London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

blueser

Dr.Broccoli wrote: »

Typical Brits eh? Had to get the dig in about the recession wha? Only 10 thoudand people left in Ireland then? I'm outraged!! :mad: **** the lot of ye. Aaaaaaargh!





:pac:

Sure, you know what them godless prods are like!

DebDynamite

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

The Jackets of Kenny Egan

Did they have a montage of all his jackets?

leahyl

Why do so many people on here have a problem with Katie all of a sudden as soon as they find out that she believes in God ffs. Big deal like - that's her business!

The main thing here is - the girl is fighting for GOLD tomorrow - COME ON KATIE!

Kerrydude1981

DebDynamite wrote: »

Did they have a montage of all his jackets?

Ya,very good,lads in the studio had a great laugh

keith16

DebDynamite wrote: »

Did they have a montage of all his jackets?

Yeah, it was about the only funny thing in those "round-ups" that they do.

Other "funnies" included the Russian basketball coach having a nosebleed and a BMX dude falling of his bike :rolleyes:

This of course was right up Bill's street.

"Look at that feicin eejit there with the big bloody nose on him" he didn't say. But he was thinking it. I can guarantee you that.

opinion guy

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The darling of Boards.ie Laura Trott has been spotted at the beach volleyball with Prince Harry

Christ he doesnt waste much time does he

Hes has to get in there before Bolt has his way with the entire female population of the Olympic village

LordSutch

markie29 wrote: »

what kind of accent does he have though?

Yorkshire-Bray hybrid accent I think?

Tox56

Bit of a dodgy decision in that last boxing match involving the British guy. Not quite a robbery but harsh

opinion guy

keith16 wrote: »

Stylish. As. Fcuk. The man is class personified! He does speak very well (despite what people think of his accent).

I'd say he would be great company over a snifter of port.

To be honest, whilst I don't get why everyone is calling Ian Thorpe camp, I actually find Andy Lee much more camp in his spots.

God...

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

American/English/Limerick mish mash of an accent

Bit of a traveller accent in there too. He's a seriously classy guy.

The_Kew_Tour

I could not care less if she worshiped the Devil.

The_Kew_Tour

20 Years ago to the day Michael Curruth won his Gold Medal!!!!

Where has time gone?

No wonder we did so well today:D:D

Kerrydude1981

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

20 Years ago to the day Michael Curruth won his Gold Medal!!!!

Where has time gone?

No wonder we did so well today:D:D

Never forget his jumping around the ring when he found out he won,the Cuban was towering over him as well,was some win

Jimmy Iovine

keith16 wrote: »

Stylish. As. Fcuk. The man is class personified! He does speak very well (despite what people think of his accent).

I'd say he would be great company over a snifter of port.

I know a lad was out with a few boys from college in Limerick a few years back. They bumped into Andy and he was off his rocker on the drink. Doubt it'd have taken much to get him in that state but they managed to get his number for some reason. Think he wanted them to give him a call some time to head on the pints again :P.

DebDynamite

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Ya,very good,lads in the studio had a great laugh

Have got to see that Been trying to get it on the replay on the RTE player, but can't find it.

My name is URL

God... wrote: »

Bit of traveller accent in there too. He's a seriously classy guy.

Does he actually come from an Irish Traveling background? He's a seriously nice chap in any case.. and proper dapper too.

God...

My name is URL wrote: »

Does he actually come from an Irish Traveling background? He's a seriously nice chap in any case.. and proper dapper too.

As far as I know yes. Great ambassador for Irish boxing.

The_Kew_Tour

Just looking at betting and all the Irish fighters are underdogs to go through to final.

No surprises really. Still think Nevin will give Estrada enough of it.

Barnes will have be on his A++ game to beat Zou. Think Conlan will find it tough too.

Still though you never know. 2/3 is best I think we will get.

The_Kew_Tour

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Never forget his jumping around the ring when he found out he won,the Cuban was towering over him as well,was some win

Could not watch it as Kid. I was so desperate to see him win Gold, especially after Wayne had lost out in his bout.

Teyla Emmagan

Katie has always had a hotline to God, so what like? Whatever gets her through gets her through, just like the rest of us. Just shows how little people know about one of our great Olympic hopefuls if they don't know that already though?!?

Go Katie, bring it on home to Bray girl!!!!

Sea Filly

Hmmm, seems Katie's opponent has her excuses at the ready for if she loses!

http://olympics.breakingnews.ie/news/taylor-just-another-boxer--ochigava-562307.html

fryup

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Katie has always had a hotline to God, so what like? Whatever gets her through gets her through, just like the rest of us. Just shows how little people know about one of our great Olympic hopefuls if they don't know that already though?!?

ya i know, but it seems a bit hypocritical

"oh lord help me knock seven shades of sh1t out of my opponent tommorow"

racso1975

Now ranked 66th on Olympic medal table with our 1 bronze. Get in there!

