The Olympic Games

Bit of justice in the lightweight men's double sculls.

More "game playing" frm team GB after they get a bad start and struggle, the guy pulls off his seat and demand a restart. There looked to be no technical issue, the guy just slipped off his seat.

Luckily Denmark pipped them on the line.

This after team GB did the same in the cycling last night. Pretty pathetic sportsmanship from Team GB so far. You'd have to be naive to call it a coincidence now.

The French, who had a flyer in the first race before GB neutralized it, came fourth and have appealed after struggling at the start the second time around. Hope it the appeal is successful.

Angry Seahorse.

This is a forum called Green and Gold Rugby, not Green and Gold Rugby Followers (Backs).

Rugby players do not sprint, 'cause they it has been banned in the ancient scrolls.

Backs sprint, 'cause they can. This is why they are not Rugby players. It is against the commandments of the Rugby Gods.
Commandment the First: If thou needest sprint, it musteth be from no more than 5 metres frometh the Try line, otherwise thou willest be known as a back and not a rugby player.

Sprinting, schminting.

I saw a variation of this on Q&A the other night with David Pocock. It came thru on the tweets:

BREAKING NEWS - Tony Abbott banned from the rowing venue for stopping the boats...yes, I did laugh

Poor form by the Soap Dodgers in both instances.

IIRC we did bowl a perfectly legitimate delivery underarm to the Sheep Shaggers Cricketers back in '81. We will never live that down, neither should the Soap Dodgers be allowed to forget their "legitimate" restarts. As said earlier How must the banned Badminton players feel now given what has been allowed in other sports?

That's what I thought too. She's always been such a competitor and outward about it too. Something's different this time.

LMAO, whoa! Hold up! I cop enough given I love playing in the backrow "Pseudo-forward" I get called (being a former winger in my teen years does not help).

Tonights game here in Newcastle took the cake. You would have loved it. I turn up expecting to play 2nd row & the coach pulls me to the side & says "We are up the creek. We are a back or two down. You're one of the faster forwards. Could you do a job for me & play blind side winger but rove like Ioane & play like you normally do as a loose forward & hover around the backs - I also want you to hit rucks when we are in attack & pilfer in defence". I felt like saying "So you mean you want me to play like Higgers, not Diggers?" but I just nodded. Anyhow, went out there & got more touches on the ball & felt more f**ked after the game then when I play in the tight five - WTF is up with that? It must be a women's Rugby thing . Even worse our Fullback went off for a bit with injury & we had no back up so I played at Fullback - which I've only done twice, that was stressful! We won which was great - wrapped up the minor premiership!

Apparently the coach only wanted me to do this for the one game so hopefully I'll be back to 5m efforts soon

True, the good thing to come out of this is that whenever our poor showing at the Olympics comes up I can always retort that the Poms cheated their way to victory - on more than one occasion too. Leans more support to the idea that the Olympics was rigged to favour the Poms (I don't seriously believe that though). I don't like what the Badminton players did but the Poms did the same thing, where is the consistency. The only consistent thing that sticks out like dogs balls here is that the ones that got away with it the most were the Poms.

Probably doesn't help that people like Dawn Fraser come out & scold her. Dawn should know better, she was hardly an easy going character herself - easy to say just about anything after you retire isn't it?

In addition Steven Solomon doing a PB in the 400m justifies his selection over Steffensen IMO.

Tony would have been cycling along the track // the rowing course wearing the full lycra kit!

I'm sure you'll understand why I can't 'like' anything about that post Mr Doug. The thought of Abbott doing that is enough to give me nightmares!

Would Tony have red undies under the lycra?

The Lucky Red Jocks (LRJ) worked for the first couple of days, but were unfortunately in the wash on the day of the the Cycling Time Trial. The Soap Dodgers got a couple of Golds that night proving the power of the jinx in the LRJ's.

The problem is that they can't be worn on all occasions.

To get the focus right, when is your mate paddling in the K1? The Jarses will ensure that all LRJ are cleaned and worn ready that night.

Don't you mean "nightstallions" AS?

Funny that. I'm watching the equestrian right now!

Ditto!

1. In with a chance but blown away in the last 500m.
2. Sliver
3. Bronze.

I suspect our golden "glory" will come from unexpected sports. Sailors are looking good for a couple.

God I can't stand those Com bank ads.

The more I see the German Olympians the more I'm convinced I've inherited my competitiveness from my German grand mother. Have a look at them, they are f**king intense. Now I can't discount my Irish side, it is competitive too, it is just that we're only good for drinking & Irish Martial Arts which basically involves head butting then stamping on someone's neck while they are on the ground.

Being born Aussie helps

Here we go, use this to influence the Oz Olympic teams next time:



PS. Go Paddy Barnes (IRL) in the boxing! - he won, just seeing the replay now (even though I think Olympic boxing is a bit suss).

Women's 3m Springboard - both Aussie women have qualified for the final tomorrow.

Is Ray Hadley fucking blind? The Fox swimming commentary was atrocious.

I'll def listen to this later sounds good.

Read a story on silver medalist rower Drew Ginn. I like his statement.

"It is disappointing we feel like we have let Australia and the rowing fraternity and our families down," Ginn said.

In addition the article makes a good point of how people can feel when they get different to Gold. "Some silver medals are sublime surprises but others feel like consolation prizes and this was one of them." (not Ginn just the writer).

This point in the article is interesting "Race morning contained an early plot twist when strong cross breezes forced a reallocation of lanes in which Great Britain were given the most sheltered lane - six - and Australia to four. An an hour before the race the heavens opened with London's biggest storm of the week." Is there a reason the Poms got the most favourable lane? isnt it supposed to be based on who was fastest? Bit like the swimming, fastest end up in the middle lanes?

Disappointed for Watt in the long jump I thought he was a real good chance of Gold.

I don't think I'll put the mockers on anyone left.

That was great reading, thanks FP. Here are some other things to chew on:


The Crawford Review, saying that more emphasis should be put on the general population than elite Olympic athletes

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/m...DD4CA257671000E4C45/$File/Crawford_Report.pdf

Some key paragraphs:

and the response of the AOC to that report:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/l...-london-olympics/story-fn9dheyx-1226190375559

If you look at it on a per capita or per medal basis, I'd say the Brits, Germans and French are getting better bang for the buck than we are.

Looking great T&B. You know everybody has the rivalries all wrong. Our Olympic rivalry is not with NZ or GB it is with our old sparring partners Uzbekistan who currently sit with just 1 Bronze to our 1 Gold 12 Silvers & 7 Bronze - take that Uzbekistan!