Ah some googling has told me that Freeview is limited to 3-4
You need Sky/Virgin for the 24 stream thing

Guess I'm gonna have to watch on my comp then

Cheers guys though

dafunk

France521 Posts

July 29 2012 20:30 GMT

#2042

On July 30 2012 05:26 KOFgokuon wrote:
Wow that French swimmer split a 46.7, that's by far the fastest in the field. Lochte swam a 47.7, grevers swam a 47.6 in the prelims but had just swam in the prelims for the 100 back so he might not have been the best choice to make anyways. oh well, that's sports for you

Yannick Agnel : 46.66

This guy can win 100m and 200m. It would be so incredible.

On July 30 2012 05:28 LaNague wrote:
french relay does this on a regular basis at important events, thats why i love to watch them in those so much.

Yup. We were 2nd in 2008 and should have won because we were so ahead at one point...

PS : AUX ARMES CITOYENS !

Otolia

France5805 Posts

July 29 2012 20:53 GMT

#2043

It makes me laugh how people think the others americans could swim faster than Lochte.

Heats :
Jimmy Feigen (48.49)
Matt Grevers (47.59)
Ricky Berens (48.52)
Jason Lezak (48.04)

Finals :
Nathan Adrian (47.89)
Michael Phelps (47.15)
Cullen Jones (47.60)
Ryan Lochte (47.74)

Only Grevers swam faster but he had a finals moments before. So it was the US best 4 and they lost.

Edit : And Yannick Agnel beat the world record of Cielo too (not valid because it's not individual) and is the second best time in the Olympics behind Jezak with suit, the man who grabbed the title for USA in Beijing.

Trok67

France384 Posts

July 29 2012 20:59 GMT

#2044

Agnel was just too good ! I have nothing against USA but it feels really good to beat them with their 154253565 gold medals and to get our revenge from beijyng 4x100 where they beat us

Derrida

2885 Posts

July 29 2012 21:04 GMT

#2045

sorry if this was posted

Raidern

Brazil3811 Posts

July 29 2012 22:06 GMT

#2046

On July 30 2012 05:53 Otolia wrote:
It makes me laugh how people think the others americans could swim faster than Lochte.

Heats :
Jimmy Feigen (48.49)
Matt Grevers (47.59)
Ricky Berens (48.52)
Jason Lezak (48.04)

Finals :
Nathan Adrian (47.89)
Michael Phelps (47.15)
Cullen Jones (47.60)
Ryan Lochte (47.74)

Only Grevers swam faster but he had a finals moments before. So it was the US best 4 and they lost.

Edit : And Yannick Agnel beat the world record of Cielo too (not valid because it's not individual) and is the second best time in the Olympics behind Jezak with suit, the man who grabbed the title for USA in Beijing.

It's not because it's not invidual. It's not valid because the reaction time is shorter, since you can see your partner coming. If the 1st swimmer in the relay beats the world record, it's valid. That's why Magnussen opened the relay for Australia. That makes me even more surprised at his time, because he went for the record and swam pretty bad (for his standards)

edit: but damn Agnel was fantastic. That was just as good as Lezak in 2008, as he also swam under 47'00.
edit2: I just checked on google and Lezak's time was 46'06 at that relay, that's just mind blowing. It's the fastest 100m split of all time, even if you add some tenths of a second for the reaction time.

sharkie

Austria18429 Posts

July 30 2012 03:14 GMT

#2047

Lochte showing he only performs 100% when its for himself.

Phelps >>> Lochte

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

July 30 2012 03:37 GMT

#2048

Haha I bet the Americans weren't that upset taking silver considering they thought they were going to get clobbered by Australia even more than France. What happened to the Aussies... They were probably happy that there was an exciting ending otherwise it would just be about how badly they collapsed.

BlackJack

United States10568 Posts

July 30 2012 04:58 GMT

#2049

So sad to see all-around defending world champion gymnast Jordyn Wieber crying her eyes out as she missed the all-around finals for the Olympics. It's so lame that a gymnast's career is so short that they're basically training their entire lives for this 1 event and if they have a bad day their dream is over.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

July 30 2012 05:15 GMT

#2050

That rule is outrageous. So there is a chance that the 3rd best gymnast in the qualifications can't even compete in the Olympic all around that has 24 competitors in it just because the top 2 people might be on her same team. Why would they do such a rule? Wont't nations like China, Russia, the US, Romania, etc all at least have 1 or 2 gymnasts not be allowed to go to the all around even though they could be better than half the people in the final and more importantly could easily be contenders for gold?

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

July 30 2012 05:16 GMT

#2051

Not to mention the effects on your own body-post gymnastics. I mean when 5'4 is considered a giant in your sport, you know you got to sacrifice a lot for this sport.

Anyway for the womens, meh. Just can't get into it like last Olympics. Was fun rooting for Shawn/Nastia. Not getting the same excitement this time around.

sharkie

Austria18429 Posts

July 30 2012 05:34 GMT

#2052

On July 30 2012 14:15 DannyJ wrote:
That rule is outrageous. So there is a chance that the 3rd best gymnast in the qualifications can't even compete in the Olympic all around that has 24 competitors in it just because the top 2 people might be on her same team. Why would they do such a rule? Wont't nations like China, Russia, the US, Romania, etc all at least have 1 or 2 gymnasts not be allowed to go to the all around even though they could be better than half the people in the final and more importantly could easily be contenders for gold?

at least they have a chance to qualify.

Sports like Judo only allow one person per country, Japan has world #1 and #2 in a few categories but cant bring both of them into the competition.

BlackJack

United States10568 Posts

July 30 2012 05:55 GMT

#2053

The problem is the line has to be drawn somewhere. It's supposed to be an international competition. We can't have the marathon event with 30 guys from Kenya or whatever, lol. I think 3 is a better line to draw than 2, though. WCG Starcraft used to allow 3 Koreans, that seemed like a good amount to preserve diversity but still allow a dominant country to send more deserving athletes.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

July 30 2012 05:55 GMT

#2054

Yeah people who are worthy of competing are screwed over all over the place, but it's just a bit strange when those competitors are all already there at the olympics competing against each other.

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

July 30 2012 06:51 GMT

#2055

On July 30 2012 13:58 BlackJack wrote:
So sad to see all-around defending world champion gymnast Jordyn Wieber crying her eyes out as she missed the all-around finals for the Olympics. It's so lame that a gymnast's career is so short that they're basically training their entire lives for this 1 event and if they have a bad day their dream is over.

I thought it was cruel for them not to let her leave and force her in front of the cameras for an interview. Just let the girl leave. She had her bags packed and was ready to gtfo.

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

July 30 2012 09:10 GMT

#2056

Phillipp Boy of the German gymnastics team had pretty much the same problem. He was 17th - despite suffering from an injury - yet didn't qualify for the finals because two of his team mates were better. He won back-to-back silver medals in the World All Around competition (2010 and 2011) and is the 2011 European All Around Champion.

I still think the rule is fair, although I don't understand why they don't let 3 athletes from each nation participate in the finals like usual.

fLyiNgDroNe

Belgium4012 Posts

July 30 2012 09:43 GMT

#2057

Its on!
Ye Shiwen is in the 5th heat for IM200m, heat 1 just started!