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Off Topic OLYMPIC GAMES.

Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by Cyclonic, Feb 7, 2016.

  1. gazboy

    gazboy Well-Known Member

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    Super Mo Farah!!! Anybody interested in the fella have a look at the documentary on his lifestyle on BBC iplayer!
     
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  2. Chaninbar

    Chaninbar The Crafty Cockney

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    Seen it Gaz. 120 miles + a week, unreal. Nice family too. Top man. Regarding last night I got a bit fed up with the Beeb's constant referencing Super Saturday from 2012. Move on folks. As it turned out the 3 athletes involved all turned in brilliant performances. The long jump final was a real classic. Mo fell over and still won, and the lovely Jessica. She's just marvellous but beaten by a better athlete on the day.
     
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  3. SwanHills

    SwanHills Well-Known Member

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    Yes, Chaninbar, the two languages I watch the Olympics in, English and German, both need the 'mute' button a lot of the time. Absolutely barmy are some of these reporters. The BBC disappointed me in, what I thought, not giving enough praise and recognition to the Heptathlon winner, Nafi Thiam (Apparently Thiam is pronounced 'Cham'), who really was quite superb. Instead, with the usual celebrations after the event they followed Jessica Ennis-Hill around like she was the Queen of Sheba, or was it due to the Brazilian TV camera schedulers?
     
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  4. Chaninbar

    Chaninbar The Crafty Cockney

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    I think the cameraman was smitten with the lovely Jess <laugh>. If the event went into a 3rd day I think there would have been a restraining order in place.
     
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  5. Cyclonic

    Cyclonic Well Hung Member

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    You know what really gives me the ****s? It the amount of viewing time undertaken with second rate interviews that just chew up time that could be better spent elsewhere. Some piece of wonderful action is happening on the track or wherever, and we're stuck with 5 minutes of crap, followed by 5 minutes of advertisements. In the ladies 10,000m, we got to see the first part of the race, then it was off to a ball game on the sand where an Oz team was competing. We see the game served out, then back to the track. Ayala has bolted ... we ****in' missed it. Then we get the last few laps. And this happens every day. We have four channels of mindless drivel. I spent three years and eleven months waiting for the Rio games ... I'm a ****ing idiot.
     
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  6. SwanHills

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    It is hopeless,Cyc, these ****ing moderators love the sound of their own voice and the reflected glory that goes with a lot of the interviews. I find the BBC's Phil Jones quite a reasonable sort interviewing Brits after an athletic event, sympathetic and intelligent, and keeps the bullshit to a minimum.
     
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  7. Janabelle13

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    Super Saturday was pretty good but it did not quite happen according to the Beeb script

    still

    Gold for Mo:emoticon-0157-sun: what a guy - gets knocked over but still won

    My pal from work who is out there as a volunteer got to meet Gary Player the other day:emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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  8. QuarterMoonII

    QuarterMoonII Economist

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    Not So Super Saturday

    Jessica Ennis-who??? Greg Rutherforget???

    Mo Farah – takes a trip and still wins Gold. :emoticon-0178-rock:
     
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  9. smokethedeadbadger

    smokethedeadbadger Well-Known Member

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    And he's not even British!
     
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  10. Cyclonic

    Cyclonic Well Hung Member

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    Hats off to anyone who runs a marathon. Those ladies gave it all today. It was brutal.
     
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  11. Ron

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    Bloody commentator on the individual show jumping (Nick Brooks-Ward) is doing my head in. Can't seem to string many words together without inserting the word "a"; particularly following the word "the" <steam>
     
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  12. SwanHills

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    Ah, got a sore heed today, QMII? Just a question, but do you have a chronic problem with Schadenfreude? :emoticon-0112-wonde
     
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  13. Chaninbar

    Chaninbar The Crafty Cockney

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    Not Super but pretty decent nonetheless. Only a deluded and arrogant arsehole would assume history would repeat itself.

    I'm pretty sure Farah's passport says he's British so that will do for me.
     
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  14. Bustino74

    Bustino74 Thouroughbred Breed Enthusiast

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    I thought the incident on BBC TV where Drysdale was approached by Inverdale for an interview and Redgrave called a halt saying as a NZer should be interviewed by NZ TV first showed the measure of the man.
    Top bloke.
     
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  15. Janabelle13

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    Wow gold for Max Whitlock in the floor gymnastics:emoticon-0157-sun:
    Brazil get silver and bronze so the stadium has just gone bonkers
     
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  16. smokethedeadbadger

    smokethedeadbadger Well-Known Member

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    I'm not saying we shouldn't take him, we're good at claiming foreigners as our own
     
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    Gold for Justin Rose in the golf:emoticon-0157-sun:
    Another gold for Max Whitlock on pommel horse:emoticon-0157-sun:

    Super Saturday - sooo last Olympics. Its being surpassed by SensationalSunday
     
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  18. SwanHills

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    I can hardly believe all this, incredible performances. Well done lads and lasses!
     
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  19. smokethedeadbadger

    smokethedeadbadger Well-Known Member

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    Should be a one or two more to come aswell, guaranteed in the cycling and Murray should mop up the tennis
     
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  20. QuarterMoonII

    QuarterMoonII Economist

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    I presume that there is some Scottish connotation that I am missing. As far as I can recall, being a Yellowbelly, Jess comes from brain-dead South Yorkshire next door – she is more of a Southerner than me and Greg is more of a Southerner than either of us. A Jock may win the tennis whilst they are still part of Great Britain.

    Should that not be “very deluded and very arrogant”? All that BBC hype about them all repeating must have got to me. I thought the BBC were supposed to be impartial but they seem to get very over excited when there is anybody British in an event in with a chance of winning. Clearly the Belgian girl got the right drugs and the Yorkshire lass forgot to take hers.

    The Kenyan drug regime paid off as they finally won the Women’s Marathon on “Super Sunday”.
     
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