Re: The Olympics Thread

by PlanetPakistan Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:20

Fedex LOST to Blake!

Brilliant stuff from James

by JGK Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:32

Federer's having a shocking year.

by Henry Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:55

China is cleaning up as far as gold medals are concerned. They currently have more than double the amount of gold medals that the US has!

by PeterCS Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:58

They can employ the (local global) cleaners much cheaper.

by PearlJ Thu 14 Aug 2008, 15:25

JGK wrote:
JKLever wrote:Miss Piggy just swam a new olympic record in the 800m.

Got to be favourite for the Gold now.

She looked impressive too. However, the Italian lass was hot so I hope she wins if the Aussie girl doesn't.

By the way, fearless JGK prediction time:

This will be the first Olympics since 1976 that no Australian male will get a swimming gold medal. Even when we were megashite in the 80s we still had guys winning gold.

Well there is still Sullivan in the 50 and Hackett. But you are right, it's look unlikely.

Sullivan really should have won that 100m. It was a bit of choke.

by Merlin Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:08

PeterCS wrote:They can employ the (local global) cleaners much cheaper.

Is that the great Ollie Milburn in your avatar Petey?

by PeterCS Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:39

Yup. The Burnopfield Basher. (See lardy's "Porker" thread for other people's thoughts.)

by Merlin Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:46

PeterCS wrote:Yup. The Burnopfield Basher. (See lardy's "Porker" thread for other people's thoughts.)

Aye, I did.

He was majestic ...

by Lara Lara Laughs Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:23

All a bit meh really. The few things I'm interested in at this Olympics:

The 100m to see who wins between Bolt, Powell and Gay.

Michael Phelps, the phenomenon. Will he get the eight Golds?

Ibrahim Ba, sorry, Phillips Idowu in the triple jump.

Radcliffe, just to see if she can overcome her injury and also because it's her last chance after the Athens debacle.

Olympics tennis and footy doesn't do it for me. Not sure why.

by JKLever Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:35

Radcliffe has no chance, she's hardly trained.

She's competing because she knows she has no chance of making 2012

by Lara Lara Laughs Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:42

Would probably be a great moment if she pulled it off though. A bit like Derby winning the Premiership.

Is that Compo in your avatar?

by Brass Monkey Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:44

Haven't followed athletics for the last couple of years. Is that it? Is that all we've got in track and field - Phillips Idowu? F*ck me.

by JKLever Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:59

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Would probably be a great moment if she pulled it off though. A bit like Derby winning the Premiership.

Is that Compo in your avatar?

Ivan Campo.

by JKLever Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:59

Brass Monkey wrote:Haven't followed athletics for the last couple of years. Is that it? Is that all we've got in track and field - Phillips Idowu? F*ck me.

Aye, we're middling in the Athletics to say the least.

by Gary 111 Thu 14 Aug 2008, 20:58

Re: China and drugs mentioned a few pages ago,

Its worth pointing out that China (along with GB & Norway) are the only countries with lifetime Olympic bans in place for drugs cheats.

With the vast number of Chinese people and the effort the Government have made into funding the Olympic sports and identifying potential future athletes from an early age its no surprise to me they've won so many medals so far.

I was surprised how crap their basketball team looked though, just seemed to run around like headless chickens while the USA picked them off. But the whole country is absolutely basketball crazy and in a few years the NBA will be full of Chinese players.

by PearlJ Thu 14 Aug 2008, 21:02

The person who won the Women's 200m fly was a man. I don't care what anyone says.

by lardbucket Thu 14 Aug 2008, 22:30

The Chinese gold medal winning women's weight-lifter also looked amazingly masculine; I wasn't sure I'd heard the announcer right.

by JKLever Thu 14 Aug 2008, 22:32

And their 16 old Gymnasts looked remarkably like they were 12 too.

by tac Thu 14 Aug 2008, 22:34

JKLever wrote:And their 16 old Gymnasts looked remarkably like they were 12 too.

Ask AD if he thought they were hot . . . it'll be a giveaway . . .

by taipan Thu 14 Aug 2008, 22:48

JKLever wrote:And their 16 old Gymnasts looked remarkably like they were 12 too.

Have to agree, some looked very young.

by PearlJ Fri 15 Aug 2008, 01:57

JKLever wrote:And their 16 old Gymnasts looked remarkably like they were 12 too.

Their extreme training often delays puberty. Gymnastics is a brutal world.

by horace Fri 15 Aug 2008, 02:40

the one upside is they will struggle to conceive...given world popln explosion the only decent social and sports policies going around are the 1 child policy and compulsorary gymnastics for girls

by JGK Fri 15 Aug 2008, 02:56

You know the Pommy athletics is in trouble when they have a white guy running the 100m.

by JGK Fri 15 Aug 2008, 03:15

Leisl chokes again. Another silver.

by PlanetPakistan Fri 15 Aug 2008, 03:16

Soni beats Jones for the gold!

What a result for Soni!!

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