London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Mint Sauce

Okay, so After Hours doesn't usally do sports threads, barr the odd exception. But with only 11 days* to to one of the biggest sporting fortnights on the earth, and with what is preety much a Home Olympics for us, well its the closest it will ever come here. Prehaps its appropiate that the good folks of After Hours post all their thoughts, amusing observations, the scandel, and prehaps even the odd result here.

So here we go, you excited yet?

*9 days till the Football competition

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

Mr Benevolent

Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Confab wrote: »

Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?

Very, if you're being chased.

tvercetti

irish-stew wrote: »

Okay, so After Hours doesn't usally do sports threads, barr the odd exception. But with only 11 days* to to one of the biggest sporting fortnights on the earth, and with what is preety much a Home Olympics for us, well its the closest it will ever come here. Prehaps its appropiate that the good folks of After Hours post all their thoughts, amusing observations, the scandel, and prehaps even the odd result here.

So here we go, you excited yet?

*9 days till the Football competition

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

Statements like this are why Sports and After Hours don't mix.

Mr Benevolent

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Very, if you're being chased.

So they can win a game of kick the can. So what?

Mint Sauce

tvercetti wrote: »

Statements like this are why Sports and After Hours don't mix.

I didn't come up with it.

My name is URL

irish-stew wrote: »

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

Is that really necessary? Will confetti not do?

cocoshovel

Confab wrote: »

Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?

"ooh I can kick a leather sphere around better than everyone else"

"ooh I can hit a smaller leather sphere with a stick better than everyone else"

"ooh I can cycle for hundreds of miles better than everyone else".


Get where Im coming from? By your logic all sport is pointless and useless.

Chucken

motheragod can you imagine After hours Olympics?

Drinking, farting, 'scoring 10s' etc etc

Mint Sauce

My name is URL wrote: »

Is that really necessary? Will confetti not do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ss96VZlIyU

There ya go.

ChunkyLover_53

irish-stew wrote: »

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

Jaysus steady on there, I'd be terrified she'd box me.

Pedant

Irlande, nil point.

Seren_

I'm looking forward to it! I like getting to watch all the random sports that you never usually see When I was younger I used to look all the countries the athletes came from in the atlas but it helped where knowing where countries like Turkmenistan or Cape Verde are, a skill which has certainly helped me out through the rest of my life >.>

Wacker The Attacker

Any chance of getting power squirting into the olympic games.

I think Cytherea's fanny would grace any stage

Chuck Stone

It's little more than a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private.

£16 Billion pounds at a time of austerity? ****ing madness.

Mr Benevolent

cocoshovel wrote: »

By your logic all sport is pointless and useless.

Yup.

ballsymchugh

faster, higher, stronger.

now what the fuq has dressage got to do with that??

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Confab wrote: »

So they can win a game of kick the can. So what?

So people trying to mug you just tap you on the shoulder and say "you're on" now...?!

Wacker The Attacker

ballsymchugh wrote: »

faster, higher, stronger.

now what the fuq has dressage got to do with that??

It's all like jumpin' and sh1t

im invisible

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Jaysus steady on there, I'd be terrified she'd box me.

i'd love to see her box

Pantsface

I can't wait! Love the Olympics, its going to be amazing

Wacker The Attacker

I cant wait.

It is a superb opportunity to perv at scantily clad athletic young women. Diving, Tennis, Gymnastics (the legal ones of course) and a whole host of other lovely ladies

Corruptedmorals

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Gymnastics (the legal ones of course)

Ha, coming from someone who will watch it for obsession reasons and absolutely not perving...China's team are all legal this year, USA have 3 16 and under, same with Romania. Russia have 2 16, 1 17. Just so you know. I don't get why it's worth perving over..the vast majority have no figures at all?

Thatnastyboy

Confab wrote: »

Yup.

Say you're some craic at football matches :pac:

It wasn't me!

It's the greatest show on earth. I can't wait to see the world's best competing. People who don't get it, or who don't see the "use" are thoroughly depressing.

sock puppet

I'm looking forward to the 30 minute queues to get on a tube.

ballsymchugh

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

It's all like jumpin' and sh1t

no jumpin in dressage, it's just dicking about on a horse while wearing a coat and top hat.

3ndahalfof6

fag in one hand (is that political correctness) can in the other, ball bag getting groomed a lot more than normal, and to prove I have what it takes I will not shower or bath for the full duration of the games,

im guessing I will not get to many interruptions coming up to the main finals.

3ndahalfof6

It wasn't me! wrote: »

It's the greatest show on earth. I can't wait to see the world's best competing. People who don't get it, or who don't see the "use" are thoroughly depressing.

yeh but you cant tell who the best is unless you know the ones not taking performance enhancing substances.

steveLFC24

I'm hoping for a Jessica Ennis nip slip, come on ya beaut ye

SharpshooterTom

Sick of all the hype. Theres way too much of it.

Thank god I'm off on holiday at the end of this month.

DEFTLEFTHAND

So aside from Katie Taylor, what other Irish athletes could potentially medal?

sgb

ballsymchugh wrote: »

no jumpin in dressage, it's just dicking about on a horse while wearing a coat and top hat.

