London 2012 Olympics Thread

[Bala Verde]

Wow that 16-years old Chinese girl, wtf. Behind @300 m and than such an accelleration and World Record.

yeah saw that too. She ripped up the field in 100m free stroke! 16 years! Incredible.

On a different note.

Most unfortunate name of the tournament so far:

"Destinee Hooker"

 

[Mellow Velo]

This evening Holland have to get their first gold medal. The 'golden girls' o) at the 4x100 m won four years ago and we expect them to repeat this.

Bad luck. A BIG surprise.
Obviously Mick and Richie had some gear spare for the Oz girls.

 

[thrawn]

Bad luck. A BIG surprise.
Obviously Mick and Richie had some gear spare for the Oz girls.

Was a pretty good race. The last girl from the Netherlands was flying.

 

[jens_attacks]

That's what happens when you spend the four years between games smoking a bong.

mean as ever


enjoyed a lot the chinese performances.those two are freak of nature for christ's sake.the records are falling as expected,very exciting olympics from the swimmers

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Womens handball norway v france should be good.

 

[l.Harm]

Dutch ladys 'lost' their gold medal. Australia won. First two ladies were too slow, Heemskerk came back to 3rd place and Kromowidjojo hammered the field but they were too much behind.

 

[hrotha]

No Italians are going to mention women's foil fencing? The match for 3rd place was absolutely brilliant.

 

[Boeing]

They should have included pink floyd.

Did you miss the pink pig in the opening movie short?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dutch ladys 'lost' their gold medal. Australia won. First two ladies were too slow, Heemskerk came back to 3rd place and Kromowidjojo hammered the field but they were too much behind.

Yes, but Kromowidjojo had a split time of 51.93. That's the fastest 100m ever by a woman. And she'll probably have a good shot at gold at the 50m free as well.

 

[Boeing]

what with all the clips of rugby? are they pushing for it to be added as a sport in 2020?

 

[User Guide]

Well first days viewing over for me ..
Ok not so good from sporting point of view for us brits(womens football played decent stuff aside).......
But think we have put on a decent show so far good venues good crowds(womens football aside ironically ) not bad opening ceremony.
So far so good
EDIT... archery definetly highlight of the day ,hollywood finish to beat the yanks... FORZA ITALIA !!!!!

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Did you miss the pink pig in the opening movie short?

Yep...while i was on the phone i think.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Womens basketball . Australia are hammering GBR lol

edit: they are coming back a bit

 

[l.Harm]

Yes, but Kromowidjojo had a split time of 51.93. That's the fastest 100m ever by a woman. And she'll probably have a good shot at gold at the 50m free as well.

Yeah I heard it. Incredible.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

No Italians are going to mention women's foil fencing? The match for 3rd place was absolutely brilliant.

Why do you watch fencing ...you have been on about it all day

 

[Bala Verde]

Radcliffe dropped out of the marathon...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ol...la-Radcliffe-ruled-out.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

[hrotha]

Why do you watch fencing ...you have been on about it all day

First time I mentioned fencing it was a random sport to bring up. Then I was like "hey this has to be pretty cool to watch, actually", and sure enough, it's great. I had watched a tiny bit of fencing in 2008, but nothing before that.

 

[Machu Picchu]

Radcliffe dropped out of the marathon...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ol...la-Radcliffe-ruled-out.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Good news.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Good first day for eye-taly two gold, two silver and one bronze.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Yeah I heard it. Incredible.

That is true but it does happen fairly often that a WR time is actually done in the relay legs of a 4x100m race.

Go Aussies!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Dutch ladys 'lost' their gold medal. Australia won. First two ladies were too slow, Heemskerk came back to 3rd place and Kromowidjojo hammered the field but they were too much behind.

Bring back Inge de Bruijn.

Phelps... humiliated

Yeah, I didn't think that he would do that well going into the Games.

Anyway, Australia will crush everyone in the Men's 4x100m Free tonight.

 

[thrawn]

First time I mentioned fencing it was a random sport to bring up. Then I was like "hey this has to be pretty cool to watch, actually", and sure enough, it's great. I had watched a tiny bit of fencing in 2008, but nothing before that.

Fencing is lame. Bring on proper sword fighting!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Fencing is lame. Bring on proper sword fighting!

To the death??!!

 

[greenedge]

Poor Stephanie rice but at least our womens' relay went well. Our mens should also go well tonight. Rowing for Australia also looks promising.

I did fencing at school previously, year 7 and 8 but the training sessions were way too long ( too many streches ) and the comps would go for 5 hours so i switched to soccer which is much better for me.

I liked watching the volleyball Serbia vs China. When is the marathon on???

 

[Zam_Olyas]

India sent 81 athletes and 840 officials. LOL