London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Shryke

At least the boxing is on now.

delad

Fcuk sake have to mute Jimmy Magee

el diablo

Crikey, these lads are tiny. 7 stone 7 pounds. :eek:

delad

el diablo wrote: »

Crikey, these lads are tiny. 7 stone 7 pounds. :eek:

I don't get why Ireland has such an abundance of smaller fighters but hardly any middleweights or heavyweights

Guy:Incognito

el diablo wrote: »

Crikey, these lads are tiny. 7 stone 7 pounds. :eek:

Did you see the massive guy in the Judo on BBC last night? 34 stone or something. They said he weighed 6 stone more than the entire Chinese womens Gymnastics team.:)

Mars Bar

Trampolining is on!

el diablo

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Did you see the massive guy in the Judo on BBC last night? 34 stone or something. They said he weighed 6 stone more than the entire Chinese womens Gymnastics team.:)

Yep, saw him. Think he was from Guam. He was no good though. He got beaten by a man half his weight.

patmac

delad wrote: »

I don't get why Ireland has such an abundance of smaller fighters but hardly any middleweights or heavyweights

Joe ward should be there and Kenny Egan won a silver medal. As for Rte, bit disappointed so far, with Bill bringing the negative soccer style chat to the swimming slagging of Phelps for missing a gold medal by in inch was poor. BBC's digital coverage is excellent but with a large British bias. They were showing Analise's race but when the GB sailor jumped the gun, they switched to someone else.
RTE do not have any say on the sailing coverage so we have to wait for updates.mthe 10th race is being shown after the boxing I think.

delad

patmac wrote: »

Joe ward should be there and Kenny Egan won a silver medal. As for Rte, bit disappointed so far, with Bill bringing the negative soccer style chat to the swimming slagging of Phelps for missing a gold medal by in inch was poor. BBC's digital coverage is excellent but with a large British bias. They were showing Analise's race but when the GB sailor jumped the gun, they switched to someone else.
RTE do not have any say on the sailing coverage so we have to wait for updates.mthe 10th race is being shown after the boxing I think.

BBC weren't showing the 100m heats live which was a joke.

Mr.Crinklewood

delad wrote: »

Fcuk sake have to mute Jimmy Magee

..this stale bread tastes crap.

Shryke

15-10 to paddy.

Kerrydude1981

Hon the Paddy!!

Mr.Crinklewood

That was quick:-

@paddyb_ireland
Think I'm first boxer ever to tweet from inside ring.

delad

amateur boxing is so boring isn't it, hopefully next olympics when they get rid of the headguards it will be more exciting with a few ko's

dasdog

His defence in round one. The word class gets bandied about too much.

Rascasse

delad wrote: »

BBC weren't showing the 100m heats live which was a joke.

They were on BBC 3. Remember to check that channel if not on BBC 1.

xxyyxx

Did he get the jacket from Bewitched haha

Brian017

Damn the Chinese girl is really finishing this series of races very strongly

IvySlayer

Serena is just ploughing through Sharapova in the womens final.

patmac

Billy Twomey and Cian O'Connor both qualified for the show jumping final, let's hope Cian's horse stays of the hard stuff this time.

patmac

After the first check in the sailing Liu leads, Dutch 2nd, Analise 3 rd Van Ecker 4th! Pts would be Analise 30, Liu 32, Dutch 34 and Van Ecker 35, really tight.

Patser

Away from comp, please give me updates on the sailing. RTE radio has documentary hour on now, no olympics on FM radio :-(

DominoDub

IvySlayer wrote: »

Serena is just ploughing through Sharapova in the womens final.

That has put some strange images in my head :eek:

Jimoslimos

IvySlayer wrote: »

Serena is just ploughing through Sharapova in the womens final.

Ugh, 6-0. Women's game is so abysmal at the moment.

patmac

After the 2nd check in the sailing Dutch leads, Xu 2nd Van Ecker 3rd Analise 5th.Pts would be Analise 32, Xu 33 Dutch 33 and Van Ecker 34 out of the medals.RTE not showing sailing now.

hypersquirrel

IvySlayer wrote: »

Serena is just ploughing through Sharapova in the womens final.

