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When you look at the cycling, rowing and athletics teams (so far) in comparison to the swimming team then you have to ask questions of the management of the swimming team IMHO.
We haven't really looked anywhere near the best in the world.
Hell even judo which had its funding withdrawn have given us a silver and bronze.
I'll not mention the football as it isn't really a suprise.
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'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
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| Quote: Durham Giant "check out Catherine Copeland in the womens lightweight rowing pairs.
Her face is a picture when they win she is just in shock. The interview with her is really funny as well. I loved it when she thanked her coach at Yarm Rowing club becuase, " i was rubbish when i joined it".'"
I laughed when I saw the mouthing of 'we are going to be on a stamp'  |
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Not been so proud in a long long time.
Fantastic.
3rd in the medals table, we are only a small island (s), to be where we are is phenominal.
What makes it better is look how the aussies are doing. Big pile of .
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| Three gold medal winners tonight.
One white, one coffee, one black.
One nation. All Brits.
All fantastic.
All heroes.
That is what matters.
Three superb winners. So proud to be a Brit tonight. So proud of our fantastic athletes. They bow to no-one. We bow to THEM.  |
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Wow, what a great night of sport that was.......certainly made the hairs on my neck stand up .....Well done to each and everyone of the medal winners so far.............Love the sight of thousands of Union Flags waving high !
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| Quote: Saddened! "Brilliant on the track. As usual our footballers, paid millions, make a complete fool of themselves. Penalties are a simple technical element of the sport and we simply cannot do them.
The Korean penalties were perfection, utter perfection. It's not hard. If you are a pro footballer and you can't stroke a ball into the corner of the net from that range you should practice more. Sturridge's penalty was a joke, why the stutter? If you are going to mess about at least strike the ball well. A scuffed side foot? Utterly ridiculous from a guy no doubt paid more per week than more are in a year.
Perhaps as well as reducing the number of kids that can play football at junior level, we should also make it compulsory to have 1/2 of football training from age 6 upwards penalty practice?'"
Meh. Forget about the football and focus on our other great sucesses. |
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| Quote: Wilbred T Pricklepop "What makes it better is look how the aussies are doing. Big pile of .'"
Dunno about you, but I find I can bear their misfortunes with considerable fortitude...  |
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| Her name is Jessica not 'Jess', presenters and journo's acting like she's their mate or something is getting annoying. Other than that, great games so far |
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Atmosphere in the Olympic Park tonight was, to quote Bert Le Clos, "unbelievable". Sitting in the Park live area watching on a big screen, everyone cheering, waving flags and dancing, then people leaving the stadium buzzing from what they'd witnessed.
Just brilliant. Fantastic day
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| Quote: 100% Wire "Her name is Jessica not 'Jess', presenters and journo's acting like she's their mate or something is getting annoying. Other than that, great games so far ![]()
So you know her personally then?
Do you also gob off when Sir Steven Redgrave is called 'Steve' or when Charles Benedict Ainslie is called 'Ben'?
There is every chance they all prefer the shortened names they are called unless as I say you know her and are aware that she doesn't of course.
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I'm that much into this gold rush that I even want Murray to beat Federer today. Not the biggest fan of his, but I'm not one of those people who want to see him choke in every tournament he plays in.
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| Quote: Saddened! "Brilliant on the track. As usual our footballers, paid millions, make a complete fool of themselves. Penalties are a simple technical element of the sport and we simply cannot do them.
The Korean penalties were perfection, utter perfection. It's not hard. If you are a pro footballer and you can't stroke a ball into the corner of the net from that range you should practice more. Sturridge's penalty was a joke, why the stutter? If you are going to mess about at least strike the ball well. A scuffed side foot? Utterly ridiculous from a guy no doubt paid more per week than more are in a year.
Perhaps as well as reducing the number of kids that can play football at junior level, we should also make it compulsory to have 1/2 of football training from age 6 upwards penalty practice?'"
I am delighted that the footballers haven't got a medal. It would have been a travesty for all the genuine dedicated athletes and sportpeople to have to share a stage with them. No footballer can compare to the effort that the real Olympians have put in. When you hear how they have trained, and then hear footballers going to a World Cup complaining of being bored, you realise what a waster bunch of chavs they really are. Football really does have no place in a celebration of true sporting greatness. |
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Somewhere in the dust of time rest the bones of the Galilean
He who was spat upon. He whose face was marred beyond all human likeness
Somewhere buried among the lies of the past rests the tomb of Yeshua
Of he who was made God in a world without Hope.
And when this son of Joseph is found. What then will the Church of Rome say?
Prepare yourself for the day is coming. And men will say
"Blessed are the wasted lives who perished in the flames of the holy war": |
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| Quote: 100% Wire "Her name is Jessica not 'Jess', presenters and journo's acting like she's their mate or something is getting annoying. Other than that, great games so far ![]()
AFAIK she prefers Jess and it's what her family and friends call her.
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According to Nasser Hussein, Yorkshire are currently 7th in the medal table!
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| Quote: Anakin Skywalker "So you know her personally then?
Do you also gob off when Sir Steven Redgrave is called 'Steve' or when Charles Benedict Ainslie is called 'Ben'?
There is every chance they all prefer the shortened names they are called unless as I say you know her and are aware that she doesn't of course.'"
I can hand on heart say I've met her, spoken to her and seen her smile. 
I quite honestly don't care what she gets called, she'll always be a princess in my eyes.  |
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