London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

cgpg5

Judo on BBC1. Gold chance for GB again!

Colmustard

Ahhh Gemma didn't get the gold but she did win a silver.

Congrats and well won.

Colmustard

OK The Vellodrome is starting now :D

OK I will go for a walk this evening I promise.

daisybelle2008

The American girl, Kayla Harrison, won the gold in the Judo. Apparently her first coach was jailed for 10 years for abusing her, she battled depression and suididal thoughts over it! She has really come a long way fair play to her.

castletownman

Gibbons gold chance finished. Came against a stronger opponent on the day. However, the fairytale continues in the event, with Harrison apparently accrediting her coach for saving her life, and the commentators referring to her as escaping from a dark hole.

This Olympics has for me been the best sporting occasion of 2012, and I'm a sports journalist who follows every sport!

markie29

Colmustard wrote: »

OK The Vellodrome is starting now :D

OK I will go for a walk this evening I promise.

get an excercise bike,place it facing the tv and just cycle...pretending you are competing against them haha

Colmustard

castletownman wrote: »

Gibbons gold chance finished. Came against a stronger opponent on the day. However, the fairytale continues in the event, with Harrison apparently accrediting her coach for saving her life, and the commentators referring to her as escaping from a dark hole.

This Olympics has for me been the best sporting occasion of 2012, and I'm a sports journalist who follows every sport!

I have always watched the olympics and up to now I thought the Sydney games could not be beaten as the "best games ever" but so far I think these games are better.

I think its because like the Australians the British love their sport and the crowds are really making the occasion.

Colmustard

markie29 wrote: »

get an excercise bike,place it facing the tv and just cycle...pretending you are competing against them haha

LOL
That is a brill suggestion.

Corruptedmorals

Women's artistic gymnastics all-around coming up at half 4 on BBC3. It's not as open as the men's, there's 2 favourites and 3 other top contenders. Still exciting though!

keith16

Colmustard wrote: »

OK The Vellodrome is starting now :D

OK I will go for a walk this evening I promise.

How does the team sprint work or what's the idea behind it? Do they take turns leading to reduce drag etc???

The_Kew_Tour

What a bitter bunch some Irish people are. A Girl gets to final of Olympics and we still have a dig at her.

She had to do this all through her own pocket. Yes, would have been nice if she did better, but she was not given much hope of getting to final in first place.

She beat a Girl who has been training at that base all year.

DebDynamite

Colmustard wrote: »

I have always watched the olympics and up to now I thought the Sydney games could not be beaten as the "best games ever" but so far I think these games are better.

I think its because like the Australians the British love their sport and the crowds are really making the occasion.

Well, the London games are much better for me purely for the reason that we are in the same time zone to it's eay to watch everything. Work is ruining that somewhat though

daisybelle2008

whippedcream wrote: »

What a race in the lw 4s! I remember as a junior peter chambers who was bow in the British 4 was competing in events all around Ireland for bann, even rowed for Ireland as junior. Unreal to see him at the highest level in the world.
Excellent sport.

Nice connection!

I have to say it was kind of cool seeing the mixed-race in the South African boat. I don't think that would have happened in the dark old (not so distance) days of Apartheid.

IrishAm

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

God, I wish Ireland excelled at at least ONE sport

We do. Gaelic games.:D

cgpg5

What an atmosphere at the Velodrome! Gb hoping to clean up!

Richard Hillman

Victoria Pendleton WOW :eek: She was about half a second behind when she took over the lead

Mars Bar

What's on in the Velodrome?

Beefy78

I wish I had tickets to the velodrome. I went to an event a couple of years ago at the one in the Olympic Park in Munich and the atmosphere was insane (although the super-strength German bier contributed to that...).

keith16

Mars Bar wrote: »

What's on in the Velodrome?

The Rose of Tralee

Mars Bar

Deng LinLin looks about 7 years old.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Are all the Irish swimmers finished now for these games? Pity it didn't go very well, nobody even made it out of heat.

G.A.Ay

How many medals have Team Ireland won thus far?

Colmustard

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Are all the Irish swimmers finished now for these games? Pity it didn't go very well, nobody even made it out of heat.

We only have one Olympic pool that is not even 10 years old so we don't have a swimming tradition. Perhaps in time.

Pudsy33

G.A.Ay wrote: »

How many medals have Team Ireland won thus far?

Nothing, but we haven't contested any finals. Our best hopes are to come still

Colmustard

G.A.Ay wrote: »

How many medals have Team Ireland won thus far?

None but I predict we will win 3, I won't name the events out of superstition.

Pudsy33

Colmustard wrote: »

G.A.Ay wrote: »

How many medals have Team Ireland won thus far?

None but I predict we will win 3, I won't name the events out of superstition.

I predict 4, hopefully im right.

Colmustard

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I predict 4, hopefully im right.

I hope so to.

I think this is going to be a good Olympics for us, fingers crossed.

cgpg5

Talks team GB could be disqualified here in the women cycling

cgpg5

Real drama here at velodrome

As for irish medals. 3 at best I'd say!

Beefy78

cgpg5 wrote: »

Talks team GB could be disqualified here in the women cycling

What did they do?

cgpg5

They don't seem to know the exact reasoning. Talks Pendleton went to early or something along those lines.

