London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT3|
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Just finished watching the late-night airing of the closing ceremonies. Great stuff....all they needed was foamThe party atmosphere was great
Yeahman. ggs London!
Always get a little sad when the Olympics end. Where will I see hardcore women's indoor volleyball now? But then that feeling goes away and it shouldn't.
Nomad Blue
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So what sport is on?
There is always football somewhere, beachvolleyball in Switzerland right now, tennis in Cincinnati later today.
He did actually appear in a comedy duo on kids Saturday Morning TV here back in the 80's:
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As a Brit it would of been perfect to end on Eric Idle.
Certain things like extinguishing the flame passing the baton onto Rio etc, should of been saved for after the Para-Olympic games.
Certain issues with volume and mics dieing seemed to be a problem, as well as choosing a weird show flow. But other than that it was good.
Will the Olympics leave a legacy to the GB though?
Certain things like extinguishing the flame passing the baton onto Rio etc, should of been saved for after the Para-Olympic games.
Certain issues with volume and mics dieing seemed to be a problem, as well as choosing a weird show flow. But other than that it was good.
Will the Olympics leave a legacy to the GB though?
So what sport is on?
Premier league starts next weekend I think.
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
You do realise that volleyball is played pretty much tru out the whole year. If you are really intrested you can check out the official volleyball streaming and archiving site. They stream most major international events live, including world championships and the European champions league.
Dark Schala
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Ohhhh gawwwwd... I apparently set my alarm and woke up with the mentality that I was gonna watch some athletics this morning.
Back to sleep...
Back to sleep...
And the Paralympics start on the 29th. Gonna have archery, judo, volleyball, cycling, swimming, etc.LTWheels said:
Awesome, thanks dude.
There's no Kim#10 in the Champions League this season tho
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
There's no Kim#10 in the Champions League this season tho
Nope. The winner of the Champions League of last year "Fenerbahce" was defeated in the semi final of the Turkish play offs. The first two team qualified directly, but Turkey still got one wildcard spot. The CEV awarded that spot to Galatasaray, because they were mad at Fenerbahce (who in their eyes misbehaved or something when they won). So no Kim Yeon Koung in the Champions League this year. They will be competing and probably winning the CEV cup.
Actually there was a lot of fuss this year about Kim. Apperantly Korean athletes are slaves of their Korean clubs (who are owned by huge Korean companies). She is considered the best player of the world, so when the season ended last year her Korean club decided to sell her off to some club in Azerbaycan for a shitload of money. She declined because she was happy in Turkey, eventho she would make less money. But her Korean club still wanted to push thru. Then she threathed to stop playing volleyball or play for another country. She extended contract now for 2 years by Fenerbahce for $1.2 million a year.
Still no Kim in the champions league. On the otherhand Vakifbank (number 2 of Turkish League) transfered Saori Kimura, she is like one of Japans most populair athletes. Still wonder how they pulled that off
Edmond Dantès
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Edmond Dantès
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Formula One at Spa Francorchamps.So what sport is on?
Psychotext
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I miss the Olympics.
friskykillface
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Come back Olympics
Smh 4 years now
And I assume Peru didn't medal again this time
That's it I'm doing Archery and going to Rio B^)
Smh 4 years now
And I assume Peru didn't medal again this time
That's it I'm doing Archery and going to Rio B^)
Vuelta a Espana starts this Saturday. Contador's comeback.
Canis lupus
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Yeahman. ggs London!
Always get a little sad when the Olympics end. Where will I see hardcore women's indoor volleyball now? But then that feeling goes away and it shouldn't.
Any major indoor volleyball tourney coming in the near future?
Wind's Howling
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Mmmmm.....
Amazing.
The Brazil topmodel also got my attention, though. Almost made me forget about Pele. Almost.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
It begins.
AP: Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk stripped of gold medal for doping
Funny reading the BBC's story on her winning now:
AP: Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk stripped of gold medal for doping
Funny reading the BBC's story on her winning now:
Hmmm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ic_Games#Dual_sport_and_multi-sport_Olympians
...although I can't see any of those notifications. And I don't see mention of Rebecca Romero (who went from rowing one olympics to cycling in the next). I note that she's moving on to ironman triathlons - could we have a woman at the next Olympics to do what the Brownlees have been doing on the men's side?
Side-effect: That means NZ gets another gold! Their Olympics has been phenomenal.
BBC said something similar and got hounded for saying it.
Psychotext
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British discus thrower Brett Morse has told his Twitter followers he had been "stupid and immature" after accusing Belarusian women's shot put gold medallist Nadzeya Ostapchuk of doping.
Morse made the claim on Monday after he failed to qualify for the Olympics discus final and also tweeted: "I've had a bad day but it could be worse, I could look like Ostaptchuk [sic]."
4 days ago :lol
Morse made the claim on Monday after he failed to qualify for the Olympics discus final and also tweeted: "I've had a bad day but it could be worse, I could look like Ostaptchuk [sic]."
4 days ago :lol
6th August, so one week ago.
It really fucks me off, actually. That Kiwi woman was robbed of her rightful moment in the Olympic stadium in front of everyone and the Belarusian took that away from her, cynically. That's infuriatingly dickish, and I'm not even Kiwi.
This is why a lot of us a so against former dopers, too.
This is why a lot of us a so against former dopers, too.
zomgbbqftw
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I remember thinking that the woman was doping when I watched her throw.
Good for the Kiwi champion, she deserves the gold, I just wish there was a way to redo the medal ceremony!
Good for the Kiwi champion, she deserves the gold, I just wish there was a way to redo the medal ceremony!
I don't even know how a person can sit there and be so happy about winning the gold medal knowing that they are fucking cheaters. Some people have no pride I guess.
I assume it's been ongoing, so if they're only showing up a shotputter now (from Monday) that suggests that the first week's been fairly clean - although that said, it does also depend on the nature of the tests, it might just happen that the specific drug she took has a test that takes less time to do.
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