London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT3|
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Napoleonthechimp
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The problem with stopping the favourites from winning in the road cycling event was that the others made no attempt to win themselves. Cavendish went on record as saying - about that event - that if your goal isn't to win there is no reason for you to be there. Stopping others from doing it is just pathetic and just a little bit spiteful.
Sviatoslav
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Outside of cutting down on the swimming I strongly disagree with the other events you want to get rid of. Stuff like modern pentathalon is awesome and not only should they keep rhythmic gymnastic they should start giving out medals for the individual events and not just the all-around.
zomgbbqftw
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Was just chilling, not running anywhere near 100%!
HollovVpo1nt
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Is Nani running for Brasil? lol
killer_clank
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Bolt's jogging in the last 50 metres is glorious.
lol at Brownlee brothers in quotation marks, If that's what they calling themselves.
I think Gomez is the main rival today, but the Brownlee brothers will be too strong for him. All three are already in the leading pack of five. Things are going exactly as planned.
Well Ashley cole is running for Mozambique.
Tactics are part of a race, not all GB road cyclists were trying to win the race.
zomgbbqftw
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Oh wow, both Brownlee brothers in a breakaway. This is dangerous for the rest of the field.
The Badminton players were!
fizzelopeguss
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:lol
Seeing him waltz off after his third flop of a jump was something tasty though, it was like an entire olympic stadium rolled their eyes back in tandem.
Modern Pentathlon is just an arbitrary set of events set together. I've heard it's based on being behind enemy lines or something but that's not good enough.
It's just random shit in one event.
zomgbbqftw
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Didn't work though, both of them are in the breakaway group in the cycling portion with the other favourite, and the breakaway are going at a faster pace than the main group.
Napoleonthechimp
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I hate this attitude. There are countries in this world that have done equally distasteful things and they gladly ignore their own history and how much they've benefitted from imperialism in favour of fixating on Britain.
yay! this lead group are ACTUALLY working together
as someone who has travelled around the world quite extensively, the VAST majority of people around the world don't really give a shit, and have been unbelievably friendly to me.
Even in France (outside of Paris ofc)
as someone who has travelled around the world quite extensively, the VAST majority of people around the world don't really give a shit, and have been unbelievably friendly to me.
Even in France (outside of Paris ofc)
you're wrong about the removals. Why remove what other people like just because you deem them not worthy? For example, there will be people that train and compete at world level in rhythmic gymnastics and they have a strong following and fans etc. Why deny them a world platform? Not like the gymnastics arena is being used for anything else.
The only restrictions I'd put in place are time/logistics ones. If you have a dedicated arena like the velodrome - use it for the full two weeks and put whatever events you want in there to provide a balanced view of competitive cycling. Perhaps include (like they do) the other related discliplines, so there is no track cycling when there is also BMX or mountain biking. So a committed cycling fan can have their own cycling focused olympics.
Same for swimming/diving (they don't tend to overlap) and gymnastics/trampoline
I think all sports should be considered for being added to the olympics. They'd need to qualify - I'd put a requirement for a certain amount of global support (which might rule out baseball and possibly rugby and cricket) and they need to have a well organised governing body capable of working with the IOC to organise. Ideally they also don't require standalone facilities - eg Karate could work to compete alongside judo and other mat sports.
We have one who did the long jump, who was on two other teams before coming to team GB.
killer_clank
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holy shit, dat crowd.
You are crazy about badminton and diving. Not sure about trampoline and sync swimming.
Sviatoslav
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I wouldn't really say that shooting, swimming, running, fencing and horseback riding are random. It's pretty much to see who is the ultimate bad-ass. Plus modern pentathalon has been in the Olympics for 100 years now.
slothmeister
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This crowd is ridiculous at the triathlon, kind of wish I caught the train up to watch it now, great atmosphere.
Good Job Bob
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Lemaitre!
Sviatoslav
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Why does Lemaitre STILL have terrible form? He's still so raw. He needs to get his shit together since he's the Great White Hope.
my removals were very carefully thought of. Rythmic gymnastics is INCREADIBLY subjective for the judges, it often isn't clear why someone won.
There are too many swimming events. No I'm not saying this because GB did shit, it's just that the amount of events is unreal. Also they should do what they did in the cycling and limit the amount of events people can enter. Phelps is amazing, but how is it fair that he can win 18+ golds, but someone who won the Triathalon 5 times in a row only gets 5 Golds.
KernelPanic
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Simon Whitfield out after the bike crash 
This sucks
This sucks
Betta Lines
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Sviatoslav
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Diprosalic
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We like you <3
there were 26 riders who finished in front of the favorites, from nearly every country as well
Great Britain and Germany were always going to take gold and silver if the race would end in a mass sprint, so they should have realized that when a break away group formed with virtually every other relevant country represented there was no incentive for the remaining riders to help them get back
Betta Lines
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Jeez. Blake might go sub-19 too.
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