OLYMPICS - GIMME THE RINGS

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Nicola Adams....

way to go girl, she took the Chinese boxer apart!

fantastic bout - YORKSHIRE & TEAM GB RULE!

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Randall Flagg wrote:Nicola Adams....

way to go girl, she took the Chinese boxer apart!

fantastic bout - YORKSHIRE & TEAM GB RULE!

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I'll give you Nicola but some of the Yorkshire claims are a bit tenuous - it would seem anyone getting off at Leeds railway station counts :wink:
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Debaser wrote:
Randall Flagg wrote:Nicola Adams....

way to go girl, she took the Chinese boxer apart!

fantastic bout - YORKSHIRE & TEAM GB RULE!

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I'll give you Nicola but some of the Yorkshire claims are a bit tenuous - it would seem anyone getting off at Leeds railway station counts :wink:
Agreed there were a few plastics, but I give you, Jessica E & The Brownlee Bros.

Plus I'm sure one of the posh horsey girls must be from Yorkshire :?:
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Randall Flagg wrote: Plus I'm sure one of the posh horsey girls must be from Yorkshire :?:
Nicola Wilson lives in North Allerton but she was born in Darlington - does that count still? :lol:
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Randall Flagg wrote: Plus I'm sure one of the posh horsey girls must be from Yorkshire :?:
Nicola Wilson lives in North Allerton but she was born in Darlington - does that count still? :lol:
:) yeah, Old Yorkshire, she's in....

There's one of the cyclists too...
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i went to the athletics last saturday night :D it was ace. didn't get the tickets online till 11am, so a bit of a mad scramble! really, it was a brilliant day.
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emilystrange wrote:i went to the athletics last saturday night :D it was ace. didn't get the tickets online till 11am, so a bit of a mad scramble! really, it was a brilliant day.
Too far away for me to attend anything, sadly, but I'm now thinking about trying to get tix for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as that's only an hour away.

EDIT: I mean Glasgow's only an hour away from me. I didn't mean to get anyone all excited about the Glasgow Games starting this evening.
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after that day, i'd like to get to glasgow's games too! you've got a couple of years, lad.
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The synchronized team swimming was mind-blowing. :notworthy: :von:
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actually, it was, quite.
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Depeche Mode + Visage, Billy Idol tracks all used in the freestyle to music dressage yesterday.

The Australian synchronised swimming team used AC/DC :notworthy:
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SINsister wrote:The synchronized team swimming was mind-blowing. :notworthy: :von:
I just don't get synchronised swimming. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate just how difficult it is technically and how much skill and stamina etc it involves but artistically it leaves me cold in a way that, say, ice dance doesn't. I saw some today. Even when Michael Crawford was spelling it out for us ("an enormous crocodile") I was thinking "Is it really?" and I wasn't seeing sea monsters or butterflies at all whereas Torville & Dean's dying swan and Barnham were superb. (Yes, I know they were a lifetime ago but they're still what everyone remembers.) Every one of them started by throwing someone in the air and then the rest was floating upside down kicking their legs up. Sure it's something I could never do that takes enormous strength and ability but so is bricklaying and I wouldn't watch that for entertainment either.
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SINsister wrote:The synchronized team swimming was mind-blowing. :notworthy: :von:
I just don't get synchronised swimming. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate just how difficult it is technically and how much skill and stamina etc it involves but artistically it leaves me cold in a way that, say, ice dance doesn't. I saw some today. Even when Michael Crawford was spelling it out for us ("an enormous crocodile") I was thinking "Is it really?" and I wasn't seeing sea monsters or butterflies at all whereas Torville & Dean's dying swan and Barnham were superb. (Yes, I know they were a lifetime ago but they're still what everyone remembers.) Every one of them started by throwing someone in the air and then the rest was floating upside down kicking their legs up. Sure it's something I could never do that takes enormous strength and ability but so is bricklaying and I wouldn't watch that for entertainment either.
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I was watching at work with no sound on, so... ;D
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i played torvill and dean's bolero to the kids at school before the holiday. it was the dancing on ice one, as i couldn't find the original (no youtube allowed at school). that was filmed in 2009. still raised goosebumps, and the kids were blown away. they clapped each jump and lift! not bad for 5-7 yr olds. :D
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I've been thinking about the fact that they keep taking sports out of the Olympics to make room for others (eg at Rio windsurfing will be replaced by kiteboarding, which is apparently just surfing while flying a kite or possibly really windsurfing when the sail accidentally comes off) and there are lots of sports that don't get a chance at all, including some big ones like rugby and snooker (which is every bit as athletic as shooting and archery). Maybe, to leave room for all of these sports, the weird ones that really shouldn't be sports at all like synchronised swimming, synchronised diving and triple jump should be moved to a special "Why did anyone ever invent that?" day. There could also be pro-celebrity Olympics with Ronnie Corbett doing weightlifting and Take That doing the team pursuit on unicycles. And, given the current speculation over what Uisean Bolt will do next and his suggestions that he might try long jump or 400m, there could perhaps be a swapsies day where Chris Hoy does rhythmic gymnastics and Andy Murray tries smiling. It would liven things up no end.
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rugby and golf are in next time. squash should get a chance, i think.
it's been bloody good fun! and first hand, it was so slick and well organised, people so friendly and helpful, that it was like being abroad ;)
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emilystrange wrote:rugby and golf are in next time. squash should get a chance, i think.
it's been bloody good fun! and first hand, it was so slick and well organised, people so friendly and helpful, that it was like being abroad ;)
yep. I'd second that..

I went to the Athletics on Tuesday night, and for the day it almost felt as if you were abroad.

The bullet train was fab, in fact the transport system generally just worked.

The military did a great job on the security and the helpers were happy and helpful.

The park and everything in it was just fantastic. Having visited the Munich, Barcelona and Sydney Olympic parks I never thought we'd pull it off. but TEAM GB (all of us) we did.

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It has been pretty spectacular. We managed to get to the Athletics & Hockey in the main park and some of the football too. Its really hard to fault anything about the park or the atmosphere.

Hard to believe that in 4 weeks time the whole area is going to be closed for a year, I'm going to miss it.
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emilystrange wrote:rugby and golf are in next time.
Knew about golf but hadn't realised rugby was back. You'd think I would - unless it's rugby league, in which case it doesn't count and shouldn't be allowed as it's not so much a sport as a fight after the pubs close. If it's Union then the USA of all countries will be defending its title!
Pista wrote:David Icke's take on the opening ceremony was quite amusing

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkie ... nic_ritual

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it's rugby 7s, iirc
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It's just occurred to me that, back in his presenter days, icke would have been reporting on the Olympics for Saturday Superstore. Do you think he'd have mentioned the lizards in his reports?
No. The lizards came way before Saturday Superstore
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emilystrange wrote:it's rugby 7s, iirc
Oh, so it is. I remember now. So in other words rugby for people who get fed up after ten minutes.
Pista wrote:No. The lizards came way before Saturday Superstore
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ha, i saw that one. was funny.
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Clearly craving blood before she returns to her lizard form

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