The Commonwealth Games

Actually a few of our golds have been Bradburys including the two in the gym tonight. Still it's about time this country benefitted from choking.

Brandon Starc through to the high jump final.

Mitch will be pleased. As will Jon Snow (sorry...)

A good example of how first impressions can deceive.

The British (in this case, English) gymnast Nile Wilson. I must admit I hadn't heard of him before. (And I further admit Gymnastics only rarely feature on TV, or in my awareness.)

First impression the other day: a cocky, strutting showoff (the last of those terms is the most wounding if you come from the North of England), gesticulating at the crowd, etc. Ugh.

But those are the displays of a young man coming into the prime of his gymnastics career. The excess of adrenaline of a champion at the top of his game. The point being: 1) he shows a handsome generosity towards fellow athletes and competitors; 2) he comes across in interview (once the lion roar of performing adrenaline in each contest is over) almost as humble, certainly modest.

So, my impressions changed through 180 degrees. Not only a champ (3 golds, 2 silvers), but a good Northern lad to boot.

A trivia question:

Who at the time of writing is 130*?

Not sure about kids of 11 taking part.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43712537

If you're good enough ... you don't seem to have to be old enough.

Swimming complete with Aus taking 28 of the 50 Gold Medals on offer in the Pool.
Hard to judge from the Comm games , but the Jappie coach seems to have made a difference.

How big of a swimming superstar might Ariarne Titmus become?

Also interesting to note how much chat there was about "culture change" by the commentators and team members. Seems to have helped.

Indeed Skully the Culture change that has been mentioned , seems to be paying dividends. It will be interesting to see how it continues at the World Short course championship at the end of the Year.
As for Ariarne Titmus , 17yo and 3 Medals from the event, great way to announce yourself at a International level.

Blackadder wrote:Indeed Skully the Culture change that has been mentioned , seems to be paying dividends. It will be interesting to see how it continues at the World Short course championship at the end of the Year.
As for Ariarne Titmus , 17yo and 3 Medals from the event, great way to announce yourself at a International level.

There is a tug of war between Taswegia and Qld about who owns her. Her father used to read the news in the Apple Isle.

As for her career, it's a great start, but it will be interesting to see how she fares against decent opposition.

Ask lardy and Mr Dog, she's a Tozzie.

Tasmania is like the NT. If you had a stopover at the airport and you're famous your theirs.

.... a bit like Joh in Q?

Qbanjoland is just like Werribee

embee wrote:Qbanjoland is just like Werribee

Smells like shit and is full of Vomits?

PeterCS wrote:A trivia question:

Who at the time of writing is 130*?

Australia in the medal count?

Bradman wrote:Tasmania is like the NT.  If you had a stopover at the airport and you're famous your theirs.

Born in Tassie, extended family on both sides all Tassies, schooled locally, competed locally until there was nobody local who could compete with her, moved to Banjoville to experience more competition and be coached with other National squad members.

Banjos have had her amongst them for 2 years.

lardbucket wrote:

Bradman wrote:Tasmania is like the NT.  If you had a stopover at the airport and you're famous your theirs.

Born in Tassie, extended family on both sides all Tassies, schooled locally, competed locally until there was nobody local who could compete with her, moved to Banjoville to experience more competition and be coached with other National squad members.

Banjos have had her amongst them for 2 years.

So she'd be eligible for Qld State of Origin under the Inglis clause.

So this is like Alabama v Sth Carolina?

or Essex v Essex?

Praetoria v Perth?


or Penrith v Rose Bay?

Apparently* now a third of the Cameroon team is missing.

Wow! Expected a bit of a reaction.

Like QLD needs to claim extra swimmers. Lots of chips on this thread from a shitload of postcodes that don't start with a 4.

Geez, I thought we were shit at Track & Field. At most Comm Games the Poms seem to swamp us.

But tonight we've won the Mens High Jump (Li'l Koo jumped off his tits), the Mens Shot Put (Quinella), Ladies Javelin (Quinella), Isis Holt's Cerebral Palsy Gold in the 100m, and Frayne is battling for the Gold in the Long Jump. All very exciting.

We are going OK in the Diving and Rhythmic Gymnastics as well.

skully wrote:Geez, I thought we were shit at Track & Field. At most Comm Games the Poms seem to swamp us.

But tonight we've won the Mens High Jump (Li'l Koo jumped off his tits), the Mens Shot Put (Quinella), Ladies Javelin (Quinella), Isis Holt's Cerebral Palsy Gold in the 100m, and Frayne is battling for the Gold in the Long Jump. All very exciting.

We are going OK in the Diving and Rhythmic Gymnastics as well.

Frayne got pipped by a CG record jump from the world champion. Must admit the cerebral palsy event seemed a bit uneven with some competitors barely able to stand up. Some of the para events have been a bit like that with only five or so competing in the swimming and mainly Aussies.

Starc jumped very well to win the gold. Can't believe how biased Dave Culbert is. During the javelin event he was openly willing athletes from other countries to throw badly.

Must admit the track events are the most enjoyable, but even the field events are so much more convincing that subjective individual competition like diving.

Nice one L'il Koo. If he can repeat that in Tokyo he'll be close to a medal.