The 2012 Olympics Thread - Its Over :(

[Unknown_Genius]

Re: The 2012 Olympics Thread (12th August, Page 258)

Well I've absolutely loved every minute of this and after seeing the slapped arse that is Dzeko walking off the pitch today, footballers should take a long look at themselves, I know they won't but in an ideal world they would. I never thought I'd be so into rowing, cycling, diving, running, hockey, dressage, taekwondo and many other sports were 99% of the participants are humble and seem to enjoy themselves no matter the result. Roll on the Paralympics and Rio 2016.

I personally think footballers often get too much of a hard time by the press. They're easy targets because of how much they're paid, the status, and everything else that comes with it. You generalise too much. Yes, there are some absolute twats as footballers, but there are also many who are humble, and gracious, whatever happens on the pitch, just as there are some twattish athletes, like that American gymnast girl, who had a face like a slapped arse, for "only" getting a silver.

Football is the best sport that's ever been invented and it's such a shame that when Lampard went down today like a twat or when Torres did similar when there was fuck all and I mean fuck all wrong with them that the bad press follows. And rightly so.

What I'm clinging on to is Brazil 2014. This could be when football 'goes away' rather than 'comes home' and the beautiful game rids itself of all impurities, cheats, primadonnas and hangers on.

But what's the chances of that?

I thought Euro 2012 was very good in that department. Only one red card (and that was a very harsh decision), no dirty games, not much diving and playacting, and much more respect shown to referees. All very good signs, and lets hope we see the same in 2014. It just seems sometimes people only want to comment on the bad, and ignore the good.

 

[moon]

Late Gold for New Zealand
IOC withdraws gold medal from shot put athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk

New Result

Valerie Adams, New Zealand, first
- Evgeniia Kolodko, Russian Federation, second
- Lijiao Gong, People’s Republic of China, third

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

I feel very empty today with no random sport to watch or nothing to get excited about. Im proud as punch but feel like im missing an arm

 

[MATCITY]

Late Gold for New Zealand
IOC withdraws gold medal from shot put athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk

New Result

Valerie Adams, New Zealand, first
- Evgeniia Kolodko, Russian Federation, second
- Lijiao Gong, People’s Republic of China, third

I wouldn't like to be the person to ask for the medal back

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Late Gold for New Zealand
IOC withdraws gold medal from shot put athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk

New Result

Valerie Adams, New Zealand, first
- Evgeniia Kolodko, Russian Federation, second
- Lijiao Gong, People’s Republic of China, third

British discus thrower Brett Morse apologised to his Twitter followers after accusing Ostapchuk of doping last week.

Morse made the claim after he failed to qualify for the Olympics discus final and also tweeted: "I've had a bad day but it could be worse, I could look like Ostaptchuk

 

[Ruhr]

what? it´over?

Thought it goes on this week with Rugby, Golf, Chess, Baseball, Professional boxing and Formula one??

Well, after all, well done Britain. Had been a great olympics

 

[Seosa]

Late Gold for New Zealand
IOC withdraws gold medal from shot put athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk

New Result

Valerie Adams, New Zealand, first
- Evgeniia Kolodko, Russian Federation, second
- Lijiao Gong, People’s Republic of China, third

I wouldn't like to be the person to ask for the medal back

Looking as masculine as that you would've thought that she doesn't need dope.

 

[the goats backside]

Gutted it's over

 

[cleavers]

The closing ceremony was absolutely awful.

I thought it was very good

same, capped off a beautiful olympics

I thought most of it was good too, but there were a couple of moments that were cringeworthy, it was nice to see Manchester well represented again.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

I thought it was very good

same, capped off a beautiful olympics

I thought most of it was good too, but there were a couple of moments that were cringeworthy, it was nice to see Manchester well represented again.

I actually thought the Closing Ceremony was a bit disappointing with the occassional moment of brilliance thrown in. It was the exact polar opposite of the preceding 2 weeks for me.