London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT3|

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weekend_warrior said:
Hey rest of the world, are you even trying?

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Bolt/Blake domination tomorrow will be very fun :D
 
zomgbbqftw said:
What IT sector would you spend £80m a year on improving? What can that money even buy in terms of IT? An £80m tax cut to attract tech businesses would get us nowhere, £80m spent on IT goods is hardly going to make a dent in the poor state of our IT manufacturing sector or software development which gets literally billions in private sector investment.

£80m a year is not a lot of money in the scheme of government spending, and if that £312m over four years can get us to 3rd place in the medals table and make Britain a sporting power again and give kids something to aspire to other than being in Big Brother or on X-Factor then that's money well fucking spent.
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You could use it as tax breaks for Video game development seen as they have stated it will be alot less than any £80m a year spent if it gets approved.

Honestly I would love to see what would happen if we decided not to go to Rio or even the Olympics after that in 2020.
 
I wanted to give him a good reason to flop

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Can't hate on Spain though. They threw the game but weren't blatant about it like the Chinese and Koreans were. They used the rules to their favors. Kinda like how Norway did in women's handball.

Brazil was too dumb to realize that even though they all knew that France and then Russia would be easier than Argentina and then USA.
 
Have these guys been doing all the Aussie games on the BBC or something? I guess John & Mike have a night off, after that France Vs. Spain game.
 
You'd think USA would be a bit more on top of the fouls after the Argentina match up, Argentina will draw them into a lot of that again if they make it through
 
Linkified said:
You could use it as tax breaks for Video game development seen as they have stated it will be alot less than any £80m a year spent if it gets approved.

Honestly I would love to see what would happen if we decided not to go to Rio or even the Olympics after that in 2020.
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£80m a year spent on VG tax break wouldn't even make a scratch. What is being proposed right now is around £300m a year for games, animation and CG production. That's already more than £80m a year. £80m in budget rebates would be gone within minutes and make no difference to the state of the industry in the UK, not only that, but there is already a tax break lined up for 2013.

Giving kids aspiration to be a great sports person is worth much more than the £80m price, if you can't see that then you need to get a reality check. £80m a year doesn't make a scratch on other government spending while it has transformed our sporting ability as a nation and given kids something to aspire to, something other than X-Factor or TOWIE and other such dross.
 
Linkified said:
You could use it as tax breaks for Video game development seen as they have stated it will be alot less than any £80m a year spent if it gets approved.

Honestly I would love to see what would happen if we decided not to go to Rio or even the Olympics after that in 2020.
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That would count as arts funding. Not IT.
 
I still don't get how these international refs call loose ball fouls.. People going over the back for every damn loose ball, tugging on shirts, pushing in the back, etc.

Refs aren't consistently calling anything.
 
Oh shit, this is late but it's cool to see Lopez Lomong still running (and qualifying for the 5000m final) I remember seeing him run in person in high school and blown away by his speed in cross country. His personal story is really interesting too.
 
Nolan. said:
You'd think USA would be a bit more on top of the fouls after the Argentina match up, Argentina will draw them into a lot of that again if they make it through
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Here's the thing: USA isn't really playing or shooting well and they're up 14. They're the only tam in the tournament that can disrupt what the opposing team is trying to run on offense, that's a game changer.
 
Alebrije said:
WTF COI !! Seriously :




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"The International Olympic Committee is to look into reports that sprinter Yohan Blake has been competing with a watch that contravenes branding guidelines. Yohan Blake has raised eyebrows with his watch selection (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) The Jamaican 22-year-old is said to have been running with a custom-made Richard Mille tourbillon watch. "

He could lost his silver medal in 100 mts
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He could lose his silver medal because of branding guidelines? If it gives him no advantage, then... why?
 
zomgbbqftw said:
£80m a year spent on VG tax break wouldn't even make a scratch. What is being proposed right now is around £300m a year for games, animation and CG production. That's already more than £80m a year. £80m in budget rebates would be gone within minutes and make no difference to the state of the industry in the UK, not only that, but there is already a tax break lined up for 2013.

Giving kids aspiration to be a great sports person is worth much more than the £80m price, if you can't see that then you need to get a reality check. £80m a year doesn't make a scratch on other government spending while it has transformed our sporting ability as a nation and given kids something to aspire to, something other than X-Factor or TOWIE and other such dross.
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Yes they are proposing that but it comes out of the same pot where there are two other industries eating into tax breaks. Now if we can get video games tax breaks of a definite 180m a year - way better proposition.