GB indeed disqualified it seems

cgpg5

"Pendleton/Varnish relegated for making an early change: out of medals. Velodrome hears its first boos."

Awful disappointing

Tox56

Shame, they were clearly very fast

Beefy78

Bugger. On the other hand I now don't have to race home to catch the 5.59 start for the final.

The_Kew_Tour

Dont think its been bad olympics so far. Hopefully Murphy can get medal in sailing although I think she will just miss out(hope im 100% wrong).

Craig reaching the salmon final was excellent and Equestrian team finishing 5th overall. Few Sailers at least should be in Top 10.

Only real disappointment so far have been the swimmers. Pity cause they had potential to reach couple of semi finals and in Murphys case a Final.

I know its nice to win medals, but we are starting to see improvement in many events then 8 years ago in Athens where we were disaster in everything we touched.

Mars Bar

Women's All Round gymnastics is on at the moment

opinion guy

Colmustard wrote: »

We only have one Olympic pool that is not even 10 years old so we don't have a swimming tradition. Perhaps in time.

Really pisses me off the if you go to the NAC as a member of th epublic the pool is split into two 25's. So f**kin stupid.

FYI there is private a 50m pool in Clontarf - though not technical Olympic its good for training.
AFAIK UL has a 50 pool and I tihnk the new UCD pool is 50m

DebDynamite

Colmustard wrote: »

We only have one Olympic pool that is not even 10 years old so we don't have a swimming tradition. Perhaps in time.

I would love to see Ireland pump some money into to swimmng here and try to nurture some of our young swimming talent. If we produce our own Michael Phelps, he/she could win us 8 golds in 1 Olympics!

The_Kew_Tour

I can tell you guys that swimming is becoming very serious at underage level. My Brother has won few All Irelands and the training he is doing is some amount.

Think by 2016 we will have the first crop of decent swimmers for world stage and by 2020 I think we will have at least some medal hopes.

But of course every other country will be doing same, just matter of can we do it right.

Bacon and Cabbage

Jimmy Magee:
"Win lose or draw, well there are no draws in boxing of course"

Colmustard

opinion guy wrote: »

Really pisses me off the if you go to the NAC as a member of th epublic the pool is split into two 25's. So f**kin stupid.

FYI there is private a 50m pool in Clontarf - though not technical Olympic its good for training.
AFAIK UL has a 50 pool and I tihnk the new UCD pool is 50m

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

Colmustard

Team GB cycling duo has got disqualified.

Tough break for them Victoria seems philosophical about it, but she has other events.

opinion guy

Colmustard wrote: »

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

Well having swum in the pool I can tell you its 100 times better than training in a 25m pool in terms of distance and building fitness.

I didn't have a problem doing tumble turns (well other than my usual problems with tumbles turns ) - but then I wasn't training for high level competitions.

keith16

Colmustard wrote: »

The Clontarf pool is 50 metres but only 4 foot deep so its not really suitable for for championship training as you couldn't even practice the turn abouts.

But hopilly "the kew tour is right and we get some medal in the future.

I think the new one in UCD is Olympic standard.

bilston

Colmustard wrote: »

Team GB cycling duo has got disqualified.

Tough break for them Victoria seems philosophical about it, but she has other events.

Annoying but rules are rules.

NegativeCreep

keith16 wrote: »

I think the new one in UCD is Olympic standard.

The American synchronised swimmers have been practicing in the Aquatic Centre in Blanch for the past week. I thought the one in Blanch was the only olympic sized one in Ireland. I'm probably wrong though :L

garv123

Anyone see the british lad boxing? He got flaked around the place in the last round, barely keeping on his feet against the world no.1 and was then given the win on a second count. Rte commentators and the studio were talking about it there and they said it was a disgrace.

bilston

nice_very wrote: »

Hannah Craig currently in gold medal position

Good effort in making the final. That wasn't expected or was it?

Richard Hillman

DebDynamite wrote: »

I would love to see Ireland pump some money into to swimmng here and try to nurture some of our young swimming talent. If we produce our own Michael Phelps, he/she could win us 8 golds in 1 Olympics!

I was actually talking to my mate the other day about something similar. With the thousands of delinquent children in the country that are frequently in the courts, maybe we should create an Olympic programme to get these people to turn their lives around. If they break the law, they get shunted into the Olympic Programme and if they fail or show no real effort they get shunted off to prison for their crimes.

The kids will have no choice in what they are entered in and are divided by physical stature and genetics. The tall ones go off to the likes of rowing and swimming and the smaller/mid sized ones go to the likes of Cycling, Table Tennis, Archery, Badminton. Again if they are not interested, they go to prison. Plus we will never have to listen about how they had little opportunity in life.

Its cheaper than shunting them off to prison and a lifetime of social welfare.

Richard Hillman

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The American synchronised swimmers have been practicing in the Aquatic Centre in Blanch for the past week. I thought the one in Blanch was the only olympic sized one in Ireland. I'm probably wrong though :L

Clontarf was the first one. It was the one good legacy Michelle De Bruin left the country as it was commission straight after her "Success"