The Cat Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Who is to say they wouldnt have got at least one of the WRs with her riding instead ? One of the 3 girls was SICK for the semi-final. Why couldnt she have ridden and ensured her medal as part of the team ? She also trained over 4 years for this event, and doesnt even go away with a medal that all the girls she trained with have. Sorry, I am with her on this. Though I wouldnt have gone public. Seems to me there IS a personal issue going on in that group. They probably would have got a world record with her riding, however the other 3 have been consistently breaking it for the past 6 months or so. Regards the sickness I would hazard a guess that she's referring to Laura Trott who is sick after every race and most training sessions due to an acid reflux problem. Maybe Houvenaghal is overplaying this in the interview for the sympathy vote. She shouldn't have gone public like that. Can't say I heard any of the men's pursuit team moaning about being left out and there were plenty of them who could have ridden in that race and not affected our gold medal win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 2/3rds of the way to a dressage gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 (edited) 2/3rds of the way to a dressage gold. Just watched that. Still none the wiser what they were meant to be doing, what a strange thing (not even sure I'd describe it as a sport) Edited 7 August, 2012 by The Cat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Have to be watching the cycling. Last session an probably the last of two legends. Hoy and Pendleton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 not even sure I'd describe it as a sport It's as much a sport as horse racing, show jumping, or cross country. The work required to keep 700KGs of wilful muscle floating around like a ballet dancer is tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 It's as much a sport as horse racing, show jumping, or cross country. The work required to keep 700KGs of wilful muscle floating around like a ballet dancer is tremendous. Clare Balding has just said it takes 7 years to train a horse! I don't understand how the scoring works at all, but I just love to see the ballet, as you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Gold 20th and eat Beijing total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Dressage GOLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 It's as much a sport as horse racing, show jumping, or cross country. The work required to keep 700KGs of wilful muscle floating around like a ballet dancer is tremendous. None of them are sport as the horse is doing the running, jumping and prancing. I want to see humans exerting themselves, pushing their bodies to the limit, not horses! Still, well done to the horses and the people sat on them for winning gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 I just love the dressage - amazing stuff! It's not really my thing (I wouldn't watch it if it wasn't the olympics) but you can't help but marvel at what they get out of a horse. I'm off to Jerez at the end of the month staying in a hotel right next to the Andalucian riding school, but don't think i'll bother going (more interested in visiting the bodega's or a day trip to Cadiz etc). And it's another gold for team GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Clare Balding has just said it takes 7 years to train a horse! I don't understand how the scoring works at all, but I just love to see the ballet, as you say. I've been involved in training Pony Club level show ponies, so I do know little about it, and there's a great deal of patience, frustration, and swearing behind the scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 I've been involved in training Pony Club level show ponies, so I do know little about it, and there's a great deal of patience, frustration, and swearing behind the scenes. I always imagined you mixing in Pony Club circles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 I always imagined you mixing in Pony Club circles. Well, when you live in the country you have to fit in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Well, when you live in the country you have to fit in. From your name I assumed they were hunting you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 From your name I assumed they were hunting you. Haven't caught me yet ( Mind you, CANATAXX are trying their best to gas me ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Pendleton destroys the hun to go through to final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Still doesnt mean she would have let the team down. How were they to know how the sick girl was going to ride ? I watched an interview with one of the riding selectors/coaches he said that the reason she wasn't picked was that she did not gel as well with the other two riders as the one picked.....in other words she is a moany ***** whose ego is bigger than her talent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 There's a job for BTF on the raleigh shopper pacing bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 There's a job for BTF on the raleigh shopper pacing bike. Thanks for the thought but I prefer my own racing bike. Nice idea though. No doubt you could find work there too - be one of the blokes propping up the competitors. Although, on second thoughts, maybe not as the riders leaning on the support have to lean to the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Rumour has it that Alpine has been drafted in as Pendleton's saddle sniffer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Amazing Laura trott wins gold in the very last event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Another Gold! Wow, Laura Trott was astonishingly good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Trott puts Hammer down ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 It's Pendletime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Won the first sprint by 0.001 seconds! Staggering! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Ok, Pendleton has been penalised for leaving the inside lane (barely! Very harsh) and the first sprint awarded to Mears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Vicky will have to do it the hard way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Fair decision unfortunately, Meares would have won without VP going outside her lane, she looked absolutely rapid up to that. Predict a 2-0 here, Meares looks too good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Hoy What a complete legend and a complete gent Amazing person and a real role model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Sir Chris Hoy Such an emotional time and can still be such a role model in what he says; absolute class there with Sir Steve Redgrave. What a games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 7 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Sir Chris Hoy Such an emotional time and can still be such a role model in what he says; absolute class there with Sir Steve Redgrave. What a games. Both of them are living legends of British sport They have each achieves more in sport than any of our glory boy footballers ever will Worthy legends IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Both of them are living legends of British sport They have each achieves more in sport than any of our glory boy footballers ever will Worthy legends IMO Massively successful, articulate, gracious and so, so hard working. Brilliant for youngsters to have role models like that for a change. Until the football season begins anyway.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 I chuffing love the cycling. I'm mates with one of the aerodynamic engineers who is based in Manchester (they do all they're wind tunnel work at Soton uni) & he said in April that they'd match the 2008 tally. I daren't believe him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 I chuffing love the cycling. I'm mates with one of the aerodynamic engineers who is based in Manchester (they do all they're wind tunnel work at Soton uni) & he said in April that they'd match the 2008 tally. I daren't believe him! Could still go one gold better with the BMX to come! Shanaze Read used to ride track before switching, and is favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Could still go one gold better with the BMX to come! Shanaze Read used to ride track before switching, and is favourite. Provided that she stays on the bike this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Provided that she stays on the bike this time. If she doesn't that's it, she'll have to get on her bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Could still go one gold better with the BMX to come! Shanaze Read used to ride track before switching, and is favourite. She rode BMX before switching to track, and then back to BMX. She fell in the last Olympics when it was a test event and then began riding track with Victoria Pendleton in the team sprint (helping the team to break the world record along the way) but was replaced by Jess Varnish. The BMX is brilliant to watch. I can't wait. Another amazing evening in the velodrome. Trott's win was just amazing. 2 golds in one Olympics makes her a legend already in my eyes. Her achievement equates to an athlete winning a decathlon/heptathlon and then going to win a relay. As for Hoy. Wow. And it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 She fell in the last Olympics when it was a test event She fell in this year's World Championship as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 She rode BMX before switching to track, and then back to BMX. Didn't know that, I remember her track gold in the Worlds before Beijing. Just reading her Wiki, says she trained at the same BMX course as Jamie Staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Sir Chris Hoy Such an emotional time and can still be such a role model in what he says; absolute class there with Sir Steve Redgrave. What a games. I certainly hope we see more of the Team GB personalities than the usual suspects from Big Brother and the like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO16_Saint Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Just back from the sailing at Weymouth. Was a very good day all in all. The set up of the park and rides (monkey jump) right through to the volunteers in the town and the friendly police made the day very enjoyable. Great to see GB get a silver in the windsurfing - and was stood right next to him when he swam ashore to meet his family. On out way out of the Nothe we met some very official looking people with ear pieces in...walking 30 seconds behind them was none other than the PM David Cameron. He stopped and talked to the Mrs and I and asked if we had a good time. Apart from the last bit, it was a great day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 This bell-end interviewer trackside for the BBC is utterly f*cking awful. Its been a fairly slick production all round by the Beeb, but this guy just has amateur hour all about him, he genuinely seems to p*ss people off with his inane, stuttering and stumbling questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 He is pants. Was ok at first but is now struggling badly as he's probably run out of questions to ask the endless stream of athletes coming his way who have just won or lost and don't really want to be talking to him. I'm watching boxing. Cracking atmosphere, sounds like half of Ireland are in there supporting Michael Conlan who just won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 He is pants. Was ok at first but is now struggling badly as he's probably run out of questions to ask the endless stream of athletes coming his way who have just won or lost and don't really want to be talking to him. I'm watching boxing. Cracking atmosphere, sounds like half of Ireland are in there supporting Michael Conlan who just won. He just interviewed Sally Pearson and bowed out with "well done Sarah". F*ck me, get rid. He's a bumbling embarrassing idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Selby, world number 1, out of the boxing to a very good Cuban southpaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 He is pants. Was ok at first but is now struggling badly as he's probably run out of questions to ask the endless stream of athletes coming his way who have just won or lost and don't really want to be talking to him. I'm watching boxing. Cracking atmosphere, sounds like half of Ireland are in there supporting Michael Conlan who just won. Was at the boxing yesterday after Athletics for the Katie Adams fight and it was easily 90% Irish in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Shocking decision in the last fight. The French lad had clearly won that. Shameful. Evans up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Evans was lucky but he's now guaranteed a medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 7 August, 2012 Share Posted 7 August, 2012 Why do the 800m and 1500m mens races overlap, meaning runners can not do both. Surely loads of runners do both events... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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