Jessica Kurten does that horsey stuff, she got disqualified one time because her horse tested positive for a banned substance

In true AH style she can fill me with drugs and ride me anytime

Fratton Fred

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It's little more than a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private.

£16 Billion pounds at a time of austerity? ****ing madness.

Should we ban Christmas as well?

3ndahalfof6

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

So aside from Katie Taylor, what other Irish athletes could potentially medal?

Eamon Coghlan, Daley Thompson.

Chuck Stone

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Should we ban Christmas as well?

I didn't call for a ban on anything I just made a comment. Christmas is a yearly religious holiday you can voluntarily celebrate it or not.

I just think that the ~£16Bn would hve been better spent on infrastructure, schools, hospitals etc so that the people of Britain actually get some return on their robbery investment in the form of jobs and services.

I'm not having a go at the British people so don't get all butt-hurt over it freddy.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

im invisible wrote: »

i'd love to see her box

"This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."
- Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator.

BraziliaNZ

Not bothered with it really just hoping it doesn't eff up my commute. Or if it does mess up the city, then it messes it up so bad that I get a day or two off work.
Anyway I'll be looking forward to seening my sweetheart Yelena Isinbayeva pole-vaulting, she's a total babe.

Jesus Shaves

2 things guaranteed about the olympics

Ireland will win fúck all medals, Team GB wont win the football.

Mammanabammana

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I'll be looking forward to seening my sweetheart Yelena Isinbayeva pole-vaulting, she's a total babe.

I see what you mean...

emeraldstar

irish-stew wrote: »

Okay, so After Hours doesn't usally do sports threads, barr the odd exception. But with only 11 days* to to one of the biggest sporting fortnights on the earth, and with what is preety much a Home Olympics for us, well its the closest it will ever come here. Prehaps its appropiate that the good folks of After Hours post all their thoughts, amusing observations, the scandel, and prehaps even the odd result here.

So here we go, you excited yet?

Sick to the back teeth and dreading every moment of it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

2 things guaranteed about the olympics

Ireland will win fúck all medals, Team GB wont win the football.

Taylor only has to win one fight to be guaranteed of at least a bronze.

I wouldn't expect GB football to medal anyway, Brazil and Uruguay are sending strong squads. Spain's youngsters will be in with a shout too I'm sure.

The_Kew_Tour

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Taylor only has to win one fight to be guaranteed of at least a bronze.

I wouldn't expect GB football to medal anyway, Brazil and Uruguay are sending strong squads. Spain's youngsters will be in with a shout too I'm sure.

I heard it was 2 fights.

Is 1 now confirmed?

Jesus Shaves

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Taylor only has to win one fight to be guaranteed of at least a bronze.

I wouldn't expect GB football to medal anyway, Brazil and Uruguay are sending strong squads. Spain's youngsters will be in with a shout too I'm sure.

I cant see past Brazil for this one, The quality they possess in their Olympic squad is unreal.

Mint Sauce

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I heard it was 2 fights.

Is 1 now confirmed?

I beleive it is. She has a bye to the Qtr finals. Both losing semi finalists get the bronze as theres no play off fight.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I heard it was 2 fights.

Is 1 now confirmed?

The last I heard was that she's received a bye from the first round. That would put her into the OFs automatically.

Sea Filly

Love the Olympics.

My first Olympic memory is a news report about Greg Louganis skinning his head on the diving board at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, when I was four. The event has gripped me ever since.

\o/

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

I cant see past Brazil for this one, The quality they possess in their Olympic squad is unreal.

Yeah they really take the Olympics seriously, especially when it comes to the development of their younger players. Also aside from the meaningless Confederations Cup next year, this will be the last set of competitive games they'll have before the World Cup.

westendgirlie

I can't wait for the Olympics. Loved it since I was a littl'un. Lucky enough that my schools had the use of all of Crystal Palaces facilities growing up.

I just wish I hadn't discovered boys and kept at the hurdles :pac:

Hercule Poirot

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yeah they really take the Olympics seriously, especially when it comes to the development of their younger players. Also aside from the meaningless Confederations Cup next year, this will be the last set of competitive games they'll have before the World Cup.

Apparently the Brazil manager might get the sack if they don't do well, that's how seriously he/they will be taking it. Looking forward to the soccer tournament, especially when you consider the great players who have appeared in it in the past

Fratton Fred

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I didn't call for a ban on anything I just made a comment. Christmas is a yearly religious holiday you can voluntarily celebrate it or not.

I just think that the ~£16Bn would hve been better spent on infrastructure, schools, hospitals etc so that the people of Britain actually get some return on their robbery investment in the form of jobs and services.

I'm not having a go at the British people so don't get all butt-hurt over it freddy.

No need to get personal.

I've heard plenty of people in London say the same thing, but there are also thousands of people who have been employed as well (even more if G4S got their act together).

The Olympics is the biggest event in the world and it brings in a lot of revenue as well.

It's a once in a lifetime event so the cost should be a secondary concern.