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"The Golden Generation finally has its Golden Fleece! They have Wembley Cup Final winners medals to add to their collection."
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| That was a shocking performance by GB's women 7's side. Completely choked with a bronze medal up for grabs.
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| Quote: Andy Gilder "The problem with the descent was the combination of difficulty and lack of any kind of margin for error or safety precautions in the event of someone getting it wrong. Vincenzo Nibali is one of the best descenders in world cycling, yet it caught him out on Saturday. If you're going to have a descent that tricky and made even more so by the shadows cast by the trees over the road, then you can't have six inch deep gutters on both sides of the road that will throw anyone getting it slightly wrong over their handlebars. It's like putting concrete walls with no deformable barrier on the fastest part of a Formula One track.'"
Nibali also fell in the TDF on a descent this year so maybe he has become a bit blaze about going downhill maybe he is no longer as invincible as he believes he is.
The points I was trying to make are: it wasn't the first time they made that descent IIRC three times during the race and the number of fallers were few. Thomas fell but that is not new for him last year he spent more time on his bum during the classic season than on his bike.
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| The fencing was excellent, got right into that, never watched it before and now looking forward to the team event gb good chance of a medal
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| Quote: Mark Laurie "455 to Brazil is hard to defend. More than Wigan took to Donny for a cc semi final'"
Not sure you're quite comparing like with like there...
Olympics for me is all about the track & field and particularly the 100m. That's pretty much the pinnacle of competitive sport of any form.
Other than that will watch the later round basketball, and accidentally saw some of the women's rugby 7s and it was actually quite good, so might watch the men's too. Remember quite enjoying the Handball during London 2012 too.
There are a lot of ridiculous sports there though, anything that needs to be scored by judges or involves a horse for a start.
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| Whilst the track and field is the main one I enjoy watching a bit of a number of others like the swimming and track cycling. I enjoyed watching the synchronised diving last night, the Chinese pair were just unbelievable and I don't mind catching a bit of the gymnastics usually.
Ones I'm not fussed by are the football (see enough of that year round), any of the boxing, judo etc, weight lifting and hockey. Usually watch golf when the majors are on but probably won't bother with too much of this as they'll be plenty of others things going on at the same time and the best players have opted out.
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| The gymnasts are incredible - their all round fitness, strength and flexibility is very impressive
Some of the strength moves especially on the rings defies belief - technique at its absolute optimum
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "The gymnasts are incredible - their all round fitness, strength and flexibility is very impressive
Some of the strength moves especially on the rings defies belief - technique at its absolute optimum'"
but still dull
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "The gymnasts are incredible - their all round fitness, strength and flexibility is very impressive
Some of the strength moves especially on the rings defies belief - technique at its absolute optimum'"
That's my thoughts too. Ultimate athletes
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| The gymnastics has been good, not sure about Johnny Vegas doing the commentary though.
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| New Zealand men's team lose to Japan 12-14 in the rugby 7's in their opening game and Sonny Bill Williams partially ruptures his Achilles heel and is ruled out for the rest of the tournament.
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| Lote tuqiri playing for Japan, rent a winger.
On a vaguely serious point about taking 455 to Brazil, I have no idea how the commercial side of TV works but there must be scope to combine with other nations. E.g a deal with an Aussie company, bbc do the rugby, aus co do the rowing? Do Eddie butler and sir Clive need to be out there, they could talk tripe and ignore forward passes from the uk.
Just now in the gb v Japan game I could hear another English commentator in the background, appears to be plenty of scope for savings to me
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "The gymnasts are incredible - their all round fitness, strength and flexibility is very impressive
Some of the strength moves especially on the rings defies belief - technique at its absolute optimum'"
Did you know that Fascist governments always forced schoolchildren to do gymnastics as it produces the most athletic and fit soldiers of any sport?
Bit of a roundabout way of saying that gymnastics is the sport that produces the best athletes
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| Quote: Mark Laurie "Lote tuqiri playing for Japan, rent a winger.
On a vaguely serious point about taking 455 to Brazil, I have no idea how the commercial side of TV works but there must be scope to combine with other nations. E.g a deal with an Aussie company, bbc do the rugby, aus co do the rowing? Do Eddie butler and sir Clive need to be out there, they could talk tripe and ignore forward passes from the uk.
Just now in the gb v Japan game I could hear another English commentator in the background, appears to be plenty of scope for savings to me'"
You do know that isn't the Lote Tuquiri who used to play RL right?
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| Quote: leedsnsouths "You do know that isn't the Lote Tuquiri who used to play RL right?'"
My error, saw his name on teamsheet and assumed must have been him. Cheers, I should have watched the game more closely.
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| Quote: Mark Laurie "My error, saw his name on teamsheet and assumed must have been him. Cheers, I should have watched the game more closely.'"
I think he is about 40 now, a bit older than your average 7s player
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