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[Jim Ohara]

I was watching female weightlifting yesterday and this little 19 year old from Kazakhstan won the gold by lifting over 280 lbs. It was wonderful to see her team react - I half expected Borat to come running in and start dancing.

Also, men's water polo is uncomfortable to watch. Every time they huddle the players stand around the coach on the side of the pool while he leans down to talk to the players in the water. Meaning you get a screen full of gentleman parts. And it seems that none of the players can stop touching themselves while on camera.

[Arjan Dirkse]

I like the Judo matches, but the way these people get smacked against the mat, I'm scared as hell someone is going to get hurt.

[Don Lerch]

I was watching female weightlifting yesterday and this little 19 year old from Kazakhstan won the gold by lifting over 280 lbs. It was wonderful to see her team react - I half expected Borat to come running in and start dancing.

Also, men's water polo is uncomfortable to watch. Every time they huddle the players stand around the coach on the side of the pool while he leans down to talk to the players in the water. Meaning you get a screen full of gentleman parts. And it seems that none of the players can stop touching themselves while on camera.

Admit it! you watch it hoping for those timeouts

[craggy]

saw the end of one of the boxing matches last night, and wasn't impressed. there were more lock-ups than the average wrestling match.

[brucegray666]

Olympic boxing is different from normal boxing isn't it? Isn't it more about landing punches than actually knocking your opponent on his arse?

[Martin Smith]

Admit it! you watch it hoping for those timeouts

I watched some women's beach volleyball purely for the prolonged, groping hugs between the players*. I half-expected them to start making out when they won.

*not really. I put it on becuase it's a nice simplified alternative to proper volleyball. The hugging is a bonus.

[garjones]

Olympic boxing is different from normal boxing isn't it? Isn't it more about landing punches than actually knocking your opponent on his arse?

Yes they have head guards and only 3 rounds so they count the punches that land and the one with the most wins.

[craggy]

it's a bit difficult to punch someone when you're hugging him though.

[garjones]

it's a bit difficult to punch someone when you're hugging him though.

Correct but it helps in not being punched by him too.

[John Mosby]

I haven't gone back through the whole thread, but did anyone read today's Daily Mail coverage of the Olympics?

"We got our first medal, courtesy of cyclist Lizzie Armitstead. What an utter darling. According to commentators, she had ‘fresh legs in good shape’, which she used to batter heroically through a torrential rainstorm, only to come second to some bitch from Holland."

Seriously??????????

[Chris Fenton]

Sounds like the Daily Mail's coverage of everything ever.

[garjones]

I haven't gone back through the whole thread, but did anyone read today's Daily Mail coverage of the Olympics?

"We got our first medal, courtesy of cyclist Lizzie Armitstead. What an utter darling. According to commentators, she had ‘fresh legs in good shape’, which she used to batter heroically through a torrential rainstorm, only to come second to some bitch from Holland."

Did you see the earlier link to the opening ceremony coverage where they doubted an 'educated' white woman could have a successful marriage to a black man (as seen in the music montage)? It's the most fucking horrible newspaper.

My apologies to the Dutch, it's an appalling shitrag.

[Steve Sensible]

Far be it from me to leap the Mail's defence, but this wasn't part of their sports coverage of the Olympics, but in a column by Jan Moir, whose job is to be a professional bitch. It's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek look at the coverage of the Olympics, in which she also makes such snide comments as Sharron Davis "swimming in botox."

Whether you like her style or not, I think to present it as part of their "coverage of the Olympics" is the kind of misleading tactic that the Mail themselves use.

[John Mosby]

Actually the 'bitches' quote is from page 6 of today's edition.

Though it comes under the Moir byline and picture, this isn't the usual double-page spread regular snarkfest she usually gets... it's presented in the very heart of their Olympic coverage, so they can't have it both ways.


And, yeah, the mixed-race quote is also highly disturbing. It goes beyond skewing facts a la their regular selective reporting, to all-out racism.

[garjones]

On a more pleasant note we got silver in gymnastics, we've always been crap at that. Well done boys.

[Ian Smith]

On a more pleasant note we got silver in gymnastics, we've always been crap at that. Well done boys.

Well it was a bronze then it was a silver, and now its back to a bronze again.

[garjones]

Now a bronze after a dispute from Japan, I have a feeling this one will run and run. Ukraine pissed off.

The bronze is still great though, reading we were ranked 29th 8 years ago.

[Christian U]

I will say this, women's water polo isstrangely compelling. Shame the Russians won, I was rooting for the British.

[Chris Fenton]

I have managed to miss all of the water polo so far. It's hard to believe looking at me now that I used to play it...

Gutted for the Ukranian gymnasts but I can see why the Japanese team issued an inquiry as the athlete did manage to turn that fall into a dismount.

Edited by Chris Fenton, 30 July 2012 - 06:30 PM.

[Steve Sensible]