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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 21:48:19 GMT
Hockey girls... You did it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 21:54:51 GMT
Perhaps I'm noticing this because we are winning so much but... there seem to be some sour faced/ rude losers out there. I'm looking at you Dutch hockey girls (not to mention the silver and bronze medalists behind Max Whitlock a couple of days back...)
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Post by d'James on Aug 19, 2016 22:01:59 GMT
Perhaps I'm noticing this because we are winning so much but... there seem to be some sour faced/ rude losers out there. I'm looking at you Dutch hockey girls (not to mention the silver and bronze medalists behind Max Whitlock a couple of days back...) Did they not shake hands or something? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 22:18:14 GMT
Dutch side huddled together in Jesus Christ Superstar type formation for what seemed like eternity, when to shake hands with the winners might have been more the ticket. The Brazilian silver and bronze guys wanted to pose alone for photographs without the GB winner with them. Seemed like poor form to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 5:27:52 GMT
Sometimes it's not the athletes at fault. After the women's balance beam final a nonplussed gold-winning Sanne Wevers was partially ignored so the press could get pictures of the USA's Lauren Hernandez and Simone Biles together without an inconvenient Dutch woman between them.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 20, 2016 6:12:28 GMT
Just like four years ago this Olympics has been so inspirimg and uplifting.  ...and touching wood more to come over the next two days. Come on GB. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 7:05:17 GMT
Do we stay up until the early hours to watch Mo or not? That is the question... (Scheduled for 1.30am)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 8:05:44 GMT
I'd like to stay up but I don't think I could do it.
I don't know if the redistribution licence would allow it, but I wish the BBC would follow up the Olympics with time-shifted coverage of all the events that they didn't cover properly at the time or that were at inconvenient hours for most people, or at least every non-qualifier round. I don't care that I already know the result. I just want to enjoy the atmosphere of all the pre-event speculation, the mid-event commentary and the post-event discussion. A website clip showing the highlights just doesn't cut it.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 20, 2016 11:11:18 GMT
Oh my gosh how heartbreaking was Lutolo Mohammed's post silver medal interview in the Taekwondo, I was in floods of tears with him.
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Post by Flim Flam on Aug 20, 2016 11:18:47 GMT
Oh my gosh how heartbreaking was Lutolo Mohammed's post silver medal interview in the Taekwondo, I was in floods of tears with him. That poor man. He will be reliving it endlessly and wishing he had just stepped back and kept his distance from his opponent for that last second. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 20, 2016 14:23:27 GMT
I'd like to stay up but I don't think I could do it. I don't know if the redistribution licence would allow it, but I wish the BBC would follow up the Olympics with time-shifted coverage of all the events that they didn't cover properly at the time or that were at inconvenient hours for most people, or at least every non-qualifier round. I don't care that I already know the result. I just want to enjoy the atmosphere of all the pre-event speculation, the mid-event commentary and the post-event discussion. A website clip showing the highlights just doesn't cut it. Most stuff is on catch up from the BBC sport app. I caught up the synchronised swim and some rhythmic gym gals. I think some of it isn't BBC actually because the voices are Australian or the commentary is poor.. So you don't get the hype but you do get the whole thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 16:45:43 GMT
I am in tears.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 21, 2016 0:03:16 GMT
Are you finding these Olympic Games are the Cold War being pays out, but without weapons?
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Post by danb on Aug 21, 2016 6:22:14 GMT
I'd like to stay up but I don't think I could do it. I don't know if the redistribution licence would allow it, but I wish the BBC would follow up the Olympics with time-shifted coverage of all the events that they didn't cover properly at the time or that were at inconvenient hours for most people, or at least every non-qualifier round. I don't care that I already know the result. I just want to enjoy the atmosphere of all the pre-event speculation, the mid-event commentary and the post-event discussion. A website clip showing the highlights just doesn't cut it. That is exactly what Olympic Breakfast is on the BBC The Matthew. |
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 21, 2016 6:43:41 GMT
Wow 66 medals !!! and I was so pleased Bianca Walkden won her bronze medal match in the Taekwondo she looked so disappointed when she lost her semi final. Golden times. |
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Post by Sue on Aug 21, 2016 9:58:55 GMT
There's no offside in hockey! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 10:47:06 GMT
Just catching up with last night's excitement... Well done to all the Team GBers who have once again done us proud. Watching the medal ceremony for the women's 400m relay, and can't quite believe how empty that stadium is. What happened there?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 11:04:49 GMT
Just catching up with last night's excitement... Well done to all the Team GBers who have once again done us proud. Watching the medal ceremony for the women's 400m relay, and can't quite believe how empty that stadium is. What happened there? I think with many of the events ordinary Brazilians were just priced out of attending. A great shame not to have that 'home crowd' feeling for their own athletes and of course for everyone else competing as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 11:21:41 GMT
Just catching up with last night's excitement... Well done to all the Team GBers who have once again done us proud. Watching the medal ceremony for the women's 400m relay, and can't quite believe how empty that stadium is. What happened there? Ceremonies were the backlog for the final events, so the athletics had finished an hour or so before. Only the fans of the particular athletes will have stayed behind. Partly this is also because they started the athletics so late in the evenings (those ceremonies were just before midnight Rio time). |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 21, 2016 17:19:36 GMT
There's no offside in hockey! Thought I might get one into the fishing net with that |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 17:52:04 GMT
I'm so proud to be British. Team GB have done absolutely amazing and come 2nd. Just think how big USA is compared to us - we've done incredible!
I'm very patriotic and have always been proud to be British!
I never usually like watching Sport but the Olympics is what I love to watch! Love it! I find it much more interesting than football events e.g. Euros
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 19:28:19 GMT
Clare Balding has just been saying that one advantage of the timezone difference is that with the most popular sports such as the track events being pushed into our early morning the "minority sports" have been given a chance to shine. I wish more was made of the lower-profile sports in the UK, because although they are sometimes shown on TV more often than every four years they're given so little promotion that unless you're a dedicated fan of all sports it's all too easy to miss them, buried as they are under hundreds of hours of football, cricket, golf and tennis.
So, with the last event coming to a close, we now have seventeen days to wait until the Paralympics, and then four years during which most people will forget that all these wonderful sports exist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 19:30:46 GMT
Talking of Clare Balding... She has been a complete star with her professionalism in presenting the Games to us. Champagne for Clare!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 19:40:59 GMT
I can't actually remember an Olympics without her, though it turns out she's only been presenting it on TV since 2000. It wouldn't seem like the Olympics if she wasn't presenting it.
Relatedly, it was strange to have gymnastics without the late Mitch Fenner.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 20:45:23 GMT
Relatedly, it was strange to have gymnastics without the late Mitch Fenner. Would've been much stranger with. |
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