[Closed] So Who's The Greatest (So Far) ? (Gold Medal Content)

Track and Trott giggling.

LeCloc's dad after he won gold.

Redgrave the hugging machine.

Trotty in the elimination race. No idea what was going on really but seat of the pants entertainment.

The last lap of the 10,000. Amazing scenes.

Look at my Beautiful boy - the swimmer guy from SA? yes that was good.

Wiggo was my favourite as we expected track success.

Queen vicky , that burst of power on the last lap, stunning

All of it has been incredible, but the total and utter destruction of the Yanks (and everyone else) by the British Girls on the track in the 3KM team pursuit by an embarrassing margin, setting their 6th World Record in a row... Wow!

Then Laura Trott destroying that final 500m TT and winning it, but then fortune favouring her and the American Hammer coming in 4th, 1 point behind Trott overall, the exact result required... Again, WOW!

Look at my Beautiful boy - the swimmer guy from SA

Yes! The only legend that dosen't have a medal this year 😀

Trott giggling

Oh behave! 😉

Mo Farrah probs - tall order to take on Bekele. I guess with hindsight he took it pretty comfortably but that was a truly great last lap.

Best cycling event for me was team pursuit - just in terms of sheer excellence. Guess Wiggo's timetrial not dissimilar.

Best unexpectedly great thing I saw - heavyweight greco-roman wrestling. Mijian Lopez showing he's the real big dog of London2012. Par terre section where they one guy lies prone and the other tries to throw him was fascinating - try to shift a 120+ kg bloke who doesn't want to be shifted.

Trott giggling

Cute for about 10 seconds but god it soon grates!

Wiggo for me, the TdF and then the olympic gold. Legend!

Other than that, womens beach volleyball.

Oh and BMX racing starts tomorrow! The track looks awesome.

I should add my personal favourite- the day after Wiggo's gold my five year old son had a go at riding his bike without stabilizers for the first time. He was a bit wobbly at first but amazingly quickly, he was off down the trail and he can even track stand for a whole second!
He watched the Tour with me and his hero is the 'yellow man' and he's been glued to the Olympics too.

Pure magic 😉

The whole message of the London Olympics is 'inspire a generation'- i can say first hand that they have!

And a +1 for the last lap of the 10000. It. Was flipping awesome.

+1 for Bert Le Clos, just as good on his second appearance without his son winning.

and Sir Steve, when he virtually resuscitated Alan Campbell after his Bronze effort

and anything involving Laura Trott, psa on bbc1 now

Mo on the last lap
Wiggo
Trott

Women's team persuit was outstanding.
Ennis in the 800 (to finish in such style was brilliant)
Mo's last lap in the 10k had me standing and shouting at the TV 🙂
Hoy's last corner in the Kierin was a real goosebumps moment.

But it's got to be wiggo's performance in the time trial really.

Anyone else finding Spandau Ballet a bit annoying now?

(I like Spandau Ballet by the way)

Mo's last lap in the 10k had me standing and shouting at the TV

That was special- i was watching it on the big screen in Greenwich Park while out on a night ride, i promptly rode home in a PB 40 minutes after watching it!

Ennis in the 800

I heard the stadium erupt from the other side of the river while on said night ride. Awesome 😀

Beth Tweddle winning a medal at last. And the mens gymnastics team. And I'm not particularly fond of the sport. It's just that much of the other successes have come from areas in which we are already dominant. These two performances really felt like winning Bronze medals rather than loosing Gold/Silver.

there is something about Mo Farrah in the 10k that makes me jump up and down infront of the TV and shout "GO ON MO! GO ON MO!"

but it has to be Wiggo in the TT for me, I nicked off work, cycled 20 miles to see it at Hampton Court, dozed under a tree for an hour, shouted at him from 2km out, then raced 25 miles home with a crowd of other blokes on bikes. smiles for miles.

Best moment for me VP going right over the top of the field to win the Keirin followed by Farah's last lap.

Third best moment the GB footballists going down to that well known footballing nation South Korea and no one in Britain giving a sh!t.

I nicked off work, cycled 20 miles to see it at Hampton Court, dozed under a tree for an hour, shouted at him from 2km out, then raced 25 miles home with a crowd of other blokes on bikes. smiles for miles.

Class! 8)

Trott in the elimination race was superb - I've mentioned it before, but for those who missed it "in front of you" at 2:02 in http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19154159

Then Laura Trott destroying that final 500m TT and winning it, but then fortune favouring her and the American Hammer coming in 4th, 1 point behind Trott overall, the exact result required... Again, WOW!

IMHO it would have been even better had Hammer come in 3rd - they'd have been equal on points, but Trott had actually taken enough time out of her in the TT to be ahead on total time in the timed events.

Though I feel obliged to pick a non-cycling moment, in which case it has to be that [s]Scottish[/s] British bloke demolishing Federer at Wimbledon.

