Off Topic The Official Olympic Thread- London 2012

Yes and Smith missed a penalty.

 

Also, anyone else looking forward to the 200m mens breast stroke tomorrow? Two British athletes, qualified first and third fastest, broke the British record 3 times today (the one that stood before today) and the English record twice. Hopefully tomorrow can be the start of our gold medals, Wiggins in the time trial then one of these guys.

 

Been saying that everyday, wasn't it going to be Cavendish, then the girl in the woman road race, then Adlington and so on.

 

Road races are tricky to 100% rely on. You can depend on a certain strategy to get it for you (a la Cav) but if that doesn't go to plan you have no hope. And because it's such a long way, so much can go wrong. As for Adlington, she was never favourite based on recent form, and even the one in Beijing was a surprise in that particular length.

Wiggins though is in an individual event, where it's entirely down to himself, and nobody around him. He's proven absolute dominance in time trials in the tour, and not to mention Froome also being involved. The two swimmers also have hope, though I'm basing that mostly on their incredible qualifying times and how much they seem to thrive on home support.

 

is it me or do GB swimmers only swim in the outside lanes
I have watched a lot of heats and finals but I've never seen a GB swimmer in the middle lanes

 

Probably because there is always better swimmers than whoever is representing Team GB.

 

In the finals or semis the fastest qualifying swimmers get put in the middle lanes, with the 2 slowest on the two outside lanes. That explains it

 

Anyone else noticed Elbow have now done two consecutive theme tunes for the BBC olympic coverage...

 

anybody going to St. James' today ??
do you really have to be there 2 hours before kick off or is that just bull to get you in early to buy food and drink

taking my son there today, should be a good game

 

Took me about a minute to get in the last two times I've been. Max time at turnstiles was less than the queues you get at a regular matchday and the security search stuff was pretty quick. I just suggest not taking a bag, and be sure to empty your pockets into one of the little plastic bags they have.

 

Queues for the tickets were terrible, getting into the ground was no problem at all. Might be a bit busier today but don't see any major problems.

 

we've got our tickets already

just wanted to know why they wanted us in so early
I work less than 2 mins walk away from the stadium
and I can make more money working longer than sitting in a stadium doing nowt

 

We arrived with 15m to go last time and got inside in plenty time.

Looks like a first GB gold is on right now in the rowing.

 

And it's there Finally our first gold. Now bring on the gold rush

 

excellent <goldmedalsmiley>

 

Let's hope so, Wiggins this afternoon maybe.

 

great performance by our rowers. over the moon!!!!

 

2 - 0 Brazil, this looks like it could be a rout.

 

Wiggins wins Gold!!!!!!!!
Froome wins Bronze.

A fab day!!!

 

The more I see and hear Bradley Wiggins the more I like the lad. Very down to earth.