The Ben Pon/Eric the Eel Olympic thread

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 04 Aug 2012, 10:37

After watching the rowing and Australia take yet another silver, I've decided that's it, I'm going to plan B. For the next week, I'm Dutch.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 04 Aug 2012, 10:58

All hail Oscar Pistorius! He's into the semis for the 400m :mrgreen:

Post by **Londoner** » 04 Aug 2012, 11:06

Cripes! Yet another gold medal for Team GB in rowing! :mrgreen:

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 04 Aug 2012, 11:29

East Londoner wrote:Cripes! Yet another gold medal for Team GB in rowing!

Rowing and cycling: The only things that British athletes are constantly good at! :lol:

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 04 Aug 2012, 14:08

Women's tennis final is like Formula One 2004. Only Williams is dominating instead of Ferrari.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 04 Aug 2012, 14:26

QuickYoda41 wrote:Women's tennis final is like Formula One 2004. Only Williams is dominating instead of Ferrari.

1992 then.

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 04 Aug 2012, 14:42

2004 is still more fitting - 12 of 13 games won. :lol:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 04 Aug 2012, 14:50

QuickYoda41 wrote:2004 is still more fitting - 12 of 13 games won.

They probably would've won more if they had someone like Schumacher instead of Mansell.

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 04 Aug 2012, 15:07

Reject drama in shooting - San Marino was really close to their first ever Olympic medal after a three-way tie for second. After shoot-out, Alessandra Perilli finished 4th.

Post by **Londoner** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:02

That has to have been the greatest hour in athletics for Team GB, ever. GOLD for Jess Ennis in the women's hepthalon. GOLD for Greg Rutherford in the men's long jump final. And GOLD for Mo Farah in the men's 10,000 metres final. What a bathplugging brilliant display! :mrgreen:

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:05

East Londoner wrote:That has to have been the greatest hour in athletics for Team GB, ever. GOLD for Jess Ennis in the women's hepthalon. GOLD for Greg Rutherford in the men's long jump final. And GOLD for Mo Farah in the men's 10,000 metres final. What a bathplugging brilliant display!

Penalties for Team GB now though. Not good.

I believe in Jack Butland.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:17

I may now have to use reverse psychology.

I therefore now believe in Vettel and Hamilton.

LellaLombardi · Post by **LellaLombardi** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:21

East Londoner wrote:That has to have been the greatest hour in athletics for Team GB, ever. GOLD for Jess Ennis in the women's hepthalon. GOLD for Greg Rutherford in the men's long jump final. And GOLD for Mo Farah in the men's 10,000 metres final. What a bathplugging brilliant display!

Hear, hear! Hard to say which one I am most pleased about, but I think it has to be Mo Farah. He represents what is great about this country in that we welcome immigrants and give them the sporting opportunities in school to become Olympic Champions. I really hope this will shut up all the Muslim Immigrant bashing press in this country.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:34

So, Satu Mäkelä-Nummela, the gold medalist from the Beijing games, fails and is 7th in women's trap shooting. And that's so far our best result in the games.

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:46

redbulljack14 wrote:I may now have to use reverse psychology.

I therefore now believe in Vettel and Hamilton.

I kid, I kid.

Anyways.

(talking about UK vs South Korea in Footy)

Some of my friends who follow the Olympics are mad that PKs are the way they end the football games after the added 30 minutes. With him saying there is way too much luck involved. There is some luck involved but he's saying it's 90% luck, which I find absurd.

Wait, South Korea has a chance at winning a medal at Men's football? :shock:

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 04 Aug 2012, 21:52

RealRacingRoots wrote:
redbulljack14 wrote:I may now have to use reverse psychology.

I therefore now believe in Vettel and Hamilton.

I kid, I kid.

Anyways.

(talking about UK vs South Korea in Footy)

Some of my friends who follow the Olympics are mad that PKs are the way they end the football games after the added 30 minutes. With him saying there is way too much luck involved. There is some luck involved but he's saying it's 90% luck, which I find absurd.

Wait, South Korea has a chance at winning a medal at Men's football?

