London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

kfallon

I thought the Paralympics started today, was sure I saw that Women's Football was due to be on

:pac:

Oh shit I'm gonna pay for this

kfallon

irish-stew wrote: »

The Beeb are showing some of it, definatly the GB game though. RTE showing from the opening cerermony onwards.

Think the Uruguay game is due to be on at 5pm tomorrow

Mint Sauce

kfallon wrote: »

Think the Uruguay game is due to be on at 5pm tomorrow

On RTE2 or rte.ie?

kfallon

irish-stew wrote: »

On RTE2 or rte.ie?

BBC

Tho hang on, all the Olympic matches have been taken off where I got that info

http://www.livesportontv.com/football

kfallon

Surely Steve Redgrave will be lighting the torch on Friday?

Mint Sauce

kfallon wrote: »

Surely Steve Redgrave will be lighting the torch on Friday?

Was to be him or Daly Thompson. But been a recent war of words between the two. Daly dont feel Redgrave was worthy of it as he was a multi eventer compared to Redgrave's single event. On the other hand Redgrave is a diabetic and got the gold 5 games in a row, with a response along those lines.

Pherekydes

kfallon wrote: »

Surely Steve Redgrave will be lighting the torch on Friday?

I hope it's Daley Thompson.

kfallon

irish-stew wrote: »

Was to be him or Daly Thompson. But been a recent war of words between the two. Daly dont feel Redgrave was worthy of it as he was a multi eventer compared to Redgrave's single event. On the other hand Redgrave is a diabetic and got the gold 5 games in a row, with a response along those lines.

Steve Redgrave is arguably the greatest ever Olympian, you could argue Thompson was a jack of all trades and master of none!

It should be Redgrave tbh

The Davestator

I prefer Thompsn but winning 5 gold medals at a physical sport is unbelievable. Dominating your sport for 20 years plus!
It better not be that drugs cheat 'dame Kelly Thompson' - how she was never caught I beyond me

Pherekydes

Redgrave won nothing on his own.

Thompson won the toughest event in the most competitive sport TWICE!

And only someone who is totally clueless about athletics would say Thompson is master of none. (Referring to Redgrave's classless and clueless comments re:Thompson)

kfallon

The Davestator wrote: »

I prefer Thompsn but winning 5 gold medals at a physical sport is unbelievable. Dominating your sport for 20 years plus!
It better not be that drugs cheat 'dame Kelly Thompson' - how she was never caught I beyond me

You mean Holmes???

And it was 16 years Redgrave dominated his sport

kfallon

Pherekydes wrote: »

Redgrave won nothing on his own.

Thompson won the toughest event in the most competitive sport TWICE!

And only someone who is totally clueless about athletics would say Thompson is master of none. (Referring to Redgrave's classless and clueless comments re:Thompson)

Redgrave done it for 16 years!

And while Thompson was a great athlete, there's no doubting that, he couldn't have specialised in one of his disciplines and won a medal.

westendgirlie

Evening all

I hope it's Daley Thompson. He has always had a cheeky glint in his eye. Imagine if he blew his torch out right before he is meant to light the firepit/thingamyjig.

mackg

kfallon wrote: »

Redgrave done it for 16 years!

And while Thompson was a great athlete, there's no doubting that, he couldn't have specialised in one of his disciplines and won a medal.

Much money on this?

kfallon

westendgirlie wrote: »

Evening all

I hope it's Daley Thompson. He has always had a cheeky glint in his eye. Imagine if he blew his torch out right before he is meant to light the firepit/thingamyjig.

is that a euphemism? :eek:

westendgirlie

So I take it only Kfallon and myself are playing the olympic league game.

Irish stew, I am disappointed

Mars Bar

Someone is getting sacked tonight anyway.

They introduced the North Korean players on the screen with the South Korean flag beside them. The players refused to come out and play. Kick off will be at 20:50 apparently!

kfallon

Mars Bar wrote: »

Someone is getting sacked tonight anyway.

They introduced the North Korean players on the screen with the South Korean flag beside them. The players refused to come out and play. Kick off will be at 20:50 apparently!

Brilliant

Is this on Eurosport?

westendgirlie

looks like the north koreans have found a new target to test their long range missiles on

My name is URL

Is the NK game not live anywhere? I want to watch it =(

Pherekydes

My name is URL wrote: »

Is the NK game not live anywhere? I want to watch it =(

Red button BBC.

DEFTLEFTHAND

kfallon wrote: »

Surely Steve Redgrave will be lighting the torch on Friday?

