London Olympics 2012

[Stavros]

True...but the way she took the ball and scored from a tight angle was top rate. It is obviously a difference class of football, but once you allow for what look like silly errors and wild misjudgements in passing, the flow of the game and the occasional moments of skill are entertaining.

[SammiValentine]

True...but the way she took the ball and scored from a tight angle was top rate. It is obviously a difference class of football, but once you allow for what look like silly errors and wild misjudgements in passing, the flow of the game and the occasional moments of skill are entertaining.

i dont disagree for a second. Goalkeeping lets it down generally, except the japenese goalie i saw once she had mad skillz !

[rodinuk]

I likee the fencing - the presentation has really made it come into life with the TRON-style pistes lit in different colours and indicating the hits as well as the combatants' helmets although they remind of the bluebottles.

The archery is good too.

[Ben]

Too funny...

[Stavros]

Sorry Ben, it isn't funny. The badminton federation changed the way the tournament is organised and by introducing a round robin after the first heats they messed up the usual knockout route to the finals thereby forcing teams to use tactics, like deliberately losing, to try and get through to the decisive games. The problem is it can't be done without making a mockery of the sport. In addition, if say a man and his wife and two children have travelled from somewhere in the UK to stay in a hotel in London to see some events, the cost is going to be somewhere near £2,000 or more (and considerably more for foreign visitors) -even if people accept that early rounds in events will not produce medals, to pay that much money to see world class players hitting a the net with feeble throws -no, its absurd.

In the meantime, Bradley Wiggins has added a gold medal to his stunning performance in the Tour de France. I don't know what he eats when in competition, but I would think he must be looking forward to some time off and a juicy steak...

[Prospero]

One of the two young women who won the rowing yesterday and gained the UK two gold medals is an officer in the army - and is likely to go to Helmand Province in September to rejoin her unit. Remarkable young woman.

[rodinuk]

Another rowing gold, yippee!!

Track & Field events now underway in the soggy London weather and real sabre rattling in the Fencing.

[fred41]

Kid's awesome...and so are her team mates.


Flying Squirrel!!!...spectacular.

[fred41]

Big kiss to London for these Olympics...muahh!

[rodinuk]

When's the Rollerball event on?



I want a cool Derny bike like they use in the Kierin cycling event: