London 2012 MegaThread [Part 2]

robinph

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Sunday morning

...and the medal is usually the last to be presented as part of the beginning of the closing ceremony.

patmac

Spain winning and the crowd are singing ole,ole,ole look what we started!

Kerrydude1981

Everytime I see the Russian tracksuit it reminds me of these guys from Euro 88

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NIlijCUlc3s/T7lZPkQBzYI/AAAAAAAACTw/TtPvPwjYqCA/s1600/1988ussr-eng.jpg

opinion guy

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Everytime I see the Russian tracksuit it reminds me of these guys from Euro 88

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NIlijCUlc3s/T7lZPkQBzYI/AAAAAAAACTw/TtPvPwjYqCA/s1600/1988ussr-eng.jpg

Its the exact same!!!!!

Guy:Incognito

opinion guy wrote: »

Honestly I'd quite happy pay my licence fee to the BBC in exchange for a red button over the bull**** RTE coverage

Whats standing in your way of the red button?

Kerrydude1981

Our relay team out soon,13th in the world by all accounts,so we should be competitive.

Carruth is a gas man "Katie is the Queen and Im the King"

JONJO THE MISER

Will be very hard for Conlon to win, the Cuban is 2/9 to win.

blueser

Like the cheeky little wink from the Italian lead off girl in the relay race!

Guy:Incognito

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

opinion guy

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Whats standing in your way of the red button?

UPC

Also given the thing is almost over the impossibility of time travel

I'm not sure which is more insurmountable

Diego Maradona

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

To stop huge winning margins hence the staggered first lap.

blueser

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

Doesn't the stagger only work itself out over one lap? If that is so, the stagger would have to be ridiculously big to take 4 laps into account.

opinion guy

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

We talking athletics ?

Each lane out from the center adds a couple of metres extra distance

Guy:Incognito

opinion guy wrote: »

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Whats standing in your way of the red button?

UPC

Also given the thing is almost over the impossibility of time travel

I'm not sure which is more insurmountable

I meant in general rather than for the rest if the games.

Can you not ditch upcoming and get sky or get a great set up. This issue is going to come up again you know :-)


Wonder will this coverage be the norm for BBC fir the gamed. Hopefully

Diego Maradona

Ireland in womens 400m relay action now, RTE.

opinion guy

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I meant in general rather than for the rest if the games.

Can you not ditch upcoming and get sky or get a great set up. This issue is going to come up again you know :-)


Wonder will this coverage be the norm for BBC fir the gamed. Hopefully

Internet is in a package with the TV and the UPC internet is surperior to sky last I checked

Guy:Incognito

opinion guy wrote: »

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

We talking athletics ?

Each lane out from the center adds a couple of metres extra distance

If they staggered all the changeover like the first I wed thinking.

steve9859

opinion guy wrote: »

UPC

Also given the thing is almost over the impossibility of time travel

I'm not sure which is more insurmountable

UPC is the bigger challenge without question. Glad to have put the Irish sea between me and that shower!

Diego Maradona

They finished 6th and failed to qualify.

Guy:Incognito

Puts an end to all the selection hullabaloo too.

Kerrydude1981

Diamond Dixon what a name

Aidric

Ireland finish 6th and go out.

kfallon

Joanne Cuddihy ran a great leg to be fair to her

robinph

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why dont they just leave them in their lanes for the 4 laps? Stop all th ejostling that happens at times.

The stagger for the 4x400m is in a different place from the 400m stagger as they stay in lanes until the 500m mark. If they were to have 1600m worth of stagger then the outside lane would be starting something like half way round the second bend, you'd also have different changeover point for each lap and it would be way too complicated.

Watch out for South Africa in the 4x400m as they are now letting Pistouris run any leg. When they took part in the world championships he was made to run the first leg and from the outside lane. SA didn't complete their run in the heats as their guy was tripped on the 2nd leg so they got given a bye to the final and will be on the inside lane I believe.

opinion guy

kfallon wrote: »

Joanne Cuddihy ran a great leg to be fair to her

Which one was she ? Was she the third leg ? I thought that person did alot of catch up all right

Guy:Incognito

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Our relay team out soon,13th in the world by all accounts,so we should be competitive.

And they duely finish 13th :-)

Kerrydude1981

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

And they duely finish 13th :-)

At least they are consistent

kfallon

opinion guy wrote: »

Which one was she ? Was she the third leg ? I thought that person did alot of catch up all right

She was second leg

opinion guy

kfallon wrote: »

She was second leg

It was tough to judge with the stagger but definitely either the second runner or the third ran a stormer

steve9859

Very good piece there on BBC about mental preparation. Would love to get a recording of that

Guy:Incognito

robinph wrote: »

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Watch out for South Africa in the 4x400m as they are now letting Pistouris run any leg. When they took part in the world championships he was made to run the first leg and from the outside lane. SA didn't complete their run in the heats as their guy was tripped on the 2nd leg so they got given a bye to the final and will be on the inside lane I believe.

Yeah, the one track race I' ve missed and it had drama. What happened with the trip . Did someone cross in to their lane or fall? Premumably whoever tripped them is gone too?


Whats the story if the track was only an 8 lane one and there wasnt room to just drop them in?

opinion guy

steve9859 wrote: »

Very good piece there on BBC about mental preparation. Would love to get a recording of that

The BBC short films about behind the scenes stuff have been very good I must say

keith16

The pole vault looks like it's tremendous fun.

Guy:Incognito

Gavin Smellie

Guy:Incognito

keith16 wrote: »

The pole vault looks like it's tremendous fun.

until you dont land on the mat.:)

Guy:Incognito

Disaster of a last changeover from GB. Gemili went off too early.

EDIt. Maybe he went too fast. OOO, out of his lane too,

Gemili ran a really fast leg other than that

Kerrydude1981

Could the Jamaicans be disqualified,problem with their last changeover

kfallon

Will GB be disqualified? looked like Gemeli even ran outside his lane too, disaster

keith16

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

until you dont land on the mat.:)

I'd love to see one of them pole vault out of the stadium!

kfallon

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Could the Jamaicans be disqualified,problem with their last changeover

I thought it looked fine tbh

Chagan

It took him two or three attempts to get the baton into Gemili's hand

steve9859

Damn it. I'm going tomorrow evening. Would have been good to have GB in the final

Richard Hillman

If there is one thing Britain are worse than Penalties at, its relay running. Every championships they get DQ'd :pac:

robinph

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Could the Jamaicans be disqualified,problem with their last changeover

That looked fine.

opinion guy

Another tortuous interview at an inappropriate time

Anyone

Glad to see Chambers getting feck all in these Olympics should be his last time on a major stage

steve9859

I can't believe they are making them watch the video for the first time and explain it on live tv. That is just cruel!

kfallon

Richard Hillman wrote: »

If there is one thing Britain are worse than Penalties at, its relay running. Every championships they get DQ'd :pac:

Did they not win the last Olympic 4x100m???

kfallon

Stan Laurel helping out the US athlete there :pac:

Kerrydude1981

robinph wrote: »

That looked fine.

Ya saw it their again,tough luck on GB