Batman Posted 12 August, 2016 Posted 12 August, 2016 pretty f-ing gash as a spectacle IMO nearly all of the venues are about 1/4 full...if that shyte
badgerx16 Posted 12 August, 2016 Posted 12 August, 2016 Get behind the dressage FFS. Making 600Kg of independently minded muscle move in such a controlled manner takes incredible skill and touch.
Colinjb Posted 12 August, 2016 Posted 12 August, 2016 Why does it matter how full the stadiums are? It is disappointing that a country isn't embracing it. Either way, great to see our team doing so well.
CB Fry Posted 12 August, 2016 Posted 12 August, 2016 It is disappointing that a country isn't embracing it. Either way, great to see our team doing so well. There's an element of political protest and boycott in Rio going on. Some protesters in Rio have followed a strategy you will be unfamiliar with: a critical part of their protest is to not to scuttle off down the box office and start handing over cash to buy the very thing that they are protesting about.
hutch Posted 13 August, 2016 Posted 13 August, 2016 I've been following the BBC coverage. Are there any blokes competing?
CB Fry Posted 13 August, 2016 Posted 13 August, 2016 I've been following the BBC coverage. Are there any blokes competing? Not been watching the rowing, cycling, gymnastics, rugby sevens, shooting, swimming and kayaking then?
whelk Posted 13 August, 2016 Posted 13 August, 2016 pretty f-ing gash as a spectacle IMO nearly all of the venues are about 1/4 full...if that shyte Are you looking at the crowds or watching the cycling?
whelk Posted 14 August, 2016 Posted 14 August, 2016 Currently above the Chinese and 2nd in Medal Table, if you excluded swimming we'd be top. More golds to come tonight as well
dubai_phil Posted 14 August, 2016 Posted 14 August, 2016 Is it time to return to here and mention Golf?
Snopper Posted 16 August, 2016 Posted 16 August, 2016 I`m enjoying the cycling of course and I enjoy Chris Boardman`s knowledgeable insight. At the London Olympics he was alongside Hugh Porter and together they made the best commentating team for events at which they had both excelled and knew inside out. This time we have BBC place man Simon Brotherton, who is doing his best but annoyingly tends to mask his inexperience in cycling with a constant babble and arcane `facts` about the participants. It ain`t the same without High Porter, who was dumped by the BBC in 2013 - largely because he was 73 - and replaced by the younger man. It`s the Beeb being ageist again and once more the viewer/listener is the loser.
Snopper Posted 16 August, 2016 Posted 16 August, 2016 Is it time to return to here and mention Golf? What a personable fellow is Justin Rose - a credit to himself, to Hampshire and to golf.
badgerx16 Posted 16 August, 2016 Posted 16 August, 2016 I`m enjoying the cycling of course and I enjoy Chris Boardman`s knowledgeable insight. At the London Olympics he was alongside Hugh Porter and together they made the best commentating team for events at which they had both excelled and knew inside out. This time we have BBC place man Simon Brotherton, who is doing his best but annoyingly tends to mask his inexperience in cycling with a constant babble and arcane `facts` about the participants. It ain`t the same without High Porter, who was dumped by the BBC in 2013 - largely because he was 73 - and replaced by the younger man. It`s the Beeb being ageist again and once more the viewer/listener is the loser. Every track cyclist has won at least one medal.
CB Fry Posted 16 August, 2016 Posted 16 August, 2016 Put a tenner on the Kenny/Trott offspring for gold at Olympics 2044.
Shance Posted 16 August, 2016 Posted 16 August, 2016 We have absolutely smashed it so far. We are just too good at cycling. 51 medals so far. No nation have ever improved their medals tally after hosting it. We could make history!!
badgerx16 Posted 17 August, 2016 Posted 17 August, 2016 Put a tenner on the Kenny/Trott offspring for gold at Olympics 2044. What chance he/she will be a concert pianist ?
CB Fry Posted 17 August, 2016 Posted 17 August, 2016 What chance he/she will be a concert pianist ? Will be brilliant on the pedals.
Jimmy_D Posted 20 August, 2016 Posted 20 August, 2016 Oh Lutalo It doesn't get any better the next day. That might be the most gutted I've been watching sport. All he had to do was step back at the restart, nothing the other guy could have done. He thought it was already over, let his guard go just slightly, didn't finish it off, and now he has to work for four years just to give himself a chance of putting that right.
Batman Posted 22 August, 2016 Author Posted 22 August, 2016 that is that then great effort by the GB athletes in a place where it was seemingly an average games I think the next one in Tokyo will out the games back on the map with a well hosted and spectacular festival
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