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After the ticket fiasco we have selection blips, this Olympics could be a bit of a laughing stock.
Anybody looking forward to it or thinking it could be a bit of a disaster?
not really to bothered i like looking at the track cycling always find this exciting to look at and the athletics the rest of it i couldnt really care if i missed it or not
Everyone turned up to see the ‘torch’s in Taunton and watching the news, everywhere else had major turnouts as well which suggests people are interested.
Personally, I’ll probably just watch a bit of the Athletics if I’ve got nothing else to do.
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I’ve been involved in Olympic projects over the past year so I’m very much taking an interest in it. I did a fair bit of work involving the Shooting venue at RAB Woolwich so I’ll be keeping an eye out for the events there. First gold medal of the Games will be awarded in the Women’s 10m Air Rifle on July 28th.
Occasional TRFer Lee MacKenzie will be doing commentaries for the International Broadcasting feed, covering a number of minority sports for internatrional TV audiences. I presume the Shooting would be a possible for him.
Rob
…and appropriately, like the proverbial London buses, two golds turn up in quick succession!
Well done to the rowers, and there’s more to come from a very decent squad.
Sheer class from Bradley Wiggins, who has swept all before him in recent weeks. Not far away was the champion in waiting, Chris Froome, who will surely land big titles in future.
Rob
can find no positive optimism for these games at all and will be surprised if we get any golds. Good luck to anyone getting involved on any level.
Its been superb
I was in Bushy park to see bradley last weds and the crowds were enormous and fantastic. As were the road races
These olympics are one massive success on every level
The most exciting/entertaining day of sport I can ever remember only spoiled by our useless prima-donna footballers as usual…
It was a brilliant day of sport.
I loved the confidence of Ennis, Rutherford and Farah in particular. They had a certain swagger and air of belief about them, even while they were competing.
What a day for Team GB, I liked how the women’s pursuit smashed their own WR six time’s in six races
Also liked the fail from the commentator of the 10K final "Mo Farah is really showing these Africans how its done"
They’re doing rather well and making me look an even bigger muppet than usual, so far no real disasters and thankfully nothing outside of the sport going wrong.
The football went perfectly to form, if English football was a racehorse it’s form would read FFFFFFFFFFFFF
At this rate, even Murray could win
Murray wins gold and silver…
In the rowing the Herbert-o-meter registered regularly in the red zone as ‘Greyed Briddan’ won yet another gold medal….
Rob
Well things certainly picked up since my first post but after the initial Athletics gold rush disappointing to see a succession of poor/average performances in the showpiece sport. Probably the worst example being Shakes-Drayton in last nights 400 Metres Hurdles. Rather than challenging for a medal on that evidence she will do well to avoid last place. I think we expected the crowd to somehow lift the performances but so far other than the young 100 Metres runner and Lisa Dobriskey in a slow heat there doesn’t appear to be much evidence that is happening.
The men’s 800 metres final was fittingly the outstanding athletics event thus far. The man who did so much to bring the games to this country witnessing the greatest race over the distance at which he excelled. For him a greater reward than he could have possibly hoped for when the decision was made for Great Britain to be host country for the 30th Olympiad.
The men’s 800 metres final was fittingly the outstanding athletics event thus far. The man who did so much to bring the games to this country witnessing the greatest race over the distance at which he excelled. For him a greater reward than he could have possibly hoped for when the decision was made for Great Britain to be host country for the 30th Olympiad.
It may have been the outstanding event but typically it has been buried beneath all the coverage surrounding Bolt.
Any Boxing fans on here? I have been disgusted to be honest – all the Brits have generally had to do was not get absolutely battered (in some cases getting absolutely battered was good enough by the way) to win the day.
Any future suspect decisions away from these isles cannot be questioned after the last fortnights wave of "Home Town Decisions".
I’m fairly disgusted actually.
I’m a boxing fan. In fact, for me, the boxing proved the most lucrative from a betting perspective.
One of the boxers I bet to win his final bout was British super-heavyweight, Anthony Joshua.
However, Joshua should feel very fortunate to have been given the decision ( even although the intial verdict was a draw, which was then decided by " countback " ) – and I feel equally fortunate to be collecting my winnings at all, especially on the back of such a dubious decision.
Basically, Joshua’s Italian opponent, Roberto Cammarelle ( defending Olympic and World champion ) was robbed. No other way of putting it. He out boxed and out punched Joshua for the best part of two and half rounds. Joshua’s late flourish bellied the story of the fight. The partizan Britsh support may have helped sway the final decision.
At the final bell, the Italian corner were celebrating, in contrast to Joshua’s corner, who looked very subdued. Usually that in itself tells us where the verdict is heading. When I heard the 18-18 decision I was astonished. I then thought the Italian would then get the verdict on the controversial ( and convoluted ) countback system.
The my great surpise and astonishment, Joshua was called the winner. Cammarelle and his seconds looked perplexed to say the least. A home town decision ?
You bet it was.
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