I still can't beleive we lost to them. Shows you how weak the Olympic team is; we should have comfotably beaten them on the field, before it got to penalties! The normal national squad are flops too

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 04 Aug 2012, 22:03

pasta_maldonado wrote:I still can't beleive we lost to them. Shows you how weak the Olympic team is; we should have comfotably beaten them on the field, before it got to penalties! The normal national squad are flops too

And the ladies UK national team lost to Canada too 2-0.

BRING IT AMERICANS.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Aug 2012, 11:53

RealRacingRoots wrote:Wait, South Korea has a chance at winning a medal at Men's football?

They must have brought in referees to officiate their games recommended by Juventus again.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 05 Aug 2012, 12:22

RealRacingRoots wrote:
pasta_maldonado wrote:I still can't beleive we lost to them. Shows you how weak the Olympic team is; we should have comfotably beaten them on the field, before it got to penalties! The normal national squad are flops too

And the ladies UK national team lost to Canada too 2-0.

I went to see that at the Ricoh Aren...I mean err City of Coventry Stadium. Tickets were only £20 each, and we got them the day before. The atmosphere was brilliant during the game, even though we were pretty comprehensively outplayed for much of it, had very little width and didn't create many chances, we had a great laugh with the people around us. There were still a few empty seats in places though, but the attendance was still about 40,000 I believe, which is a lot more than Coventry City will manage for next season! :lol:

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 05 Aug 2012, 15:33

kostas22 wrote:
RealRacingRoots wrote:Wait, South Korea has a chance at winning a medal at Men's football?

They must have brought in referees to officiate their games recommended by Juventus again.

That's why two penalties were awarded against them in 5 minutes yesterday. :lol:

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 05 Aug 2012, 15:34

Hungary scored a third gold a few minutes ago! 8-)

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 05 Aug 2012, 16:01

QuickYoda41 wrote:Hungary scored a third gold a few minutes ago!

Beating two Brits into 2nd and 3rd

Just saw the ceremony for that actually, what's wrong with the anthem?

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 05 Aug 2012, 16:06

Nothing, now, this was the real Hungarian anthem. When we won the first gold in fencing a week ago, then some song was played, only vaguely similar to this.

Post by **tommykl** » 05 Aug 2012, 17:12

OI! Don't complain about medals, we've only got a silver and a bronze :evil:

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 05 Aug 2012, 18:41

Funny F1 relation in equestrian - notice the horse in 3rd place at the moment.

http://www.london2012.com/equestrian/ev ... index.html

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 05 Aug 2012, 18:47

Go Damon!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Aug 2012, 20:11

Bleu wrote:Funny F1 relation in equestrian - notice the horse in 3rd place at the moment.

http://www.london2012.com/equestrian/ev ... index.html

Oh the irony of it's nationality...

Post by **mario** » 05 Aug 2012, 21:16

kostas22 wrote:
Bleu wrote:Funny F1 relation in equestrian - notice the horse in 3rd place at the moment.

http://www.london2012.com/equestrian/ev ... index.html

Oh the irony of it's nationality...

Towards the bottom of that list, there is another horse called "Pastor" - perhaps because it is also prone to crashing into barriers?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Aug 2012, 21:29

mario wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
Bleu wrote:Funny F1 relation in equestrian - notice the horse in 3rd place at the moment.

http://www.london2012.com/equestrian/ev ... index.html

Oh the irony of it's nationality...

Towards the bottom of that list, there is another horse called "Pastor" - perhaps because it is also prone to crashing into barriers?

Given the time set in the event, that is actually quite likely what happened :lol:

Although maybe the horse got distracted, because the jockey...muito quente...

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 06 Aug 2012, 09:49

tommykl wrote:OI! Don't complain about medals, we've only got nothing

Fixed, Portugal-wise. What is more ridiculous is that the absence of funding in any sport other than Football is so flagrant and Portuguese people still think our mostly amateur (semi-professional at best) athletes have the obligation of bringing in medals. Talk about living outside reality (our politicians somehow still think we are a first world country).

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 06 Aug 2012, 20:14

Oh man, this USA vs Canada Semi-Final game just got really good.

It's 3-2 Canada into the 74th minute.