My name is URL

fryup wrote: »

ya i know, but it seems a bit hypocritical

"oh lord help me knock seven shades of sh1t out of my opponent tommorow"

50 shades of Bray, surely? :P

Who the hell designed the Russian team jackets? They're worse than Kenny Egan's

Dr.Broccoli

We're per head of population, doing better than GB

Teyla Emmagan

fryup wrote: »

ya i know, but it seems a bit hypocritical

"oh lord help me knock seven shades of sh1t out of my opponent tommorow"

Show me where she said that.

Y'know I'm not great on God, but maybe she's an Old Testament kind of Christian.

fryup

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Show me where she said that.

she didn't say it:rolleyes: i'm just making a point

i'm just sayin its a bit hypocritical of her as a christan to be knockin seven bells out of someone

after all one of the christan fundamentals beliefs is....."love thy neighbour"

Diego Maradona

fryup wrote: »

she didn't say it:rolleyes: i'm just making a point

i'm just sayin its a bit hypocritical of her as a christan to be knockin seven bells out of someone

after all one of the christan fundamentals beliefs is....."love thy neighbour"

Yeah because Tajikistan is just up the road

mike65

A whole day without a medal...its like all the air has been let out...:(

Jimmy Iovine

Dr.Broccoli wrote: »

We're per head of population, doing better than GB

I was bored during the Opening Ceremony and looked up all of the stats. Per 100,000 people we're just behind America and GB in the medals table. I'd say our tally in this Olympics may have pushed us ahead of both of them.

We were exactly 50th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal tally. I'd say we may well rise after the end of the games.

Considering we've averaged around 1 medal for every Olympics we've done brilliantly this time around and it could get better over the coming days.

Blisterman

Is it true that Paddy Barnes is the first boxer to win more than one olympic medal? I heard that today but I find that hard to believe.

K-9

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

20 Years ago to the day Michael Curruth won his Gold Medal!!!!

Where has time gone?

No wonder we did so well today:D:D

McCullough got silver the same day as well.

I love the womens boxing, much prefer it to the mens. I like Conlan though, love his style, think he has a chance if he's on his game.

O'Connor is probably the real story, shouldn't really have been there, or the final and gets a bronze, never mind the Athens story added in.

RikkFlair

Blisterman wrote: »

Is it true that Paddy Barnes is the first boxer to win more than one olympic medal? I heard that today but I find that hard to believe.

First Irish boxer yeah

Blisterman

RikkFlair wrote: »

First Irish boxer yeah

Oh right. I misheard as first boxer in the world.

This guy's won three.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%C3%B3filo_Stevenson

DEFTLEFTHAND

Dr.Broccoli wrote: »

We're per head of population, doing better than GB

The thing is we're not though, Britain have medaled in a vast amount of different sports. Take away our boxing medals and it doesn't look too good at all. We've implemented a successful boxing programme that's yielding results but we seem to be falling further behind in other disciplines.

Todd Gack

Blisterman wrote: »

Oh right. I misheard as first boxer in the world.

This guy's won three.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%C3%B3filo_Stevenson

And this guy matched him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Sav%C3%B3n

Diego Maradona

Nice piece on the BBC about Katie there, presenter put her foot in it though, "this is like a home olympics for Ireland, we aren't going to have a Dublin olympics are we, or maybe we will, I don't know, I'm going to get letters in now aren't I".

ArmaniJeanss

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I was bored during the Opening Ceremony and looked up all of the stats. Per 100,000 people we're just behind America and GB in the medals table. I'd say our tally in this Olympics may have pushed us ahead of both of them.

The rules on max-contestants-per-event go a long way to balancing out population imbalances, e.g., Team GB were so dominant in the velodrome that it would be safe to assume that if allowed enter more than 1 contestant per event they would have added silver and bronzes to their many golds.
But whether your population is 5M, 50M or 500M there are loads of events you can only enter 1 contestant, so there is a huge negative bias for the big pop countries to overcome.

Obviously I know you are sensible enough to see it only as an interesting stat, but theres a retard element in my workplace (and doubtless the Irish media over the next few days) who seem to think its some remarkable event.

Jimmy Iovine

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Nice piece on the BBC about Katie there, presenter put her foot in it though, "this is like a home olympics for Ireland, we aren't going to have a Dublin olympics are we, or maybe we will, I don't know, I'm going to get letters in now aren't I".

Who was the presenter? Clare Balding by any chance?

opinion guy

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Nice piece on the BBC about Katie there, presenter put her foot in it though, "this is like a home olympics for Ireland, we aren't going to have a Dublin olympics are we, or maybe we will, I don't know, I'm going to get letters in now aren't I".

