@@@@@@ THE OLYMPICS @@@@@@

One second from the gold medal? How unlucky.

Unreal ,Jams great in 100 and The Japs emerging sprint nation

9 gold medals, 3 x 3, thats unreal

Another day/night of drama. I'm loving these Olympics.

Lutalo's interview.

Putin has bought off the judges....USA DQ-ed

Incredible Scenes have to Feel for atalo ,1 second to go  All he is thinking is I have won Gold   It Cannot happen

Yanks now discoed in the 4 x 100 , Stevie wonder and Ray charles in the Stewards box imo

more farcical officiating. nothing to see yet again

OMFG the Pole Volt unreal night of Action

the stewards want to make a name for themselves imo

Looks like the USA DQ is now justified.

First ever gold for Tajikistan,wherever that is.

Aug 19, 2016 -- 9:13PM, anubis7 wrote:

First ever gold for Tajikistan,wherever that is.

an island just north of scotland

BETWEEN THE FANS BOOING THE POOR FRENCH BLOKE IN THE VAULT ,AND WHAT LOOKS A RANK CROOKED DECISION IN THE 4X4 LETTING THE BRAZIL TEAM INTO THE FINAL ,YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO FIND 2 MORE DISGRACEFUL EVENTS IN
OLYMPIC HISTORY

The Great Man has left the Building ,Will it ever be the same again

Lets hope he says his final farewell in London next year

The success of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars is to be celebrated with events in Manchester and London, Theresa May has announced.


There will be a parade through the streets of Manchester and another event in the capital in October.

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Show jumper Nick Skelton became Britain's second-oldest Olympic gold medallist in his seventh Games.

The 58-year-old, who initially retired 16 years ago after breaking his neck in two places, claimed individual gold after a six-way jump-off.

Quite a outstanding performance rider & horse

I had a little chuckle at that crying ty kwan dont dude.
It's a contrived event anyway, it's like slightly aggressive ballet.
It's almost as bad as the wrestling.

if you can't make it at boxing
you do UFC/MMA
then judo
then wrestling
then the 'aggressive ballet'

casemoney

that is jingoism of the worst kind.

The 2nd British 4x100 runner clearly started ahead of the line and was rightly disqualified.

You should spend time in the pub with your mate Prince Philip muttering about darkies and slitty-eyed people.

It makes no sense to be Johnny.

I watched the clip it looked like the guy blocked the head kick at the end.
So kicks at the head that don't connect get points?

It's a joke of a 'sport' what's the point of it?
People don't even fight like that most kicks miss and leave them vulnerable.
If you telegraphed a kick like that in a street fight and missed which they invariably do then you can't pretend it was a joke.
Just block the kick and get up inside and stick your fingers in their eyes.
How many points for that?

*sense to me.

^ Is that Queensbury Rules ?

way to go..liam heath..gold
these sprint canoeists are frigging powerful

Kayak gold

Is there any danger of Farrah not winning the 5000 egg n spoon race later ?

Dustybin • August 20, 2016 10:37 AM BST

[i]Just block the kick and get up inside and stick your fingers in their eyes.

Hope I don't run into you, ouside the pub. LOL.

It was a bit bizarre though. At one point the British guy seemed to have knocked the other guy's helmet off with a kick, but slowmo replay showed that he had somehow partially blocked his own kick.
Also, I didn't see a clean kick to the head winning it in the last second. All very ambiguous and subjective.
Hard not to feel for the guy, but I got the impression earlier on that he had already, more or less awarded himself the gold medal before the final. So, maybe he got what he deseved for his complacency.

Farrah didn't look great in the heat for 5000m very panicky that fall in the 10000m really shook him up.

That said, I won't be betting against him.

[i] Des Pond • August 20, 2016 2:05 PM BST
Dustybin • August 20, 2016 10:37 AM BST

[i]Just block the kick and get up inside and stick your fingers in their eyes. Laugh

Hope I don't run into you, ouside the pub. LOL.[/i]

As long as you dont waving your feet around threatening to kick my head then we wont have any problems

Bit too old for that carry-on, Dusty. Not that that sort of thing was ever in my repertoire, any way. LOL

Well done Nicola Adams. That fight was closer than expected.

Cracking insight from Anthony Joshua "Well done darlin"

"I'm now officially the most accomplished amateur boxer Great Britain has ever had"

Back to back golds not too shabby...... was mighty close......Well done Nicola Adams.

Football: Hosts Brazil play Germany in men's final at 21:30

Athletics: Farah hoping for another gold medal in 5000m (01:30, Sunday)

Nicola Adams one of the most likeable people in sport, and a total credit to British Sport, great attitude, fantastic !

Not sure if it was my wrong impression (?) but John Inverdale seemed utterly un-interested when interviewing her. And the other day when he was interviewing Anthony Joshua about Adams he was constantly looking around and ignoring him. He has been a terrible presenter on these games.

What time does the 5000m start please?

01>30 a, i think.

Mo Cho and the scouse girl through to fight for a medal in the Thai Quando.

Blimey, that late. ok thanks Clouseau.

I managed to find the Women's Modern Pentathlon riding round, from yesterday.  It was very good. Some very decent riders. Some very decent horses, too. No medals for GB.

I have just watched the men's riding round. Joe Choong is in with a good chance of a medal for GB. The Run and Shoot will be on at 10.00pm.

No medal for Joe He went from second place to 9th after his shooting let him down. James Cooke finished 13th.

