Post-London 2012 hangover thread!!

Skid

Just reading about Dr Pat O'Callaghan (on wikipedia, I can't see it verified anywhere else)

At Fermoy in 1937 he threw 195’ 4” - more than seven feet ahead of the world record set by his old friend Paddy 'Chicken' Ryan in 1913. The AAUE and the British-dominated IAAF saw to it that this new world record did not receive official recognition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O'Callaghan

That would suggest he would have been hard to beat in Berlin if he had been allowed compete there. Great shame he missed out.

feargale

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Do you think that maybe the rest of the team didn't want a homecoming thing because they knew that the boxers would be at the centre of attention and they'd just be hanging around.

I think it must be very difficult for those who disappointed themselves to be part of a reception, trying to smile and pretending to be happy. It's different for ba soccer or rugby player nwho was below par, the focus being on the team. The Olympics focus more on the individual. There was discussion on the threads about the wisdom or otherwise of confining the team to A qualifiers, and I could understand why the OCI did that. But I detest the demonisation of athletes who have a bad day. Nobody died.

feargale

Dan man wrote: »

I think that an Olympics forum has been asked for before at least a couple of times but the consensus amongst the admin is a mixture of: it won't generate enough traffic, and there's no need for it since we have forums for most Olympic sports anyway.

I know nothing about threads, but I wonder if an all embracing " Olympic Sports " thread would get around the problem. For instance, is there a generic thread for GAA, with distinct separate threads for hurling, gaelic football etc. ?

feargale

johne30 wrote: »

no body in the olympics except the brits have to fawn to the queen . the common wealth games is for the empire . we thankfully despite all our problems are not in that empire any longer. pan america games. oceania games . african games . european games . all based you see on a geographical context . not on old empires.

What about the Francophone Games and the Games of the Lusophony, based respectively on the French and Portuguese Empires, mirror images of the Commonwealth Games ?

feargale

locum-motion wrote: »

If you want to get your message across, then you owe it to your reader to put it in a legible manner. If you don't have enough respect for your own opinions to do that, then why should I give them the respect of reading them?

Last words of Dominique Bouhours ( 1628 - 1702 ,) French grammarian : " I am about to - or I am going to die : either expression is used. "

feargale

johne30 wrote: »

if london was a good games for us i think i will go to mars before rio

London was our best Olympics in a long time. As with Dan and others, that's good enough for me. For feck's sake, stop cursing the darkness and light a candle. And keep away from that old gin late at night. It makes people morose.

Dan man

feargale wrote: »

I know nothing about threads, but I wonder if an all embracing " Olympic Sports " thread would get around the problem. For instance, is there a generic thread for GAA, with distinct separate threads for hurling, gaelic football etc. ?

GAA has a single thread feargale since you asked. There's zero chance that all of the various forums for each Olympic sport would amalgamate into one single Olympic forum...nor do I think that would be ideal anyway. I think we can create a nice little niche for ourselves here on the sports forum. As I mentioned before, it might be a good idea, since we have no subforum for Olympic sports to create a single thread with links to a variety of Olympic related threads. This way, the Olympic stuff wouldn't take over the forum completely but there still would be a known, easy-to-find location where we can discuss all things Olympic related.

feargale

Interesting article in Phoenix this week, page 8, essentially comparing atttitudes of British administrators to ours.

Silvio.Dante

I'm feeling a bit down tonight (nothing serious) so I've decided to watch the Opening Ceremony again...:)

Skid

Silvio.Dante wrote: »

I'm feeling a bit down tonight (nothing serious) so I've decided to watch the Opening Ceremony again...:)

Fair play to you, Silvio. Good idea, I'm sure it will bring back lots of memories of that glorious fortnight. Enjoy it, I must do the same thing soon.

cgpg5

For those interested BBC SPOTY nominations were just made. Olympic dominated for obvious reasons!

Think a top 3 of Wiggins, Murray and Farah is on the cards