The 2012 Olympics Thread - Its Over :(

Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (8th August, Page 210)

bluemanc said:
mackenzie said:
Rammy Blue said:
Everyone knows FloJo was a cheat, just a shame that she was never caught. If you notice the commentators very rarely refer to her records.
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Very true.

And she and her ilk were one of the main reasons I lost interest at the time.
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Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.

"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."

Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
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watched a programme on the Atlanta Olympics where a Scientist tested specimens & he started with the 100m & worked his way up,he binned it after finding FUCkIN FIFTY & deciding it wouldn't benifit anyone by going on.
Should have named the lot of them.
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That's really interesting stuff mate, never seen that before. No wonder, as I said earlier, that they don't talk about their records.
 
Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (9th August, Page 219)

9th August

http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/day=9-august/list.html

Watch all of the events here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video

OTHER EVENTS & ONE'S TO WATCH:
10:08 - Canoe Sprint - Women's K1 500m - FINAL - (GB) Rachel CAWTHORN
11:35 - Athletics - Men's 4x400m Relay - Round One - Great Britain
12:00 - Swimming - Women's 10km Marathon - FINAL - (GB) Keri-anne PAYNE
16:30 - Boxing - Women's Fly 51kg - FINAL - (CHI) Cancan REN vs (GB) Nicola ADAMS
20:00 - Athletics - Men's 800m - FINAL - (GB) Andrew OSAGIE
20:20 - Athletics - Women's 4x100m Relay - Round One
20:55 - Athletics - Men's 200m - FINAL - BOLT & BLAKE

Gradually reaching the end now, fair to say there is still a big big race tonight. Can Keri-anne Payne take gold, Can Nicola Adams and Can Osagie get a very surprising track medal...time will tell.

GB Competitors Schedule:
10:08 - Canoe Sprint - Women's K1 500m - FINAL - (GB) Rachel CAWTHORN
10:30 - Taekwondo - Women's 57kg - Preliminary Round - (SRB) Dragana GLADOVIC vs (GB) Jade JONES - Quarterfinals@15:00, Semifinals@17:00, FINAL@22:15
10:35 - Canoe Sprint - Women's K2 500m - Final B - (GB) Abigail EDMONDS/Louisa SAWERS
10:45 - Taekwondo - Men's 68kg - Preliminary Round - (MEX) Erick OSORNIO NUNEZ vs (GB) Martin STAMPER - Quarterfinals@15:15, Semifinals@17:15, FINAL@22:30
11:35 - Athletics - Men's 4x400m Relay - Round One - Great Britain
12:00 - Gymnastics (Rhythmic) - Individual All-Around - Qualification - (GB) Francesca JONES
12:00 - Swimming - Women's 10km Marathon - FINAL - (GB) Keri-anne PAYNE
12:08 - Sailing - Women's Elliott 6m - Sail Off 5-8 - France vs Great Britain Later Rounds Later On In The Day
12:30 - Equestrian - Individual Dressage - Grand Prix Freestyle - (GB) L BECHTOLSHEIMER, C HESTER, C DUJARDIN
13:00 - Sailing - Men's 470 - FINAL - (GB) Luke PATIENCE/Stuart BITHELL
13:21 - Wrestling - Women's 55kg Freestyle - 1/8 Finals - (GB) Olga BUTKEVYCH vs (ECU) ANTES CASTILLO - Quarterfinals@14:10, Semifinals@15:06, FINAL@19:03
14:30 - Water Polo - Women's - Classification 7-8 - Italy vs Great Britain
14:50 - Gymnastics (Rhythmic) - Group All-Around - Qualification - Great Britain
15:00 - Cycling (BMX) - Men's - Quarterfinals - (GB) Liam PHILLIPS
15:00 - Synchronized Swimming - Women's Team - Teams Technical Routine - Great Britain
16:30 - Boxing - Women's Fly 51kg - FINAL - (CHI) Cancan REN vs (GB) Nicola ADAMS
19:30 - Athletics - Women's 800m - Semifinals - (GB) Lynsey SHARP
20:00 - Athletics - Men's 800m - FINAL - (GB) Andrew OSAGIE
20:00 - Hockey - Men's - Semifinal - Netherlands vs Great Britain
 
The 2012 Olympics Thread (9th August, Page 219)

another generation said:
Time for a bout of Don't Drop The Baton...

GB won the first heat of the 4x400, if anyone's bothered.
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How did they look overall? Possible contenders or slightly a bar below standard?
 
Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (9th August, Page 219)

Sparkys-Army said:
another generation said:
Time for a bout of Don't Drop The Baton...

GB won the first heat of the 4x400, if anyone's bothered.
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How did they look overall? Possible contenders or slightly a bar below standard?
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As long as the Jamaican's are in it nobody else is a contender imo.
 
Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (9th August, Page 219)

TCIB said:
Sparkys-Army said:
another generation said:
Time for a bout of Don't Drop The Baton...

GB won the first heat of the 4x400, if anyone's bothered.
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How did they look overall? Possible contenders or slightly a bar below standard?
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As long as the Jamaican's are in it nobody else is a contender imo.
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Americans will take the 4x400.
 
Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (9th August, Page 219)

Tell you what, that BMX racing is bloody scary! Some cracking crashes up to now.

Also watched some of the water polo, Hungary v Italy. Jesus, there's a 'hands on' sport - bloody knocking lumps out of each other.

Oh, and for a game of 'Coleman Balls' (bit of Private Eye stuff here) from the BBC commentators:

BMX - girl at trackside, after the first four races and 3 crashes, said 'there's only one word for it.......absolute carnage' - brilliant stuff.

Dressage - Brit girl doing her stuff (pretty well actually, currently in Gold) and the commentator said about her horse 'at the last Olympics he was much younger' - brilliant again.
 
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