovely weather, smooth roads, amazing scenery, very few cars and great climbs. There are loads of cyclists in their fancy Lycra pedalling there.

Probably going back there in October but I won't be doing any pedalling

[CJ]

What match?

Aus v pakistan

so looks like Aus will top group a with GB second

and

Netherlands topping group b and germany second.

[CJ]

First the velodrome cost, now this. What's your ****ing problem with cycling?

i dont have a problem. I am just saying how the funding table you quoted is misleading.

[Neil Young]

Have you ever been riding in Lanzarote? Went on holiday there earlier on in the year and it was perfect cycling conditions. Lovely weather, smooth roads, amazing scenery, very few cars and great climbs. There are loads of cyclists in their fancy Lycra pedalling there.

Probably going back there in October but I won't be doing any pedalling

I've been there but before I cycled. I had an idea to go training for a week in Tenerife in April, which also has some of the best 'dark skies' in Europe. I found a hotel and everything. Couldn't go in the end because of work.

Turns out Wiggins and co were there and now everyone will want to go there.

[Imy]

Idowu out of the Triple jump

[Neil Young]

i dont have a problem. I am just saying how the funding table you quoted is misleading.

It's not misleading. The table shows how much public subsidy each sport gets and compares this to medal results.

[Imy]

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Another pic. Lots of empty seats around btw.