New IMPROVED British Olympic winners thread

[Toyah]

It's STILL only 1 medal so far


Leon Taylor and Peter Waterfield - Silver Medal in the Synchronised Diving

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39955000/jpg/_39955272_diversnew203.jpg

Our swimmers are doing SHITE!

[Skip]

We really do suck at the Olympics from what people have said so far...

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Bright side - the crickets going well!

[Apocalypt_flyer]

We got one each but missed out at swimming BIG time already ..

[Lee]

We still only have one medal. We're so shit!

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Hopefully track & field will be our highlight :D

[Toyah]

Hopefully track & field will be our highlight :D

I wouldn't get your hopes up!

Our swimming team this time was supposed to be the most prepared team going into the Olympics EVER! And as usual they've failed big stylee!

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But its all Ian Thorpe & Michael Phelps dominated :evil:

[Kitty Kat]

I wouldn't get your hopes up!

Our swimming team this time was supposed to be the most prepared team going into the Olympics EVER! And as usual they've failed big stylee!

Didn't they say that for Sydney?! And then were really shocked when we did really appallingly?!

[Toyah]

But that 200m freestyle was a CLASSIC race. Well done the Thorpedo!

[Smash]

We really do suck at the Olympics from what people have said so far...

No wonder Britain are shite at sport. Local councils are selling off our school playing fields to build housing estates, the government is trying to ban sports day because it's "unfair" on the kids who perform badly and most kids nowerdays would rather sit on their arses playing computer games rather than going outside to play sport. :evil:

[Evie]

Didn't they say that for Sydney?! And then were really shocked when we did really appallingly?!

I've heard that Australian guy we've got saying he's not expecting any medals at all!

[Toyah]

But when Mel Marshall who's the fastest woman in the 200m freestyle in the world this year finished LAST in her semi-final it really says it all!

[Joseph]

for the Aussie Olympic athlete fans

http://www.aroundmyroom.com/athens/index.html

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FILTH

[Toyah]

Stop RUINING my Olympic threads! :angry:

[Lee]

for the Aussie Olympic athlete fans

http://www.aroundmyroom.com/athens/index.html

Not nearly enough men in that!

[Bunty's Magic Vegetable]

Our swimmers are doing SHITE!

Did you just see Stephen Parry in the 200m Butterfly semi-final?! came first beating even Phelps! AMAZING... hopefully we'll have a swimming medal by tomorrow evening...

[Toyah]

Did you just see Stephen Parry in the 200m Butterfly semi-final?! came first beating even Phelps! AMAZING... hopefully we'll have a swimming medal by tomorrow evening...

Yes I did. I'd like to be proven WRONG in the final though. Watch him come 5th :grr:

[PJL]

I don't think we will get any gold medals at all this year.

[Toyah]

Aren't the stadiums looking empty. For christ's sake it's the final of the mens team competition in the gymnastics and there's a MASS of empty seats! Can't see these games making much of a profit, if at all.

[Pickle]

Aren't the stadiums looking empty. For christ's sake it's the final of the mens team competition in the gymnastics and there's a MASS of empty seats! Can't see these games making much of a profit, if at all.
I noticed that, same really if you were competing you'd be like wow great crowd :evil:

[Slave]

They messed up with the tickets, Geoff was telling me at work today, he said something like they forgot to sell them or they were unavailable and they've been letting people in free to fill up the stadiums. And Paula-running-lady-whose-surname-I-forget should win something...

[SDF]

Don't the games always pick up in the second week anyway? I seem to watch a lot more in the second week, its much more exciting.

Oh and Slave its Paula Radcliffe! ;)

[Toyah]

How can you FORGET to sell tickets for an OLYMPIC GAMES? Way to go Athens! :D

[Slave]

Ok maybe people just forgot to go:


The Olympics came home to Greece at the weekend but nobody was in. Three days into the 28th modern Olympiad, officials in Athens are under pressure from the International Olympic Committee to paper the city with free tickets if necessary to solve the growing crisis of low turn-outs.

Broadcasters cringed as television audiences around the world saw tennis, weightlifting, hockey and gymnastics played out in half-empty stadiums.

Even last night's main attraction - the clash of the two young Titans of the pool, Ian Thorpe and Michael Phelps - failed to sell out as Athenians declined to buy into the rhetoric of the great Olympic homecoming.

Many have supported a more modern Greek tradition by fleeing to the holiday islands.

The organisers will open 35 new ticket booths in an attempt to bring sales of 2.9 million closer to the target of five million.

