Off Topic The Official Olympic Thread- London 2012

Phillips Idowu is overrated. He's a lanky weirdo who could just gingerly step (like we may do when alighting from a Train) instead of jumping, and he'd still beat half the field, yet he can't win major events without all his rivals falling by the wayside beforehand... And this is a gold medal prospect, who has the temerity to be disgusted with the BOA for asking for his medical file when he hasn't competed in months?

I think Gemili could make the final, but I see no purpose in the rest of the sprinters. We should have included Walcott/Sturridge/The Ox/Lennon as a the novelty act we are at track and field.

Football/Tennis etc are joke Olympic sports, but it's nice to have some internationals up here.

Do the swimmers really need to have so many different ways to get to the other end? If they were tipped overboard in the sea and had to swim for it, they would not be doing breast-stroke or butterfly. Why don't they have "doggy paddle", the "non-swimmer run until the water comes up to their goggles" and the "annoying girl from the horror/boat film who we all want to die swim", whereby a hungry shark is released and the swimmer screams until it's within ten feet... And it's a farce the "freestyle" isn't called front crawl. Nobody is going to be backstroking it.

The "walking" race is ludicrous. It isn't walking, it's hobbling down the street with a stone in both shoes.

The London games opening ceremony will feature farm animals and countryside images which represent Britain. Indeed, I think everyone from far flung regions of the globe will truly take that message away with them when they're being 10X over-charged for a grimy hotel room in the middle of Soho...



All that said, I love the Olympics. It's days and days of none stop sport

 

Now if they included 'tossing the caber' then I think our very own Tash would have a decent chance at gold.

 

That isn't a caber that he tosses silly!

 

Haha

 

Not what's left of it (or his hands) anyway.

 

He tosses the cadburys finger.

 

As long as he doesn't lick the chocolate coated finger.

 

No it's the chocolate starfish.

 

Beckham does have a role...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ol...le-London-2012-Olympics-opening-ceremony.html

 

Is he to fart while someone holds the flame close enough to light the cauldron?



Actually just thinking about it, it would be quite amusing, and impressive!

 

Anyone else starting to think he's the guy who is lighting the torch, should be Redgrave though.

 

Anyone watching the Women's football, Team GB should be two or three up here.

 

this

 

whats the score?

 

1-0 gb.

 

nice one. always good to see our ladies on top.

 

To be fair we have been by far the better team and should be about 3-0 up.

 

Have any GB football chants been thought up yet?

 

I know women's football is often set an unfair standard, because men can have ****, laborious, stodgy matches too... I know that when a woman fails to find the target with a pass, it is met with the usual "women are just crap" etc etc...

But seriously, that match, and indeed most international ladies matches televised, are almost as painful to me as passing Fat Sam's head out of my urethra...

My opinion, of course. I'm just disappointed with the quality of the play in general, even taking it as a separate entity, it should be better. The keepers, in particular, are horrifyingly bad... It's like Roy Carroll or De Gea have donned a drag outfit!!!

Each to their own, if others enjoy it, fair enough!

 

Couldn't agree more, I've a feeling it could be Becks, it should be an Olympian, Redgrave a most deserving person to do it.