Olympics Thread
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Immenso Rapido" data-cid="605696" data-time="1471304588"><p>
Bahrain, Qatar.<br><br>
Jamaican sprinters (which is new) and African distance runners (which is a decade or so old trend).<br><br>
It's weird, I don't get it,<br><br>
If you have all the money in the world, why would you want to spend that money highlighting to the world on the biggest stage that you are so crap, and so unprincipled? <br><br>
Maybe I'm not the target audience?<br><br>
Same I don't get the Qatar World Cup bid. Why are you showing the world you're country is so undesirable that you have to bribe the fuck out of the most corrupt global sporting organisation? And then expose how you treat your guest workers. <br><br>
Why would you pay billions for that? Because all it highlights to me is the not good stuff.</p></blockquote>It's all ego, if they can buy it then they want it -
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<p>Women's steeplechase. Colleen Quigley.</p>
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<p>#today's Olympics eye-candy</p>
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<p>Anyone who gives up a modelling career to compete is going to be a medallist in the eye-candy event. Particularly if they can look like this while competing:</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="605718" data-time="1471309691">
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<p>So I've just seen Cavendish footage of him basically diving into the pack from a high point on the velodrome track.</p>
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<p>How the fuck is he not just DQ'd automatically? That was fucking bullshit.</p>
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<p>That's Mark Cavendish for you, has always been a selfish arsehole</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Unco" data-cid="605699" data-time="1471304972"><p>
Cheers Higgins and booboo. I tried looking on the official Rio site as it was useless.</p></blockquote>
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Yep. Was/is shit. Hence i googled deeper and found the World sailing site. -
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Anyone who gives up a modelling career to compete is going to be a medallist in the eye-candy event. Particularly if they can look like this while competing:<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/lDLenZGl.jpg" alt="lDLenZGl.jpg"></p></blockquote>She's bound to get a fair amount of interest in the village from the men and some ladies -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83205629/Rio-Olympics-2016-Diver-threw-teammate-out-of-room-for-marathon-sex-session'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83205629/Rio-Olympics-2016-Diver-threw-teammate-out-of-room-for-marathon-sex-session</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="RoninWC" data-cid="605752" data-time="1471316141">
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<p>The Frenchman passed after two misses at 6.03 and went for it at 6.08 and misses.<br>
The Brazilian who cleared on his 2nd attempt at 6.03 wins Gold!</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the winning vault live in NZ, as Sky Sport NZ (not the host broadcaster, and I'd love to see Sky Sport try and pin it on them) decided to roll in a post-race IV with the women's 400m winner, simply because their own Andrew Mulligan had convinced her to stop for a chat. They had snuck in an IV with Alison Felix a few minutes earlier, but that was a close-run thing.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="sparky" data-cid="605655" data-time="1471282214"><p>
Fantastic win for the Black Sticks over Australia.<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83203535/rio-olympics-2016-black-sticks-women-to-play-for-medal-after-australia-upset">http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83203535/rio-olympics-2016-black-sticks-women-to-play-for-medal-after-australia-upset</a></p></blockquote>I would to see the girls beat the Brits to avenge their fourth place loss to them in 2012. Then anything can happen in the final. They seem to be on a mission rather than being just happy to be there this time -
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<p>I would to see the girls beat the Brits to avenge their fourth place loss to them in 2012. Then anything can happen in the final. They seem to be on a mission rather than being just happy to be there this time</p>
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<p>Yep - would be gutting to see them miss a medal again and I think it might well be easier to beat the Brits to make the gold medal match and ensure at least silver, than to beat (most likely) the Germans (or the Dutch!) in the bronze match.</p> -
<p>How bad was Kieth Quinn commentating the mens pole vault. And I thought he was bad enough taking rubbish during rugby 7's...</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the winning vault live in NZ, as Sky Sport NZ (not the host broadcaster, and I'd love to see Sky Sport try and pin it on them) decided to roll in a post-race IV with the women's 400m winner, simply because their own Andrew Mulligan had convinced her to stop for a chat. They had snuck in an IV with Alison Felix a few minutes earlier, but that was a close-run thing.</p>
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<p>I actually saw the winning vault live. There were two athletics pop-up channels, one showing the 400m and other distances, the other showing the pole vault final. I only found out by accident when I decided to change channels because the constant switching from one athletic discipline to the other started to annoy me.</p> -
<p>Awesome effort by the chick sticks, as someone else said, they look like they've grown some steel this time. But the real test will be GB, if they can overcome that mental block, the gold is there for the taking.</p>
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<p>Lisa darling, no pressure, but we really need a solid gold boost up that medal table (and not the per capita one).</p>
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<p>The bloke sticks were stars, then four minutes of fucking embarrassment. That was a Barker-esque choke.</p>
