sweetleftpeg 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 (edited) You can't beat a bit of the GB underdog winning to get the blood pumping. I defy anyone not to have been smiling like a reatrd when Kelly Homes won in Athens. Edited August 8, 2008 by sweetleftpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutKazakh 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 The sweaty socks (i.e. the Jocks / the Scottish). That's in the Winter Olympics though. Ah, the better Olympics. Minus the curling. I like both games although I used to follow skiing a lot more closely than I do now. Prefer the Summer Olympics though. Alpine skiing is my favorite hobby. Watching those people cruise down the slopes at speeds upwards of 90 mph is pretty amazing. I put the Winter Olympics and Winter X games above the Summer Olympics on my list, but they're all pretty close. Kind of off topic, but I noticed American football is being played in England now. Is it really that popular? It's a huge thing here, I'm even beginning to like it. It's strange because there is (I think) a European NFL and a London team who get moderate crowds. (I don't follow US Football but I used to as it became popular when it was first televised in the UK in the 80s). However, when a proper NFL was staged at Wembley in the UK last year the stadium was a sell-out and it was reported it could have sold out 10 times over. Wembley holds about 90,000 people by the way. Yeah, I've heard of the European one and Canada has its own league as well. Supposedly they are playing another this year...with better teams in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 You can't beat a bit of the GB underdog winning to get the blood pumping. I defy anyone not to have been smiling like a reatrd when Kelly Homes won in Athens. I'm not ashamed to say I had a lump in my throat. Fucking brilliant imo. After the bad luck she'd had throughout her career it was just fantastic that everything came together that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15525 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 You can't beat a bit of the GB underdog winning to get the blood pumping. I defy anyone not to have been smiling like a reatrd when Kelly Homes won in Athens. I'm not ashamed to say I had a lump in my throat. Fucking brilliant imo. After the bad luck she'd had throughout her career it was just fantastic that everything came together that year. If my new neighbours in Hamburg hadn't worked out I was British yet, they certainly knew it after her races. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Denise Lewis romping home in the rain as well in 2000, Redgrave 'just' getting the 5th Gold, I love the way that team GB tends to do it dramatically rather than easily. We make it look hard, but it makes it a lot more entertaining to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The 4x100 win as well. Fuck You Ess Ay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Boxing and Athletics mainly for me, but I'll end up watching most of it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15525 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The 4x100 win as well. Fuck You Ess Ay Stop it, I'll end up on YouTube all day. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Any of the running from 400m downward is usually ok, stuff like the decathlon (just because it's such an impressive discipline) and usually the diving and weightlifting is ok. But basically I only tend to "watch" when I'm doing something else and have it on in the background etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I hope they get rid of those drums before the javelin kicks off. It'll be carnage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Steve Redgrave is a cunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. LA in '84 was canny good. Totally OTT like. It had a rocket man and about 30 grand pianos that appeared in the Colosseum iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 (edited) And while this is all going on Russia and Georgia have decided to blow each other to fuck Love owt like this. Edited August 8, 2008 by Ketsbaia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 91 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. LA in '84 was canny good. Totally OTT like. It had a rocket man and about 30 grand pianos that appeared in the Colosseum iirc. Most of the winners in that were drug cheats. Flo jo had more concoctions in her bloodstream than me during my pill popping times! looking forward to the heptatholon as our girls nearly good enough for a medal. also the dwarf wrestling and the fisting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. LA in '84 was canny good. Totally OTT like. It had a rocket man and about 30 grand pianos that appeared in the Colosseum iirc. Most of the winners in that were drug cheats. Flo jo had more concoctions in her bloodstream than me during my pill popping times! looking forward to the heptatholon as our girls nearly good enough for a medal. also the dwarf wrestling and the fisting. Flo-Jo won her golds at Seoul in '88 iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutKazakh 0 Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 And while this is all going on Russia and Georgia have decided to blow each other to fuck Love owt like this. Hmmm...my money is on Russia in this one. If fueling conflict in the Caucasus was an Olympic event, Russia would dominate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I only saw 4 minutes of highlights, but I have to say the opening ceremony looked a bit more impressive than Euro '96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutKazakh 0 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 China takes the lead with 2 medals. http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake 0 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/a...ics/7550678.stm First drug fiend collared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshore Toon 0 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 My team at work got Egypt in some little competition. Egypt should have been excluded. A culturally disgusting nation that won't win any fucking medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 91 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. LA in '84 was canny good. Totally OTT like. It had a rocket man and about 30 grand pianos that appeared in the Colosseum iirc. Most of the winners in that were drug cheats. Flo jo had more concoctions in her bloodstream than me during my pill popping times! looking forward to the heptatholon as our girls nearly good enough for a medal. also the dwarf wrestling and the fisting. Flo-Jo won her golds at Seoul in '88 iirc bugger, you are right. still stands though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 The Communists always do opening ceremonies much better than any cunt else. I say we sack of 2012 and give it to North Korea. LA in '84 was canny good. Totally OTT like. It had a rocket man and about 30 grand pianos that appeared in the Colosseum iirc. Most of the winners in that were drug cheats. Flo jo had more concoctions in her bloodstream than me during my pill popping times! looking forward to the heptatholon as our girls nearly good enough for a medal. also the dwarf wrestling and the fisting. Flo-Jo won her golds at Seoul in '88 iirc bugger, you are right. still stands though. Seoul in general was more of a one for drug cheats. I think 4 out of the 1st 5 in the men's 100m final tested positive at some point in their career (inc. Ben Johnson of course). I was just on about the opening ceremony like although LA '84 was class for GB athletics - Seb Coe, Tessa Sanderson, Daley Thompson, Shirley Strong, Steve Cram, Charlie Spending, etc. Spoilt a bit by the Soviet Bloc boycott though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 91 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 any obvious records going to go? for the record the mens 100m will definitely go in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Might as well just let them take drugs...More fun that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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