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« on: July 24, 2012, 08:36:38 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/shortcuts/2012/jul/24/working-class-jacques-rogge-ioc

hahahaha
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2012, 03:57:12 PM »
Talking of Phelps, he does look alarmingly like Johnny from The Wire, doesn't he?
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 11:51:30 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19072677

Nice to see that the book has been thrown at the lot of them with a fairly significant degree of force.
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 12:58:16 PM »
How is badminton not a sport?
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2012, 11:51:11 AM »

Make horses dance.
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2012, 12:57:04 PM »
The tax dodger wins again, I see.
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2012, 01:12:18 PM »
No, Chris Hoy.

Not entirely fair because there are other successful sportscritters who are far worse than him, but still a bit funny given the whole nashnalhero thing.
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2012, 01:23:53 PM »
From tehgraun's liveblog:

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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2012, 01:13:05 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2012, 02:18:50 PM »
I note that a fifteen year old American has just won a swimming gold. I note that the United States has a long history of drug cheating in the Olympics and, as such, am very, very concerned by this outcome. I suspect that comments from Chinese officials on the matter will be most interesting.
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« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2012, 12:37:13 PM »
Quote from: Senator Sbane on August 04, 2012, 08:10:24 AM
BTW, why isn't cricket an Olympic sport?

It's a bit of a scandal magnet, isn't it? IOC probably want as little additional issues in that general direction as can be helped.

Though it's probably more due to time constraints.
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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2012, 01:46:42 PM »

Awful telly sport though. Of course they include sailing...

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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2012, 07:10:50 PM »
That was all so oddly pleasant.
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2012, 07:11:54 PM »
Quote from: Senator North Carolina Yankee on August 04, 2012, 04:58:23 PM
At the end of the clip, one of the NBC reporters covering the event said "...have beat the 'Ruskins".

But were presumably only awarded derisory damages.
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« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2012, 07:50:27 PM »
Quote from: Iatrogenesis on August 05, 2012, 04:35:27 PM
The British TV coverage is getting completely unbearable...

Quite, quite.

I think a degree of open pleasure (at, say, the three Athletics golds the other day) is acceptable, but I draw the line at being forced to care about sailing. It is boring. I do not care if Ben Sailor Boy Whateverslie has won his twenty billioneth Olympic gold medal in the whatever class. On the screen it's just a load of triangles.
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« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2012, 08:02:25 PM »
Quote from: bore on August 05, 2012, 04:10:08 PM
Quote from: London Man on August 05, 2012, 10:48:57 AM
Andy Murray has won the men's singles tennis in straight sets. While Federer had a bad match, it's a deserved first major victory for him.

Of course, the most important thing about this is that he is an actually successful hibs fan.

He's also a bit of a cock, though you'd never know from the commentary...
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« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2012, 06:21:39 PM »
I hope the text was green.
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« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2012, 06:58:36 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/06/pass-notes-yorkshire
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« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2012, 06:04:03 AM »
The USA/Canada football match last night was hilariously violent. The spirit of Don Revie-era Leeds United lives or something.
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« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2012, 12:46:06 PM »
The (just finished) Brazil/Russia womens volleyball match was a very good advert for the sport, as was the Japan/China match on earlier. Anyways, you know it's not your day when you fluff six match points in a set-based game and then lose.
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« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2012, 12:47:32 PM »
Quote from: I'm spinning a Platypus, get out of my way on August 07, 2012, 11:48:29 AM
Chief commisaire at the velodrome at risk of death after (correctly) relegating Victoria Pendleton from a 1/1000s win in the first heat of the sprint final for coming out of her line.

Her near consistent lack of discipline is pretty amusing.
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« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2012, 06:43:24 AM »
A victory for the workers seems most appropriate given the part of London in question.
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« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2012, 06:56:23 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2012, 08:34:03 PM »
Lot of that is down to Anzac stuff.
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« Reply #24 on: August 09, 2012, 05:27:49 PM »
Flint, taekwondo, the whole connection there. Haha.
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