Rio Olympics 2016

[amaroo]

Its a different swim team now. Lots of ego's gone or dented.

+ 1 ... IIRC the Missile turned out to be dud.

 

[Foreigner]

Nepali girl, Gaurika Singh, 13, is the youngest participant in Rio games:

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympic...e-2016-rio-olympic-games-20160804-gqlivo.html

 

[RB]

+ 1 ... IIRC the Missile turned out to be dud.

An interesting take. Olympic silver beaten by 1/100th sec & 2 world championship is hardly a dud. I think it is a given re ego/attitude needing change but still a performance record I would like to have

 

[kpc]

Anyone else getting irritated by the oh so patriotic channel 7 commentary?

 

[burmans]

Anyone else getting irritated by the oh so patriotic channel 7 commentary?

Well of course but no surprise there, jingoistic patriotism is just so popular these days!

 

[cove]

kpc if you want funny Olympics coverage you need to stream in some from the US.

 

[wazza888]

Crims targetting public in Olympic city:


https://youtu.be/c0ztLtpuwkM

My niece lost her camera and her boyfriend his iphone last year.

 

[wazza888]

Aussie's First Gold Medal:

Mack Horton - Men's 400m Freestyle!

Nice work!

Mack is now being attacked through social media by the chinese for calling their swimmer a drug cheat.

 

[amaroo]

I think it is a given re ego/attitude needing change

Yep, we're on the same page!

 

[whatmeworry]

Anyone else getting irritated by the oh so patriotic channel 7 commentary?

I love how the AFL commentary improved over the weekend.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

3rd Gold medal overnight:

Catherine Skinner - Women's Trap.

Keep it going!

 

[love_the_life]

Mack is now being attacked through social media by the chinese for calling their swimmer a drug cheat.

I thought his comment was out of line and tacky. Not the place or time. Prat material.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

I thought his comment was out of line and tacky. Not the place or time. Prat material.

It Would have been best to not say anything in regards to other competitors past convictions especially considering how this could become a massive distraction for Horton.
However the real "prats" are the faceless trolls who have their knickers in knot.

 

[love_the_life]

I'm certainly not defending the trolls in this, just the 'drug cheats' comment. It was a great swim.

 

[Warks]

Anyone else getting irritated by the oh so patriotic channel 7 commentary?

I'm trying to imagine what it would be like without it. Is there any country that wouldn't be over the top with their local team boosting? Maybe very small countries but they probably wouldn't have their own commentary team.

Probably be very boring as it would be all low-key and not the hype expected by the public.

 

[kpc]

I'm trying to imagine what it would be like without it. Is there any country that wouldn't be over the top with their local team boosting? Maybe very small countries but they probably wouldn't have their own commentary team.

Probably be very boring as it would be all low-key and not the hype expected by the public.

Well reducing the "over the top" stuff a little will help

 

[cove]

kpc send a message to NBC in the US for us as the commentators are real wankers.

 

[whatmeworry]

kpc send a message to NBC in the US for us as the commentators are real wankers.

This is how some yanks suggested to fix the problem.

 

[whatmeworry]

So many sports going on, but channel 7 thinks they should waste 4 odd hours each morning with their banal morning show, instead of showing actual sports.

*facepalm

 

[Pushka]

There isn't much happening at this time. Its always quiet until the evening programme kicks in and day things are finished. If nothing much happened during the day then nothing to report.