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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|

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TV switched to Horse Jumping. They said Canada is using young horses and mentioned that one is only 9. How do they find jump horses? The racing horses peak at 3 years right? Once the race horses are finished with their careers the good ones stud. Do the so so ones move on to jumping or no? Do they just take young horses and work them for 10 years in order to do jumping?
 
Wes said:
Sucks that all the paper sites are covering Ennis and Farah more than they're giving to Rutherford. What he did was equally, if not more, impressive because he wasn't a favourite!
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There was pretty much no favourite, as it was a really weak event this year.
 
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mclem said:
One hour every day? That would have *killed* me!
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Yeah, I hated most sports but some of them I would've loved. However, I was never given a chance to try them. We need a more comprehensive program to find the right people for each sport, not just in some East German style physical assessment but making sure the kids enjoy it enough to stick with it.
 
The_Hitcher89 said:
Any Brits here who still can't bring themselves to wanting Murray to win? I hope he smashes the fuck out of Federer, as much as I admire him. I'm addicted to Gold
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By the way the British public acts about Andy Murray, you'd think he was involved in some huge scandal before. As far as I'm aware, his worst crime is not smiling 24/7 and wanting to be known as Scottish before British.


killer_clank said:
Stay classy, The Sun.
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But Thorpe Park!
 
Sviatoslav said:
There was pretty much no favourite, as it was a really weak event this year.
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Definitely agree. I said as much as the competition was taking place. Just trying to say his achievement was great because he wasn't expected to get Gold coming in to the games where as Ennis and Farah were.
 
At this point I'm willing to entertain the idea that the entire Australian team are intentionally losing in order to get more funding.

Lol :(
 
EdibleExplosives said:
By the way the British public acts about Andy Murray, you'd think he was involved in some huge scandal before. As far as I'm aware, his worst crime is not smiling 24/7 and wanting to be known as Scottish before British.
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I thought everyone forgave him when he cried and went on Mock the Week?
 
EdibleExplosives said:
By the way the British public acts about Andy Murray, you'd think he was involved in some huge scandal before. As far as I'm aware, his worst crime is not smiling 24/7 and wanting to be known as Scottish before British.




But Thorpe Park!
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I don't think it's the British public, I couldn't care less if he smiles or not it's our shitty press.
 
Wes said:
Definitely agree. I said as much as the competition was taking place. Just trying to say his achievement was great because he wasn't expected to get Gold coming in to the games where as Ennis and Farah were.
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The farthest jumps of the day were by the Russian long jumper, Menkov. He was jumping really far, I'd say about 8.40-8.50 but they were faults. Then he tried playing it safe to make the final 8 and ended up taking off 40cm before the board and just missed out.
 
Big-E said:
TV switched to Horse Jumping. They said Canada is using young horses and mentioned that one is only 9. How do they find jump horses? The racing horses peak at 3 years right? Once the race horses are finished with their careers the good ones stud. Do the so so ones move on to jumping or no? Do they just take young horses and work them for 10 years in order to do jumping?
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I'm no expert but i think most of the horses are specifically bread (just like race horses). It's the same in dressage, e.g. all of the German dressage horses have the same grandfather (Donnerhall). Usually these horses are trained by special coaches and if they show any talent during low profile / training competitions they are sold / handed over to the "elite" riders. In show jumping Germany is using a 9 year old horse too and the TV commentator said that these young horses simply lack the experience and thus are more likely to get intimidated by the event.
 
Sviatoslav said:
The farthest jumps of the day were by the Russian long jumper, Menkov. He was jumping really far, I'd say about 8.40-8.50 but they were faults. Then he tried playing it safe to make the final 8 and ended up taking off 40cm before the board and just missed out.
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Faults are faults, unfortunately there's no getting around that.

mclem said:
Phelps just praised British food. He *must* be doping.
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Where did he say that?
 
EdibleExplosives said:
The press is definitely the worst for it, but I've seen plenty of British people on here and on other websites rooting for whoever he's playing against.
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For years he came across as a miserable, lanky streak of piss. if he's mellowed out now i don't care and don't wanna know.

I'm not interested in tennis so that helps too i guess.
 
How quickly the Brits went from "Who cares about how many medals your country won, the Olympics are about watching great athletes" to "OMG LOOK HOW MANY MEDALS WE WON!! GB! GB! GB! TODAYS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF GB!!"
 
weekend_warrior said:
How quickly the Brits went from "Who cares about how many medals your country won, the Olympics are about watching great athletes" to "OMG LOOK HOW MANY MEDALS WE WON!! GB! GB! GB! TODAYS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF GB!!"
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What did you expect?

Also, most of us were complaining about the lack of medals at the start of the games.
 
weekend_warrior said:
How quickly the Brits went from "Who cares about how many medals your country won, the Olympics are about watching great athletes" to "OMG LOOK HOW MANY MEDALS WE WON!! GB! GB! GB! TODAYS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF GB!!"
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Well we broke records today. It was always going to be like that on the front of our pages. Especially when our two 'poster' athletes came through and succeeded.

It should still be about individual/team achievement IMO. I'm a lot more reserved than most when it comes to the olympics.
 
EdibleExplosives said:
The press is definitely the worst for it, but I've seen plenty of British people on here and on other websites rooting for whoever he's playing against.
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Actually thinking back I think some people are still upset from when he said something about cheering for anyone but England in the World Cup, he said he was just joking but to be fair he's Scottish of course he would cheer against England just like most English people would cheer against Scotland in football.
 
weekend_warrior said:
How quickly the Brits went from "Who cares about how many medals your country won, the Olympics are about watching great athletes" to "OMG LOOK HOW MANY MEDALS WE WON!! GB! GB! GB! TODAYS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF GB!!"
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Not all of us do care about it, but it certainly is an usual and extremely rare event (first time in 100 years) for Britain to get that many medals in one day so you'll have to forgive some of us if we get a bit crazy.

mclem said:
A clip on Olympics Tonight of him being interviewed by Sharron Davies after his final race. I'll try to iplayer and transcribe it
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That's okay. I'm watching that show now.
 
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