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Post by theatremadness on Aug 14, 2016 19:40:30 GMT
This evening alone:
6.50pm Max Whitlock Gold 7.02pm Nick Dempsey Silver 7.46pm Justin Rose Gold 8.13pm Max Whitlock Gold 8.13pm Louis Smith Silver
With another 3 guaranteed medals this evening in the Men's Cycling Spring Final and the Men's Single's Tennis final - colours TBC!!!
Go Team GB!!!!!
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 14, 2016 19:45:34 GMT
..and Giles Scott just won gold in the Finn class Sailing !!!
Think I'll crack open the champagne....
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Post by lynette on Aug 14, 2016 19:58:42 GMT
Murray on now...I just don't think I can take much more!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 20:11:35 GMT
Who wants theatre when the Olympics are on? Drama... Drama... Drama...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 21:04:07 GMT
Oh what a night...
For our boys in lycra.
And girls.
Sooooo proud!
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 15, 2016 0:11:54 GMT
And after just over 4 hours of tennis... {Spoiler - click to view} Murray wins GOLD for Great Britain!!! What an incredible and almost unbearably tense match!
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2016 1:25:16 GMT
I cannot see South America holding the Olympics for a very long time, the Brazilians haven't embraced it at all and the Olympic committee go where the money is. Such a shame.
The biggest mistake London made was it undersold the tickets and didn't anticipate such a high demand.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 11:12:19 GMT
I cannot see South America holding the Olympics for a very long time, the Brazilians haven't embraced it at all and the Olympic committee go where the money is. Such a shame. The biggest mistake London made was it undersold the tickets and didn't anticipate such a high demand. Undersold? How? They were incredibly expensive. They always anticipated a high demand which is why they adopted a lottery system whereby you gave events and dates you were interested in and waited... to be told you hadn't been successful for 90% of your options. However, in the first couple of days some events weren't nearly as popular as they had thought as was evident from empty seats in the lower (i.e. more expensive) parts of some arenas. They did not move us down from the cheap seats, but they quickly realised this looked poor and filled them with volunteers etc Seats in the main stadium were going for ridiculous prices, especially for the medal events. These seats were impossible to get. I know; I tried. And tried. Without success...
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Post by Jan on Aug 15, 2016 11:21:49 GMT
The Olympics started going downhill when Town Planning as removed from the list of events.
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Post by Flim Flam on Aug 15, 2016 11:23:37 GMT
And not all the empty seats in London were unsold/corporate. I was at the beach volleyball during the first week, and chatted to a tour leader for a group of about maybe 30 people. You could see the group, as they all had the same baseball hat/backpack combo. The leader told me that they were on a tour and were only dropping in to the volleyball, before going on to a meal somewhere nearby. After about 20 minutes of watching the action the whole group left, leaving a large gap in the stands.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2016 13:41:32 GMT
I thought Londo was 100% sold out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 16:30:11 GMT
*waves dressage gold medal*
Thank you, Charlotte!
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Post by viserys on Aug 15, 2016 16:34:54 GMT
*waves silver and bronze back* Congrats though
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 16:38:33 GMT
OMG! We're waving our hammer for a bronze too! Keep 'em coming...!
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 15, 2016 17:04:43 GMT
Synchronised swimming. I've never understood why people have been so dismissive of this sport, given that it's basically underwater gymnastics.
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Post by lynette on Aug 15, 2016 17:39:00 GMT
I seem to remember the basic tix were £20 each which was fine. What I saw was ok. The synchronised swimming I saw was more expensive. I would have paid more if I could have got tix. I'm really surprised there are so many empty seats in Rio. Let's see what the paras bring. The para olympics was London's triumph. People bought tix to see the sport and to get into the venues, get the vibe as it was so well presented on the telly.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 18:29:23 GMT
The Opening Ceremony was more expensive! So it didn't sell out.
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 15, 2016 19:17:43 GMT
^ I can't stand the tension of watching that. Keep worrying that if one of the team drowns, the whole lot have to... In the synchronised swimming commentary they said that one of the competitors nearly drowned when she was six (IIRC), so her parents made sure she could swim and now she's at the Olympics. That's one effective way of conquering a fear of water. Currently hoping that Sanne Wevers gets gold in the artistic gymnastics beam final. ... Yes! First female artistic gymnast to get a medal for the Netherlands, and it's a gold one.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2016 20:31:12 GMT
Wasn't nice and very romantic, to see Qin Kai propose to his girlfriend He Zi. Both are in the Chinesse diving team.
Now that she has said yes, I wonder if he will now take up a different style of diving?
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 15, 2016 20:42:56 GMT
The Omnium, aka "How to make a hexathlon out of six different ways of cycling in circles".
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 16, 2016 6:21:31 GMT
I am so pleased for Charlotte Dujardin, what a stunning performance
.. and what an excellent diversity of sports our medals are coming from yesterday : Dressage, Track cycling and Women's Hammer
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 16, 2016 12:10:31 GMT
I cannot see why we are getting all excited over Hitchon bronze in the hammer, if Ms Trunchball we surely would've got gold?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 19:49:51 GMT
Laura Trott wins gold tonight and she becomes the greatest British female athlete ever. Well at least second best behind Jayne Torville
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2016 20:04:28 GMT
Credit due to that teenager Amy Tinkler, not fazed by the elite company. Roll on Tokyo.
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 16, 2016 20:29:03 GMT
Laura Trott's doing very well in the points race.
Overall Britain is second in the medal table. I remember when we were pleased to pick up enough medals to justify putting an s on the end of it. (Yes, that's an exaggeration, but not much of one.)
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 16, 2016 20:37:27 GMT
I cannot see why we are getting all excited over Hitchon bronze in the hammer, if Ms Trunchball we surely would've got gold? Well Ms Trunchball was English Hammer Throwing Champion 1969, so who's to say that she would hold up against the rest of the world!
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 16, 2016 20:43:00 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching...
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 20:44:21 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching... Answered your own question fella
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 20:45:20 GMT
Laura Trott wins gold tonight and she becomes the greatest British female athlete ever. Well at least second best behind Jayne Torville Wow, 24 years old. Yep she's the greatest
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 16, 2016 21:14:02 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching... Answered your own question fella Not quite. When the lappers have just caught up and are at the back of a single group it's easy, but when some riders have gone through the pack and are ahead of the rest where is the start then? What about when they're ⅔ of the way round on their second lap? What if the cyclists are split into several groups? I tracked down some official rules ( here, if anyone wants to read them) and I get the impression that the race officials decide on the fly by indicating the "front" at the start of what they consider to be the largest pack, but I'd rather see it written down as an explicit rule. Only another four years until I can check my guess.
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