Yeah that was funny

decies

There doing a feature on woman's boxing on five live now but it's Nicola Adams!!! Lol

fryup

Dr.Broccoli wrote: »

We're per head of population, doing better than GB

ya and we're even further ahead of China as well cause they've got 90 medals from a population 1 billion, they're pathetic

Diego Maradona

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Who was the presenter? Clare Balding by any chance?

Gobby Logan

A Disgrace

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The thing is we're not though, Britain have medaled in a vast amount of different sports. Take away our boxing medals and it doesn't look too good at all. We've implemented a successful boxing programme that's yielding results but we seem to be falling further behind in other disciplines.

But why would we take away the boxing medals. Britain have targetted particular sports (track cycling, rowing) and dominated. Their record on track and field, whilst still decent, isn't exactly top of the heap. We have simply done the same by focusing on areas we're good at, and we too are reaping the rewards for it. Let's not forget also, that we had a very near miss in sailing, and who knows what Eoin would have done in the slalom had he not have had a terrible peice of bad luck. Our track and field athletes team are one of the weakest we've sent, but these things happen in cycles, and come the next Olympics or the following one, we'll have another Sonia O'Sullivan or Eamonn Coughlan to do the biz. Saying that, I'm still confident of another medal from left of field - our male and female walkers are in with a shout.

Jimmy Iovine

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

The rules on max-contestants-per-event go a long way to balancing out population imbalances, e.g., Team GB were so dominant in the velodrome that it would be safe to assume that if allowed enter more than 1 contestant per event they would have added silver and bronzes to their many golds.
But whether your population is 5M, 50M or 500M there are loads of events you can only enter 1 contestant, so there is a huge negative bias for the big pop countries to overcome.

Obviously I know you are sensible enough to see it only as an interesting stat, but theres a retard element in my workplace (and doubtless the Irish media over the next few days) who seem to think its some remarkable event.

Oh yea I only bothered looking it up because my dad asked me about it and I didn't know. That and we had to wait 40 minutes or so for the Irish team to come out in the parade.

When were the max-contestants brought in do you know?

I noticed there that in 1904 the USA won practically every single event. It helped big time that it was on in America but even still it was ridiculous. They won 239 medals. Germany were second with 13, Cuba in third with 9 and Team GB in 6th place with 2.

Only 12 countries competed in it but the USA had over 500 competitors. No wonder they won so many medals.

K-9

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The thing is we're not though, Britain have medaled in a vast amount of different sports. Take away our boxing medals and it doesn't look too good at all. We've implemented a successful boxing programme that's yielding results but we seem to be falling further behind in other disciplines.

I don't get the criticism. Andy Lee was the only boxing participant in 04, the Sports Council targetted boxing and pumped big money at boxing, same as Britain targeted the cycling and rowing. We put money into sailing as well and nearly got a medal. You have to se patient with this stuff, Chris Boardman won gold for Britain in 92, Britain pumped money in but it took a decade or so to dominate.

We are becoming a world power at boxing and young boys and girlls will want to emulate it. The Sports Council know we've a tradition at it, seen only 1 boxer at the 04 Olympics and went for it. GB was criticised at boxing at the last Olympics, only 1 or 2 qualifiers.

garv123

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Nice piece on the BBC about Katie there, presenter put her foot in it though, "this is like a home olympics for Ireland, we aren't going to have a Dublin olympics are we, or maybe we will, I don't know, I'm going to get letters in now aren't I".

She has a point really. We dont have a city for it. some people think Dublin is a big city :pac::rolleyes: but in reality its not at all.
The London Olympics will be the closest we will ever get to a home event and Athletes cant use the climate difference as an excuse either.

Dr.Broccoli

Dr.Broccoli wrote: »

We're per head of population, doing better than GB

There is the thing. 5 out of our 66 athletes have taken medals whereas how many of Team GBs as a percentage and thats in individual efforts? Holland have a small population but their competitive rate is incredible. In my opinion they are the model we should aspire to.

Richard Hillman

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Nice piece on the BBC about Katie there, presenter put her foot in it though, "this is like a home olympics for Ireland, we aren't going to have a Dublin olympics are we, or maybe we will, I don't know, I'm going to get letters in now aren't I".

It kinda shows how much people have to walk on eggshells when it comes to Ireland. Earlier in the thread i posted a response to the editor of the Telegraph saying well done to Katie Taylor on twitter. The Irish person sent a tweet to him saying he hopes he gets MS and followed it with that he hopes he gets cancer.

keith16

Just watching highlights of the equestrian today. Horses really are majestic creatures.