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But there's a couple of golds at Athens that I think I'd rather leave untested - think of the potential heartache..... Some things best to leave alone sometimes. I think the 8 year retention policy is a big reason that records haven't been falling this time.

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I know you're trying to make a joke out of this, but I think you're brushing issues under the (well-hoovered) carpet. You can't just scrub off the considerable advances made by womenfolk, hoping to iron out the creases in your ill-considered views, cooking up some notion that women have a lower position in society, prostituting themselves to the demands of men. Your statements are without polish, and I would suggest some respect, honour and obedience for their pledges. After all, who makes your sandwiches?

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After I said 'I do', I do.

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I think that this is an important piece of Olympic analysis:

http://www.capitalfm.com/photos/jessica-ennis-abs/

... and also some very poor analysis on similar lines for the ladies:

http://www.capitalfm.com/photos/tom-daley-abs/

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Thank you waiter............. I'll have Ennis for starters, followed by Ennis for main course, and then for dessert I'll have Ennis with whipped cream and a brandy snap..........

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Dail Mail says that Saudi runner received a standing ovation despite finishing a lap behind everyone else.
Well if she didn't have to wear all that body covering fabric , she might have done better.

The Mail also says she was born and raised in the US, has dual citizenship and trains at Pepperdine Uni. Ok so then she isn't really a 'Saudi Olympian', but the authorities just overlooked it so as not to piss off the Saudis. Just shows that the Olympics committee was just paying lip service in taking a stand against Saudi's gender discrimination.

Seeing as how she was born and raised in the US and trains at Pepperdine, I strongly suspect she doesn't wear such restrictive garb when running at home/pepperdine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ap-behind.html

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Also the officials in the Olympic track cycling

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... I watched an interview with them on BBC after their medal achievements and like so many of the interviews with Gold medal winners, they both came across as really decent, humble, down to earth and likeable people. It makes me proud to be British.

Hopefully after the Olympics has finished, the media will try to focus on the more positive side of Britain and the people from GB rather than peddling the negative doom and gloom which they usually do to sell papers.

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2m 45 ?? Why the hell was she there?? I used to run the 800m in 2m 10 as a Junior. Surely there was someone better qualified to run it?

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They are world champions at the top of their and my sport. Yet they don't have flash cars, massive houses etc..they train like bastards day in day out.

Real athlete's who put the wanker footballers to shame.

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I think she did a remarkable job. Who cares about the time - she has shamed the Saudi's and inspired a lot of woman in her home country. Let's hope they are driving soon and reforming that place.

She totally deserved her standing ovation. Pity she can't run for shit though, but hey, she looked nice.

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Conspiracy Theory Number 479:

Saudi official: "I don't like the idea of our women running in the Olympics....... wait! I've got an idea! Let's select a really useless one, then next time we can use her performance as evidence that our women aren't ready to compete yet........ no need to send any of them next time.......!!!"

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Yes, but women aren't restricted from officiating the men's matches.

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It was interesting to see both the Men's and Women's GB football teams. What a contrast.

The Women's team played well and did themselves proud. They played their games fairly and in particular didn't overcook their reaction when fouled.

The Men's GB football team? - not impressed either by their performance or their attitude.

Taking the response to a 'physical challenge' - the form seems to be to roll over on the ground at least for 3 rotations in 'agony' followed by/accompanied with putting both hands up to the face (until they get a free kick). Compare this to the physical challenge of at least on tackle in a game of Rugby League.

I have a friend who is a physio. She pointed out that, if the challenge was a bad as made out, they wouldn't be able to roll on the ground but would be still and screaming in agony. Shameful and pathetic.

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Agreed, they should take a leaf out of other real men's games and just continue play until the stretcher is required.

Any injury that demands a full stoppage of play should be serious enough for the player to be taken off the field of play for a medical checkup and not return for 5-10 minutes. Taken off on a stretcher means they cannot return for the duration of the game. Worst form is seeing a player stretchered off and then jump off the stretcher at the sideline.

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Cracking start to the day, making up for the lack luster results yesterday :)

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Why? What happened??

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Classic from Twitter:

Piers Morgan:

" I was disappointed @bradleywiggins didn't sing the national anthem either. Show our monarch some respect please."

Bradley Wiggins:

"@piersmorgan I was disappointed you didn't go to jail for phone hacking or insider dealing, but there you go, each to his own."

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Dead right, Herr Kommandant, for once I agree with you. Mrs O ran the 100/200m for her State and said nothing was greater than the thrill of winning.

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Got nothing yesterday....today we got...



And that's before the athletics and sailing.

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The horse dancing doesn't count. It's not a real sport.

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Not the most fashionable Olympic sport perhaps, but the best basketball game I've ever seen at any Olympics has seen the USA drawing on all of their considerable skills to come from behind to beat a brilliant Australian team.

Superb skills on show, including the amazing Lauren Jackson of Australia............. yes, that's right - women's basketball.

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It does when we beat the French and Germans at their own mincy game

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...........talking of which............... Caster's A Man Yeah has just won 'her' 800m semi-final............

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As I've rather viciously slagged off Irish priests (hardly a difficult target) in another thread, let me balance the scale by drawing attention to the one who is behind (stop it) the astonishing world-record smashing David Rudisha:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...oconnell-kenya

I've heard Brother O'Connell (ok, so not, strictly speaking, a priest) interviewed on RTE radio also and he really comes across as a genuinely humble and decent man. There are a few.

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Neither is beach volleyball or trampolining, or BMX :lol:

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Japan have to be a little gutted in the footie finals, they've had two blatant handballs and a player blatantly pulled down when having two arms wrapped around the forward and none of them were given.

Cracking game of footie, superb shots and saves, but that ref needs to bugger off.

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Anything that has wipe out crashes, that takes everyone except the leader, is a sport and a half in my opinion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19192421

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The IAAF has confirmed that the sex test row athlete Caster Semenya can compete in the 800m event after her father Fatima Whitbread confirmed that she is a girl.

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It's an activity though, not a sport....they might as well add darts and snooker.

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No doubt they would if they were more universally played.

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Well snooker is universally played, well maybe not much in the US, but it's not like the UK have been dominating entirely in the game in recent years with players all over the world.

Darts, wouldn't have a clue, but you always see a dart board in various pubs around here, so who knows...

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Not much world success at the elite level snooker or darts (did I just say that for darts?), darts has messed itself up with the division in organizations, and has successfully spread out to the dutch, but hardly a world sport outside the pub players beyond the usual national culprits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...oker_champions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_P...s_Championship

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Cheating Yarpie bastard............. :frown:

http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/spo...l-performance/

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Anyone see the women's high jump yesterday? What was the big argument all about? It went on for ages........... :confused:

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When is the closing ceremony anyone?

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Midnight UAE time.

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If you don't have to be fit to play it then it's a game. That means that snooker, darts and golf are all games, not sports. BMX is a kid's activity. :nod:

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It's not cheating unless you get caught ...:frown:

Evidently some Japanese chap was the 1st one to start the cheating/illegal stroke and it was back in the last or one before that Olympics.

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If you didn't use a caddy, golf would be a bit more active than the walking event :D

And the fitness thing, well you don't have to be fit for a lot of the fighting events, skilled, sure, but not fit, as they're so short, but I'd still call them sports.

Archery, pistol/skeet/trap shooting though, they're definitely in the activity arena :D