Post-London 2012 hangover thread!!

Dan man

I think we're all going to have a bit of a hangover from all of the amazing sporting action.....time to work London 2012 out of our systems before we begin to look forward in earnest to Rio 2016.

Someone say something intelligent to start off with, I'm too hungover!

Skid

BobMac104

If i train really hard. Like really really hard Will i get to Rio?

The_Kew_Tour

Im going to make more of effort to keep informed about our competitors trying to make Rio.

We have plenty of world championships and so on to look forward too and while they may not be Olympics it is still really competitive.

Its been good games from Ireland. 5 Medals is more then we ever hoped.

Silvio.Dante

I hope all the olympians, staff and volunteers get home safe and sound. How's that Dan..?

efb

1G 1S 3B Woohoo!

ScissorPaperRock

Dan man wrote: »

I declare this thread of the Games of the XXXth Olympiad Closed and invite the good, the bad and the ugly in accordance with the charter of this forum to gather in a few minutes time from now to discuss Irish prospects for the Games of the XXXIth Olympiad in the host city of Rio de Janeiro!

Bu.. bu.. but I wasn't ready!!! There was still time!!!:(

Silvio.Dante

Right guys, I'm off to my bed. Its been one heck of a ride. thank you London, thank you B.ie...:)

Silvio.Dante

Could we keep the now closed diary thread as a Sticky..? It would be nice to have in there in 4 years time so we could compare and contrast where 'we were at'...?

The_Kew_Tour

If ye were right here I nearly be inclined to give ye hugs.

Very emotional.:D

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

BBC news just undid all their good work by claiming Rory as British. I know technically he's both, but Britain doesn't exist in the golf.

Anyway, that closing ceremony went on so long I'm kind of glad to see the back of it. Can't wait for Sochi now. I know we don't do much in the Winter Olympics but does anyone else follow the winter sports?

Silvio.Dante

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

BBC news just undid all their good work by claiming Rory as British. I know technically he's both, but Britain doesn't exist in the golf.

Anyway, that closing ceremony went on so long I'm kind of glad to see the back of it. Can't wait for Sochi now. I know we don't do much in the Winter Olympics but does anyone else follow the winter sports?

At least they said its the first time a Brit won since 1920 something which means they're not claiming Harri...;)

I love some of the Winter stuff but don't know enough to call myself a fan. now there's a project for me...:)

Dan man

Silvio.Dante wrote: »

Could we keep the now closed diary thread as a Sticky..? It would be nice to have in there in 4 years time so we could compare and contrast where 'we were at'...?

I'll keep it in my list of threads on my user CP....I'll leave it stickied for a while anyhow.

The_Kew_Tour

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

BBC news just undid all their good work by claiming Rory as British. I know technically he's both, but Britain doesn't exist in the golf.

Anyway, that closing ceremony went on so long I'm kind of glad to see the back of it. Can't wait for Sochi now. I know we don't do much in the Winter Olympics but does anyone else follow the winter sports?

Big fan. Well in terms of watching it once it starts. I could not tell you single competitor, but love watching some of the events.

I tend to go for smaller countries.

Dan man

ScissorPaperRoc wrote: »

Bu.. bu.. but I wasn't ready!!! There was still time!!!:(

Sorry, sure have your say on this thread.

efb

Isn't he though? Can't we de- twist the knickers and share the floppy headed wonder?

Dan man

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Anyway, that closing ceremony went on so long I'm kind of glad to see the back of it. Can't wait for Sochi now. I know we don't do much in the Winter Olympics but does anyone else follow the winter sports?

Sort of follow it but the Summer Olympics is the be all and end all for me.
I'd much prefer the Paralympics than the Winter Olympics also but that is not to say we won't look forward to Sochi...I have an appetite for anything Olympic related.

KevIRL

It's a real pity we didn't remain in the commonwealth and compete in the commonwealth games like so many other former British colonies.

Silvio.Dante

Dan man wrote: »

I'll keep it in my list of threads on my user CP....I'll leave it stickied for a while anyhow.

Excellent...:)

Silvio.Dante

KevIRL wrote: »

It's a real pity we didn't remain in the commonwealth and compete in the commonwealth games like so many other former British colonies.

HERE HERE..!

Dan man

I wonder did feargale make the jump between threads successfully??

Silvio.Dante

Dan man wrote: »

I wonder did feargale make the jump between threads successfully??

