Olympics

[olaftab]

TWENTY FOUR  NICOLA ADAMS (Yorkshire) MAKES OLYMPIC HISTORY

Nicola Adams family originate from Nechells ... So no more Yorkshire BS please.

Nicola Adams. Born in Leeds. Yorkshire.

I said family...ehhh!

[UK Redsox]

Quality 200m final.

Unbelieveable. Bolt actually slowed down before he reached the line. Could have easily broken the world record.

Olympic Record maybe, but I think that the World Record was out of reach

[UK Redsox]

Rudisha was incredible. Best track performance of the games by far (yes, including Bolt's double-repeat).

This wasn't the 800m of my childhood, when Coe would wait and kick off the last bend or Ovett/Elliott/Cram would wind things up on the last lap.
Yesterday's race was an 800m sprint, with pretty consistent 200m splits.

Apparently the time of the British bloke who finished 7th or 8th would have won the gold in 2008.

[Ron Manager]

Woo hoo. You hear Bolt and Weir praising Brum ?

Usain is obviously a Villa fan.

Actually it was Yohan Blake who interupted the Big Man to praise Birmingham first. That bloke doesnt get enough credit he is a fantastic runner.
I have a feeling that its Larry Holmes and Ali all over again.

Usain is a marketing mans dream and at home so is Nicola Adams who has the likeability factor in bundles rather like Fred Dibnah did.

[nick harper]

Woo hoo. You hear Bolt and Weir praising Brum ?

Usain is obviously a Villa fan.

Actually it was Yohan Blake who interupted the Big Man to praise Birmingham first. That bloke doesnt get enough credit he is a fantastic runner.
I have a feeling that its Larry Holmes and Ali all over again.

Usain is a marketing mans dream and at home so is Nicola Adams who has the likeability factor in bundles rather like Fred Dibnah did.

On the subject of the interview with Bolt, Blake and Weir, shame on the BBC for trying to conduct it during the Kenyan national anthem for David Rudisha. All were trying to show their respect to a great athlete but Phil Jones insisted on sticking a microphone in their faces.

[Jon Crofts]

I'm not knocking it and hopefully it will spur your son on to become the best he can be which is the true benefit of the games.  But, like judo, the same apparent actions seem to score or not score depending upon some minute difference that I just don't have the knowledge to notice.

Not really, apparently the vests they wear have sensors to tell whether a kick or punch has landed, and head shots can be challenged if the fighter thinks it has or hasn't landed.
Obviously this is at top level and not at club level, but it seems a good sport to get into to me.
Judo I agree with, seems much more up to the referee.

Judo is pretty straightforward actually, you score points for 3 basic actions.

1: You throw your opponent onto their back

2: You hold them down for 25 seconds

3: They submit whilst in a hold.

Judo scoring is not open to interpretation.

[UK Redsox]

That's good news about the Judo scoring system, meaning that is a proper Sport and will therefore remain in the Olympics when I become head of the IOC

[Jon Crofts]

And when you do can you make sure that medals are presented by legends of the sport rather than Dr Hoffman of Stuttgart IOC member for Germany?

[TopDeck113]

Last night was the last of my Olympic events: the evening session of the athletics. Cracking view from the second tier just adjacent the flame (albeit the Union flag obscured the javelin throwers at the moment of release).

Whilst I'll always remember being in the stadium to witness Bolt win his 200m gold, the highlight was the 800m. A World Record and every runner getting a season's best, personal best or a national record.

One negative: well spoken, white kids draped in the Jamaican flag. Glory hunters! Still give it a week or so and they'll be trying on their brand new Man City tops.

The great positive: the volunteers. Cheerful, great sense of humour and helpful. A real credit to their city and their country.

[SashasGrandad]

One negative: well spoken, white kids draped in the Jamaican flag. Glory hunters! Still give it a week or so and they'll be trying on their brand new Man City tops.

I saw a white woman draped in Jamaican flag at a stadium exit, being interviewed by a TV crew. She was an embarassing sight, all emotional and making a right show of herself. My initial reaction was to interupt the interview and tell her to "stop being a silly bitch".

But as I was in my official uniform, I had to be careful what I said.

[UK Redsox]

Where were you working last night Mr Grandad ?

The Beeb showed lots of behind the scenes shots (especially up in the 450s channels) and I kept wondering whether any of the old codgers wandering around was you.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

The whole BBC 42 channel (or whatever) total coverage thing has been amazing this time around. And the BBC didn't have to pay a penny for any of it.

[Astral Weeks]

Woo hoo. You hear Bolt and Weir praising Brum ?

Usain is obviously a Villa fan.

Actually it was Yohan Blake who interupted the Big Man to praise Birmingham first. That bloke doesnt get enough credit he is a fantastic runner.
I have a feeling that its Larry Holmes and Ali all over again.

Usain is a marketing mans dream and at home so is Nicola Adams who has the likeability factor in bundles rather like Fred Dibnah did.

On the subject of the interview with Bolt, Blake and Weir, shame on the BBC for trying to conduct it during the Kenyan national anthem for David Rudisha. All were trying to show their respect to a great athlete but Phil Jones insisted on sticking a microphone in their faces.

They did it last week as well during the rowing, interviewing somebody while the NZ anthem was playing. Disrespectful.

Phil Jones is a knob, he's getting right on my tits.

[UK Redsox]

The whole BBC 42 channel (or whatever) total coverage thing has been amazing this time around. And the BBC didn't have to pay a penny for any of it.

Those channels have been great, especially because the raw feeds meant no interviews.

[montague]

This wasn't the 800m of my childhood, when Coe would wait and kick off the last bend or Ovett/Elliott/Cram would wind things up on the last lap.
Yesterday's race was an 800m sprint, with pretty consistent 200m splits.

I thought the 800m was a bit of a throwback to the 70s/80s runs of Coe and Ovett and Cram - which were basically employing an early pacemakler then running alone from the front chasing a world record. Agreed the big races were not quite like that.

Coes 800m run is still astonishing - see link - still the second fastest man in history more than 30 years later. And dont you miss David Coleman btw.