Olympics again?

Your three favourite moments, and your least three favourite ones.
I start. Top three:
Emma gibbson semi final, she didn’t give in and won it with style.
Spain giving a run for their money to the USA in the basket ball final
And last but not least

My least favourite moments
Absalon giving up. In my book he’s now no better that wendy ball players.
Teddy Rinner gold medal, not earned in the slightest.
GB track team “bending” the rules.

absolon giving up – I thought he said his rear mech broke, cant say Id fancy my chances at hadleigh on a singlespeed?!

Absolon had a puncture

How did “GB track team “bend” the rules.”?

Honest question.

GB track team “bending” the rules.

when?

Best moment was women’s beach volleyball.

They bent the rules when they fell off on purpose at the start! Dark deeds!!

when?

They stuck magnets under the track, then paid Mavic to install magnets in all their wheels apart from the ones Team GB used.

juan, I was only joking when I mentioned polishing and finishing with special patches of lacquer that only Team GB knew of.

The naked 100m sprint

Space hopper final

The haggis throw

juan, I was only joking when I mentioned polishing and finishing with special patches of lacquer that only Team GB knew of.

WTF?

how did the track team bend the rules? Genuinely interested.

Do long jumpers have special sand-proof underwear?

I am impressed most people seems to fail the concept of this post.

I’m impressed that given your recent spouting of shite on here, it hasn’t been jumped all over and beaten to death with giant penises.

😀

I am impressed most people seems to fail the concept of this post.

when you make it that clear, so am I.

Favorite moment?
I enjoyed watching Jason Kenny tear that big frenchman a new one on the track.

Care to give more details DD?

yossarian – Member
how did the track team bend the rules? Genuinely interested.

one of the team deliberatlely fell off after getting off to a dodgy start. if you fall off very early in a race you are allowed a re-start. so he did it.

probably counter balanced by the 2 harsh decisions against Penders.

They didn’t do anything wrong, They just used the rules.

Don’t hate the players. Hate the game!

come on juan, what exactly do you mean by ‘GB track team “bending” the rules.’?

do elaborate, i have unzipped myself in anticipation!

i have unzipped myself in anticipation!

Well youprawn is your friend then. And this question as already been answered.

i have unzipped myself in anticipation!

I have the strangest…

Juan ,there are just too many to choose from 😉

Wiggo on full throttle

Mo to cross

Proper Girl Power ” We just won the Olympics!”

And then ……

Now I retire

Makeup please

” Some of those poor ,poor people ,had to make do with a bronze”

oh so in one race then?

what about all the other races?

I’m calling classic sour grapes

GB track team “bending” the rules.

when?

+1? Seems the French have a lot of non stories in the papers with little or no facts about how the British have special wheels (built by Mavic, who are, errrrrr, French, and pretty ubiquitous on the track) or some other such nonsense.

what about all the other races?

Well if the UCI had the guts the badminton federation had I am not sure they would have been other races…

Seems the French have a lot of non stories in the papers with little or no facts about how the British have special wheels

Really well I’d love to know in what papers? As far as I can see I haven’t seen anything in any decent publishing. Obviously if you’re quoting the daily mail or the “équipe” I won’t bother having an argument with you.

Well if the UCI had the guts the badminton federation had I am not sure they would have been other races…

how cryptic

The UCI Track Commissaire was plainly biased in favour of Team GB. 🙄

Well if the UCI had the guts the badminton federation had I am not sure they would have been other races…

By what, disqualifying the entirety of Team GB for someone falling (intentionally or not)? Good to see that your strangeness isn’t just against the British though, slamming two of the best athletes France has produced in recent years is a corker

Top 3:
French getting schooled in the men’s team sprint final.
Gregory Bauge getting schooled in the men’s sprint final.
Gemma Gibbons beating Audrey Tcheumeo to make the judo final.

8 GOLDS in cycling alone!
That’s only 3 less than the French got in the whole of the games!

Those golds look like they grew there.

and your top 3 least pleasant stories aracer?

the french coach Florian Rousseau said this:

“There was no cheating, the British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success.”

🙄

I did not say they cheated. I said they “bent” the rules. Like Rinner he did not cheated but he didn’t actually do any Judo.
Atlaz, Absalon and Rinner are far from the “best” French athlete (vouilloz, douillet, dupont sprint to mind first).

Best:
Men’s Team Pursuit (the women’s was great to but that result was more of a certainty so less enthralling for me)
Wiggo’s TT
The triple GB athletic’s gold evening

Worst:
The badminton players losing on purpose (although as much blame should go to the competition format)
The commentary on the Men’s Road Race (the GB team performance was amazing, just a shame the result wasn’t their so it will soon be forgotten)
The closing ceremony

I did not say they cheated. I said they “bent” the rules.

oh ok, i guess that matters when you come second to a vastly superior team.

Funny how everyone knows about and mentions the badminton players losing on purpose (because the qualification rules were CRAP) but no-one mentions the fantastic men’s singles final! It was one of my highlights.
the others being –
Victoria Pendleton’s gold
Chris Hoy’s gold
Anthony Joshua winning the super-heavy final
I’m sure Jess Ennis would be up there, if I’d seen it.
Some of the basketball was fantastic.
My non-MTBing family glued to the men’s race.
And Emma Bunton.

Forgot Bolt. Phenomenal.