London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics - General discussion
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- Emptyone-77
It's ok, we are trained well in accepting penalty losses at all levels
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BJBEOSmitty
I wouldn't bother being sad about us losing on penalties as it always happens
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MUSC4EVER
Don't forget Murray and Robson in the mixed doubles final too...
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As soon as it went to penalties then I knew that we had lost. If anyone wants revenge however you could always frame their keeper as a peado. Imagine the headlines in the papers "peadophile Bumyoung".
Sorry, I'm 16 so once I saw that name on the back of his shirt I had to make a joke.
Sorry, I'm 16 so once I saw that name on the back of his shirt I had to make a joke.
The Korean keeper was a sub. So more kudos for him for saving it!
However, other sports are FAR more successful with FAR less sponsorships from adverts and the like that the football get in this country. If the track and field or the cycling/swimming/rowing got even a 10th or a 5th of the sponsorship that the whole football sport get in this country, it would totally guarantee medal positions for the next 12 years, at least in terms of the back up and so on.
Its just insane at the waste of money (I see it as) that is thrown at football for VERY little in return.
A well deserved gold medal. 
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- SiiverArrow
I just wish I was there, whoever manages to get tickets on that god-awful site deserves a gold medal themselves.
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Submerged
I couldn't agree more even though I am football fan. The amount of money wasted on the so called premier league is ridiculous. The gulf between the lower league teams and premier league is getting bigger all the time. I support my hometown team and our highest trsnsfer fee paid is less than half a million pounds. The wages they are paid for so little work is crazy. I work full time and don't even earn half of what Tal Ben Haim earns in a week yet his club Portsmouth are about to go bust.
My sport is swimming and its just insane the gulf in sponsorship between football and swimming. Mark Foster was a 6 time World Champion for 50 metres freestyle. So even though he was rather successful (as successful as Usain Bolt for sprinting, for example) he was an unknown to the normal public just because it wasn't advertised or the public saw it as "boring".
There was a British breaststroker swimmer who moved to New Zealand just because New Zealand could guarantee her a steady consistent cashflow for her training cost and living cost. Before she did that, she had to actually achieve world record times for 50 metres breaststroke all the time and 100 breaststrokes as well. Its insane when competitors just HAVE to do that because it devalues the world record times itself. It should become special, not an expected thing to achieve a "pay day".
With football, its insanely out of control. There needs to be a stricter payment and performance related pay for the game itself. Its just stupid.
There was a British breaststroker swimmer who moved to New Zealand just because New Zealand could guarantee her a steady consistent cashflow for her training cost and living cost. Before she did that, she had to actually achieve world record times for 50 metres breaststroke all the time and 100 breaststrokes as well. Its insane when competitors just HAVE to do that because it devalues the world record times itself. It should become special, not an expected thing to achieve a "pay day".
With football, its insanely out of control. There needs to be a stricter payment and performance related pay for the game itself. Its just stupid.
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Football is the biggest sport in the world, therefore it attracts the most money.
Deal with it and stop trolling what has been a very good day for GB.
Deal with it and stop trolling what has been a very good day for GB.
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- Jonny-TWC
Athletics may not be the most covered sport but it does attract quite a lot of money for those at the pinnacle of the sport.
Yes, I train for athletics; a young kid with raw talent and a dream.
Seriously though, being at the pinnacle of track & field disciplines means that brands will want to have you as their ambassador because of the masses and what appeals to them.
Yes, I train for athletics; a young kid with raw talent and a dream.
Seriously though, being at the pinnacle of track & field disciplines means that brands will want to have you as their ambassador because of the masses and what appeals to them.
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- BJBEOSmitty
If you want to include £, €, and $'s spent in the discussion, then tevision ratings are automatically a factor.
FIFA (and Reuters, just read three stories) list the worldwide viewing audiences for the last to World Cup Finals at 700 million people - each.
You would have to add up total viewers for how many running events to get to that figure? 5, 10, 25? More?
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- Jonny-TWC
I don't know, but Olympics (not athletics in general) probably attracts more viewers than the FIFA world cup because absolutely every part of the world is involved, and because a number of sports are involved.
