buckielugger Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 dresage would look a lot less elitist if they wore different outfits...something a bit more modern and sporty....perhaps beach volleyball wear would not be ideal for horseback but something heading towards that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Giving medals to folk for sports where the animal does most of the work is weird. Why is not horse racing an olympic sport then? Yet horse jumping or worse prancing is ok. Strange. Why not greyhound racing? Yeah yeah I know what you are going to say but we could strap babies into mini saddles and legitimize the whole thing. Boomer phelps could have already earned his first gold. Any other olympic sports involving animals other than horses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 2 hours ago, Rossy said: Feck me, Denise Lewis has become a Ginger.... A random bizarre fact for you. Denise Lewis is married to Tom O'Connor's son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Now GB has a gold in the 'finn' class? WTF is that? Are we supposed to be excited? I really couldn't give a monkeys about the double sculls sofa jumping or the tiddlywinks time trials. The Olympics is a joke now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckielugger Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 i don't think the horses got their own medals...bit mean after all the work they did... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckielugger Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 and yes Third Lanark...i agree...far too many strange and highly minor events...most very very contrived. the cycling behind a slow old moped being one of the most pointless... how about a cycling road race all crawling behind Del Boy's Reliant Robin? its pretty much that level of absurdity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 23 medals for phelps just shows that Swimming has too many events. It is like if Usain Bolt was allowed to compete in the 100m running backwards, skipping, going sideyways... taking the pish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) Also isn't Phelps actually slower than a lot of other swimmers, for example 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m swim them as fast as you can no stroke restriction who'd win? looking at the records his butterfly record(200M) is nearly 10 seconds slower than freestyle. Edited August 16, 2016 by phart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 If you had a 100m final where they all had to 'run' the race with both ankles strapped together 'butterfly' style folk would just laugh but in swimming any mad shit just gets accepted. Dont know about phelps but that would not surprise me. They nearly dropped the wrestling a few years ago from the 'core' games and that made me think... it was part of the games when it was the original games in the years listed as B.C.! Yet synchro swimming is in. And folk running about with ribbons on the end of a stick. Naw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I would not give a feck normally but after the recent years of anti russia western media with them 'being on the drugs' pish endlessly repeated is it not a bit odd that little GB is now second! in the medals table. Sure 2012 GB was at home so you'd expect a surge but suddenly we are second away from home? If China is full of drug cheats how are we ahead of them when their population dwarf's ours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 How many different types of rowing are their? I keep thinking "I already watched that event". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 10 minutes ago, sbcmfc said: How many different types of rowing are their? I keep thinking "I already watched that event". More fun to combine events tbh. Horses wind surfing, or badminton with javelins. I'd watch that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Synchronised archery diving. So you both jump off the top dale, and shoot an arrow at the target on the way down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Arm wrestling is more of a sport than dancing with ribbons. If they're going down that route they may as well bring in ballroom dancing, disco or break dancing. They could think about bringing in staring, the recurring cartoon in Big Train a few years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I'd like Bowls in the Olympics. Scotland are good at it, it's in the commonwealth games and seems pretty popular. The Olympics would supersede the Commonwealth games as the pinnacle of the sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalgety Bay TA Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 2 hours ago, buckielugger said: and yes Third Lanark...i agree...far too many strange and highly minor events...most very very contrived. the cycling behind a slow old moped being one of the most pointless... how about a cycling road race all crawling behind Del Boy's Reliant Robin? its pretty much that level of absurdity Finn has been a race at Olympics since the 50s so not exactly contrived. GB has won it 4 Olympics in a row now. Keirin (your "moped" race) has been on go since 2000. Hoy won it 2 Olympics in a row. Is/was a massive attraction in Japan. In only know that due to them mentioning it when discussing the women's one other night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Jim Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 23 hours ago, neilser said: He proved himself to be a chippy ar5ehole after the