You haven't locked him in?

Though it would be a nice place to be traped in, London 2012 I mean...:)

The_Kew_Tour

Oh and just one thing.

Paddy Barnes is a legend!!

That is all.

Dan man

Silvio.Dante wrote: »

You haven't locked him in?

Though it would be a nice place to be traped in, London 2012 I mean...:)

:D Don't know if I'd like to be trapped in there with all those David and Goliaths on the loose!!

Dan man

We'll have to take some suggestions on how we might set our preparations up for Rio 2016. I'm thinking I could open a thread with links to lots of stickied threads from London 2012 as well as useful links to info on Rio 2016.
Maybe a timetable also with a chronological list of international championships on it for Olympic sports.

feargale

Silvio.Dante wrote: »

I love some of the Winter stuff but don't know enough to call myself a fan. now there's a project for me...:)[/Quote
Ice hockey is brilliant. I can't get over excited about the rest.

K_1

Dan man wrote: »

We'll have to take some suggestions on how we might set our preparations up for Rio 2016. I'm thinking I could open a thread with links to lots of stickied threads from London 2012 as well as useful links to info on Rio 2016.
Maybe a timetable also with a chronological list of international championships on it for Olympic sports.

And a countdown thread. 1452 days!!!! :P

I'd prefer see the focus be on the paralympics for the next few weeks before the rio build up though!

feargale

Dan man wrote: »

We'll have to take some suggestions on how we might set our preparations up for Rio 2016. I'm thinking I could open a thread with links to lots of stickied threads from London 2012 as well as useful links to info on Rio 2016.
Maybe a timetable also with a chronological list of international championships on it for Olympic sports.

I was hoping we would talk about improving Ireland's Olympic prospects without necessarily focusing exclusively on Rio.

feargale

Anyway I'm off in the morning and probably wont talk to you for 10 days or so. Thanks for the memories, and until we meet again.

Dan man

feargale wrote: »

I was hoping we would talk about improving Ireland's Olympic prospects without necessarily focusing exclusively on Rio.

Of course, we'll try and have a sensible discussion on all of these issues.

Dan man

K_1 wrote: »

And a countdown thread. 1452 days!!!! :P

I'd prefer see the focus be on the paralympics for the next few weeks before the rio build up though!

Gosh...don't know if I can develop an Olympic rings countdown clock to incorporate 1,452 days!!

Of course, we'll discuss Parallympics too, they're very enjoyable and Ireland should get a good haul of medals this time.... we're not going to get too serious about Rio yet (**lies to oneself**)....everything will likely be up in the air for a while anyway.

Pisco Sour

Lads dont forget Sochi 2014! I know it wont have Irish interest, but the Winter Olympics are f*cking brilliant. If you mess up in the Summer Games you could miss a medal, if you screw up in the Winter edition you could die!! Vancouver 2010 was EPIC, and we have not got long to wait until Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, Luge, Bobleigh, Speed Skating, Ice Hockey, Freestyle Skiing etc!

I tell ya, it's some oul craic. Bring it on!

Pisco Sour

Dan man wrote: »

Sort of follow it but the Summer Olympics is the be all and end all for me.
I'd much prefer the Paralympics than the Winter Olympics also but that is not to say we won't look forward to Sochi...I have an appetite for anything Olympic related.

I have to say the Vancouver Games are one of the best I have ever seen, Summer or Winter.

Also, any chance the name of the forum can be changed from "Sports" to "Olympic Games". Dan, you're the mod, made it happen!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Pisco Sour wrote: »

Lads dont forget Sochi 2014! I know it wont have Irish interest, but the Winter Olympics are f*cking brilliant. If you mess up in the Summer Games you could miss a medal, if you screw up in the Winter edition you could die!! Vancouver 2010 was EPIC, and we have not got long to wait until Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, Luge, Bobleigh, Speed Skating, Ice Hockey, Freestyle Skiing etc!

I tell ya, it's some oul craic. Bring it on!

We had a bob sleigh team in Vancouver. We finished 2nd from bottom.

Pisco Sour

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

We had a bob sleigh team in Vancouver. We finished 2nd from bottom.

Claire Bergin and Aoife Hoey, and I'm pretty sure they were a bit higher than that. Astonishing achievement for any Irish people to qualify for a Winter Games.

feargale

Dan man wrote: »

I wonder did feargale make the jump between threads successfully??

