Olympics

[manic-road]

Wiggo is just awesome, olympic gold 10 days after winning Le Tour..

[The Left Side]

Well done Wiggo

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

[Nev]

He looks like the love child of Weller and Freddie Mercury.

[Dante Lavelli]

It’d be a great opportunity for him to encourage everyone to dust off their bikes and start cycling to work.
Whilst I’m sure there will be the surge in popularity for distance cycling it’d be great if the legacy of Wiggo’s exploits was less people driving to work and generally getting that tiny bit healthier.

[Chris Jameson]

The real reason he took up cycling.

http://youtu.be/JMLoUTBy47U

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has taken Gold in `Hanging on a zip wire waving a couple of flags and looking like a twat`.

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[The Left Side]

Oh Boris

[Doorbell]

Awesome work by wiggins and froome.

As for boris, despite being a Tory, I can't help but find the guy a hilarious and charming buffoon.

[Dante Lavelli]

Here’s an ITV4 documentary about Brad Wiggins.

[Somniloquism]

The Japanese women's football coach said she wanted her team to draw, rather than win, so they would stay in Cardiff for their knockout game. Should they now be disqualified too?

There is a difference in hoping for a draw and still having the most attacks in the game and deliberately hitting the shuttlecock into the net at serve or deliberately missing shots as what happened yesterday in those matches. At least the federation has the guts to punish in this way unlike FIFA in 82.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Japanese women's football coach said she wanted her team to draw, rather than win, so they would stay in Cardiff for their knockout game. Should they now be disqualified too?

There is a difference in hoping for a draw and still having the most attacks in the game and deliberately hitting the shuttlecock into the net at serve or deliberately missing shots as what happened yesterday in those matches. At least the federation has the guts to punish in this way unlike FIFA in 82.

Who saw the BBC dramatisation Bert and Dickie the other week? Two British rowers in the 1948 games.

Bushnell was in the bow and Burnell the stern seat, or as Bushnell indicated later: "I was on the bridge and Dickie was in the engine room. In an attempt to avoid the favoured Danish duo of Ebbe Parsner and Aage Larsen in the semi-finals, Bushnell and Burnell deliberately came second to France in the first round. According to Bushnell: "Dickie decided we should lose the first heat so as not to meet the Danes in the semi-final. ... I wouldn't have had the nerve to do that. We could have won, but we didn't." They subsequently won both the repêchage followed by the semi-final.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Bushnell

[PeterWithesShin]

Another Silver in the pool. Great effort from the lad.

[Matt C]

That's Bradley Wiggins as Sports Personality of the Year now too you would hope/presume. What a sportsman.

[PaulWinch again]

Wiggins has to be knighted now.