As for athletics on its own, sadly I have to admit I don't think it receives as much attention as football does.
Hey everybody, Bolt is looking for another gold medal tomorrow
If Yohan Blake wins I won't be too disappointed because he's Jamaican too 👍
I want to see Gemili do well, it's good to see a brit representing us in the sprints hopefully one day that will be me...
As for athletics on its own, sadly I have to admit I don't think it receives as much attention as football does.
Hey everybody, Bolt is looking for another gold medal tomorrow
If Yohan Blake wins I won't be too disappointed because he's Jamaican too 👍
I want to see Gemili do well, it's good to see a brit representing us in the sprints
hopefully one day that will be me...
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- BJBEOSmitty
All the other ones are named
Volleyball
Tennis Ball
Handball
Shot
Table Tennis Ball
A name like The Albert is actually quite something in comparison.
Volleyball
Tennis Ball
Handball
Shot
Table Tennis Ball
A name like The Albert is actually quite something in comparison.
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- SiiverArrow
When is Ben "they don't want to make me angry" Ainslie competing tomorrow?
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- BJBEOSmitty
Incorrect.
The World Cup Finals have outdrawn the Opening Ceremonies (which is by far the most watched part of the games) ... and has outdrawn that event for years and years - every time.
If you want to compare total viewiership of the Olympics to one football match, then I find that a bit silly. In the United States - Thousands of hours of Olympics are televised for example
It would be a bit like adding up the viewers for 300 episodes of The Young Ones and then coparing it to one episode of Seinfeld.
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Moglet
Hype? What hype? GB weren't tipped to even get out of the group.
SuperDiscoDaz
Didn't then non-league Crawley recently spend over a million pounds on a player?
Whilst I do agree they are paid too much, what can anyone do? Supply and demand.
Submerged
Don't know about that. I'm sure more people will be watching the CL final or WC final than they would the World Championships. Admittedly, the 100m final will have a massive audience but how many of those would consider themselves running fans.
Callumfromleeds
Why not ? Penalties is pot luck and I think the team performed to expectations. Sturridge was visibly upset at the end, it's not like they just shrugged it off like some players from other teams, *cough* Cavani *cough*.
Obviously they lost, they didn't have Rooney.
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- Jonny-TWC
1. I said I didn't know
2. A number of us aren't American and have no clue what "the Young Ones" or "Seinfield" are.
3. Where are your figures that you base your statements off?
4. Why are we so off-topic with this?
Ben Ainslie should be interesting tomorrow
BTW has anybody found Idowu yet???
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I absoultely love the story of the last few month of Mens and Womens tennis.
How about that! The two greatest players on the men and womens side to ever play the game after being down and out against all the youngs players! To be 30 and 31 and be the dominant players in there game. They were meant to rule the courts together. They did it in the past and they returned. I love how the commentators try to talk up Serena's opponents. Before the Sharapova match people were saying that this was a toss up. 3 setter. Tight sets. Well. Serena clearly wasn't listening. She was just thinking "Die Blondie Die!"
Roger has little respect for Murray so I suspect he take it in 2. Not serena style but maybe 7-5 7-5/
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- BJBEOSmitty
1. I said I didn't know
2. A number of us aren't American and have no clue what "the Young Ones" or "Seinfield" are.
3. Where are your figures that you base your statements off?
4. Why are we so off-topic with this?
Ben Ainslie should be interesting tomorrow
BTW has anybody found Idowu yet???
1. That's why I gave you the correct information
2. Young Ones is decidedly English, and a great show
3. Fifa.com and Reuters, as I stated. If anyone likes, they can look here to read how nearly half the planet watched World Cup 2010 and then compare that to running races? Ludicrous.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/southafrica2010/organisation/media/newsid=1473143/index.html
4. It began with posts about how too much money is spent on football in your country (but it seems revenue was decidedly ingnored in my opinion) and continued from there. A GB loss today, leading to football discussion, expectations placed on the squad and the sport in general in the self proclaimed (and rightly so in my opinion) "Home of Football" is not off topic at all.
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