The Olympic Games
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George Gregan (70)
:lmao: Nice one virg! But seriously, your lot must be disappointed they didn't do a bit better at the rowing.
Its funny though - I was on stuff.co.nz the other day and noted an article saying "Phelps wins more gold as Aussies struggle" because we got a couple of silvers. Down the bottom of the page it had the NZ medal tally: 0 0 0
Looks like we'll be beaten by the Poms, but that was always going to happen when they decided to sink half a bill into actually training their athletes - good on them! About time they realised public entertainment is important. We put too much into swimming and not enough into everything else. People reckon swimming is a ripoff event because there are so many medals, and that's true - Phelps is a country in his own right. But it happens elsewhere - gymnastics and cycling are both multi-event and so is track and field when it comes right down to it.
Its funny though - I was on stuff.co.nz the other day and noted an article saying "Phelps wins more gold as Aussies struggle" because we got a couple of silvers. Down the bottom of the page it had the NZ medal tally: 0 0 0
Looks like we'll be beaten by the Poms, but that was always going to happen when they decided to sink half a bill into actually training their athletes - good on them! About time they realised public entertainment is important. We put too much into swimming and not enough into everything else. People reckon swimming is a ripoff event because there are so many medals, and that's true - Phelps is a country in his own right. But it happens elsewhere - gymnastics and cycling are both multi-event and so is track and field when it comes right down to it.
Virgil
Larry Dwyer (12)
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Mate it would have been Gold to Mahe Drysdale if he wasnt suffering from Beijing Belly!
Cant be too upset with a Gold and 2 Bronzes though, another medal or 2 might have been perfect.
Still 8 medals so far, our best since 1992. Still might grab another couple yet.
Great run in the 1500m from Willis lastnight to get his bronze.
I though you all spent most of your lives overseas toughening up! 
Major Spliff Biggins
Fred Wood (13)
Wish fuckwits would stop making stupid comments regarding England and focus on how we're going.
We come across as a bunch of soft cock, sour grape, cry babies.
Also sick of hearing about a "disappointing" medal tally. Fucken hell, 12 Gold is disappointing?
We come across as a bunch of soft cock, sour grape, cry babies.
Also sick of hearing about a "disappointing" medal tally. Fucken hell, 12 Gold is disappointing?
Scotty
David Codey (61)
To an extent, yes it has been a bit disappointing.
In the swimming Australians held 6 world records (50m free men and women, 100m free men and women, 1500m free men, 200m breast women) in events they failed to get gold in. This was only offset by one event (4x200m womens) that we got gold where we weren't expected. So you could argue that on balance we were up to 5 gold down in the pool (albeit probably having a few bronze and silvers that we didn't previously expect from some of the men).
While it was expected that the GB cycling team was expected to dominate us, it is hard to take a grand haul of 1 silver medal when we had 5 gold last olympics. Add to this some below par performances in sports such as shooting and womens hockey, then yes, I'd say we have a right to be disappointed (as I'm sure many of those athletes are).
Scarfman
Knitter of the Scarf
Mate, when I run the Olympics the red pen will be run through most of these sports.
Football
Tennis
Anything synchronised
Walking
Judo
Taekwondo
Ping pong
Beach volleyball
Baseball / softball / basketball
Canoe / Kayak
BMX
And somewhat controversially, my Olympics will just have "Swimming". There will be the Swimming 100, the Swimming 400 and the Swimming 1500. Throw in the 4 x 100m Swimming for men and women, that makes 8 events in total.
Football
Tennis
Anything synchronised
Walking
Judo
Taekwondo
Ping pong
Beach volleyball
Baseball / softball / basketball
Canoe / Kayak
BMX
And somewhat controversially, my Olympics will just have "Swimming". There will be the Swimming 100, the Swimming 400 and the Swimming 1500. Throw in the 4 x 100m Swimming for men and women, that makes 8 events in total.
Thomond78
Colin Windon (37)
Qingdhao, by all accounts I've seen, lived down to expectations on the water.
But, dear God, how good is Ben Ainslie? Would anyone, anyone at all, bet against him pulling the Finn out on last time on home waters in Weymouth that he knows like the back of his hand and matching Paul Elvstrom's four golds? Hell, if he'd been smart enough at nineteen to stay the hell away from Robert Schiedt in the last race in Atlanta, he'd have that now.
Sailing is definitely now for the Brits as swimming is for Australia.
But, dear God, how good is Ben Ainslie? Would anyone, anyone at all, bet against him pulling the Finn out on last time on home waters in Weymouth that he knows like the back of his hand and matching Paul Elvstrom's four golds? Hell, if he'd been smart enough at nineteen to stay the hell away from Robert Schiedt in the last race in Atlanta, he'd have that now.
Sailing is definitely now for the Brits as swimming is for Australia.
Almost, Thomo, except Aus won 20 medals in swimming vs 6 for GB in sailing. The 4 golds in those 6 is very impressive indeed. We had lots of silver and bronze in the pool. Aus got 2 sailing golds - not bad. What I saw of the sailing (very little, like everyone here) showed a less than ideal venue. The final race in the ?? 49s was brutal - never seen so many boats over! Apart from that it seemed to be pretty flukey winds most of the time. Will Ainslie go for 4 - hell, at home you'd HAVE to!Thomond78 said:
Pfitzy
George Gregan (70)
Matthew Mitcham was the diver. For his last dive he needed something ridiculous like 108 to overtake the Chinese guy leading the comp. Young lad (20) has come out and cracked out 112! You could tell as soon as he got fully immersed that he'd just won a gold medal - perfect form and almost no splash. He out-Chinesed the Chinese!
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formeropenside
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cyclopath said:
Well, the Jamaican sprint team only got 4 gold medals, so I guess our swimmers were even more dominant...
I dont know anything about sailing, but its probably more about proportion of medals in the sport rather than overall number.
Oh, and Thomo, congratulations.
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