London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

H2UMrsRobinson

keano_afc wrote: »

Shamelessly stolen:

Congratulations to Britain's Andy Murray on his gold medal. Also, commiserations to Scotland's Andy Murray on his silver medal.

Shamelessly stolen from you too - cheers !

paulgeog

keano_afc wrote: »

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Congratulations to Britain's Andy Murray on his gold medal. Also, commiserations to Scotland's Andy Murray on his silver medal.

....and Australia's Laura Robson.

steelcityblues

Pherekydes wrote: »

Lemaitre has done it 7 times. Plus he's run exactly 10 seconds, and as sprint times are rounded up, it's likely that it may have been 9.99x in reality. Marian Woronin of Poland and Koji Ito of Japan have both run 10 seconds dead, too.

Patrick Johnson of Australia ran 9.93. He's of Irish and Aboriginal descent.

Also, the dominance of Jeremy Warriner at 400m for years.

Jimoslimos

BBC reporting on a bottle thrown at the athletes just before the start of the 100m, man arrested apparently.

Noticed something odd about the start but didn't give it much attention at the time.

paulgeog

Jimoslimos wrote: »

BBC reporting on a bottle thrown at the athletes just before the start of the 100m, man arrested apparently.

Noticed something odd about the start but didn't give it much attention at the time.

Looked like a Heineken bottle. An outrage! Not an official sponsor.

Namlub

fryup wrote: »

i loved the interview with Bolt & Blake afterwards their jamican accents were so heavy Man!

i was half expecting them to light up a spliff:D

Tanks to mah pheeeseeyo-turrapist :pac:

Love Jamaican accents.

steelcityblues

Namlub wrote: »

Tanks to mah pheeeseeyo-turrapist :pac:

Love Jamaican accents.

Reminds me too much of the Cork accent for me to like, lol.

Jimoslimos

paulgeog wrote: »

....and Australia's Laura Robson.

Think Australia have enough silver medals :pac:

RedRightHand

Jimoslimos wrote: »

BBC reporting on a bottle thrown at the athletes just before the start of the 100m, man arrested apparently.

Noticed something odd about the start but didn't give it much attention at the time.

Some marketing guy from Gatorade throwing a bottle to Bolt?

nice_very

Jimoslimos wrote: »

BBC reporting on a bottle thrown at the athletes just before the start of the 100m, man arrested apparently.

Noticed something odd about the start but didn't give it much attention at the time.

yeah I saw that, it looked like a pepsi max bottle (dark label, dark liquid) thrown into Bolts lane, or maybe it was Paddy Barnes water bottle trying to get more twitfans

el diablo

steelcityblues wrote: »

Reminds me too much of the Cork accent for me to like, lol.

There's certainly nothing cool about a Cork accent.

shruikan2553

keano_afc wrote: »

Shamelessly stolen:

Congratulations to Britain's Andy Murray on his gold medal. Also, commiserations to Scotland's Andy Murray on his silver medal.

I've been busy today so haven't been paying attention to the olympics (dont know how I'll last for 4 years) but I keep seeing this but don't think I'm getting it. Was this said on TV or is it just taking the piss out of the BBC?

Mint Sauce

Why is RTE saying that John Joe Nevin has won the Bronze? Yes I know he is garanteed a medal, but the colour of which will depend on how he performs from here.

Will they be saying he has one the silver if he wins his semi final match?

Mint Sauce

Laura Robson has just reveiled on the BBC that her self and Andy had not practised for the Mixed Doubles.

:eek:

Pherekydes

irish-stew wrote: »

Why is RTE saying that John Joe Nevin has won the Bronze? Yes I know he is garanteed a medal, but the colour of which will depend on how he performs from here.

Will they be saying he has one the silver if he wins his semi final match?

Yes, they will. You are right and they are wrong. He is guaranteed a bronze at least, but he hasn't won a bronze. He may win silver or gold.

LordSutch

Thought that was really surreal last night when Colin Jackson predicted Bolt in 9:64, so I then wrote down 9:64 on a post it note just to remember his prediction "and then it happened" :eek: (rounded down later to 9:63), but it was a very good call by Colin.

Looking forward to Victoria Pendleton in the Velodrome at 16:45 today, could be another Gold?

Pherekydes

LordSutch wrote: »

Looking forward to Victoria Pendleton in the Velodrome at 16:45 today, could be another Gold?

Nope. Her final will be on tomorrow. But Jason Kenny should be involved in the gold medal race in the men's sprint later today.

klose

Puspure in the rowing won the c final today comfortably, reckon she would have made the semi final but got a stinker of a draw! So much in sports depends on the heats/draws but tis the same for everyone!

Love the discus, have no idea how they throw it that far with the technique and not much room for error either in that little circle

BraziliaNZ

Derval qualified for the hurdles semi finals, good stuff

Ulysses Gaze

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Derval qualified for the hurdles semi finals, good stuff

Great stuff. Delighted for her.

It wasn't me!

Seasonal best time too, and just looked nice and tidy coming over the hurdles. Gained there and lost in the sprint for the end, so there's definitely something to be made up there, as she said herself afterwards.

ciaran75

Hi All,

I'm in work today and can't access the rte.ie live streams.

Does anyone know any other website that i can watch or an app i can download for my samsung which does live coverage?

