Off Topic Olympics

Fantastic stuff

And who's a smart ass then?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37064408

Swimming's world governing body Fina said the water tanks had run out of some of the chemicals used in the water treatment process.

 

Well as you "can't be bothered" to dig out my posts to prove your point that I said Guidolin was a failure, Roof, I've spent a few minutes whilst enjoying the Olympics. Here's just a few....I may keep digging.

Thread: "Alan Curtis: Top Swan": I agree. Curtis did remarkably well and by all accounts Guidolin left everything up to him when he was recovering in hospital. As I recall we had some great results during that period too. We owe our survival, at least in part, to Curtis.

Thread: "West Ham v Swansea": I couldn't agree more Valley. Both you and I have been highly critical of Guidolin and it's hard to say we were wrong after some of the downright **** displays this season. Even our win against Villa at home was absolutely dreadful. But we cannot ignore results like yesterday and Chelsea so maybe the guy deserves his chance.

Thread: "West Ham v Swansea": No, it's not all bad Phil. But not all good either. Way too inconsistent for me and he still makes some very worrying substitutions. I think we can do better, but he deserves some credit for doing a job for us, fair play.

 

If you don't put chlorine in the pool it will go green!!

 

This is the sport I enjoy most in the Olympics. I'm destroyed after doing spin for 20mins twice a week for cardio so I can only imagine the agony etc that these men and women put their bodies through.

 

Your brave doing 20mins of spin!! I do like the track cycling, having to go flat out in a race, then do the same thing and hour later!! Arghhhhh!!

 

I feel like I've sat on a cactus the following day

 

My spin/ rpm class is 45 mins to an hour - and I'm 56!!

Can't go wrong with padded cycle shorts. Highly recommended.

 

I do it as part of a bodybuilding/strongman program.

Bollocks to 60mins of spin

 

It is a killer.....but helps keep the paunch at bay.

 

I don't pay that much attention to the Olympics anyways , whoever has the most untraceable. Doping ...wins .
Back in the day , they use to pass out East German women's medals .... to men .

 

Some nice girls ease the pain too

 

Murray to play some Japanese guy in the semis.

Nadal v Del Potro will be a brutal match.

 

Oh... here's another, Roof.... for the life of me I can't find any post where I said Guidolin was a "failure". Maybe you can help me out?

Thread: “Who will be the new manager?” Totally agree, he's a lovely guy but I completely agree with TLF on this. Can't explain it but as much as I'll get behind him I get this nagging doubt at the back of my mind. I guess it's just those awful, diabolical performances we've seen. The limp displays, the worrying lineups, the crazy substitutions. It's inevitable that some of us refuse to get caught up in the euphoria. That said, his results have ensured he gets a crack at it and he probably deserves it. Points ratio alone has ensured that. I hope we go out on a high at the weekend and that carries on into next season. If we do, that will go some way to putting our worries to bed. I liked what he said about his next target making sure we don't lose our identity and that we learn from the failures of this season.

 

Sorry to come to this evening's "debate" late - been watching the Ospreys - but there are multiple foreign athletes who could claim the title of greatest Olympian ahead of Cassius Clay:

Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30-year-old mother of two.

Emil Zátopek - at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Zátopek won gold in the 5,000m, 10,000m, and the marathon, breaking Olympic records in each event. Zátopek is the only person to win these three long distance events in the same Olympic games. He had won the 10,000m at the London Olympics in 1948.

Lasse Viren - winner of four gold medals at the 1972 & 1976 Olympics. He won the 5,000m & 10,000m at both Olympiads.

To name but 3 worthy contenders....

 

I loved Fanny.

Just sayin'.

 

Murray could be a double Olympic champion!

 

Bugger off back to the Ospreys, coming back on here disrupting the thread!!

 

Sorry ....

OK - Guidolin is sh*te........

 

Is he at the Olympics then, better get a move on to be back in time!!

 

Come on GB, bring them home Wiggo!!