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Is this RTE/Cadbury/Kraft Olympic poll a total crock?

  • 06-07-2012 11:40pm
    #1
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭


    Why ask people to vote for their 'Favourite Irish Olympic Moment' and then fail to mention as an option Ireland's most successful ever Olympian, Michelle Smith? Three golds and a silver medal yet she is airbrushed from history. My favourite Irish Olympic moment was staying up all night to watch Michelle win gold medal after gold medal. It was brilliant! Is this poll the biggest crock ever (their poll, on the RTE website - not THIS poll).

    Is this RTE poll a total crock because it ignores Ireland's greatest ever Olympian? 15 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    73% 11 votes
    Whatever
    26% 4 votes


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  • #2
    RHarrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭RHarrow


    She was a cheat, was she not?


  • #3
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    I don't know. They never did take those medals back. Irrespective; still Ireland's greatest Olympic moment for me.


  • #4
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    BornToKill wrote: »
    Why ask people to vote for their 'Favourite Irish Olympic Moment' and then fail to mention as an option Ireland's most successful ever Olympian, Michelle Smith? Three golds and a silver medal yet she is airbrushed from history. My favourite Irish Olympic moment was staying up all night to watch Michelle win gold medal after gold medal. It was brilliant! Is this poll the biggest crock ever (their poll, on the RTE website - not THIS poll).

    Marry a druggie, win medals, yay! Winners all round!!!!


  • #5
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    someone was taking the piss with michelle smith werent they?


  • #6
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    RHarrow wrote: »
    She was a cheat, was she not?

    The alcohol was only resting in her urine, ok?! ;)


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  • #7
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    My favourite Olympic moment was when she was caught.....or when that guy on the horse won the medal.


  • #8
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    A snub to our town, screw you RTÉ

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Nenagh_olympic.jpg

    Three gold medal winners and none nominated


  • #9
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    A snub to our town, screw you RTÉ

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Nenagh_olympic.jpg

    Three gold medal winners and none nominated


    Kite flying, power walking, and falling off a hurdle.....hardly events to be bragging about.


  • #10
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Favourite Irish Olympic moment ? Considering we do so crap in the Olympics ( this time around will be no different ) I guess that leaves us all of 3 ' moments ' to chose from.........I'm trembling with anticipation already.


  • #11
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Delancey wrote: »
    Favourite Irish Olympic moment ? Considering we do so crap in the Olympics ( this time around will be no different ) I guess that leaves us all of 3 ' moments ' to chose from.........I'm trembling with anticipation already.

    We're only a small country. even to make an olympic A standard is a great achievement for anyone who makes the grade, us at home, in front of the telly forget that


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  • #12
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Michelle Smith was a crock of sh1t, stinky drug soaked sh1t


  • #13
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    my favourite olympic moment was sonia shitting herself


  • #14
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    My favourite Olympic moment was Cool Runnings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gqwi7Y96sk


  • #15
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Pantsface wrote: »
    We're only a small country. even to make an olympic A standard is a great achievement for anyone who makes the grade, us at home, in front of the telly forget that

    Meh , coming second is just a polite way of saying someone lost.


  • #16
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Delancey wrote: »
    Meh , coming second is just a polite way of saying someone lost.

    Ever made the grade?

    Try it sometime


  • #17
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Pantsface wrote: »
    Ever made the grade?

    Try it sometime

    I did win a couple of Gold medals at School Sports Day - does that count ?


  • #18
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Delancey wrote: »
    I did win a couple of Gold medals at School Sports Day - does that count ?

    In your own mind... probably


  • #19
    Bajingo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Bajingo


    Why did they not take the medals from Michelle Smith?


  • #20
    Diego Maradona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Diego Maradona


    Bajingo wrote: »
    Why did they not take the medals from Michelle Smith?
    Because she never tested positive for using a banned substance.


  • #21
    Diego Maradona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Diego Maradona


    I think Waterford Crystal should carry the flag for Ireland.


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  • #22
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Diego Maradona wrote: »
    Because she never tested positive for using a banned substance.

    at the games


  • #23
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    Pantsface wrote: »
    at the games

    Or ever. RTE's airbrushing from her from history is a bit Stalinist though. List her as an option at least - let the people decide.


  • #24
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Diego Maradona wrote: »
    Because she never tested positive for using a banned substance.

    OJ Simpson got off too.


  • #25
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Andy Carroll wrote: »
    Diego Maradona wrote: »
    Because she never tested positive for using a banned substance.

    OJ Simpson got off too.

    And Lance Armstrong and Stephen Roche. At least Lance seems to be trapped at last.


  • #26
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Was Stephen up to no good? Didn't realise.


  • #27
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,711 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Andy Carroll wrote: »
    My favourite Olympic moment was Cool Runnings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gqwi7Y96sk

    I despise the Jamaican bobsleigh for hogging the glory in the 1988 Winter Olympics, because they only came 30th. In the same event the same year, another Caribbean team came 29th. But Bob Marley wasn't from the Netherlands Antilles...


  • #28
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I despise the Jamaican bobsleigh for hogging the glory in the 1988 Winter Olympics, because they only came 30th. In the same event the same year, another Caribbean team came 29th. But Bob Marley wasn't from the Netherlands Antilles...

    They forgive you.


  • #29
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Andy Carroll wrote: »
    Was Stephen up to no good? Didn't realise.

    His team doctor came out years later and stated that the entire team we're administered performance enhancing drugs. It was proven to be the case in a judicial investigation, but the statue of limitations saved Roche and his teammates.


  • #30
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Please use the existing Michelle thread.


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