Thanks,

It wasn't me!

Derek Burnett in action in men's trap now. He's 23rd as it stands, but two good rounds today will put him in with a solid chance at the final.

The_Kew_Tour

Great Stuff from Derval. Finished 12th overall in heats.

Has chance to make final, but will need to knock .2 I think at least to make final

Semi not till tomorrow so she can work on what she needs to do.

Still going be tough though.

Brussels Sprout

Arggghhhh! The commentators on BBC are so bloody annoying. Anytime there is an athlete who has served a ban for drugs they draw attention to it-they've just done it with a russian woman in the 1500m heats. Everytime Justin Gatlin raced in the 100m they mentioned his double ban That's fine. In fact they even expressed doubt about an Algerian man in last night's 1500m after he produced a super fast time. That wasn't so cool but again not the worst.

What makes it all unbearable is that last night Britain's Christine Ohurougu got silver in the women's 400m. She served a 1 year ban for a doping offence a number of years ago and there was zero mention of it before or after the race even though she ran a freakishly good time by her standards.

klose

Some anti climax for the gb discus thrower! Coulda killed one of the photographers he's throw was so wayword

cgpg5

irish-stew wrote: »

Laura Robson has just reveiled on the BBC that her self and Andy had not practised for the Mixed Doubles.

:eek:

Not surprising at all. He had far bigger fish to fry yesterday!

westendgirlie

god 269
nicevery 254
diegomaradona 239
jesus shaves 236
tadghSk 230
mynameisurl 223
irish stew 207
pherekydes 185
sparks 177
barney92 169
samich 162
mars bar 156
deftlefthand 137
westendgirlie 131
kfallon 113

kfallon, treble figures at last. Yey !

the groutch

what time is murphy's medal race?

westendgirlie

ciaran75 wrote: »

Hi All,

I'm in work today and can't access the rte.ie live streams.

Does anyone know any other website that i can watch or an app i can download for my samsung which does live coverage?

Thanks,

Hi ciaran,

there is a euro ....something page that has live feeds. Link is somewhere on here. I'll have a look back but may take a while :pac:

el diablo

the groutch wrote: »

what time is murphy's medal race?

Starting around 1pm I think.

Pudsy33

westendgirlie wrote: »

ciaran75 wrote: »

Hi All,

I'm in work today and can't access the rte.ie live streams.

Does anyone know any other website that i can watch or an app i can download for my samsung which does live coverage?

Thanks,

Hi ciaran,

there is a euro ....something page that has live feeds. Link is somewhere on here. I'll have a look back but may take a while :pac:

Eurovision sports it's called

westendgirlie

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Eurovision sports it's called

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012

Colmustard

westendgirlie wrote: »

god 269
nicevery 254
diegomaradona 239
jesus shaves 236
tadghSk 230
mynameisurl 223
irish stew 207
pherekydes 185
sparks 177
barney92 169
samich 162
mars bar 156
deftlefthand 137
westendgirlie 131
kfallon 113

kfallon, treble figures at last. Yey !

I call foul and I want a stewards inquiry, I should be in this table somewhere.

Kerrydude1981

David McHugh giving a crash course on how the sailing works,all aboard the sailing bandwagon

Hopefully we will have 2 medals today

el diablo

Murphy's mound.

Jesus Shaves

westendgirlie wrote: »

god 269
nicevery 254
diegomaradona 239
jesus shaves 236
tadghSk 230
mynameisurl 223
irish stew 207
pherekydes 185
sparks 177
barney92 169
samich 162
mars bar 156
deftlefthand 137
westendgirlie 131
kfallon 113

kfallon, treble figures at last. Yey !

Still hanging in there, hoping for medals in some team events to catch up

panda100

Anyone know when the Ladies 100m hurdle semi's will be on? Delighted to see Derval get through today. Great stuff by her.

Richard Hillman

Good luck Annalise. she comes a across as a very likable young lady

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

David McHugh giving a crash course on how the sailing works,all aboard the sailing bandwagon

Hopefully we will have 2 medals today

Its a sailing band barge

The_Kew_Tour

Best of luck to Katie and Annalise!!!

Let the women show the way.:D

Kerrydude1981

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Good luck Annalise. she comes a across as a very likable young lady



Its a sailing band barge

:D

Colmustard

I like Hazel Irvine I think she is a great presenter and interviewer.

kfallon

Come on Annalise but whatever happens today you've done us so proud

Larianne

Who'd have thought sailing would be exciting!

westendgirlie

COME ON ANNALISE YOU CAN DO IT !!!!


her mum was lovely in that BBC interview too

snubbleste

What's the chinese boat doing? Thought it gonna hit some of the others there

LordSutch

BBC Three commentator just did a great interview with Annalise's Mum, lovely little gathering of Irish supporters at Weymouth, her Mum commented that Annalis even had little green white & yellow ribbons in her hair (for good luck) no doubt.

Annalise should at least get a silver.

BBC THREE - live now . . .

Kerrydude1981

snubbleste wrote: »

What's the chinese boat doing? Thought it gonna hit some of the others there

I know ya,she did the same thing in the race Saturday

kfallon

I love the way we're all watching the sailing but none of us really know what's going on or understand the sport too much

We just want the commentator to say "And Annalise has won gold!!!"and we can all celebrate

decies

Feckin Chinese