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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|

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mclem said:
Well, it rather depends on how the others do. 2:05 will give her 7000 points, which is at least a static (and awesome!) goal.

Using the predicted performances from that earlier website for everyone else, and a bit of napkin maths, would suggest that if everyone else equals their best recent performance, Ennis would need about 2:34 or better to win.



Maybe not the ticketing section... even if it has been good for me.
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Ennis' slowest 800m is 2:10s-ish

her quickest is 2:07

in the bag then
 
Great picture I saw on twitter:

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That little scene kind of brings up the question of why bother with the little skirt if you're just wearing shorts underneath anyway.
 
Ark said:
Why on Earth you would ever admit to deliberately crashing is way beyond me. Seriously.
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I don't know. What's funny are all the English people trying to downplay this while at the same time continue to accuse that Chinese swimmer of doping as well as the Badminton scandal.

Here's a new article:

Tactical cycling crash compared to doping

Australian Olympic track bronze medallist Kaarle McCulloch says deliberately crashing out of a cycling event to secure a re-start is on par with doping.

The 24-year old who won bronze in the women's team sprint on Thursday with teammate Anna Meares says the action of British cyclist Philip Hindes - who admitted deliberately crashing for tactical reasons during qualifying for the men's team sprint - was unethical.

"Of course it is," she said during an Australian team media conference on Friday.

"You don't want to see anybody gain an advantage over doing something like that. It's like doping. You assume everybody that you go up against is fair and they wouldn't go to those extremes."

Despite German-born Hindes' admission trackside post race that "I did it on purpose to get a restart", British cycling say the cyclist was misunderstood - because English is his second language.

With teammates Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, the 19-year old went on to secure gold in the event ahead of France.

"I can't imagine that Phillip would have done that on purpose," McCulloch said of the crash which she witnessed at the Olympic velodrome.

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Afterwards he told reporters: "We were saying if we had 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."

The International Cycling Union (ICU) confirmed the result was legitimate, and French coach Florian Rousseau accepted the result but said Hindes' ploy was a poor example of Olympic spirit.

"There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success," he said.

"However, I do think the rules need to be more precise so we don't find ourselves in an identical situation at another Olympic Games. The fact that he (Hindes) did it on purpose is not very good for the image of cycling. We must reflect on how we can adapt the rules so that does not happen again in future."
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With the vague goal TeamGB outlined at the start to be fourth on the medal table, who were the three that were expected to be above us? China and US are obvious, was the third Russia?
 
Korey said:
I don't know. What's funny are all the English people trying to downplay this while at the same time continue to accuse that Chinese swimmer of doping as well as the Badminton scandal.
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Let's break this down:

1) Stop saying English, say British or UK
2) We didn't accuse the Chinese swimmer of doping. The BOA criticised the American coach for saying it. Also, you have a 15 y.o. winning the 800m freestyle that is significantly more worthy of note than Yi Shewen.
3) French coach: "There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success"
4) I can't believe I'm responding to you
 
So "There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success," said French coach Florian Rousseau, their opponent.

Thanks for clearing that up.
 
danwarb said:
So "There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success," said French coach Florian Rousseau, their opponent.

Thanks for clearing that up.
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Can we please stop going on about this. It is brought up multiple times a day every day since it happened by the same people.
 
Meadows said:
Let's break this down:

1) Stop saying English, say British or UK
2) We didn't accuse the Chinese swimmer of doping. The BOA criticised the American coach for saying it. Also, you have a 15 y.o. winning the 800m freestyle that is significantly more worthy of note than Yi Shewen.
3) French coach: "There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success"
4) I can't believe I'm responding to you
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I like how you left out the rest of the French coach's quote:

"However, I do think the rules need to be more precise so we don't find ourselves in an identical situation at another Olympic Games. The fact that he (Hindes) did it on purpose is not very good for the image of cycling. We must reflect on how we can adapt the rules so that does not happen again in future."

Nobody is accusing him of cheating, but rather unsportsmanlike conduct. Exactly the same as the Badminton players, who all got DQ'd by the way.
 
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