Rio 2016 Olympics

[Benfleet A1]

I wasn't particularly looking forward to this olympics but I have been hooked on the track cycling, diving, rowing and gymnastics. It is blantantly clear that if we want success then we have had to pay for it and for me, the £340 ish million funding is money well spent. Rio has pleasantly surprised me and I'm now looking forward to the paraolympics as well where we will be bring medals home in droves. The funding has been long overdue but long may it continue. It has been superb viewing.

 

[RHB]

I wasn't particularly looking forward to this olympics but I have been hooked on the track cycling, diving, rowing and gymnastics. It is blantantly clear that if we want success then we have had to pay for it and for me, the £340 ish million funding is money well spent. Rio has pleasantly surprised me and I'm now looking forward to the paraolympics as well where we will be bring medals home in droves. The funding has been long overdue but long may it continue. It has been superb viewing.

Not wishing to **** on your parade, but this makes very depressing reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/37135083

 

[Benfleet A1]

Not wishing to **** on your parade, but this makes very depressing reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/37135083

Well it pee'd a little bit on my parade but I'll forgive you. I think the problem is putting the games on in countries that are not diverse enough in many sports. What I mean is what are Brasil known for outside of football. They just aren't massive on many other sports where somewhere like say Austrailia tor the sake of arguement part take in many more on a national and international stage. Also, there is the haves and have nots issue in Brasil and ticketing prices being beyond the majority.

 

[mattitouk]

Poor Micky Conlon, it hasn't been a good last couple of days for him, after the fight, some of the judges were sent home due to some "dubious decisions", just to prove his point....then Ironically his opponent Vladmir Nitkin had to pull out of the semi final due to the mashed up face that Conlon gave him in the bout,... and then just to add further insult to injury, Nitkin is still given a bronze medal without even getting in the ring. :stunned:

What ever you call it.... it certainly isn't "The Luck Of The Irish".

http://www.skysports.com/boxing/new...r-nikitin-to-pull-out-of-rio-2016-due-to-cuts

 

[Floval Flyer]

Just watched the women's hockey final - how good was that !

Well done GB :olympics::olympics:

 

[Benfleet A1]

Just watched the women's hockey final - how good was that !

Well done GB :olympics::olympics:

Hockey has always been our jonah sport at the olympics. This gold is the sweetest yet. Fantastic achievement.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Yep that Hockey final was something special, they were slaughtering us in the 3rd period but the ladies hung in there and came back swinging in the 4th. As for the penalties, what a hero Maddie Hinch is! Great Stuff.

 

[Ricey]

Bolt really is the greatest ever! Amazing to watch and the Olympics won't be the same without him.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

1 second to hold out for a Gold unlucky Muhammed.

 

[Ricey]

1 second to hold out for a Gold unlucky Muhammed.

That was horrible, felt so gutted for the lad.

 

[RHB]

Yep that Hockey final was something special, they were slaughtering us in the 3rd period but the ladies hung in there and came back swinging in the 4th. As for the penalties, what a hero Maddie Hinch is! Great Stuff.

Maddie Hinch for Southend?

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Neymar gives Brazil the lead against Germany. Feels like redemption.

 

[rayleigh dan]

Tom Daley bottle jobs it again, he should be an England footballer! I'm hoping Jack Laugher gets the credit he deserves, not as good a diver as Daley, but performed brilliantly under pressure when it mattered. Come on Mo! I'm gonna stay up to watch him tonight, hopefully two more golds to come with Joyce tommorow. Team GB .

 

[Pubey]

C'mon Mo!!!

 

[Pubey]

Yesss! Sir Mo Farah

 

[southendkid]

Well done Mo!

In other news the women's high jump was won by a 37 year old with a jump of 1.97m, Katrina Johnson-Thompson jumped more than that in the heptathlon! With how poor her throwing is she should probably consider switching to high jump, I think she's got a much better chance of medalling there.

 

[rayleigh dan]

Well done Mo!

In other news the women's high jump was won by a 37 year old with a jump of 1.97m, Katrina Johnson-Thompson jumped more than that in the heptathlon! With how poor her throwing is she should probably consider switching to high jump, I think she's got a much better chance of medalling there.

Agreed, surely it's possible to do both events though? :unsure:

 

[ozzie]

Germany are cuffed with 17!!
We have got 27!!
Deutschland Deutschland Über alles...give it a rest...will enjoy going to work tomorrow:happy:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Robbed in the boxing

 

[Pubey]

Robbed in the boxing

LOL what?! I thought Joyce edged the third and split the first but Yoka was good value for the win overall. If Joyce had been given the first round then perhaps we would have got a different match. Amateur boxing isn't about 'giving effort' or 'looking good', it's about scoring shots, which Yoka landed and Joyce rarely did.

Conlan was robbed...