London 2012 Olympics Thread

[Holmes]

She's bitter she only got silver? She's a sad individual.

[Andrea]

So sad for Liu (100m hurdles). Unlike in Beijing, he has reached the first barrier before falling down.

She's bitter she only got silver? She's a sad individual.

She did a very good first jump (she was in the lead by something like 0.5 points but then she totally got the second attempt wrong. First attempt score 15.866; second attempt 14.300. I guess she was pissed off because she probably performed that jump so badly just 5% of the times and it happened in the most important occasion.)

[Platypus]

Brownlee's go 1/3 in the triathlon, as Britain marches on.

[Platypus]

Women's water polo semi between Australia and the US coming down to the wire. US lead 9-8 with 100 seconds to go...

Edit: GOAL!

[Platypus]

After four quarters of awful referreeing, Australia finally get lucky and with 1 second left get a penalty... Southern scores... Here comes what should be some insane 6 minutes ahead.

Edit: poo.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

She's bitter she only got silver? She's a sad individual.

She was the way overwhelming favorite. The commentators on NBC were even saying things like that the ones who went before her were probably scared of her knowing that she'd beat them so they weren't performing as well and how it was obvious that she was going to win.

[Platypus]

Chief commisaire at the velodrome at risk of death after (correctly) relegating Victoria Pendleton from a 1/1000s win in the first heat of the sprint final for coming out of her line.

Heat two soonish, hopefully it'll be clean and Anna Meares wins, as she would have in the first heat if not obstructed. Shane Perkins also a medal chance.

The Opals look like they'll beat China, but it was tight for the first three quarters.

Good sailing day, extending our lead over the poms heading in to the medal race, both boats gauranteed of a silver in the 470s but Australia in prime position for gold.

Honourable loss in the water polo, looking good for bronze.

[Platypus]

Go Anna! Gold for Anna Meares! Gold! GOLD at the velodrome! Go Anna!

[MaxQue]

The USA/Canada football match last night was hilariously violent. The spirit of Don Revie-era Leeds United lives or something.

Does the Don Revie era was including biaised referees?

[Хahar 🤔]

She's bitter she only got silver? She's a sad individual.

She's also a 16-year-old girl, so, you know.

[minionofmidas]

US vs. Italy in women's water polo. Who is Phil for?

Water polo is actually a pretty entertaining sport, unlike most that are so popular in the US (like what Americans call football.)

You're American, dude. It's called football because it is football.

Really football is a sport played by kicking around a ball. What Americans call football is a sport that primarily consists of throwing or carrying an object that isn't a ball.

No, football is a game played on foot (as opposed to a game played on horseback).

Lol, what craven AF apologist invented that false etymology? Football is a game in which playing the ball with your foot is allowed and an important aspect of play. (Note that even in Association Football, the ball is not played exclusively with the foot.) The parallel term "handball" is of roughly identical (late medieval) age.

The USA/Canada football match last night was hilariously violent. The spirit of Don Revie-era Leeds United lives or something.

Yeah it was, although I have to admit Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Kaylyn Kyle, and Jonelle Filigno were pretty much the only reasons anyone watched.

Hmmm.... casual violence from the delectable Alex Morgan? Kinky. Got a softcore snuff videolink?

[minionofmidas]

I support Drusille Ngako, Paul Ekane Edingue, Thomas Essomba, Serge Ambomo, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo, Abdon Mewoli and Christian Donfack Adjoufack.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The (just finished) Brazil/Russia womens volleyball match was a very good advert for the sport, as was the Japan/China match on earlier. Anyways, you know it's not your day when you fluff six match points in a set-based game and then lose.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Chief commisaire at the velodrome at risk of death after (correctly) relegating Victoria Pendleton from a 1/1000s win in the first heat of the sprint final for coming out of her line.

Her near consistent lack of discipline is pretty amusing.

[YL]

Brownlee's go 1/3 in the triathlon, as Britain Yorkshire marches on.

[Platypus]

We're up to 71 medalling countries, by the way. 80 should happen, 86/87 difficult.

The Felix/Richards-Ross/Fraser-Price/Campbell-Jones 200m final showdown will be interesting.

Looking forward to the 100m hurdles final. I don't particularly like overconfidence, but unlike James Magnussen, Pearson not only has the results to back her up, but hasn't been a media whore. She's confident, businesslike, maybe a dash too stony..but she's a champion, and she does what she needs to do to win. Which doesn't include bullying the letter T.

[MaxQue]

Canada apparently won a medal in High Jump, which has 5 medallists.

[Platypus]

The rain comes down, and Sally Pearson wins gold by 0.02s. Phew! Go Sally

[Hatman 🍁]

Man, that soccer game yesterday sure was a heartbreaking match Canada always brings their A game against the US in these major tournaments, but they've not won yet.

[Holmes]

Man, that soccer game yesterday sure was a heartbreaking match Canada always brings their A game against the US in these major tournaments, but they've not won yet.

riiiiiiiiggggggeeeeeeeeeeedddd

[Hash]

Man, that soccer game yesterday sure was a heartbreaking match Canada always brings their A game against the US in these major tournaments, but they've not won yet.

Ironic that the winning US goal against "my country" was scored by the person who is, by far, my favourite player in modern women's soccer.

[Foucaulf]

So sad for Liu (100m hurdles). Unlike in Beijing, he has reached the first barrier before falling down.

My family is convinced Liu Xiang has been ordered to take the fall if he can't win the gold medal, which, in China, isn't that far-fetched. I don't really believe it, but he'll keep his sponsorships for another year this way.

Speaking of China, here's a Graun article on China's claims of conspiracy. This does not mention Chen Yibing's silver medal in the Men's Rings final; the Chinese media is in full force, even dialing up Bulgarian gymnasts to support their claim.

[Hash]

Hash, I didn't know you went to uOttawa! That was my second choice behind Queen's. Starting third year, and I'm still not sure if I made the right choice haha. The French immsersion coulda been useful.

I actually applied to Queen's as a distant third choice, but never considered it after both Ottawa and Karleton accepted me. Two years down, I'm confident I made the right choice because, despite Kingston being a beautiful and exceptional city, I know I wouldn't have had the opportunities in my field of study (polisci) I've had if I had been in some small town like Kingston rather than the NCR. And uOttawa is a good university regardless.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Gee wasn't expecting Dalhauser/Rogers to crash out of the beach volleyball. Who's gonna win it now? My gut says the other US pairing.

That surprised me as well. It was really close in that second set and they were tied at 19.

If I heard it right (I wasn't paying attention unfortunately), Gibbs and Rosenthal were eliminated last night, losing to an Austrian team I think.

[argentarius]

Gee wasn't expecting Dalhauser/Rogers to crash out of the beach volleyball. Who's gonna win it now? My gut says the other US pairing.

That surprised me as well. It was really close in that second set and they were tied at 19.

If I heard it right (I wasn't paying attention unfortunately), Gibbs and Rosenthal were eliminated last night, losing to an Austrian team I think.

Bummer for American mens team, but on the bright side you have the gold and silver in the womens game. Pretty good in one of the few sports in which the women's version is more popular.