London 2012 MegaThread [Part 2]

bluecode

bluecode wrote: »

Thank Christ that's over. It's been excruciating having to avoid all the crap surrounding the whole Olympic experience. Let's face it, if we hadn't sent boxers. We'd have one medal. As for the Paralympics, it's hard to criticise the competitors but you have have to wonder at the overall standard of competitor when the Ireland is 19th in the medal table.

The British have being going on about how this will change the way Britain sees itself. Sadly it's just the euphoria of the moment. We've all being there. A holiday, an event. We all get carried away with good times. But it never lasts.

Back home it's business as usual.

Good christ above who let Mr Happy Pants onto this thread :rolleyes:

The same begrudging spiteful self-loathing bulls*it we've become accustomed to in this country. At the very least people should acknowledge the effort it takes for Irish athletes (able bodied or otherwise) to even get into the condition to compete at the olympics/paralympics and acknowledge the dedication involved but no its run-down run-down run-down run-down. We can never just be happy for our own and enjoy the games as a celebration of the world coming together to unite in the glory of sport.

opinion guy

For those with withdrawal symptoms this is on tomorrow:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mmm2b

bluecode

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Good christ above who let Mr Happy Pants onto this thread :rolleyes:

The same begrudging spiteful self-loathing bulls*it we've become accustomed to in this country. At the very least people should acknowledge the effort it takes for Irish athletes (able bodied or otherwise) to even get into the condition to compete at the olympics/paralympics and acknowledge the dedication involved but no its run-down run-down run-down run-down. We can never just be happy for our own and enjoy the games as a celebration of the world coming together to unite in the glory of sport.

Clearly you're happy for this country to continue as third rate sporting nation where 'taking part' is good enough where athletes get into finals as 'fastest losers' or finish with a glorious fourth with a 'PB'in their heats. The term 'just missed out' is used a lot. The fact is that most of the Irish competitors were there to make up the numbers. The obvious exception being the boxers and the showjumpers.

Why would anyone applaud failure? Why is it that we Irish are happy with glorious defeat? Our boxers are world class. What are they doing right?

I share Roy Keane's attitude that we shouldn't be prepared to put up with being second rate.

As long as people in this country are prepared to accept second best and celebrate mediocrity. We will always be there to make up the numbers.

This country could and should be producing more world class sportspeople. But for some reason we're happy to spend money on people who really don't belong representing Ireland on the world stage.

Beefy78

Regardless of how Ireland did can you not just appreciate the Olympics and Paralympics for the amazing sporting festivals that they were?

opinion guy

You do know we one a tonne of golds in the paralympics ?

With the likes of Jason Smyth who ran a 10.46 in the 100m for example - and thats not even his best. This is a guy who trains with Tyson Gay. Oh he only has 10% vision.


But I digress. People we have a late entrant for the paratrolympics here with bluecode. Hmmm he is making some effort I will grant him that, but really, its all a bit special. Bluecode disqualified from paratrolympics and instead enrolled into the Special-Trolympics next time around

bluecode

bluecode wrote: »

Clearly you're happy for this country to continue as third rate sporting nation where 'taking part' is good enough where athletes get into finals as 'fastest losers' or finish with a glorious fourth with a 'PB'in their heats. The term 'just missed out' is used a lot. The fact is that most of the Irish competitors were there to make up the numbers. The obvious exception being the boxers and the showjumpers.

Why would anyone applaud failure? Why is it that we Irish are happy with glorious defeat? Our boxers are world class. What are they doing right?

I share Roy Keane's attitude that we shouldn't be prepared to put up with being second rate.

As long as people in this country are prepared to accept second best and celebrate mediocrity. We will always be there to make up the numbers.

This country could and should be producing more world class sportspeople. But for some reason we're happy to spend money on people who really don't belong representing Ireland on the world stage.

In an ideal world we would be winning more but lets get realistic here. China for example have a population of 1.3bn and a booming economy and we have a population of 4.5m and a struggling economy.

No one is celebrating failure thats only the simplistic black and white view you have decided to take. You clearly think you know what it takes to compete with Michael Phelps and Usain Bolts of this world so please please get onto the Irish Sports Council and the Irish Olympic Council asap and tell them the formula. Im sure with all the cash at their disposal we'll probably have 10 fold the amount of medals in Rio :rolleyes:


This country is currently in a situation where hospital beds are being closed down, where people are finding themselves on the breadline and homeless on a daily basis. Every cent of peoples hard earned tax is plugging a crater left by the reckless and disgusting acts of banks and thats the fact. If i had a choice for my tax money to save one hospital bed or help a young aspiring athlete in their Olympic dream id honestly pick the hospital bed every day of the week because as a society and as human beings what we dont realise is without your health your nothing

Fact of the matter is while as us bar stoolers give out about olympic failure the Dervla O'Rourke's and the Robert Heffernans of this world were taking extra care of their bodies, trying to get themselves in the best shape possible with the little facilities they have to do it. Any clown who believes them or any of our athletes went to london or beijing with the intention of giving less then 100% knows sweet f*ck all about sport

SocSocPol

Great to see so many people at Dublin Airport to welcome our Para-Olympians home. They really did us proud and I wish every member of that team well.

opinion guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHO5Brsd3E

El Weirdo

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