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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT|

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So which countries have been given golds so far? And how many medals have GB got?

Not one god damned medal because too many of them have no god damned fire in their hearts. It's really starting to annoy me.

We should be wanting to smash our opponents and destroy them utterly, not hold their fucking hands and help them across the finishing line.
 
I like how France's shots on goal have been 3 for 3 now.

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Just saw an interview with Cav on BBC News and he was pissed

He said something like "why even turn up when you only want to lose" referring to all the people in the group who wouldn't go out in front.
 
I feel sorry for the indoor volleyball women. They get less publicity then the beach for really o reason and they have to play a whole lot more. Beach volleyball women should not be playing only best of 3 sets and to 15 points.
 
Our cycling team manager (our best guy came 21st) said that organization and security on today's road race reminded him on 1980s - not enough security, too much people on dangerous corners, almost no info to support vehicles.
 
Just saw an interview with Cav on BBC News and he was pissed

He said something like "why even turn up when you only want to lose" referring to all the people in the group who wouldn't go out in front.

Who is he talking to? The other teams or his own? You can't rely on other teams to help out the absolute favourites to win. Go yourselves and show something. Instead they let an old Kazakh win.
 
I feel sorry for the indoor volleyball women. They get less publicity then the beach for really o reason and they have to play a whole lot more. Beach volleyball women should not be playing only best of 3 sets and to 15 points.

Beach volley really feels quite one dimensional while indoor volley is more strategic and entertaining as a sport overall.
 
I feel sorry for the indoor volleyball women. They get less publicity then the beach for really o reason and they have to play a whole lot more. Beach volleyball women should not be playing only best of 3 sets and to 15 points.

No reason? Beach volleyball is a million times more exciting
 
Not one god damned medal because too many of them have no god damned fire in their hearts. It's really starting to annoy me.

We should be wanting to smash our opponents and destroy them utterly, not hold their fucking hands and help them across the finishing line.

The other competitors have just been better so far. No amount of pouting and posturing was going to change that.
 
Who is he talking to? The other teams or his own? You can't rely on other teams to help out the absolute favourites to win. Go yourselves and show something. Instead they let an old Kazakh win.

He was talking about the other countries (he specifically mentioned Australia). He felt that it was left to the British riders to do all the work because nobody else wanted to win.
 
Norway - France just started. It's the two teams that met in the World Cup finals last year.

Norway playing awful.

France is one of the favourite (current world and olympic champions), Scandinavia countries are strong too.

He was talking about the women, in which case Norway are the reigning European, world, and Olympic champions.

handball isnt even that popular in europe tbh.

Yes it is.
 
I feel sorry for the indoor volleyball women. They get less publicity then the beach for really o reason and they have to play a whole lot more. Beach volleyball women should not be playing only best of 3 sets and to 15 points.

Beach-volleyball is much, much more exhausting then volleyball.

Only two players, who have to do all the work. More diving. Moving in the sand is more exhausting, too.

Even the boys play only best of 3 sets - I doubt they can play best 5 sets regularly.
 
No reason? Beach volleyball is a million times more exciting

It really isn't. Indoor woman are better looking because there are more of them out there so the percentage is better and the games I find are more interesting with more power in it.
 
It's the taking part that counts!

To be fair we were really only in for one medal today (Men's road race, Cycling) which we didn't get, everything else was speculative or hopeful. The loss for Cavendish in the Men's road race was a real shock though, the strategy was bad from Team GB and Germany as Greipel also missed out on what should have been a certain medal.

We're waiting for the rowing on Tuesday.

Women's road race tomorrow should be good, Team GB are very strong. I think they will learn from today's loss and play a much more attacking strategy tomorrow. We're in for a good shout for Gold and Silver.
 
Indoor volleyball is way better.

And the Brits shouldn't feel too aggrieved. Cavendish was the only athlete today with a fully fledged claim for a medal (gold) and he didn't pull it off due to arrogance from his teammates and fear of Team GB from the other athletes. The swimmers that we've seen so far have only had outside chances at best of getting a medal. It won't be long.
 
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