London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Guy:Incognito

Pudsy33 wrote: »

They have a girl running tonight too, I think 400m who is defending champion afaik

Yeah, Christine Ohuruogu. Thats why I said outside of the athletics

Colmustard

And here comes Vicky, she looks unbeatable at the moment.

Guy:Incognito

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Roger is a broken man, he should have challenged there

Every shot Muraay hits is going for him. Federer knows the game is up alright.

Pudsy33

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Pudsy33 wrote: »

They have a girl running tonight too, I think 400m who is defending champion afaik

Yeah, Christine Ohuruogu. Thats why I said outside of the athletics

Woops, my bad

Rascasse

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Outside the Tennis and Athletics, what are GB's other medal hopes tody? Pendleton is one , yeah?

Louis Smith in the pommel horse right now. He's up against it though as the world number 1 (Hungarian) just did a near perfect routine.

Guy:Incognito

Colmustard wrote: »

And here comes Vicky, she looks unbeatable at the moment.

SHe just went past when she chose there. Nothing Gnidenko could do about it.

Scanlas The 2nd

Does anyone know what time the 100m semi finals are on?

P_1

Possible momentum shift there, think that was the first break point Murray hasn't taken.

Guy:Incognito

The Russians really need a better designer for the tracksuits next time out.

patmac

Pudsy33 wrote: »

They have a girl running tonight too, I think 400m who is defending champion afaik

Girl is a loose term here, well known druggie Christine O'muireheartaigh hope to God she doesn't win, not because she is British but because she is a drugs cheat, same goes for Gatlin and Chambers in the 100m.

jupiterjack

when ever i seem to switch over to the RTE coverage there seems to be an ad break, delayed coverag or repeating an event, only starting to show 3rd set of tennis now, guess its back to BBC.

garv123

As good as Murry is playing Federer is playing as bad. He's hitting some amount of unforced errors. Looks like GB will finally win something at tennis. Could be a big boost for him getting a grandslam

Guy:Incognito

Rascasse wrote: »

Louis Smith in the pommel horse right now. He's up against it though as the world number 1 (Hungarian) just did a near perfect routine.

Silver and Bronze for GB.

Very close to gold. Got the same points.

Rascasse

Louis Smith gets silver and Max Whitlock bronze in the pommel horse.

Just missed out on gold due to execution score. Otherwise score was identical.

Pudsy33

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Does anyone know what time the 100m semi finals are on?

19 45 I think, but not sure

Guy:Incognito

Yes. C'mon Andy, 2 more.

Guy:Incognito

Ace.

1 point for the gold.

Guy:Incognito

Yesss!!!


Great Stuff Murray.

Next opponents please.:)

jupiterjack

Murray only wishing he had done that a few weeks back..great win..

bnt

2 Aces in a row and Murray seals the deal. Break out the Spandau Ballet again.

leahyl

So Federer let Murray win? JUST KIDDING!

Mint Sauce

Murray has just won a final at Wimbledon!!!

Jimoslimos

Fair play to Murray. I think I had him down as a potential winner early on in the week.

The compressed format of the tournament suited the younger fitter player

keith16

irish-stew wrote: »

Murray has just won a final at Wimbledon!!!

Did in some style too! Great win for him!

leahyl

OMG tears are starting to fall - why did that little boy have to give him a hug dammit!!

Mint Sauce

Pudsy33 wrote: »

19 45 I think, but not sure

9.50

Anyone

Just a word of warning, the womens snatch being shown atm, is actually weightlifting.

Ulysses Gaze

He took Federer apart today.

Hope he kicks on from this and wins a Grand Slam.

P_1

Some way to finish it, when was the last time Fed was beaten in straight sets?

J. Marston

I like Murray. Well done to him.

Pherekydes

patmac wrote: »

Girl is a loose term here, well known druggie Christine O'muireheartaigh hope to God she doesn't win, not because she is British but because she is a drugs cheat, same goes for Gatlin and Chambers in the 100m.