Yes, I'm here, but I'm off now and you probably wont hear from me for a week or two. You'll have to make do with David and Goliath without me to rein them in. Keep your heads down when those slings are flying !

Dan man

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

We had a bob sleigh team in Vancouver. We finished 2nd from bottom.

Possibly we could have a figure skater, Clara Peters....she did well at the Europeans this year....think she made the final.
Also, we have a talented snowboarder (halfpipe) coming through named Seamus O'Connor...if he progresses like some think he will, he is tipped to be one of the world's best.

Dan man

feargale wrote: »

Yes, I'm here, but I'm off now and you probably wont hear from me for a week or two. You'll have to make do with David and Goliath without me to rein them in. Keep your heads down when those slings are flying !

Phew, glad you made it
Thanks for those David v Goliath posts, they were very interesting.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Pisco Sour wrote: »

Claire Bergin and Aoife Hoey, and I'm pretty sure they were a bit higher than that. Astonishing achievement for any Irish people to qualify for a Winter Games.

I don't know, I seem to remember the Australians trying to get us kicked out and then we finished above them and I remember being very happy with that

Edit: checked it, we finished 17th out of 21.

johne30

Dan man wrote: »

I think we're all going to have a bit of a hangover from all of the amazing sporting action.....time to work London 2012 out of our systems before we begin to look forward in earnest to Rio 2016.

Someone say something intelligent to start off with, I'm too hungover!

have to say that the standard and style of the female athletes gets better with every games . lol.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Did anyone get a picture of the Irish athlete's lying down during the closing ceremony? The internet is telling me they were actually trying to spell out IRL or something similar. Everyone on twitter seems to think they were drunk and having a nap.

johne30

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

We had a bob sleigh team in Vancouver. We finished 2nd from bottom.

thankfully the rugby season is only weeks away , a real sport that we are actually able to compete at for a change

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

johne30 wrote: »

thankfully the rugby season is only weeks away , a real sport that we are actually able to compete at for a change

Doesn't translate to the rugby 7's though, so isn't really relevant to our Olympic discussions.

johne30

KevIRL wrote: »

It's a real pity we didn't remain in the commonwealth and compete in the commonwealth games like so many other former British colonies.

no it would not have been possible to compete in commonwealth games except as all on ireland team in every sport. no other com wealth country is divided like us , so politicaly it would be immpossible

johne30

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Doesn't translate to the rugby 7's though, so isn't really relevant to our Olympic discussions.

well we will prob have a womens 7's team there.in rio . but not in the mens rugby and there is good reason for it

johne30

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Did anyone get a picture of the Irish athlete's lying down during the closing ceremony? The internet is telling me they were actually trying to spell out IRL or something similar. Everyone on twitter seems to think they were drunk and having a nap.

jez they were just having a bit of craic . why does everyone get so serious,

johne30

Dan man wrote: »

Possibly we could have a figure skater, Clara Peters....she did well at the Europeans this year....think she made the final.
Also, we have a talented snowboarder (halfpipe) coming through named Seamus O'Connor...if he progresses like some think he will, he is tipped to be one of the world's best.

jez we cant compete at real sports in real olympics without making utter fools of our selves in the snow. and then we wonder why the world laughs at and sterotypes us.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

johne30 wrote: »

jez they were just having a bit of craic . why does everyone get so serious,

It's mostly twitter comments from Irish people laughing at how great they are because they're probably drunk. I just assumed they were having a laugh and lying down, but I did see someone say that they were trying to spell out IRL, so I just wanted to see if they were or not.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

johne30 wrote: »

jez we cant compete at real sports in real olympics without making utter fools of our selves in the snow. and then we wonder why the world laughs at and sterotypes us.

We didn't make fools of ourselves and nobody was laughing at us.

johne30

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Im going to make more of effort to keep informed about our competitors trying to make Rio.

We have plenty of world championships and so on to look forward too and while they may not be Olympics it is still really competitive.

Its been good games from Ireland. 5 Medals is more then we ever hoped.

how u mean good games for ireland , n zeland won 5 golds hungary got 6 and denmark got 9 medals overall , all huge world powers of course . if you took out boxing and horse riding we would be a disaster,

johne30

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

We didn't make fools of ourselves and nobody was laughing at us.

well similar sized nations can win medals with ease and lots of them in a range of sports . we only able to rely on a few boxers and horsey sports every time. no hope in anything else ,