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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.
Except that it really did happen... live. I was watching it and was pretty shocked he said he fell on purpose and etc etc.
The thing I dont understand is why he would have said that.. and apparently other articles report that his meaning wasn't what he said. And now the BBC is hush hush about it... =(
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On August 03 2012 19:29 Trok67 wrote:Show nested quote +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
Yes, Decosse and the Russian guy in -100 kgs.
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On August 03 2012 19:47 vasculaR 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. Except that it really did happen... live. I was watching it and was pretty shocked he said he fell on purpose and etc etc. The thing I dont understand is why he would have said that.. and apparently other articles report that his meaning wasn't what he said. And now the BBC is hush hush about it... =(
It appears that the british team "corrected" his statement afterward and explained it with him not being good enough at english... To me it sounds like he is being honest, but since it is such a controversial statement, the british team had to correct it to avoid a potential DQ.
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United Kingdom38257 Posts
Hahaha the crowd so fucking pumped about GB's men edging out the aussie's to get #1 in the first 4x100 medley heat xD
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
GB Take a bronze in the Mens double final in rowing.
New Zealand beasts smash it and take the gold, racing on their own like the women in the doubles
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Huge win from the boys. Murray and Bond take gold in the men's pair!
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jessica ennis' 12:54 in 100m hurdles was unreal ...
and german quad skulls winning gold with like 2 boatlenght lead :0
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Wtf, anyone watching the 400m womens heat? Was that somalian girl just sent so the men could compete or somethin'? Heard that was the case for some countries, don't know much about somalia.
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France and China don't make it for the men's 4x100 medley, quite surprising.
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Gold again :D. So good after she got silver the past 3 olympics :D.
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Gold for men's 50 m rifle went to Belarus in a new world record. 2 is Belgium and 3 is Slovenia.
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Nom golds gimmeh more :D GB climbing up the list, South Korea in our sights :3
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On August 03 2012 20:24 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
watch you back
Nah, we're are already leading our special medal tally we win every olympics: Be the best nation with more silver and bronze than gold  No offense to our 2nd and 3rd place finishers, most of them did better than one could have expected.
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But we're so damn good with them horses we deserve better! why arent there 12 medals for horse riding?
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Very close for the Judo pick'em pool: It is a contest between France, Russia and Japan before the last 2 disciplines. France has got 8 points, while Russia and Japan have 10.
In the last 2 disciplines they all have exactly 1 competitor in the semifinals and Russia has a reperchage. The Russian repechage and the japanese are in women's, while the russian semifinalist and the french semifinalist are in men's.
It is very unlikely that France can win the competition, since it will take the japanese and the russians to fail to grab medals. Japan is in an awkward position where they need more medal-points than Russia. Russia has everything to loose with 2 chances of medals.
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AND IT'S GOLD FOR MAHE!! So immensely well deserved. Legend!
Two gold medals in the space of 15mins!
Hats off to the Kiwi rowing team!
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On August 03 2012 20:42 Alethios wrote:
AND IT'S GOLD FOR MAHE!! So immensely well deserved. Legend!
Two gold medals in the space of 15mins!
Hats off to the Kiwi rowing team!
new zealand beating australia in the medal count, they must feel bad lol
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United Kingdom38257 Posts
Kiwi's are the new Spartans
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