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Netherlands45349 Posts
Bruce Lee? T.T
Thing about Wushu is that while it will probably be amazing to watch its nonexistant in the west even more so then stuff like Taekwando or Karate. Squash would be very possible and fun to watch thoguh.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
Halsall expecting to be even quicker than her time she posted in the 50m heat she won tonight, fingers crossed xD
And wow, Olympic Stadium is full, at 10am already, well done! Jess Ennis is out <3
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On August 03 2012 18:31 Pandemona wrote:
Halsall expecting to be even quicker than her time she posted in the 50m heat she won tonight, fingers crossed xD
And wow, Olympic Stadium is full, at 10am already, well done! Jess Ennis is out <3
Gotta be the soldiers!
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
Jess Ennis smashes it. Her 12.58 is the fastest 100m hurdles time ever.
Scratch that, the time was wrong, she did it in 12.54seconds.
lmao. GB FIGHTING :D
Personally as a high school kid i could only manage the normall 100m is under 11seconds and she did it with Hurdles 1.5seconds slower ;;
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On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing.
Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched.
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On August 03 2012 18:37 Pandemona wrote:
Jess Ennis smashes it. Her 12.58 is the fastest 100m hurdles time ever.
Scratch that, the time was wrong, she did it in 12.54seconds.
lmao. GB FIGHTING :D
Personally as a high school kid i could only manage the normall 100m is under 11seconds and she did it with Hurdles 1.5seconds slower ;;
nah 12.21 is the fastest ever time, 12.37 is olympic record and 12.40 is the fastest time this year...
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched.
Who said it was because he is German and doesn't speak English is the reason he said it etc :S He said it because he obviously knows he could lol.
Thought they were DQ'd in WC due to the same changover problem the women had tbf? Guess not.
The start is not like offside, what he did at the start was just abuse rules that are in place. Like cricket do with subbin' players.
The offside rule i was getting at was the changover rule thing, where you have to be certain distance between eachother (reason GB women and China women were DQ'd is what im on about) is just the same.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
On August 03 2012 18:46 radiatoren wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:37 Pandemona wrote:
Jess Ennis smashes it. Her 12.58 is the fastest 100m hurdles time ever.
Scratch that, the time was wrong, she did it in 12.54seconds.
lmao. GB FIGHTING :D
Personally as a high school kid i could only manage the normall 100m is under 11seconds and she did it with Hurdles 1.5seconds slower ;; nah 12.21 is the fastest ever time, 12.37 is olympic record and 12.40 is the fastest time this year...
No fastest ever by a non eventer (ie she isn't specific 100M hurdle runner, like the 100m hurdle record holders)
No multi-eventer has ever gone faster in the 100m hurdles and it is an improvement of more than 0.2 seconds on her personal best of 12.79. That is worth 1195 points and is a dream start to her campaign.
Jessica Ennis runs 12.54 seconds to match American Dawn Harper's winning time from the 100m individual hurdles in Bejing four years ago. Extraordinary.
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On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched.
I can only respect that he did admit it. The team sprint was a joke, with DQ's and now this admission UCI have to look seriously at what they put on the menu.
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On August 03 2012 18:47 Pandemona wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched. Who said it was because he is German and doesn't speak English is the reason he said it etc :S He said it because he obviously knows he could lol. Thought they were DQ'd in WC due to the same changover problem the women had tbf? Guess not. The start is not like offside, what he did at the start was just abuse rules that are in place. Like cricket do with subbin' players. The offside rule i was getting at was the changover rule thing, where you have to be certain distance between eachother (reason GB women and China women were DQ'd is what im on about) is just the same.
I just checked the BBC news website and nowhere it is mention of the excuses from the starter. So either the french TV is BSing me or someone didn't bother mentionning it on the other side of the Eurostar.
Oh well, when the starter crush his personal best by 2s on the Olympics, all you can do is applaud. It would have been sad not to witness that.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
On August 03 2012 18:57 Otolia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:47 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched. Who said it was because he is German and doesn't speak English is the reason he said it etc :S He said it because he obviously knows he could lol. Thought they were DQ'd in WC due to the same changover problem the women had tbf? Guess not. The start is not like offside, what he did at the start was just abuse rules that are in place. Like cricket do with subbin' players. The offside rule i was getting at was the changover rule thing, where you have to be certain distance between eachother (reason GB women and China women were DQ'd is what im on about) is just the same. I just checked the BBC news website and nowhere it is mention of the excuses from the starter. So either the french TV is BSing me or someone didn't bother mentionning it on the other side of the Eurostar. Oh well, when the starter crush his personal best by 2s on the Olympics, all you can do is applaud. It would have been sad not to witness that.
Indeed escpecially as he matched (i think?) the French world best starter too.
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On August 03 2012 18:58 Pandemona wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:57 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 18:47 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched. Who said it was because he is German and doesn't speak English is the reason he said it etc :S He said it because he obviously knows he could lol. Thought they were DQ'd in WC due to the same changover problem the women had tbf? Guess not. The start is not like offside, what he did at the start was just abuse rules that are in place. Like cricket do with subbin' players. The offside rule i was getting at was the changover rule thing, where you have to be certain distance between eachother (reason GB women and China women were DQ'd is what im on about) is just the same. I just checked the BBC news website and nowhere it is mention of the excuses from the starter. So either the french TV is BSing me or someone didn't bother mentionning it on the other side of the Eurostar. Oh well, when the starter crush his personal best by 2s on the Olympics, all you can do is applaud. It would have been sad not to witness that. Indeed escpecially as he matched (i think?) the French world best starter too.
