Razor42 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Yes i'm also watching the swimming at the moment :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unreal Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Is it on right now.. Swimming and cycling are are good medal strong points, I believe in last Olympics we won rowing too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Team GB won our first medal today? Anyone see it? Hopefully they'll start rolling in now :) Yes, I think we should get back on subject. I didn't unfortunately, what event was it in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor42 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 We won our first medal in the womans road race cycling, silver :) and yes swimmings on now rebecca addlington coming up soon so hopefully she'll perform well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor42 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Bronze medal for us :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I reckon if she had picked up the pace just a little earlier she could have got silver but it was a great race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unreal Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I reckon if she had picked up the pace just a little earlier she could have got silver but it was a great race. Her best is 800m But as you could see she was catching up towards the end as she has a great amount of stamina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Oh yeah it was a great swim. She swam a faster time to get the bronze than she did 4yrs ago to get gold so just shows the increased level of competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Oh yeah it was a great swim. She swam a faster time to get the bronze than she did 4yrs ago to get gold so just shows the increased level of competition. Same thing with the running, and practically every sport now. It makes you wonder, how fast will people actually become before it isn't actually possible to get any faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unreal Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Same thing with the running, and practically every sport now. It makes you wonder, how fast will people actually become before it isn't actually possible to get any faster. Shall see how fast bolt can go.. See if he can break his record Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Shall see how fast bolt can go.. See if he can break his record Shall definitely be a race I shall be watching, that's for sure! In his previous races, you have a sense that he hasn't really put in his full potential as of yet, so it would be interesting to see how fast he can actually run if he put in his full effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleMassacre Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I just want to talk about something that just really made me mad about the syncro diving that just happened. Yeah, China did really well ill give them that but the US got shafted on a couple of great dives. The judges gave better scores to the Canadians who really sucked than the Italians. Those judges just really grind my gears ugh, smh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seker Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I just want to talk about something that just really made me mad about the syncro diving that just happened. Yeah, China did really well ill give them that but the US got shafted on a couple of great dives. The judges gave better scores to the Canadians who really sucked than the Italians. Those judges just really grind my gears ugh, smh... No worries. Synchronized swimming isn't a real sport, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 No worries. Synchronized swimming isn't a real sport, anyway. Can you do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Can you do it? Touche rulerofzu... Touche :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seker Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Can you do it? And there goes the end-all quote. Don't care to try to want to even think about attempting it. On a further note, I should clarify. It's not a real OLYMPIC sport. A sporting competition should never be based off another person's opinion on skill level. There are many additional Olympic events flawed in this way. Gymnastics comes to mind. There are too many variables. Too many chances at favoritism from the judges. Sports with clear-cut point systems. That is, ones where completing a certain actions (shooting a basket, hitting a target, finishing in the fastest time) allows no room for personal opinions. Opinions skew everything. Like this conversation right here. I have one opinion. Many have another. Those sports, in my OPINION, are acceptable Olympic events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I dont see how it is any more flawed then say football for example 2 line judges and a ref who can all make judgments good and bad based on what they see and their opinion of it. Has it not been the no.1 issue after the last football season prompting the introduction of goal line tech to be introduced. All sports have someone at least one person who judge it and make decisions on it based on their professional opinion. So that would make none of them a real olympic sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seker Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I dont see how it is any more flawed then say football for example 2 line judges and a ref who can all make judgments good and bad based on what they see and their opinion of it. Has it not been the no.1 issue after the last football season prompting the introduction of goal line tech to be introduced. All sports have someone at least one person who judge it and make decisions on it based on their professional opinion. So that would make none of them a real olympic sport. There's a reason I didn't say anything about football. For starters, it's a total garbage sport, anyway. My point is, a points system seems pretty clear cut to me. The only issue would be rule breaking. For which, video evidence exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Football was just an example. Hockey, basketball, baseball, rugby, netball, volleyball, tennis, beach volleyball (a frav of mine!), fencing, boxing, taekwondo, judo, badmington, squash im sure you get the point Point system sports who have at least one judge and some do not have video evidence. In fact video evidence is not used in the majority of sports Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uridium Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Anyone been listening to the radio they are saying that the opening ceremony was all political What a pile of crap, For me it was a ceremony now get over it ya strange people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 Anyone been listening to the radio they are saying that the opening ceremony was all political What a pile of crap, For me it was a ceremony now get over it ya strange people I got a feed on Facebook about a trending article saying a similar sort of thing. I think it was on 'The Guardian' website and it was a person moaning about how it was rubbish and the worst opening ceremony ever and how the Canadian Winter Olympics was better? Found it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/jul/29/worst-olympics-ever-vancouver-london-revenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uridium Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) makes you sick theres always some epople in the UK that wants to throw their voice in and be heared even if it means them sounding like a complete twat silly thing is though the british public help pay for the Olympics due to most of it being funded by the lottery which we pay for each week and we couldnt even get a seat at the olympics until yesterday. infact the british army were told to sit down on seats that were unoccupied... Edited July 31, 2012 by illusions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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