London 2012 Summer Olympics

[cobl04]

How can you find her irritating? She's incredibly genuine. Not her fault the media's in love with her.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Mmm, she is, I've just never been able to warm to her.

 

[Axver]

Gold in the kayak men's four 1000m!!

And if you thought JB was bad... Tomkins couldn't even contain himself! "YES! COME ON! WE'RE GONNA DO IT! YESSSSSS! WOOOOOHOOOO!"

Oh god, they just replayed it and that is some of the most embarrassing "commentary" I have ever heard. I thought commentators were meant to, well, commentate and tell the audience what's happening. I wouldn't want to hear a commentator go on like that even if it was Essendon kicking a goal against Collingwood after the siren to win a premiership. It's like they just gave a microphone to some random guy in a pub.

 

[cobl04]

They've single-handedly ruined all the Weymouth events.

 

[DRay9911]

http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/

 

[Pearl]

mckayla is not impressed

Poor McKayla.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

USA-Japan a half hour away!

 

[DRay9911]

200m final 90 minutes away!

 

[Purplereign]

^ even this little non track n field girl is looking forward to that one; bolt is oddly mesmerising

bronze medal play off in the chicks water polo - really hoping the aussies can hold on too too close for me with one quarter left to play


and maybe it ain't kosher but I am so disappointed for the Opals - sounds like they gave the mighty US a scare in the first half of the game but it wasn't enough . . . dammit! hope they manage to thump the stuffing out of whomever they face in the Bronze medal play off early on Sunday morning (in my timezone)

 

[speedracer]

USA-Japan a half hour away!

Jonathan Bornstein's four sisters playing in defense still scare the piss out of me.

 

[speedracer]

Final Countdown playing at Wembley right now. Oh shit.

 

[speedracer]

Boom.

 

[Danny Boy]

New WR in the men's 800. Damn what a fast race that was, start to finish.

 

[financeguy]

2005
European Amateur Championships 1st

2006
European Amateur Championships 1st

2006
World Amateur Championship 1st

2007
European Amateur Championships 1st

2008
European Union Amateur Championships 1st
World Amateur Championship 1st

2009
European Union Amateur Championships 1st
Russian Multi-Nations event 1st
European Amateur Championships 1st

2010
European Union Amateur Championships 1st
World Amateur Championship 1st

2011
European Union Amateur Championships 1st
European Amateur Championships 1st

2012
World Amateur Championship 1st
Olympic Games 1st

BBC Sport - Olympics boxing: Katie Taylor wins Ireland's first gold medal

 

[Pearl]

for Katie Taylor!

I heard the British paper The Telegraph tweeted about her a few days ago, calling her British! Oh, that's so bad!

 

[Pearl]

For all you Aliya Mustafina fans...

The Ultimate Aliya Mustafina Tribute

 

[anitram]

BOLT!

Holy crap. To me, he's the greatest story of the Olympics. I know Phelps has more medals, etc, but if they had an 80 m dash and a 150 m dash and a backwards and sideways dash and a 4x150m dash, Bolt would win all those too...

 

[nielsgov]

Bolt was awesome. Too bad he slowed down though. He could've set a new WR.

At least Rudisha kept on going. What a race from him.

 

[DRay9911]

What happened to the other 6 guys?

 

[speedracer]

Whoo USA.

Japanese players are absolutely gutted. Tough to watch.

Beautiful Day playing on the PA.

 

[Irvine511]

BOLT!

Holy crap. To me, he's the greatest story of the Olympics. I know Phelps has more medals, etc, but if they had an 80 m dash and a 150 m dash and a backwards and sideways dash and a 4x150m dash, Bolt would win all those too...

that's crap.

all respect to Bolt, but no need to degrade swimming in order to build up Bolt's greatness.

 

[trojanchick99]

Well, US Women's Water Polo and Women's Soccer won gold medals within 10 minutes of each other! So happy that our water polo girls finally broke through with a gold!

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

This is a night for Americans.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium booed FIFA head Sepp Blatter haha.

 

[anitram]

that's crap.

all respect to Bolt, but no need to degrade swimming in order to build up Bolt's greatness.

It isn't degrading swimming at all.

My point is just that the number of medals should not be the determining factor of greatness at the Olympics because there are events, and swimming being the main one, where you are simply capable of winning many, many more medals than in others.

 

[Irvine511]

I agree with the overall medal count.

But hopping, skipping, and jumping aren't analogous to fly, back, breast and free.

And the many medals are really only available to Americans and Aussies because of the relays. Most swimmers are thrilled to win one individual event, let alone 2. The only swimmers to have won 4 individual events are Phelps (4 in Athens 5 in Beijing), Mark Spitz, and Kristin Otto (GDR).

 

[Irvine511]

This is a night for Americans.

Our plucky little country passes China on the medal count!

 

[deep]

It isn't degrading swimming at all.

also, Bolt didn't come in 4th in one of his events.

 

[DRay9911]

Our plucky little country passes China on the medal count!

it's like Rudy, but in real life!

 

[deep]

mckayla wants in

she has Tonya Harding eyes