Where else except in this wonderful country of ours would you find something as brilliantly inventive and totally barking as this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19222190
No need to apologise, SuperC. There is no doubt that Mo Farah is a great athlete and deserves all the sporting praise going. But he is African, not British, not English, but Somalian. Polly Toynbee on Sky this morning said that Mo Farah dispels the myth that Somalis are dirty, lazy people who cause misery to all those around them. How the **** does that work, Polly? Take a walk down to Angel Edmonton once in a while. It is a no-go for white folk, it stinks, its streets are strewn with the most unimaginable filth and degradation, and there is a 97% unemployment rate amongst working-age Somalians. So how does Mo Farah winning two gold medals dispel the rumours of inherent Somali problems? It is PC gone utterly bonkers. Or perhaps I am a the mad one and am imagining it all...! The mountain-biking at Hadleigh Castle was great, though.
Yout post is a bit sour grapes to me. I live in a council block with overwhelmingly white residents and you should see the dirt and mess they leave by the bin areas, over the stairs etc, cigarette butts etc. This applies to all groups in society, not one particular group.
A rather lazy argument, Pat. Are you telling me that it is beneficial to import a race of people who offer next to nothing in terms of social cohesion and tax yield? Is it worth having hundreds of thousands of Somalians in this country, doing nothing but draining the system, so that we can claim a couple of gold medals? And, yes, you are correct about white trash. There is plenty of our own home-grown filth that needs to be wheedled out and dealt with. Friday's tragic events in New Addington prove that scum is awash throughout each and every race. But that is not an excuse for the imported dross that is waved through each and every day. Will you now suggest that all the Romanian pickpockets are worth the bother if we can find a Bucharest-born shot-putter to win us a gold in Rio?
Anthony Joshua - what a performance! A worthy champion. The horses aren't any better behaved than yesterday in the Modern Pentathlon...the one that jumped the third element of the combination with the rider hanging round its neck was a game one though.
I thought Anthony Joshua was technically the worse boxer I have ever seen win a medal!!! However he had strength and power and derserved to win the gold. I hope he stays in the amateurs for another four years and learns a bit more and I can see him going well as a pro. What he does not want to do is be like audley Harrison who was clearly not ready to go pro and is now something of a heavyweight joke.
What made it even sweeter was that the Italians had to go for an appeal !! Only for the new judges to make it a bigger win margin for Joshua - only in Italy ! (or maybe France too) -just proves how Italy can join Australia as being the worst losers on the planet.
Ellie Simmonds last length was astonishing. Jason Smyth is very, very quick... OMG - Pistorius - 21.30 for 200m - tired after the Olympics? I don't think so.
With both of these, I watched and laughed. They were so good I had no other response. Seems to be a lot of world records going in these games.
I know I've said something like this before, but Ellie Simmonds last length in the 200 metres IM had to be seen to be believed - as the bloke on C4 said "we have not speeded up this footage". Astonishing performance to finish nine seconds ahead of the silver medallist. David Weir's 5000m win had me out of my seat last night as well. Extraordinary stuff.