And thanks SDF, the only Paula's I could think of were Yates and Abdul and I knew neither of them were runners.

[Bunty's Magic Vegetable]

this isn't the thread, but i want to moan... what the bloody hell was going on with the 3m synchronized diving this evening?! The GREEKS got gold and the Brits came 5th after some VERY dodgy marking, one foul dive from the Chinese and two missed dives from Russians and the Americans... DODGY is not the word...

[Slave]

The swimming pool isn't our friend this year after that woman jumped into the pool and landed on a camera.

[Kitty Kat]

this isn't the thread, but i want to moan... what the bloody hell was going on with the 3m synchronized diving this evening?! The GREEKS got gold and the Brits came 5th after some VERY dodgy marking, one foul dive from the Chinese and two missed dives from Russians and the Americans... DODGY is not the word...

God YES!
The japanese judge seemed particularly dodgy with some extremely wayward marks. They gave 7.5 to the dutch guys who clipped the board, and 4.0 to another pair whose dive was much better!!
Some scores ranged from 0.5 to 7.0 and another set from 4.5 to 8.5 or something!! What the chuff?!?! *shakes head*

[Donkey]

You know. I'm annoyed that not all events are sold out...the shooting thing only had like 30 people watching in a stadium which could hold 10000 people. The Greeks really don't seem to care. Can't believe the gymnastics hall isn't sold out. During the racing track hardly anyone was standing on the side of the course.

[Homes Place]

I don't think we will get any gold medals at all this year.

Er, the sailing? Three of our regattas are currently in gold medal position.

And fingers cross for our Paula!

[Joseph]

Medals So Far

Country - Gold - Silver - Bronze - Total

China (CHN) 10 4 1 15
Australia (AUS) 6 2 5 13
United States (USA) 3 5 5 13
Russia (RUS) 2 5 2 9
Japan (JPN) 5 1 1 7
France (FRA) 2 2 3 7
Italy (ITA) 2 2 1 5
Netherlands (NED) 0 2 3 5
Germany (GER) 1 2 1 4
South Korea (KOR) 1 1 2 4
Turkey (TUR) 2 0 1 3
Ukraine (UKR) 2 0 1 3
Hungary (HUN) 1 1 1 3
Thailand (THA) 1 0 2 3
North Korea (PRK) 0 2 1 3
Cuba (CUB) 0 0 3 3
Greece (GRE) 1 0 1 2
Poland (POL) 0 2 0 2
Slovakia (SVK) 0 1 1 2
Belgium (BEL) 0 0 2 2
Bulgaria (BUL) 0 0 2 2
South Africa (RSA) 1 0 0 1
Austria (AUT) 0 1 0 1
Georgia (GEO) 0 1 0 1
Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 0 1
Indonesia (INA) 0 1 0 1
Portugal (POR) 0 1 0 1
Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 0 1 0 1
Spain (ESP) 0 1 0 1
Zimbabwe (ZIM) 0 1 0 1
Argentina (ARG) 0 0 1 1
Brazil (BRA) 0 0 1 1
Canada (CAN) 0 0 1 1
Colombia (COL) 0 0 1 1
Czech Republic (CZE) 0 0 1 1
Mongolia (MGL) 0 0 1 1
Romania (ROM) 0 0 1 1

[Pickle]

Well we're excelling ourselves

[Joseph]

Well we're excelling ourselves

well with the shit scoring some of these judges have been giving it's a suprise they haven't shut the whole thing down :bored:

[Pickle]

well with the shit scoring some of these judges have been giving it's a suprise they haven't shut the whole thing down :bored:
Ooh the diving :evil:

[Joseph]

I was well impressed with the Romanians during the mens gymnastics.. especially Marian Dragulescu

http://www.hotolympians.com/marian-dragulescu4.jpg

but I'm still amazed at how many times the American team fucked up... STICK THE FUCKING LANDING IDIOTS :manson:

[Rhythmbandit]

But its all Ian Thorpe & Michael Phelps dominated :evil:
Becaused they're BETTER than us.

[Joseph]

oh the water polo men's teams have quite a few hotties as well :horny:

[Raining On Me]

Oooh, we've got a bronze in the swimming.

Stephen Parry in the 200m Butterfly, I think..

[Bunty's Magic Vegetable]

great swim! new British and Commonwealth record to boot... he could have got silver but Yamamoto FIRED down the last 50, which was to be expected... terrific stuff :D

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39965000/jpg/_39965940_parry203body.jpg