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« Reply #780 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 21:12:05 » |
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Bloody good diving competition that. 3 divers separated by .15 going into the final round. Unfortunately for Daley he'd used his high tariff dives up, whereas the other two hadn't. But a bronze is still bloody good.
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« Reply #781 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 21:17:58 » |
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It's nearly over and I have to say the Olympics are fucking great, especially when you are winning medals regularly.
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« Reply #782 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 21:25:32 » |
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It's nearly over and I have to say the Olympics are fucking great, especially when you are winning medals regularly.
Its been a couple of good weeks, and I've all the events, and got to watch some sports that I wouldn't normally watch like handball, waterpolo and of course the beach volleyball. |
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« Reply #783 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 21:25:56 » |
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Don't rule out John terry
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« Reply #784 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 21:39:00 » |
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I know its not going to be as "big", but think I'll try for some cycling/swimming/athletic tickets for the paralympics.
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« Reply #785 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 22:08:57 » |
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Even though I think I'm a little bit in love with Mo, I think Wiggins shades it. The Tour de France win on its own would have set him up nicely. To follow it up with Gold was immense. The BBC have a proper selection headache this year. I could possibly see them bending the rules.
The presenters were talking about this last weekend. I think it was Denise Lewis who said it was about time they had a separate sportsman and sportswoman award. I wonder if they might split it out this year to recognise more of them? |
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« Reply #786 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 22:14:05 » |
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I know its not going to be as "big", but think I'll try for some cycling/swimming/athletic tickets for the paralympics.
I finally managed to get tickets for some paralympic events. Cost me an arm and a leg though! |
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« Reply #787 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 22:43:18 » |
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I know its not going to be as "big", but think I'll try for some cycling/swimming/athletic tickets for the paralympics.
2.5 million tickets were available and now sales are at 2.1 million which has beaten the previous total of 1.8m. A massive amount of tickets have been bought up in the last few days which would suggest the feel good factor is definitely working. |
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« Reply #788 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 22:47:47 » |
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Just hope the feel good factor starts creeping into the economy.
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« Reply #789 on: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 23:13:11 » |
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Following the highlights of Luke Campbell's gold in the boxing, Gaby Logan said he lost his mother and baby sister 6 years ago. Unless I'm very much mistaken his mum was pointed out in the crowd celebrating with other members of his family. Also, I read an article a few days ago where he was praising his mum for all she did for him and the hours she worked. Pretty poor to get something like that wrong.
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« Reply #790 on: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 00:04:44 » |
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Daley wins bronze in diving. First British individual medal since 1960. Hope that imbicile abusing him on twitter feels stupid now.
That would have been Brian Phelps...who recently got banged up for child sex abuse. Not to be confused with Swindon's only Olympic swimmer Brian Jenkins (Tokyo 1964)...sadly the days when Milton Road was state of the art are long gone. |
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« Reply #791 on: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 02:57:10 » |
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To be fair, I have fucking loved the olympics.
Watched so many random sports i've not seen before.
Been even better when we've been winning everything before us!
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« Reply #792 on: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 06:27:37 » |
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Following the highlights of Luke Campbell's gold in the boxing, Gaby Logan said he lost his mother and baby sister 6 years ago. Unless I'm very much mistaken his mum was pointed out in the crowd celebrating with other members of his family. Also, I read an article a few days ago where he was praising his mum for all she did for him and the hours she worked. Pretty poor to get something like that wrong.
could be a step mum? |
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« Reply #793 on: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 07:31:10 » |
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« Reply #794 on: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 09:31:13 » |
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Just noticed Ed McKeever, the gold medalist in 200m Kayak is from Wiltshire  |
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