carolinephillips

Do you think Obama was nervous when he saw the grassy knoll?

moneypenny20

Apparently they're seats supplied to the big sponsors. I think the people in the 'cheap' seats should have been asked to move down to the rows of 'expensive' seats if the wazzocks who should be there don't show up.

Beaverstate

Wow, simple yet effective. Only problem is that you need the sponsors aboard. You know Nike, Reebok, puma etc..... "They aren't cheaters they are our cheaters" bought and paid for.

Beaverstate

Sales are more important than butts in the seats. Keep up Appearances. P.S. Not an England solution but anywhere ticket sales effect the bottom line.

Pomster

we tried to meet some friends yesterday at a place called Ripley...road closed to raod racing. We detoured for miles to get there to find the bloody road had opened minutes after we left...
Then to Kingston where the first anyone knew of road closures was the closure signs at the car parks on the edges of the town...cue traffic chaos and buses trying to turn around where they had no room.

AND GB did not win.

Bernieboy

Paula Radcliffe,what a joke,took a place in the GB team prob knowing she would never run therefore denying someone else a place,selfish bitch

carolinephillips

Aussie "weapon of mass destruction" failed spectacularly into 4th place. But the French beat the Americans!!!! Excellent racing.

commonwealth

as usual they won before actually winning

knockoff nige

He was a bit of a prat about losing. But, I think it's unfair to pin the blame on one man of the relay like Australia seem to be doing. The others were far worse.

Lochte lost if for the US. Thats the biggest surprise.

commonwealth

a member of team GB was banned for doping previously as well

David Millar was able to ride only after the British Olympic Association's policy of lifetime bans for dope cheats was removed in April by the Court of Arbitration in Sport.

commonwealth

And the first gold medal for Pommy whingeing goes to Mark Cavendish

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226438058228

Zen10

Oh no!

And

"A 32-strong breakaway group of riders left the five-man British team for dead with 50km of the 250km course remaining. Until that point the British contingent, including Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins and runner-up Chris Froome and cheered on by an estimated crowd of 1.5 million, had led the peloton for five-and-a-half hours"

Never understood the attraction of what is the worst spectator sport in history. Stand in the rain for an hour, watch fifty blokes cycle past really fast for 12 seconds, then get in the car and go home. Someone on one of the Aussie channels described this as the "best spectator sport" ever. It would be more exciting watching a raindrop run down a windowpane.

Amazulu

Note to Cavendish:
Winning is not a right, you sound like you were expecting to win.
You gave it your best shot and it was not enough.
Get over it and move on.

carolinephillips

The "weapon of mass destruction" is the name given to the team- Magnussen was "the Missile" so I'm not blaming one man - I don't think that he should have swum first though.

knockoff nige

I didnt say you did. I was talking about the Australian tv coverage.