road race at the 2012 games - the interviewer asked him an innocuous question about the race and got a sneering response from the guy. He's totally up himself - am delighted he didn't get the gold just now. If that's the interview Cavendish did with the BBC sports correspondent David Bond after the road race he was quite right to be chippy with him. Bond obviously knew nothing about cycling and was asking stupid questions including whether Cavendish was too tired after riding the Tour de France, ignoring the fact that Vinokourov who won the road race had also raced the TDF. Cavendish proved the point by winning a race on the continent the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I see Jill Douglas has been wheeled out to add to the ridiculous amount of BBC Olympic presenters line up. A massive vocal uncle tom nawbag that there ever was ......  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 14 minutes ago, Jaggy Jim said: If that's the interview Cavendish did with the BBC sports correspondent David Bond after the road race he was quite right to be chippy with him. Bond obviously knew nothing about cycling and was asking stupid questions including whether Cavendish was too tired after riding the Tour de France, ignoring the fact that Vinokourov who won the road race had also raced the TDF. Cavendish proved the point by winning a race on the continent the next day. He was getting interviewed on national TV in the first few days of the Olympics - it would have been easy enough to smile and point out that it wasn't an issue. He's a graceless twatt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertsscot Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 2 hours ago, thplinth said: I would not give a feck normally but after the recent years of anti russia western media with them 'being on the drugs' pish endlessly repeated is it not a bit odd that little GB is now second! in the medals table. Sure 2012 GB was at home so you'd expect a surge but suddenly we are second away from home? If China is full of drug cheats how are we ahead of them when their population dwarf's ours? I think you'd have to do a sport by sport analysis to answer that one, although China has obviously not had the same sort of successes as GB in rowing, cycling, sailing etc.  However I think it's misleading that GB is 'little'. The UK has one of the largest populations in one of the most prosperous parts of the world and that allows the UK to maximise human and economic resources in a way that few other countries can.  Added to this financial clout allows recruitment of world class coaches and the winning mentality that has been built up in the likes of rowing and cycling and GBs  successes should not be too much of a surprise to anyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 1 minute ago, Hertsscot said: I think you'd have to do a sport by sport analysis to answer that one, although China has obviously not had the same sort of successes as GB in rowing, cycling, sailing etc.  However I think it's misleading that GB is 'little'. The UK has one of the largest populations in one of the most prosperous parts of the world and that allows the UK to maximise human and economic resources in a way that few other countries can.  Added to this financial clout allows recruitment of world class coaches and the winning mentality that has been built up in the likes of rowing and cycling and GBs  successes should not be too much of a surprise to anyone There's also been a serious amount of money ploughed into elite sports in the last decade or so from the National Lottery that is starting to pay off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) This Keirin race is a fecking shambles - stopped twice already.  edit: Cracking race eventually - another gold for Kenny Edited August 16, 2016 by neilser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 22 minutes ago, neilser said: He was getting interviewed on national TV in the first few days of the Olympics - it would have been easy enough to smile and point out that it wasn't an issue. He's a graceless twatt. There's a lot of people who like Cav because he doesn't suffer fools. He is a very straightforward guy - if you ask him a stupid question he'll make sure you know it was stupid, but equally he's very honest in interviews. He also points out vehemently to any reporter who calls him English that he's not. I like the guy tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 16, 2016 Author Share Posted August 16, 2016 3 hours ago, thplinth said: If you had a 100m final where they all had to 'run' the race with both ankles strapped together 'butterfly' style folk would just laugh but in swimming any mad shit just gets accepted. I only discovered recently that the butterfly developed as a cheaty way to do the breaststroke quicker,  which was subsequently outlawed but made an event in its own right...  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) 14 minutes ago, biffer said: There's a lot of people who like Cav because he doesn't suffer fools. He is a very straightforward guy - if you ask him a stupid question he'll make sure you know it was stupid, but equally he's very honest in interviews. He also points out vehemently to any reporter who calls him English that he's not. I like the guy tbh. On all the evidence I find him a Kkunt but I suspect he'd appreciate my honesty too. Edited August 16, 2016 by neilser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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