The Olympics

2 unexpected golds today and 2 more in unexpected gold medal matches. If only GB was better a swimming and we’d be too

Good job we have a great goalie. That was exciting!!

The Dutch played like the harlem globe trotters. They was robbed.

Awesome

We can win at penalties after all!?!

Wonder if they practice them???? Wendy take note.

That keeper, Hinch, what a player! I played in goal for a few seasons, and watching her was like a bloody masterclass in keeping. Just brilliant.

It’s all about getting the ball in the back of the net. I think most of us will agree that the Dutch looked the better team for most of that – most of the team that is, but they still had to get past our goalie, something they only managed 3 times.

I’m assuming you had the same commentary as me – the goalie with her book. I suspect she practices quite a bit.

They do (German footballers do), they win. Our footballers don’t (it’s just down to bottle) and they lose.

It was a rhetorical question Aracer 😉

we have a great Britain football team that is poor at penalties?
When did this happen?

i think you have made the english error of conflating Great Britain and england.

4 years ago.

How great was that? Really buzzing now,

It’s a shame they don’t do MVP, Hinch all the way. The Dutch were surely the better team and I’m gutted for them, but that was a hell of a game.

4 years ago.

Yes that was definitely what he meant and he did not conflate england and Great Britain
Cheers for the clarification

What happened to the German lady on crutches?

Hurt her leg.

For chrissakes hurry up now. I feel compelled to watch them get medals, but the paralympics start in 17 days, and they’ll need the pitch.

Dutch where fabulous, as they generally are. It’s a massive sport in Holland, great for a Uni tour for certain 🙂 Old cliche of not enough goals given the possession, certainly they will rue all the missed penalty corners. A missed (saved, poorly taken) penalty and 4 blanks in the shoot out.

Bloody hell, tense game which the Dutch will be gutted to have lost. Great keeping by the GB Keeper.

Not watched much hockey before. God those ladies must be fit. Ok it’s only 60 minutes but the ball is in play the vast majority of that time and there was very little time wasting and no play acting like the effing footballers.

Would be interested to see who covers the most miles per hour vs rugby or football.

@bruk rolling substitutes on off on off etc They actually cut the matches from 70 to 60 mins too with a break after each 15

Edit: but yes very fit

Heads up…..women’s pole vault at 00:30. 🙂 😯

I feel compelled to repeat the line from the commentary when we last won Gold at Hockey

“Where where the Germans ? Frankly who cares ?”

Field hockey – ca 5 miles (defenders run less)

Football – ca 7 miles (Midfielders run around 8.5, attacking full backs also, GK and centre halves substantially less). Referees run further than players. But game is 90 mins vs 60 in hockey, so similar intensity, just for longer.

Rugby – front rowers ca 2.5 miles, scrum half around 4.5 miles (most of which while also attempting to ref the game). Lots of ball not in play time in rugby, so a lot is done at full speed and a lot at no speed.

In the semi-final, they were 9mins into the first quarter, bathed in sweat and they kept up the same tempo for another 51mins!!

Found this from Runners world which suggests average 5.6 miles a game vs 7.5 in football

linky

Pretty comparable esp if you include the rolling susbtitutions.

Pretty bloody fit I reckon.

5.6miles was based on the old 70 min / 2 halves game, hence my estimate in a 60 min game of about 5.

Yes, looks like it was based on 70 minutes rather than the 60 they now play. Still loved the way the ball was back in play so quickly and so little time wasted, cf with rugby and football.

Professional footballers are fitter as they are professionals, its fheir full time job for which they are handsomely rewarded amd with phenominal facilites and medical/physio support

I am over the moon for Nick Skelton.
7th olympics. All the injuries that ninfan mentioned above.
Hip replacement and 58 years of age, after retirement too, he came back with little practise, knowing that Bigstar could get the gold.

Amazing.

Great to hear that Manchester will host the olympian’s parade in october. More chance for people to get to.

+1 great partnership and wonderful to see the emotion in the slightly wobbly lower lip. Brilliant achievement from Nick. You are only as old as you feel…

Looking forward to the modern pentathlon especially after finding out that they don’t ride their own horses, theycget alocated on and then have 20 minutes to make friends with it.

Especially as from the BBC footage, seems that in the pool of horses they include a few psycho ones and a few with no prior experience of show jumping, or possibly even having been ridden before 😯

Has anybody yet worked out why the 4×400 relay boys were DQed? None of the experts seem to be able to explain it, and I’ve watched lots of footage and can’t either. Have we basically been cheated?

From the bit I saw, it’s to do with the position Rooney was in when the baton was handed over: At the 200m mark, the officials put the next leg runners in the lane corresponding to their teams position at that time and they must stay there, regardless of whether the positions change over the final 200m. The suggestion is that Rooney changed position after he was told where to be by the official. No one can find any evidence of this, though.

Surely, if Rooney changed position, then someone else must have had to change as well: However, I joined the discussion part way through so may have missed something.

So can the Beeb use their imagination and choose a new sport to back with decent coverage. Lots of examples, time for some management and vision from Auntie.

Quite a junky for the extended coverage team

And I don’t know how Lutalo Muhammad managed to lose the taekwondo final.  The match resumed with 1 second to go and he was leading 6-4, he was absolutely gutted.

Looking at the BBC schedules I can’t see any coverage of today’s womenns XC race. Why not?

teamhurtmore – Member
So can the Beeb use their imagination and choose a new sport to back with decent coverage.

Personally I agree with this,fitba is well covered and the bbc can’t compete, so why bother, as a public service broadcaster their remit really should be to try and redress the imbalance.

cheese@4p – Member
Looking at the BBC schedules I can’t see any coverage of today’s womenns XC race. Why not?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36738554

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36738554
Yep – That link suggests that if you click on it after 16:00 it’ll be showing coverage

First medal for Hungaria!!!

XC is on channel 477 on Sky @ 16.25 (which means it’ll also be on red button/internet)

Shame the ladies xc clashes with the triathlon this afternoon.

Beyond the main track events, that have been on at the wrong time of day to watch, the xc and triathlon is all I have any interest in this Olympics.