EDIT: Now Canada loses at the end of extra time. Poop.

Alianora La Canta · Post by **Alianora La Canta** » 07 Aug 2012, 09:51

Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Alabau Neira) has a bad day and Tuuli has a good one (and the day in question is better than Lee-El's), Finland can finish today with a gold medal.

It's a closely-fought battle and Tuuli could finish 7th about as easily as she could win. Still, a medal of some colour is the most likely result.

tommykl, in Portugul's case, it's a bit more difficult to see where the medal will come from. The kayak women's fours have made it to the final 8, having produced the second-fastest time in the heats (I can't find their semi-final time). They're due to compete for medals tomorrow morning.

I'm really pleased with how my team (Britain) has done - there have been some unexpected good results as well as a lot of good sportsmanship. In fact, the overall standard of sportsmanship at this Olympics from the athletes has been excellent, which makes the antics of the 8 badminton match-throwers even more disappointing. Just to put the icing on the cake, the post box that is being painted gold in Jessica Ennis' honour is on my route to college, so I'll get to see it every week in term-time. Having proofread articles about Jessica for the student paper when both of us were at university (albeit studying in departments half a mile away from each other), I feel especially proud of her heptathlon achievement.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 07 Aug 2012, 12:31

The one time Women's Football actually gets interesting, and the Norwegian ref ruins it??? Bathplug.

(Apologies to all Norwegian people in advance, except the ref)

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 07 Aug 2012, 13:37

Alianora La Canta wrote:Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Alabau Neira) has a bad day and Tuuli has a good one (and the day in question is better than Lee-El's), Finland can finish today with a gold medal.

It's a closely-fought battle and Tuuli could finish 7th about as easily as she could win. Still, a medal of some colour is the most likely result.

It's a silver for Finland!

Post by **Nuppiz** » 07 Aug 2012, 13:50

Barbazza wrote:
Alianora La Canta wrote:Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Alabau Neira) has a bad day and Tuuli has a good one (and the day in question is better than Lee-El's), Finland can finish today with a gold medal.

It's a closely-fought battle and Tuuli could finish 7th about as easily as she could win. Still, a medal of some colour is the most likely result.

It's a silver for Finland!

Yay! One more silver and it won't be our worst Olympics ever! :lol:

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 07 Aug 2012, 22:31

Australia won a gold medal in the 100m women's hurdles!

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 07 Aug 2012, 22:38

pasta_maldonado wrote:Australia won a gold medal in the 100m women's hurdles!

Meanwhile, the Canadian is 6th and our broadcaster decides to interview her instead...

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 07 Aug 2012, 22:58

JeremyMcClean wrote:
pasta_maldonado wrote:Australia won a gold medal in the 100m women's hurdles!

Meanwhile, the Canadian is 6th and our broadcaster decides to interview her instead...

TSN, CTV and Sportsnet need to raise their game in their Olympic Broadcasts.

Alianora La Canta · Post by **Alianora La Canta** » 08 Aug 2012, 00:48

Nuppiz wrote:
Barbazza wrote:
Alianora La Canta wrote:Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Alabau Neira) has a bad day and Tuuli has a good one (and the day in question is better than Lee-El's), Finland can finish today with a gold medal.

It's a closely-fought battle and Tuuli could finish 7th about as easily as she could win. Still, a medal of some colour is the most likely result.

It's a silver for Finland!

Yay! One more silver and it won't be our worst Olympics ever!

Finland's best chance for a silver (that I can see at the moment, because there are only the next few events for Finland displaying at the moment) is in women's kayak singles tomorrow. There's a likely bronze in the men's 49er class this afternoon, but silver is nearly impossible for Finland in that race because Australia (almost certain gold) and New Zealand (almost certain silver) have such big margins between themselves and Finland (as well as between each other).

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 08 Aug 2012, 15:40

Alianora La Canta wrote:tommykl, in Portugul's case, it's a bit more difficult to see where the medal will come from. The kayak women's fours have made it to the final 8, having produced the second-fastest time in the heats (I can't find their semi-final time). They're due to compete for medals tomorrow morning.

They got a silver I believe....