The usual ignorant sh1te. She's not a druggie or a drug cheat. She had a ban because of three missed tests. Athletes are allowed miss tests, just not 3. Sh1t happens. Anyone can miss a test.

keith16

pithater1 wrote: »

Some way to finish it, when was the last time Fed was beaten in straight sets?

Just now.

Mint Sauce

leahyl wrote: »

OMG tears are starting to fall - why did that little boy have to give him a hug dammit!!

Time to get the covers on.

phasers

what time is the mixed doubles final? Murray is playing brilliantly in these games

Scanlas The 2nd

pithater1 wrote: »

Some way to finish it, when was the last time Fed was beaten in straight sets?

A couple months ago in the French open semi final.

Mint Sauce

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

He took Federer apart today.

Hope he kicks on from this and wins a Grand Slam.

US Open coming up soon.

Rascasse

phasers wrote: »

what time is the mixed doubles final? Murray is playing brilliantly in these games

It was scheduled for 4pm. I hope they give him 15 mins to get his breath.

P_1

keith16 wrote: »

Just now.

Before that, nevermind him losing, losing in straight sets is just something Fed generally doesn't do.

Pudsy33

irish-stew wrote: »

Pudsy33 wrote: »

19 45 I think, but not sure

9.50

That's the final, he asked about the semi

keith16

pithater1 wrote: »

Before that, nevermind him losing, losing in straight sets is just something Fed generally doesn't do.

True, shocking amount of unforced errors from him.

phasers

Rascasse wrote: »

It was scheduled for 4pm. I hope they give him 15 mins to get his breath.

Jayney what a schedule! Hopefully the adrenaline will help him

Guy:Incognito

Monday morning in 8 days is going to be such a come down.

titan18

Pherekydes wrote: »

The usual ignorant sh1te. She's not a druggie or a drug cheat. She had a ban because of three missed tests. Athletes are allowed miss tests, just not 3. Sh1t happens. Anyone can miss a test.

Anyone can miss a test, true. You miss 3 tests and you're either hiding something or you're so stupid that you have trouble tying your shoelaces.

Guy:Incognito

They should bring out a tray of Lindor Truffles for Federer instead of flowers

keith16

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Monday morning in 8 days is going to be such a come down.

Just becom a heroin addict. That will take your mind off it.

cgpg5

Well done Murray couldn't be happier for him. Another gold for GB! Great stuff

Shryke

I have never been this into the olympics. It's ridiculously compelling.

Guy:Incognito

BBC are hardly going to have such blanket covered of the paralympics are they? Be great of they were.

Corruptedmorals

Horriffic women's vault final in gymnastics, literally the worst one I have ever seen. Canadian Elsabeth Black crashes her first vault, is injured on it and balks after running for her second one and doesn't vault. First (and second) receive a zero, but it's another controversial zero (a vault is zeroed if anything other than your feet hit the mat first) as it looks like she MAY have got her feet down.

Dominican Republic's Yamilet Pena Abreu spectacularly crashes her impossible vault- which few men attempt at all, nevermind women. She has sat the thing for over a year now, but gets a score as her feet hit first. Normally happy to be alive after vaulting (people predict her death when she throws that vault) she is absolutely gutted not to medal- must have been insane pressure on her, sad to see.

Russia's Maria Paseka comes off the mat entirely which is a huge deduction..and isn't deducted for it. She gets bronze and screws over the two very clean and ON the mat vaults by Germany's Janine Berger.

The outright favourite McKayla Maroney whose vault screenshot from team finals went viral as it showed judges with their mouths open at how spectacular it was SITS her second vault. This was seen as the only sure-thing gold in all of gymnastics, male or female. She would have won with a huge margin if she had vaulted like she did in qualification. Even with the sit-down and a non-perfect landing on her first vault- she loses gold by only one tenth, an absolutely tiny margin, which shows how fantastic her vaulting is. Sandra Izbasa takes gold, deservedly- great vaults. But this was a sickening final.

CivilServant

Federer is a class act. Still looked happy and in good spirits receiving silver.