Ennis's finish- she didn't have to do that, she was boxed and could have just jogged home for the gold but she finished in style. Absolute class.

Ennis for all the PB's and record in Hurdles
GB Cycling for cleaning up at the track
Rowing Team

Mo for me, that last lap was wonderful.

Chris Hoy's Mum (I think it was anyway, was watching in the gym with sound turned off): Look, Can't Look, Look, Can't Look, Shout a bit, Look away, Look again, [Lip reading] 'Oh thank God'.

Tis what sport's about

The greatest moment for me was Mo Farrah in the 10k. Topped an unbelievable night of tense excitement with a huge race - brilliant edge of your seat, scream at the telly stuff... 😀

Bradley was (is) great and if he doesn't get SPOTY the program should be scrapped!

But for GB - the 'greatest' must be Chris Hoy. Six gold sets the standard all other GB athletes must strive for, by that measurement alone he's the only choice.

THE greatest is of course Michael Phelps.

Third best moment the GB footballists going down to that well known footballing nation South Korea and no one in Britain giving a sh!t.

😀 😀 😀

and Sir Steve, when he virtually resuscitated Alan Campbell after his Bronze effort

Never saw that the first time round, pretty awesome.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19114000

Ben Ainslie, then Nic Dempsey then Bryony Shaw then Paul Goodison then Shirley Robinson then Ian Persy and Andrew Simpson then Alistair Richardson then the Greenhalge brothers then Ian Walker then all the other ex sailing multiple medal winners at my sailing club.

There, simple that. I've fixed for you all.

The whole of Saturday night was awesome. What I would have given to be in that stadium, enjoying that atmosphere.

Alister Brownlee winning the Triathlon yesterday. I mean they were always the favourite but the fact that he ran the last 10km in 29.07 is outstanding.

If he had been in the 10km final that Mo ran he would have been only 1:30 behind Farar, 1 second behind the second placed brit and by no means last, and thats after the swim and the cycle already, truely a fantastic effort!

They both looked pretty goosed at the end though! 😆

1:30 behind Farar

What the cyclist Tyler?

Think for me the lightweight girlies double scull. The look on the bow girls face was amazing. She just couldn't believe they had done it. Their interview when they came off the water was brilliant, and then the tears on the podium too, made me blub. There have been so many moments when you see the pure joy on the faces of the competitors, mostly the winners, when they perform above expectation. I sincerely hope this will get some of the couch potatoes off their backsides but I suspect that it will only be people who already do sport who will do more.

Women's heavyweight double - because Kath Grainger is a bit of a legend but mainly because I've known Anna for years, she's awesome and I now have the privilege of saying I coached* an Olympic champion!

(*OK - I only coached her for one outing - about 6 years ago - but it still counts)

but I suspect that it will only be people who already do sport who will do more.

But what I believe will happen is that this Games will encourage more investment in all sports from school age and up, and that children witnessing it will want to take up sport more seriously.

But what I believe will happen is that this Games will encourage more investment in all sports from school age and up, and that children witnessing it will want to take up sport more seriously.

Another vote for Mo Farah for pure yelling at the screen emotion. The 10K being longer than most events really gave time for the tension to building. Love the mental head-slapping reaction as he crossed the line.

Oh and did anyone else notice his training partner who got the silver - as they stood exhausted together, he spat out either some belgian toothpaste, or possibly a little bit of sick, and Mo collapsed on the floor and came soooo close to rolling around in it 😯

Brownlee. Untouchable.

Or hopefully Keri-Anne Payne.

But what I believe will happen is that this Games will encourage more investment in all sports from school age and up, and that children witnessing it will want to take up sport more seriously.

It would be a great legacy, but the facts differ. The coalition has now approved sales for 22 schools playing fields since coming to power.
What they are saying, and what they are doing are vastly different.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/aug/06/school-playing-field-sale-gove

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/aug/07/school-playing-field-sell-offs-rise

edit: sorry, perhaps its the wrong thread to be posting such negative news but it did seem relevant to the comments.

Pendleton's gold
Hoy's gold yesterday.

Lin Dan v Lee Chong Wei in the badminton final. Wow.

100m final: Usain Bolt doin it.

Enjoyed Hoy's keirin gold:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19171359

Just totally schools the entire field...rides out in front of them, someone tries to sneak past and he puts the hammer down again to win by a length.

So many great moments. VP winning the kieran maybe - I got the impression that she won the kieran at the moment the GB team got 'relegated' in the team sprint; during the interview afterwards she was very diplomatic but you could just see that the only way for her to get over that was to win gold in her next event.

Did anyone else pick up what the Australian coach said to Anna Mears after she'd beaten VP - he embraced her and said "I'm so f*#king proud..." with the BBC crew eavesdropping live on prime time at about 5.45. Ooops!

and Sir Steve, when he virtually resuscitated Alan Campbell after his Bronze effort
Never saw that the first time round, pretty awesome.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19114000
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Also worth Checking out is the bit where Redgrave lifts the lightweight double sculler out of his boat. I've met Pinscent a couple of times & he's huge - Sir Steve must be massive!