Still lame to fall on purpose to get a better start imo... I really don't think they needed to do that considering the fact that they were ultra dominant, especially in the series. They took a lot of risk doing so, they could have been DQed, hopefully for them it did not happen. Would have probably been too much after the DQ of the british women
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On August 03 2012 18:37 Pandemona wrote:
Jess Ennis smashes it. Her 12.58 is the fastest 100m hurdles time ever.
Scratch that, the time was wrong, she did it in 12.54seconds.
lmao. GB FIGHTING :D
Personally as a high school kid i could only manage the normall 100m is under 11seconds and she did it with Hurdles 1.5seconds slower ;;
Dude, under 11 sec 100m is still really good lol for a nonprofessional and whatnot.
But yeah, her time was insane O_O;
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On August 03 2012 18:57 Otolia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 18:47 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:43 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 18:17 Pandemona wrote:On August 03 2012 18:01 Otolia wrote:On August 03 2012 17:02 Pandemona wrote:
"Mechanical" restarts are allowed, he fell and said "was a steering problem" and was allowed to restart. However if you saw the Polish team i think it was, they were cycling and the guy lost his footing in his pedal and stopped and they were labelled "DNF"
Silly rules if you ask me, especially when u can openly admit to "crashing on purpose" as he did rofl. Oh well, guess it's a little better after the GB girls got DQ'd They should have been DQ'ed too. But I guess the uproar would have been too much. What's more curious to me is that this Sprint team didn't have any results these last 4 years. They were DQ'ed in the last WC. Very curious that nobody in this pro team seems to know the rules, isn't it. Think it's more of a loop hole though. Like Cavendish was saying, you ride on the track and still be egilable to ride on the road, but you can't ride on the road and try and ride on the track...so he was never able to ride track to try and get more olympic gold. Yeah they were DQ'd for the same thing as the girls in the WC, the German front runner has only just started racing with team GB though so he wasn't at fault. To say they don't know the rules is slightly stupid no? Of course they know the rules it's there lively hood, its what they have done all their life. Like Cavendish said on the BBC, it's like the line for offside in football, if you cross it by a 1mm margin it's still offside, thats the same in cycling, if you miss the changover by 1mm your still at fault. Can't say there cheaters on basis of both teams now failing at major comps men @ wc and women @ olympics, think it's just unlucky. Look at chinese women, they had the worst heart break ever, told their olympic champions and then stripped of it and given silver because of the same thing. Except during the WC, they were DQ'ed for changing an athlete when they didn't have the right to do so. You have to admit it's a little bit exaggerated from one of the most prominent Track Cycling team. As for the start, maybe it's like offside, it's not really an issue but the sheer stupidity of admitting to fall purposefully and then backing that up by "He is german, he doesn't speak english" is really far-fetched. Who said it was because he is German and doesn't speak English is the reason he said it etc :S He said it because he obviously knows he could lol. Thought they were DQ'd in WC due to the same changover problem the women had tbf? Guess not. The start is not like offside, what he did at the start was just abuse rules that are in place. Like cricket do with subbin' players. The offside rule i was getting at was the changover rule thing, where you have to be certain distance between eachother (reason GB women and China women were DQ'd is what im on about) is just the same. I just checked the BBC news website and nowhere it is mention of the excuses from the starter. So either the french TV is BSing me or someone didn't bother mentionning it on the other side of the Eurostar. Oh well, when the starter crush his personal best by 2s on the Olympics, all you can do is applaud. It would have been sad not to witness that.
They discussed it on the night time catchup of the day, and they have videos showing him saying it, but I can't find any articles mentioning it either.
TBH I think its pretty unacceptable, I don't know if he actually broke any rules but we should have been disqualified if we did and I'd hate to think that the team escaped DQ because we're the hosts. And the rules should be changed in the future because its ridiculous that teams can get a restart if they don't get the perfect run.
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Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
OUCH!
Australian Olympic rower Joshua Booth, who finished sixth in the men's eight, is to apologise to shop owners and pay £1,400 for repairs after an alcohol related incident on Thursday, according to the Australian deputy chief. Booth was detained by UK police in Egham near London
Where are those Aussies?!? Smashing up the place jeez 
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Japanese Men Judo without a gold medal, wow...
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On August 03 2012 19:17 sharkie wrote:
Japanese Men Judo without a gold medal, wow...
Biggest surprise is Russia getting first, I'm not really convinced by the quality of Russian Judokas. Next Olympics will be hard in Judo for Japan. France and Brazil will be even stronger than today.
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Dutch Judo has been very disapointing aswell. Atleast one gold was expected, instead we got only 2 bronze :/
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On August 03 2012 19:27 Crushinator wrote:
Dutch Judo has been very disapointing aswell. Atleast one gold was expected, instead we got only 2 bronze :/
world champion have been overally disappointing in judo, I think only 2 of 12 world champions have been able to get the gold at this olympics
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On August 03 2012 19:25 Otolia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 19:17 sharkie wrote:
Japanese Men Judo without a gold medal, wow... Biggest surprise is Russia getting first, I'm not really convinced by the quality of Russian Judokas. Next Olympics will be hard in Judo for Japan. France and Brazil will be even stronger than today.
Really? It can't go worse than this Olympics lol.
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