NTA said::lmao: Nice one virg! But seriously, your lot must be disappointed they didn't do a bit better at the rowing.
NTA said:Always the food poisoning with your lot innit? I though you all spent most of your lives overseas toughening up!
Also sick of hearing about a "disappointing" medal tally. Fucken hell, 12 Gold is disappointing?
Virgil said:You guys think you have problems. India with a population of 1.1 billion with just the 2 medals!
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: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.
Scarfman said:How good was our diver?
cyclopath said:Almost, Thomo, except Aus won 20 medals in swimming vs 6 for GB in sailing.Thomond78 said:.
Sailing is definitely now for the Brits as swimming is for Australia.
formeropenside said:Well, the Jamaican sprint team only got 4 gold medals, so I guess our swimmers were even more dominant...