Its a wonder Sebastian Coe hasn't campaigned for Beckham to be given the honour. :rolleyes:

It really is sickening to read the Brit tabloid media's outrage over him being omitted from the GB team. If the fcuker wants to be involved that badly maybe they could ask him to join the understaffed street cleaning crews. Have him out at 6am every morning in a high vis jacket mopping puke off the pavements.

Mars Bar

kfallon wrote: »

Brilliant

Is this on Eurosport?

BBC Olympic Channel 3

You can manually tune in the channels.

foxyboxer

Hmm, who will light the olympic flame......how about Who gives a flying f**k?

Jesus Shaves

westendgirlie wrote: »

So I take it only Kfallon and myself are playing the olympic league game.

Irish stew, I am disappointed

I shall play if someone is organising it

kfallon

foxyboxer wrote: »

Hmm, who will light the olympic flame......how about Who gives a flying f**k?

It provided one of the most memorable moments in 1996, if you didn't get a lump in your throat watching it then you must not have any emotion

westendgirlie

Right. mars bar, my name is url, pherekydes & deftlefthand

I demand that you join the official AH olympic league!

And don't worry, I will keep track of everyones table. We even simplified things by choosing only from the top 20 countries at beijing 2008.

So, are you in?

The Davestator

kfallon wrote: »

It provided one of the most memorable moments in 1996, if you didn't get a lump in your throat watching it then you must not have any emotion

I agree but other than Ali and Cathy Freeman in Sydney I can't really remember any others. Good honour though.

westendgirlie

Fair play jesus x

Mars Bar

westendgirlie wrote: »

Right. mars bar, my name is url, pherekydes & deftlefthand

I demand that you join the official AH olympic league!

And don't worry, I will keep track of everyones table. We even simplified things by choosing only from the top 20 countries at beijing 2008.

So, are you in?

...I have no idea what you're on about!

My name is URL

westendgirlie wrote: »

Right. mars bar, my name is url, pherekydes & deftlefthand

I demand that you join the official AH olympic league!

And don't worry, I will keep track of everyones table. We even simplified things by choosing only from the top 20 countries at beijing 2008.

So, are you in?

Count me in to whatever crazy thing it is you're on about :pac:

westendgirlie

go to http://stattrek.com/statistics/rando...generator.aspx

Random numbers to generate = 10
Next box option = 1
Next box option = 20
Next box option = false
Click calculate

Post the 10 numbers you get on here. I'm posting from phone so will enter info onto spreadsheet at work and post up your teams in the morning.

westendgirlie

We'll all have a table of ten teams and the poster with the highest medal count at the end of the games wins.....

My name is URL

You're link above is broken. The correct one is - http://stattrek.com/statistics/random-number-generator.aspx

My numbers :

05 13 14 01 11 03 10 04 12 06

Pherekydes

westendgirlie wrote: »

Right. mars bar, my name is url, pherekydes & deftlefthand

I demand that you join the official AH olympic league!

And don't worry, I will keep track of everyones table. We even simplified things by choosing only from the top 20 countries at beijing 2008.

So, are you in?

Seeing as you put it like that, yes. Ma'am.

Pherekydes

8, 7, 9, 3, 6, 15, 5, 11, 18, 17

Jesus Shaves

westendgirlie wrote: »

Fair play jesus x

ooooooh xxx

westendgirlie

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

ooooooh xxx

Go get your numbers then

Mars Bar

Ah I have ya now westendgirlie

My numbers are

17, 03, 20, 14, 07 08, 16, 12, 06, 11

Jesus Shaves

03 20 01 05 08 06 18 04 11 19

kfallon

20 09 14 19 12 13 15 05 17 04

I'm too lazy to match them up now, sorry

TadhgSk

03 16 18 19 09 05 04 01 08 07

Professey Chin

Anyone see the pic of the mascot. We appear to have been wiped off the map :pac:
londonmascot.jpg

Jimoslimos

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Anyone see the pic of the mascot. We appear to have been wiped off the map :pac:
londonmascot.jpg

Not surprising - we're not hosting it, although technically the map should only show London.

Unlike the World Cup, Olympic Games are awarded to a host city not country.

Diego Maradona

01 03 17 20 09 19 05 02 12 11

Saturdays Lotto numbers

DEFTLEFTHAND

My numbers are, 07 15 11 08 13 17 10 05 16 19.

mcmoustache

That's Numberwang!

ForeverYoung90

1st balls up of the Olympics as the North Korean women refuse to play because a South Korean flag was held up for them.:D

God...

15 01 03 07 06 08 02 11 14 19

Mars Bar

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

1st balls up of the Olympics as the North Korean women refuse to play because a South Korean flag was held up for them.:D

Mentioned earlier.

The flag wasn't held up. The flag beside the player profiles as they were being introduced on the screen was incorrect.