Or can't handle the pressure of thousands of people screaming at every little thing you do. It's a mixed blessing,ndepending on how you handle pressure
-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|
- Thread starter giga
- Start date
- Status
Or can't handle the pressure of thousands of people screaming at every little thing you do. It's a mixed blessing,ndepending on how you handle pressure
Napoleonthechimp
Member
Have they decided to try this time?
Hypnotoad
Member
Hehe, doubles are still to come.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
he's in trouble now.
talisayNon
Member
its disturbing how the us always comes out with doping allegations. first it was jamaica in 2008 and then china in 2012. get fucked.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
huge upset.
HoodWinked
Member
man im dong hyun out wtf.
Wow anyone read how the Brit crashed on purpose yesterday?
"We were saying if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart. I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really."
Shameful, we were robbed of a gold medal.
"We were saying if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart. I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really."
Shameful, we were robbed of a gold medal.
They faked that mechanical error. Wow.
They are the only ones allowed to be good at sports!
Chuckie
Member
Sviatoslav
Member
Track and Field in 5 mins! Starting with the big boys doing Shot Put.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Links?
Just gonna keep posting this once in a while for people who didn't catch it:
Clip: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/gymnastics/highlights-fabulous-five-on-vault.html
McKayla Maroney's vault at 2:50.
Also, check out the slo-mo at 4:08 and look at the judge's expression to the left of her at 4:30.
Her landing is unreal and almost too good to be true.
What the heck did they deduct her for?
Reuters: I crashed on purpose, says victorious Briton
http://www.reuters.com/london-olymp...8/02/i-crashed-purpose-says-victorious-briton
You mean the German crashed on purpose, as he did ride for Germany on the last junior WC
But the start did look very weird and it's a shame that you get another go for faking a problem.And Ricky vdV gogogo, guy looks seriously cool/focused.
Source, remember how new guy is part German.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
Phillip Hindes is ironically a german national and I don't believe that is exactly what he said (I've actually seen his post-race interview). Some argue that a lot was lost in translation when he was talking about the events in that race, and you certainly wouldn't talk about it live on national television if you did cheat.
We're also talking about an organisation that relegrated China and forced them into 2nd position just because of a fraction of a millimetre infringement. To think they didn't check the bike afterwards would be silly.
GroteSmurf
Member
Go Rick
He looks like Evilore
He looks like Evilore
Alx
Member
I don't know the rules in that situation, can you get another go for any crash, or only mechanical problems ? It can make a big difference.
In that article it just says a British newspaper reports though. Hardly a beacon of facts if they don't name the paper.
This was the interview:
BBC
id you pull a fast one?Hindes:Yes we wanted to go fast.
Then Chinese whispers ahoy.
Go Rick
He looks like Evilore
So that's what he went to Europe for!
HoodWinked
Member
this announcer is great for archery.
Sviatoslav
Member
I'm a huge track fan so if you guys want some clarification on anything feel free to ask me. For starters, unlike swimming world records are a huge deal. For example, the world record in the first event(shot put) was set in 1988.
dat Jessica Ennis drawing power.
dat Jessica Ennis drawing power.
Wow. Embarrassing, to say the least, that the host country would behave like that.
DQ that team and strip away their medal, imo.
Go Rick
He looks like Evilore
Me:
"Judo is Judo
Roeien, Yep, Rowing
Badminton is Badminton
Handboogschieten......huh? Archery?"
In that article it just says a British newspaper reports though. Hardly a beacon of facts if they don't name the paper.
This was the interview:
BBC
id you pull a fast one?Hindes:Yes we wanted to go fast.
Then Chinese whispers ahoy.
In the post-race press conference, Hindes denied it was deliberate when asked directly about his earlier comments.
"No. I just went out the gate and just lost control, just fell down," he said.
"My back wheel slipped and totally lost control and then I couldn't handle the bike any more and just crashed."
"No. I just went out the gate and just lost control, just fell down," he said.
"My back wheel slipped and totally lost control and then I couldn't handle the bike any more and just crashed."
Napoleonthechimp
Member
Fuck off Korey.
HoodWinked
Member
3 straight sets.
Not entirely sure on the rules, I'm no expert, but the guy on the radio said this is fairly common in cycling when there's a problem with the start and it's not strictly speaking against the rules. Gamesmanship perhaps, but not cheating - otherwise I doubt he'd have been so open about it - lol.
It's already been investigated and the powers that be said there wasn't a problem, so that's that.
- Status