Olympics

[PeterWithesShin]

Bronze in the lasses hockey though.

[PeterWithesShin]

And we mess up the final change in the 100m relay.

[TopDeck113]

And we mess up the final change in the 100m relay.

As inevitable as a quarter final exit on penalties

[Dante Lavelli]

And we mess up the final change in the 100m relay.

As inevitable as a quarter final exit on penalties

Are we out?

If so, that means the Dutch coach cannot achieve his target of 8 (?) track and field medals.
He said he’d resign if that was the case.

[PeterWithesShin]

4th in the 4x 400 relay. Not our day today it seems.

[Ron Manager]

4th in the 4x 400 relay. Not our day today it seems.

Rooney had a very good last leg though. Something occurred to me earlier. Where is Linford Christie surely one of the TV stations must have employed him. Hes upset the Beeb in the past but appears to know his stuff and I would expected he would have put in an appearance somewhere.

[SashasGrandad]

4th in the 4x 400 relay. Not our day today it seems.

Rooney had a very good last leg though. Something occurred to me earlier. Where is Linford Christie surely one of the TV stations must have employed him. Hes upset the Beeb in the past but appears to know his stuff and I would expected he would have put in an appearance somewhere.

Saw Linford at the warm up track on Wednesday - he's here but not running!

[Dante Lavelli]

4th in the 4x 400 relay. Not our day today it seems.

Rooney had a very good last leg though. Something occurred to me earlier. Where is Linford Christie surely one of the TV stations must have employed him. Hes upset the Beeb in the past but appears to know his stuff and I would expected he would have put in an appearance somewhere.

Saw Linford at the warm up track on Wednesday - he's here but not running!

He’s a coach now according to a documentary screened by the BBC just before the Games.
If you haven’t seen it, it was about the 88 Olympic’s 100m final.  Basically Johnson got caught but pretty much every athlete was using performance enhancing drugs.  Very interesting if you’re into this running malarky.

EDIT  - to make this post more relevant.  The BBC basically infer that he was doped up to his eyeballs too and so I’d imagine Linford Christie may not want to work for the BBC.

[Somniloquism]

Well he was caught once but given the benefit of the doubt. I definitely think it is still going on with designer drugs developed with certain governments help that the IOC aren't testing for or can't detect. But if everyone is doing it then it kind of equals out.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Tonight was a bit more old school GB Olympics with a lack of real quality, though some of them may develop. And even though our lady hammer-thrower came last (she did really well in qualifying) it was refreshing that she puts some of her success down to her ballet lessons rather than her predecessors who may well have put theirs down to pie-eating.

[Dante Lavelli]

Well he was caught once but given the benefit of the doubt. I definitely think it is still going on with designer drugs developed with certain governments help that the IOC aren't testing for or can't detect. But if everyone is doing it then it kind of equals out.

With out ruining it, okay I’m going to ruin it....

The big news - for me - was that the US Drug Agency (or something like that) conducted their own tests the year before the 88 Games and Carl Lewis amongst many others failed but they did nothing about it. 

I think that’s how it went.  Watch it on iPlayer if you want the details.

[Jon Crofts]

A week after the event Sweden appeal the photo finish in the women's triathlon, to be fair it was close but surely after a week it's time to move on.

[Eckybloke]

Another sit down gold medal.  Thank goodness the Olympics are ending, our domination is getting embarrassing!

 

Anyway, congratulations Ed McKeever.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

GET IN !

THATS ONE !

WIGGO !
THATS TWO !

NOW WE ARE FOUR

CYCLED TO FIVE
NOW WE HAVE ROWED TO SIX

SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN !

ELEVEN
TWELVE - ENNIS MAGNIFICENT !

THIRTEEN. GREG RUTHERFORD WINS THE LONG JUMP!

MO FARAH.....YOU ARE FUCKING WONDERFUL !
THREE GB ATHLETIC GOLDS IN AN HOUR !
FOURTEEN GOLDS IN TOTAL

AINSLEE SAILS TO FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN ANDY MURRAY

SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN     THE REAL KING KENNY !

NINETEEN     BEIJING GOLD MEDAL COUNT MATCHED

TWENTY        POSH TOFFS ON HORSES MEANS WE BEAT THE BEIJING TOTAL

TWENTY ONE
TWENTY TWO    HOY !

TWENTY THREE

TWENTY FOUR  NICOLA ADAMS (Yorkshire) MAKES OLYMPIC HISTORY

TWENTY FIVE.....TWENTY SIX.......

[paul_e]

A week after the event Sweden appeal the photo finish in the women's triathlon, to be fair it was close but surely after a week it's time to move on.

I guess they've been discussing the rules and specifically if they contain anything regarding a photo finish.  In running the torso is accepted as the measuring point but that gold was given by any part of the body.  If there's nothing in the rules specifying that, and there is no precedent to be found then they can argue that it should have gone with the running standard.

I can totally understand it taking a while for them to run though all the history books and see if anything similar has occurred and what happened, and then review the rules in full.