Rio Olympics 2016

For me the giveaway was when she popped into Boots for 5minutes,had a cigarette,two pints of mild,a fish supper and an ice cream cornet and still beat the record by a country mile!

 

Scintillating dressage competition there, real "edge of the seat" stuff!

Charlotte's transistion from the p'ssage into the extended trot was a thing of beauty, I thought.



Team Silver medal for GB.

 

Blimey, Bryony Page has just won a silver for trampolining. First medal of any colour in wither the Olympics, or World Champs!

 

May be a record breaker, but not all that implausible when you think about it, I make it about an average of 12.7 mph (previous record 12.6) which is still less than the marathon record at 12.8 mph, and over a fraction of the distance.

 

We're going in the skipping later and the men's hopscotch team has a outside chance of a bronze.

 

Ha ha, yes. But I still remember it being a regular part of Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon when I was a youngster.

 

Crowd in the Olympic stadium tonight is disappointing, so many empty seats.

 

No surprise that Rutherford and Ennis turned out to be one hit wonders. Both average performers at a time when the quality in their events is poor. Though I will say, that Belgian girl smashes 5 PB's in 7 events? If she was Russian, questions would be asked.

Farah, legend. Laura Trott - the things I'd do.

 

Brilliant run from Mo Farah.

He's the second best Mo ever.

 

I know Mo Mowlam was underrated

 

Since London 2012, Rutherford was Commonwealth Champion, European Champion twice and is the current World Champion and topped the Diamond league rankings last year.

Hardly a "one hit".

Ennis's scores have been bettered by 3 or 4 others but 2 or 3 of them are likely to have been drugged enhanced. Perhaps only Kluft was a truly better heptathlon athete.

I think looking many long standing world records in many sports, or the current low but winning performances these days has a lot to do with the fact that it was far easier to get away with drug cheating 10, 20, 30 years ago, so it gives an unfair comparison.

 

Been on the winning side on Celebrity Juice too

 

Meh. Winning poxy events like the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships isn't the Olympics though is it? Rutherford, like a couple of other British 'shoe-ins' at this Olympics have talked a good game but have ultimately disappointed.

 

Diamond League and World Championship? Poxy?

 

I thought I was the only person in the UK to dislike Jessica Ennis, apparently not. Another kick in the teeth for the steel city this weekend.

 

Rose takes Golf Gold Medal :jumping1:

 

Pommel Horse Gold Whitlock; Silver Smith, both GB :jumping1:

 

Turning out to be a wonderful day for GB! We're second in the medals!

 

I dont know how anyone can really dislike the girl.

 

Beyond me. Small matter of a baby in-between 2012 and now, but an amazing career.

If certain people don't like her maybe it's to do with Ched Evans.

 

Murray really struggling at the minute. Del Potro has won 3 games in a row and could be about to win his 4th.

 

Chris Hoy makes a v good pundit.

 

Great couple of days of sport for GB, incredible to think we only won one gold in Atlanta 96!

In non-GB news, I really hope Gatlin doesn't win the 100m tonight. I think it would cause irreparable damage to athletics if a two-time doper wins the top event.

 

The first Olympics I remember was 1984, that year up until Barcelona 1992 we were generally tinpot but 1996 in Atlanta we hit rock bottom and something had to be done. Although we got two fewer golds in Athens than Sydney our improvement since the Atlanta debacle has been very encouraging, I read a BBC website piece before this Olympics which said that usually a nation does worse in the Olympics following one they hosted, the fact that we should more or less equal what we achieved in London indicates to me that our improvement that is likely to be permanent.

 

And another gold! Andy Murray beats Del Potro in a thrilling final! Team GB are now 2nd in the table

 

Why on earth couldn't something similar ever be done in football, after say, the debacles of Euro 1988, 1992 and 2000 and WC 2010, and failure to qualify for WC 1994 and Euro 2008, just to name a few? Especially after major resurgences in other sports, including rugby, tennis and cricket.

Maybe something will finally be done after the latest embarrassment this summer, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

Meanwhille Bolt jogs along to another gold.[/QUOTE]

While the drug cheat Gatlin jogs on with a silver. Justice is served