Giving kids the ambition to learn sciences at school and want to become scientists/programmers/engineers is more important than wanting to become a fame hound.
 
Wow that flopping was RIDICULOUS. Rudy Fernandez flew on that.

I hate guys like that who are fugazi, they're the first to try and act tough and push and shove you, and the second you even breathe on them they act like you killed them.
 
mrklaw said:
The lottery funding doesn't care who it trains. I expect most comprehensive school kids want to be Wayne Rooney when they grow up, and school supports that with lots of football. Private schools offer a broader range of sports so they are more likely to be feeders into more sports.

One of the women rowers (ex army I think) got recruited simply for being tall and athletic. So perhaps UK sport could also do a little more to reach out to a wider community when looking for talent - eg like football clubs do at a junior level.
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That is part of what has made Team GB cycling so successful, getting out to the schools, running sessions and nurturing the talent. Guess how British cycling is principally funded? National Lottery and Sport England (with a lot of big sponsors). So maybe the answer is for National Lottery to apply pressure to the sporting federations to increase their intake from comprehensives and disadvantaged kids.

I'm no class warrior. I want to increase social mobility and I love sport. Sport has massive health and community benefits for those that undertake it and I want to see more success and wider participation (They both go hand in hand). But as everybody now knows that 50% of British medalists come from independent schools, and that pat of the reason for Team GB's success has come from funding from the National Lottery, has no one else put put two and two together and queried whether or not this was entirely fair? imo the remit for funding from the National lottery (to both athletes and sporting bodies) should encompass more than just performance.
 
Linkified said:
Yes they are proposing that but it comes out of the same pot where there are two other industries eating into tax breaks. Now if we can get video games tax breaks of a definite 180m a year - way better proposition.

Giving kids the ambition to learn sciences at school and want to become scientists/programmers/engineers is more important than wanting to become a fame hound.
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So you're just a gaming nut who wants to prioritise spending to games over sports. Well boo-fucking-hoo. Let the companies monetise their product better, I support the idea of a tax break for all creative industries, but really they have to fend for themselves eventually.

Giving kids ambition to be anything other than big brother idiots or on X-Factor is where the nation is right now, we have to walk before we can run. The Olympics is a good way of showing what hard work can achieve. Telling a kid that they can be champion of the world is much easier than explaining that they can be involved in making some game if they study at uni for three years and then get lucky.

I agree that getting kids involved in science and tech and inspiring them to be scientists would be great, but really until we begin to teach programming at a primary level it seems unlikely that this is achievable.

On the tax breaks, the split hasn't been confirmed. It seems unlikely that it will be split equally three ways as gaming is a much larger industry than animation and CGI in the UK. It is likely to be £200m, £60m, £40m, but that hasn't been confirmed yet.
 
Bo-Locks said:
That is part of what has made Team GB cycling so successful, getting out to the schools, running sessions and nurturing the talent. Guess how British cycling is principally funded? National Lottery and Sport England (with a lot of big sponsors). So maybe the answer is for National Lottery to apply pressure to the sporting federations to increase their intake from comprehensives and disadvantaged kids.

I'm no class warrior. I want to increase social mobility and I love sport. Sport has massive health and community benefits for those that undertake it and I want to see more success and wider participation (They both go hand in hand). But as everybody now knows that 50% of British medalists come from independent schools, and that pat of the reason for Team GB's success has come from funding from the National Lottery, has no one else put put two and two together and queried whether or not this was entirely fair? imo the remit for funding from the National lottery (to both athletes and sporting bodies) should encompass more than just performance.
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Well they are adapting the cycling and rowing model for swimming and athletics so you will get your wish.
 
zomgbbqftw said:
The key is to improve sports in state schools, not to hobble funding for people that make it far enough to compete. I'm not sure how it can be achieved but I hope they can figure out a way, 220 playing fields sold since 1999 is surely not the way to go about things though. :/
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I wonder why the fuck it is that no-one is asking Cameron the hard questions about this given he's using the Olympics as a springboard for his own personal gain.

If nothing else we should be able to get a guarantee of no further cuts or sales.
 
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