London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

RoboClam

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

China have won the first gold medal - Women's 10m Air Rifle

Got a Bronze in it too.

Diego Maradona

Bad start in the Gymnastic for Keiron Behan.

Also an Irish athlete has been questioned over a betting scandal, he/she has been questioned over betting against an opponent. The athlete has not been named. Watch this space.

Colmustard

Nicholas Roche actually does have a chance at a decent finish in the road race.

Come on Nick.

Madam

Sorry, just wasn't 'that' impressed, I fell asleep half way through - just more same old, same old, all that boring oul dancing and don't get me started on the singing and the wains in their beds! Disapointing to say the least tbh, I had high hopes for Danny Boyle too! I do hear the fireworks were great - sorry I missed those but how can you go wrong when your spending a couple of million quid on them?:(

cgpg5

God Bless the BBC red button. SPoilt for choice!

opinion guy

Kiss watched by a billion people:

http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/opening-ceremony-video-kiss/

Now that's a pressured kiss. What would their mothers say? :O
Also, who is the hot chick ?

Diego Maradona

2012

Patsy fyre

24 Olympics channels from BBC, epic stuff.
Anywhere easy to get a guide of what's on each one?

Colmustard

Patsy fyre wrote: »

24 Olympics channels from BBC, epic stuff.
Anywhere easy to get a guide of what's on each one?

Ahhh to much sport, what a complaint, I think I am going to get couch soars.

I am sticking to the road race for now.

Mars Bar

Love the gymnastics!

Diego Maradona

Has anyone got a schedule for when all 66 Irish athletes are competing?

doolox

...it shows that the English have a great sense of humour. I enjoyed the show. I will not be watching the competitions but I have to admire the contestants as it must be very difficult to be world standard out of 7 billion people now that most of the planet can afford to train, develop and send athletes to these events.

I couldn't imagine Michael D being portrayed parachuting into the stadium, he'd probably be composing a poem on the way down and forget to pull the ripcord........

getz

doolox wrote: »

...it shows that the English have a great sense of humour. I enjoyed the show. I will not be watching the competitions but I have to admire the contestants as it must be very difficult to be world standard out of 7 billion people now that most of the planet can afford to train, develop and send athletes to these events.

I couldn't imagine Michael D being portrayed parachuting into the stadium, he'd probably be composing a poem on the way down and forget to pull the ripcord........

british

Mars Bar

Ah Kieran Behan Fell on his landing at the vault

Tinie

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Has anyone got a schedule for when all 66 Irish athletes are competing?

Heres as best I could find and what im using:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/countries/ireland/athletes

opinion guy

Irish guy Barry Murphy swimming breast stroke right now

leahyl

Didn't do as well as expected
Unfortunately

hoodwinked

i love how RTE were advertising #teamireland



then they FAIL to show Lisa competing in the Judo! :mad:

galgar

RTE's coverage is pathetic.
They never showed Lisa Kearney in the Judo nor Kieran Behan in his second gymnastics event. Instead they were talking crap in the studio.
With very few athletes we should be showing them all.
Worst coverage ever.

Diego Maradona

WTF??? I was tuned in to RTE just to see Lisa Kearney in the Judo, and now I've missed it???

leahyl

hoodwinked wrote: »

i love how RTE were advertising #teamireland



then they FAIL to show Lisa competing in the Judo! :mad:

Seriously?! Would love to have seen her:-( can't believe they didn't show her!

There are some in the Irish Olympic team that I didn't even know were competing. Theres a Latvian lady and a polish guy competing for Ireland :-)

leahyl

hoodwinked wrote: »

i love how RTE were advertising #teamireland



then they FAIL to show Lisa competing in the Judo! :mad:

Seriously?! Would love to have seen her:-( can't believe they didn't show her!

There are some in the Irish Olympic team that I didn't even know were competing. Theres a Latvian lady and a polish guy competing for Ireland :-)

hoodwinked

Diego Maradona wrote: »

WTF??? I was tuned in to RTE just to see Lisa Kearney in the Judo, and now I've missed it???

not only did you miss it, RTE didn't bother showing it :mad:


everyone is tweeting @RTELondon2012 on twitter complaining and Lisa Kearney is trending! BIG mistake RTE!

Brain Stroking

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

What anti British attitude? What because some people don't lick the backsides of the British the way some of the west brits do on here??

I was born in England and lived there till I was 14 and still speak with 100% English accent. You wont find me supporting England at anything though ever and instead just find it amusing with some the "real" Irish people trying to lick the arses of these guys.

I see all these threads about Ireland joining the commonwealth, and rejoining the union etc occassionaly and thats just as bad personally.

I heading off to Spain in a few days and sick of this "Britain the best in the world" crap, glad I'm avoiding it tbh.

Big praise for the opening ceremony in Asia today. Are they east brits now?

galgar

They didn't show it.
Pathetic.
What a mess.
Spending more time in studio and and on adverts.
What a waste of a licence fee

leahyl

hoodwinked wrote: »

i love how RTE were advertising #teamireland



then they FAIL to show Lisa competing in the Judo! :mad:

Seriously?! Would love to have seen her:-( can't believe they didn't show her!

