[Durham Giant]

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:37 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Don't know a lot about Judo, but this one pleased me, I like the ones who are deemed 'not medal' prospects coming good. Nice to see her telling her mam she loved her as well.

fOR THE SAME REASON I WAS PLEASED FOR KARINA BRYANT WHO GOT A BRONZE.

had very little funding and does not have the looks of Ennis but desrved her medal a really gutsy performance.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:56 pm  

Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford, Mo Farah, three gold medals. We Salute You. We are not worthy

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:06 pm  

Super Saturday ....well done to all our medalists

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:19 pm  

Tonight's olympics were almost as good as Grand Final night

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:21 pm  

Brilliant on the track. As usual our footballers, paid millions, make a complete fool of themselves. Penalties are a simple technical element of the sport and we simply cannot do them.

The Korean penalties were perfection, utter perfection. It's not hard. If you are a pro footballer and you can't stroke a ball into the corner of the net from that range you should practice more. Sturridge's penalty was a joke, why the stutter? If you are going to mess about at least strike the ball well. A scuffed side foot? Utterly ridiculous from a guy no doubt paid more per week than more are in a year.

Perhaps as well as reducing the number of kids that can play football at junior level, we should also make it compulsory to have 1/2 of football training from age 6 upwards penalty practice?

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:43 pm  

When you look at the cycling, rowing and athletics teams (so far) in comparison to the swimming team then you have to ask questions of the management of the swimming team IMHO.
We haven't really looked anywhere near the best in the world.
Hell even judo which had its funding withdrawn have given us a silver and bronze.
I'll not mention the football as it isn't really a suprise.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:55 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

check out Catherine Copeland in the womens lightweight rowing pairs.

Her face is a picture when they win she is just in shock. The interview with her is really funny as well. I loved it when she thanked her coach at Yarm Rowing club becuase, " i was rubbish when i joined it".

I laughed when I saw the mouthing of 'we are going to be on a stamp'

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:59 pm  

Not been so proud in a long long time.

Fantastic.

3rd in the medals table, we are only a small island (s), to be where we are is phenominal.

What makes it better is look how the aussies are doing. Big pile of helpful.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:01 pm  

Three gold medal winners tonight.

One white, one coffee, one black.

One nation. All Brits.

All fantastic.

All heroes.

That is what matters.

Three superb winners. So proud to be a Brit tonight. So proud of our fantastic athletes. They bow to no-one. We bow to THEM.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:01 pm  

Wow, what a great night of sport that was.......certainly made the hairs on my neck stand up .....Well done to each and everyone of the medal winners so far.............Love the sight of thousands of Union Flags waving high !