Well that explains the grunting at least.

leahyl

How long is each sailing race? Just checked and Annalise 5th at the mo but that changes by the minute obv

hypersquirrel

50 minutes to an hour I think

daisybelle2008

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Ugh, 6-0. Women's game is so abysmal at the moment.

Have to admire Serenas brute determination. She really wants that medal bad!

delad

Shryke wrote: »

****ing hell I've had enough with rte. Ten minutes of ads and now it's more talking heads. Is there actually nothing on!? Such ****ing bull****. I'm turning it off until I can be somewhere else.

It really is woeful, the talking heads wouldn't be as bad if they actually had some expert insight instead of stating the bleeding obvious. The only good analyst I have seen on rte is Andrew Bree.

Jimoslimos

daisybelle2008 wrote: »

Have to admire Serenas brute determination. She really wants that medal bad!

She's a bully and a pretty unlikeable person IMO.

I also think she's rather limited as a tennis player. Fantastic serve - yes, but I don't think I've seen a slower player around the court in recent years.

delad

hypersquirrel wrote: »

Well that explains the grunting at least.

Sharapova would be such a better player if she didn't expend so much energy by grunting.

patmac

After the 3rd mark in the sailing Dutch leads, Xu 2nd Van Ecker 4th Analise 5th.Pts would be Analise 32, Xu 33 Dutch 33 and Van Ecker 35. I think the 4 th mark is halfway,though not sure.

phasers

ugh can they not make her stop making that horrible sound?

bwatson

Another record set by the British in the velodrome earlier, with Jason Kenny breaking Chris Hoy's olympic record set in the individual sprint in Beijing by 0.12 seconds. A fair amount in this event!

Jimoslimos

Annalise Murphy down to 7th

patmac

After the 4th mark in the sailing Dutch leads, Xu 2nd Van Ackerman 4th Analise 7th.Pts would be Analise 34, Xu 33, Dutch 33 and Van Acker 35 how close.

hypersquirrel

Murphy in 7th now which would put the Dutch and Chinese joint 1st overall on 33 and leave her in 3rd with 34.

leahyl

hypersquirrel wrote: »

Murphy in 7th now which would put the Dutch and Chinese joint 1st overall on 33 and leave her in 3rd with 34.

Ah my nerves!! Come on Annalise!

Jimoslimos

Murphy now 10th - all falling apart:(

Edit 6th ok

Rascasse

Sailing is on BBC 3 now. Strangely not on RTE.

Edit: Now they've switched to another race.

leahyl

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Murphy now 10th - all falling apart:(

But where would she be overall though? She could still have a chance of medal no?

Kerrydude1981

Finished 7th

Jimoslimos

leahyl wrote: »

But where would she be overall though? She could still have a chance of medal no?

Finished 7th - yeah I guess she's still in with a shout.

Overall position not sure

patmac

Live on Bbc channel 10 now. Over ned 1st, Xu 2nd, Van Ackerman 3, murphy 7th points Murphy 34, Xu 33, Dutch, 33 Van Acker 34. Final race Monday all to play for.

hypersquirrel

She's 1 point behind the Dutch and Chinese and 1 ahead of the German. Could win gold, could win nothing.

leahyl

Eeeek so excited for her! Hope she gets any medal!!! I dont think anyone expected this performance?

Brian017

1. NED 33
2. CHN 33
3. IRL 34
4. BEL 34

It's going to be some medal race on Monday. Let's hope she can hold onto 3rd at least!

donfers

serena williams beats sharapova 6-0 6-1

what a procession of an event, she dropped just 17 games during the whole olympics

when gilles simon, the french player raised the issue of pay at wimbledon just a few weeks ago, it was sharapova who responded with "well more people would pay to watch my games than his"

...not if they are such one-sided contests like that maria they wouldn't

donfers

Brian017 wrote: »

1. NED 33
2. CHN 33
3. IRL 34
4. BEL 34

It's going to be some medal race on Monday. Let's hope she can hold onto 3rd at least!

a sports pyschologist would tell you that's completely the wrong attitude

let's hope she wins the race and wins the gold - that should be the only thing on her mind, she won the first four races, why not this one?