Loved Bradley, Jessica, Mo, the GB Team Pursuit squads, Sir Chris, the rowers and kayakers etc. Also, Nick Skelton finally winning gold. i have absolutely no idea or interest in show-jumping, but the bloke's been around for ever, and it must mean so much to finally win gold in your own Olympics in front of your own home crowd. Every medal by British athletes has been brilliant; Christine Ohoruogu, Beth Tweddle, the Brownlee brothers. All of them deserve so much respect.

But a special moment for me was seeing Anna Meares win the sprint in such style. She came back from a broken neck in 2007 to win silver in Beijing, and is a true fighter. Fantastic to watch.

The Meares V Pendleton rivalry is one of the best in sport, ever. Up there with Leonard V Duran, England v Germany, Senna v Prost, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Coe V Ovett, Borg v Mcenroe, Jocky Wilson V Eric Bristow. It's sad that it's over, and nice to see some real respect between the two at the end.

THE greatest is of course Michael Phelps.

Only when measured by number of medals won. If he competed in a sport where you only get one chance each games (eg rowing) then he'd only have 3 medals. I'm afraid the greatest ever is still somebody most of you lot have never heard of - Birgit Fischer won gold medals over 6 Olympic games, and it would almost certainly have been 7 if East Germany hadn't boycotted LA84.

[quote=the OP]... but so far what has been your greatest Olympic 2012 moment?

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I'm afraid the greatest ever is still somebody most of you lot have never heard of - Birgit Fischer won gold medals over 6 Olympic games, and it would almost certainly have been 7 if East Germany hadn't boycotted LA84.

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She'd be bloody brilliant if she managed to still be winning Golds in 2012 then 😉

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But if we you are talking of number of Games spanned, then Aladár Gerevich won golds in 6 games too (between 1932 and 1960, almost certainly would have been [b]8[/b] if Germany hadn't started WW2 🙂

Bit of an obscure one, but the Danish mens doubles badminton pair's coach's reaction when they got through to the final. Might be my favourite just cause I was there watching though.

She'd be bloody brilliant if she managed to still be winning Golds in 2012 then

Yeah - but you'd not describe Phelps as THE greatest just on the basis of these games, no more than you'd describe Hoy as the greatest Brit (even his medal haul here is equalled by Trott). Plenty of other performances equal or better that of Phelps this time round - I don't see why he should be considered as better than everybody else just because he competes in a sport where you can get 7 or 8 chances at a medal each games.

Trott's omnium win in the last event had me shouting 'get in!' at the telly.

But Vicky's keirin ride was very impressive too.

Yeah - but you'd not describe Phelps as THE greatest just on the basis of these games

I agree, that's why I mentioned the "swordsman" from the 1930/40/50/60's

[url= http://www.olympic.org/carl-lewis ]Carl Lewis[/url] is officially* the greatest (male) Olympian, so stop please arguing boys.

*It was in a programme on ESPN Classic.

1. Trott's eliminator
2. Hoy's win yesterday
3. Mo's 10k (only heard it on radio and still welling up)

Honourable mention for Phelps' magnanimous behaviour after Le Clos beat him. What a gent.

Third best moment the GB footballists going down to that well known footballing nation South Korea and no one in Britain giving a sh!t.

Ben Ainslie, you poke the tiger, the tiger bites back. he had an unbelieveably tough week, never seeming to get the better of the Dane nor the weather but once he was riled, he was a different man. Looking at s/h dinghies at the moment....

Mo's final lap.
Armistead's sprint finish in the pishing rain.
Wiggo swearing on live TV.

My son's been doing this alot recently....

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Nothing's topped Macca singing Hey Jude yet.

Mo Farah, there have been other great races. But the fact he wasn't a cert, it was Saturday night, we had just won 2 other t&f golds and not least that it was an edge of the seat race mean it was the only time during the games that I have been shouting an whooping at the tv. Awesome.

Wiggo was great, but at the end of the day it's just a time trial. Not exactly exiting are they?

Stop press!

My new favourite moment is Mo Farrah doing the gold double- truly astonishing!!

Loved the way he went to the front and basically said..

"come on if you think your hard enough"

and Sir Steve, when he virtually resuscitated Alan Campbell after his Bronze effort
Never saw that the first time round, pretty awesome.

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My word - I must have something in my eyes. That is just an amazing few minutes to watch.

Doubt a bronze medal has meant so much to anybody else in years, and he had worked so hard to get it despite the odds.

And wasn't the mountain biking fantastic- i'm looking forward to riding it. That will be my favourite Olympic moment of all 😉

I just hope they don't water it down and remove all it's best features.....