London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics - General discussion

[MUSC4EVER]

Nicola Adams wins the first ever Olympic boxing gold for women.

Saw that..she was brilliant!!

Jade jones through to womens judo 57kg semi! Jade is from flint..just 2 miles from me here in Wrexham!👍

 

[PAWEL17]

Noooooo! Not the Germans!! Australia loses in the Men's hockey, i was hoping atleast Gold in that event.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Noooooo! Not the Germans!! Australia loses in the Men's hockey, i was hoping atleast Gold in that event.

Australia won gold in a canoe event this morning didnt they?...and picked up two yesterday?!

 

[SuperDiscoDaz]

The Aussies have enough golds already. Not as many as GB though lol only joking Pawel17

 

[daan]

Fixed. That routine was simply amazing. I liked the bits where Live and Let Die would come in, amazing work.

I like how the BBC have a video of a horse "dancing" to Phil Collins and, half way through the routine, it poo'd. I'd do that too if forced to dance to Phil Collins.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I like how the BBC have a video of a horse "dancing" to Phil Collins and, half way through the routine, it poo'd. I'd do that too if forced to dance to Phil Collins.

Y'know they have volunteers to pick that poop up after EVERY routine!!

 

[Akmuq]

Yes, Gold for Ireland!!!!! Watched the Taylor match in a bar, was so tense and nervy before the announcement, which felt about 10 minutes after the fight, but brilliant result.

 

[CAM]

Let's see if USA can redeem last summer's defeat. Let's go!!

 

[PAWEL17]

The Aussies have enough golds already. Not as many as GB though lol only joking Pawel17

Fair game, when Australia was ahead early on in the games, ahead of GB, all my mates where making jokes about GB having less than Kazakhstan.

Australia won gold in a canoe event this morning didnt they?...and picked up two yesterday?!

Yes they did, Kayak K4 1000m. We had a drought because of the Swimming, usually we pick up more than just 1.

But i was really hoping they would get up in the Hockey. One of the more interesting(for me) sport.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Fair game, when Australia was ahead early on in the games, ahead of GB, all my mates where making jokes about GB having less than Kazakhstan.

Yeah but that only lasted for two days!

 

[Tired Tyres]

Australia's strong events are in the swimming. They got lots of silvers, if they had got golds instead they would be sitting pretty now.

It's not really all that different to us in the cycling. Imagine the effect on our gold total if they had all been silver instead of gold.

 

[CAM]

This god-awful Argentine referee is assisting today...

 

[otakukid96]

Good luck to Japan in the Soccer game. :tup:

 

[PAWEL17]

Oh dear!! A sure Bronze medal was just lost, with 1 second to go, Hungary tie up the score in the womens water polo. This will be crazy if the Australians lose now.

 

[CAM]

WAMBACH!! Beautiful work in the box by Alex Morgan, sending Wambach the volley which she drills past the Japanese keeper.

1-0, USA.

It was actually Carli Lloyd with the goal, Wambach must have kicked her head to force the ball in..

 

[Tired Tyres]

Wambach didn't score that one mate.

Japan are over hitting the passes and not giving themselves a chance to run onto balls.

They need to sort that out if they want to get back into this one.

 

[CAM]

Yeah I edited my post, it took slo-mo replay for me to discern. The Japanese look very meticulous with their passes and just had a great chance.

Solo is playing out of her skin, she moved like a blur .

 

[Tired Tyres]

Make that two great chances. Good save.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

New WR in the 800m!! Rudisha of kenya knocks almost 2 secs of the time!!!

Osagie of team GB finishes 8th but still a PB!!

 

[CAM]

It also looks like Japan is overcompensating toward Rapinoe, leaving Heath open.

We got away with one there...

 

[SilverArrow]

New WR in the 800m!! Rudisha of kenya knocks almost 2 secs of the time!!!

Osagie of team GB finishes 8th but still a PB!!

He beat it by one tenth.

 

[Tired Tyres]

The ref is blind. That was a clear penalty for deliberate handball.

Followed by comical defending by Japan and nearly 2-0.

 

[CAM]

And then Japan almost scores an own goal. And yeah, that's probably bad karma for later on.

Solo . Another amazing save. I'll feel good if we make it to the break without conceding. At least, I think she clipped that shot..

 

[PAWEL17]

Wow! Silver in the women's 10m diving. Lost to the chinese of course. Who have dominated the Diving with 6 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze. Russia is the only other Gold medal(1) winner in diving

 

[otakukid96]

If America wins, they cheated.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

He beat it by one tenth.

Really??

The previous record was 1.42.52 wasnt it?, and he did a 1.4091?

 

[Tired Tyres]

I think that was the olympic record not the world record which was 1:41:11.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I think that was the olympic record not the world record which was 1:41:11.

Meh! still a world record!

 

[CAM]

If America wins, they cheated.

I wouldn't call a blown call cheating, but I commiserate with bad calls.

 

[Adamgp]

If America wins, they cheated.

How do you figure, sports fan?