There are some in the Irish Olympic team that I didn't even know were competing. Theres a Latvian lady and a polish guy competing for Ireland :-)

Brain Stroking

Ella Bella wrote: »

This made me laugh out loud. You legend

Humour is an aphrodisiac you know

galgar

BBC did show Kieran Behan in his second gymnastics event.
RTE haven't even mentioned it.
He didn't do well

Hercule Poirot

http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2012/0728/330936-olympics-day-1-when-are-the-irish-in-action

Probably a bit late to put this up, but I'm guessing they will be doing one evry day?

Anyone

RTE really are a useless shower, pathetic that they are missing so many Irish athletes.

Diego Maradona

Less time talking shite in the studio and oh I dunno maybe show the actual fucking events RTE!

Jesus!

Patsy fyre

galgar wrote: »

BBC did show Kieran Behan in his second gymnastics event.
RTE haven't even mentioned it.
He didn't do well

Rte covered that event earlier.

Diego Maradona

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2012/0728/330936-olympics-day-1-when-are-the-irish-in-action

Probably a bit late to put this up, but I'm guessing they will be doing one evry day?

More than likely :pac:

Diego Maradona

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Rte covered that event earlier.

They only showed him on the floor

galgar

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Rte covered that event earlier.

His first event but not his second event.
BBC did show him though.

Patsy fyre

Anyone remember the irish basketball commentator from the last Olympics?
Anyone know if he's working for Rte again this year?

Hercule Poirot

Showing Lisa on RTE 2 now

Dozyart

RTE are saying on their twitter they werent supplied the live feeds for the Judo etc...joke of a station!!

Run_to_da_hills

"A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country’s athletes with a Nazi salute, causing Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who were sitting nearby to explode into a fit of giggles.

The elderly man was caught on video repeatedly extending his left arm back and fourth prompting a few awkward stares from members of the crowd. Bizarrely he was sitting in front of Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who looked bemused at first before bursting into laughter.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHLiWiISGU

Mysteriouschic

I'm liking these so far. I've been mainly watching it on the bbc they show more events. I like the swimming and the rowing , the cycling is ok but too long to watch the whole race.
I missed Kieran Behans I just turned over to bbc just as he finished I saw the clip replay on rte 2 , would've been good if he made it maybe next time.

leahyl

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country’s athletes with a Nazi salute, causing Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who were sitting nearby to explode into a fit of giggles.

The elderly man was caught on video repeatedly extending his left arm back and fourth prompting a few awkward stares from members of the crowd. Bizarrely he was sitting in front of Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who looked bemused at first before bursting into laughter.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHLiWiISGU

I thought the exact same thing when I saw him last night!!!

Aidric

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Anyone remember the irish basketball commentator from the last Olympics?
Anyone know if he's working for Rte again this year?

Ya Timmy McCarthy is his name and he is wonderful to listen to. No idea if he is working this time round but hopefully.

leahyl

Poor Lisa - she did well though, well done girl!

opinion guy

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country’s athletes with a Nazi salute, causing Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who were sitting nearby to explode into a fit of giggles.

The elderly man was caught on video repeatedly extending his left arm back and fourth prompting a few awkward stares from members of the crowd. Bizarrely he was sitting in front of Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who looked bemused at first before bursting into laughter.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHLiWiISGU

From the youtube comments a bit of perspective:

youtube comments wrote:

Comment on DM: "This is Walther Tröger, an 83 year old man who once was the president of the National Olympic Committee for Germany and member of the International Olympic Committee. During the 1972 olympics he took part in the negotiations with the terrorists who later killed Israeli athlets. Tröger is definitely no Nazi. He is an old man with stiff joints who tries to wave like the athlets do. Thank you Britain for once again putting us Germans into the Nazi corner. Thank you very much."

H2UMrsRobinson

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country’s athletes with a Nazi salute, causing Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who were sitting nearby to explode into a fit of giggles.

The elderly man was caught on video repeatedly extending his left arm back and fourth prompting a few awkward stares from members of the crowd. Bizarrely he was sitting in front of Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles who looked bemused at first before bursting into laughter.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHLiWiISGU

Tbh whilst it does resemble a nazi salute a) it's the wrong arm and b)poor chaps getting on a bit, just a dodgy old man wave IMO. Just an unfortunate coincidence it happened to be a German dignatory.

steve9859

Irish rider now in the dressage (jut exploring the red button.....not a regular dressage fan!!)

Queen-Mise

How long is this bike race - 102km to go & they have been on a bike for three hours already :eek::eek:

steve9859

Sinita doing well in the single scull. Sitting nicely in 3rd at the 500.

And safely through...

leahyl

steve9859 wrote: »

Sinita doing well in the single scull. Sitting nicely in 3rd at the 500.

And safely through...

Well done Sanita! Great performance there :-)

Pherekydes

Queen-Mise wrote: »

How long is this bike race - 102km to go & they have been on a bike for three hours already :eek::eek:

250k. Just past halfway.