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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|

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Brazil said:
Just read about Philip Hindes. Freaking disgraceful.
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holy shit. I thought only Chinese cheat and dope.
just kidding, but why it is not investigated? He should be punished for the disgraceful act AND the stupidity of saying it out loud.
 
Brazil said:
Just read about Philip Hindes. Freaking disgraceful.
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Again, same with the Badminton girls, the rules encourage it so the federations and IOC should be put under more scrutiny than saying these athletes have no class.


elty said:
holy shit. I thought only Chinese cheat and dope.
just kidding, but why it is not investigated?
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Not investigated because I don't think Rogge was in attendance.
 
Brazil said:
Just read about Philip Hindes. Freaking disgraceful.
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He shouldn't even have been in the GB team anyway. He isn't as good as some of the other sprinters and he's German.

Very unsportsmanlike but we would have won the Gold anyway.

Hoy and Kenny looked very dissapointed when they heard him say it.
 
elty said:
why it is not investigated?
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It was.

The badminton scandal saw teams from China, Indonesia and South Korea expelled from the Olympics on Wednesday for deliberately losing in order to manipulate their route through the knockout stages. The teams were booed off court by spectators at Wembley Arena.

Adams said the cycling incident was different because paying fans "were not deprived of a competition."

"The race took place and I believe we could clearly say that best efforts were made in that competition by the British team," he said.

French officials did not formally complain about the British tactic.

"You have to make the most of the rules. You have to play with them in a competition and no one should complain about that," the France teams's technical director, Isabelle Gautheron, told the Associated Press.
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Big-E said:
Again, same with the Badminton girls, the rules encourage it so the federations and IOC should be put under more scrutiny than saying these athletes have no class.
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The rules don't encourage it. They just allow it, in a way.

That doesn't excuse these "athletes" from being disgusting.
 
Going to get roasted for this, but I wish there was less emphasis on the serve in tennis. It's boring watching federer serve love games with ace after ace. I think serving should be more like table tennis or badminton.
 
Brazil said:
The rules don't encourage it. They just allow it, in a way.

That doesn't excuse these "athletes" from being disgusting.
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But when we are talking about the highest level of the sport, athletes would be stupid not to exhaust all their options in order to win. It's why combat sports punish people who don't attack because it prevents people from being non combative and winning. Boxing, fencing, badminton, cycling, etc clearly have issues and it is unfair that these athletes are getting vilified.
 
Are Tennis world rankings a 2-year rolling system (like golf)??

I can't understand how the number one tennis player in the world is getting destroyed right now.
 
mrklaw said:
Going to get roasted for this, but I wish there was less emphasis on the serve in tennis. It's boring watching federer serve love games with ace after ace. I think serving should be more like table tennis or badminton.
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He doesn't serve like that against Djoker, Murray, and Nadal.
 
Yeah, as above, he shouldn't of even been on the team (he's German but his dad is British, only started training in the UK in 2010) and now his stupid comments are just overshadowing the great effort made by his team members.

Only saving grace is that his actions didn't negatively impact any other teams.
 
TurkishEmperor said:
As a matter of fact, this is not good. Brazil still has to play against Serbia, they'll get 3 points from them. We really shouldve gotten those 3 points from KOR...
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We have a chance against USA if they decide to rest their starters. Which they should, becuase they can't lose the top spot anymore. USA-Turkey is the last game of the day, so we know what we have to do beforehand.

That said trying to figure out which player is my favourite
hottest
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#11 Naz Aydemir
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#17 Neslihan Darnel
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#6 Bahar Toksoy
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Zaph said:
Yeah, as above, he shouldn't of even been on the team (he's German but his dad is British, only started training in the UK in 2010) and now his stupid comments are just overshadowing the great effort made by his team members.

Only saving grace is that his actions didn't negatively impact any other teams.
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Meadows said:
He shouldn't even have been in the GB team anyway. He isn't as good as some of the other sprinters and he's German.

Very unsportsmanlike but we would have won the Gold anyway.

Hoy and Kenny looked very dissapointed when they heard him say it.
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Hoy looked amused if anything.
 
Brazil said:
You're like a little kid.
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While I dont like people taking advantage of the rules, he did just that, and actually you could blame the referees for not identifying that there wasnt anything mechanical wrong with the bike and let them restart.

As it is, I think this saga is karma for our two British girls from being relegated earlier on in the evening - that was an excellent chance for a gold.
 
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