The girls finished 6th and 9th, so no medals for GB but I thought we did very well. It's a tough sport. The riding especially.

Listen to me, sounding like the expert. I only watch it it every 4 years

don't think many will be staying up late for the egg n spoon race. got more important things to do, like sleep, or watching paint dry.

Looking forward to the Womens 800m to see which of the 2 blokes win!

unreal scenes foootball ,Mind you its about time the Cxnts won something

best medal ceremony ever in the football

GO MO !!!!

Giving it the big 'un like he's Bolt...will LOL if he gets beat.

Hang in there Mo.

Nice one.

3.3 for SPOTY

multiple DQs in the 5000 now. getting beyond a joke

should imagine judges are plotting their DQ strategy for men's 4 x 400m to guarantee bronze for Brazilian quartet.

Like the old European title fights in Italy where you had to knock 'em out to get a draw.

KJT would have won the high jump with her effort in the heptathlon

perhaps she should concentrate on that rather than flogging a dead horse with the javelin and shot putt

I was thinking the same. She should.

Thiam jumped same height as KJT in Heptathlon - was entered in high jump but scatched from the qualifying round.

^scratched

WELL DONE TO BRAZIL TO STAY WITHIN 200 yds of THE 3RD   fkin comical 


RIO 16

BOLT
MO
DISGRACEFUL BOOING OF THE FRENCH CHAP
RANK DISQUALIFICATIONS

Aug 20, 2016 -- 2:22PM, Hound-Dog-2 wrote:

Nicola Adams one of the most likeable people in sport, and a total credit to British Sport, great attitude, fantastic !Not sure if it was my wrong impression (?) but John Inverdale seemed utterly un-interested when interviewing her. And the other day when he was interviewing Anthony Joshua about Adams he was constantly looking around and ignoring him. He has been a terrible presenter on these games.

I had the same thought re Inverdale. Surprised he was at the boxing. Looked like he just wasn't really interested. He suits Rowing and the Rugby Sevens. I'd have had him at the cycling and the Canoe Sprints although you feel Balding pushed for main gig that was the cycling. Is he BBC rather than an independent such as Balding?

I like Inverdale, intelligent and grown up. he is sure to be baffled when he looks around.

Inverdale has been relegated to the minor sports after Andy Murray rightly called him out during that earlier interview.

very rude of Murry, did he think Inverdale was not aware of this?

the British are becoming a very impolite lot.

Not rude at all. Andy was right to correct him.

you do not correct someone in front of millions of people.

in Japan such a thing would be shameful. This can cause problems in Japan because if you mention something to them which they know to be untrue they will not correct you.

it can even depend how you ask the question. Do not say i think the train leaves at 2, i will catch that one for example.
in Japan they will agree even if it leaves at 3 they don`t like say so

you must ask what time does the train leave.

its strange but nice.

Sagan in the Mountain Bike should be Interesting

now if Murry had perhaps raised an eyebrow, but only one and briefly, and thinking quickly had said to himself Inverdale must mean the men`s tennis here.
and then answered and said how glad and pleased he was etc.then i would have though more of Murry certainly.

It was an honest comment from Murray, and it has endeared him to thousands of women (Twitter was awash with praise).

really?, nothing should surprise us now i suppose.

you can learn manners but it is hard if you don`h have a talent for it.

Inverdale always gives the impression (to me anyway) of being condescending to his interviewees and the retort of murray was entirely valid

well it may have been valid, in theory, if Murry honestly believed that Inverdale was trying to demean womens tennis in front of millions of people.

now i don`t happen to believe that, it seems an idiotic thing to believe..imo

he wasn't even referring to men's tennis. obvious he meant no one of either sex had retained an olympic singles title

not that surprising really considering tennis has only been in the olympics around 10 times and you'd only get 2 or 3 realistic chances in a career

well he was speaking to a man who had just won the men`n olympic gold in tennis

now the men`s olympic gold in tennis is a different gold to women`s olympic gold.

they play in a different tournament, i assume Inverdale was referring to the men`s olympic gold in tennis

they each get seperate gold medals, i believe that has not changed

Can't believe the Joe Joyce odds are so low. The fella beat him 3-0 last year.

To be fair Joyce beat him 3-0 a few months before that

Are they having a fckin Larf how has Joe not won at least a Round ?

Absolutely Crooked ,Some decisions at this games have been beyond Belief

I'm no boxing expert but it seemed to me was doing most of the attacking and landed more punches.

Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and David Blunkett doing the judging.

They should've stuck to the computerised scoring system.

The Fight before was Worse Anubis  Loser traded at 10 on are the Judges in running on BF

Boxing decisions at the Olympics have regularly been farcical , go back to the low point in 88 and the Roy Jones Jr fight.

sixtwosix    21 Aug 16 19:51 
Boxing decisions at the Olympics have regularly been farcical , go back to the low point in 88 and the Roy Jones Jr fight.

that decision definitely caused his loss to Maccarinelli!

Closing ceremony starting

Watching ...

Gotta get me a sky blue jacket !

as closing ceremonies go, this is the poundland version

just gotta hope Sepultura roll up

China !

Are you watching !

We whooped you @rses !

China is always watching

What are the seats for?

All these people coming in I think.

French been on the vino.

Broccoli!!

now its all over wtf designed them gb tracksuits, scousers wouldnt have worn them in the 80,s

I notice the plumber they booked for the opening ceremony finally showed up.

always get a plumber on a sunday double bubble,probably spent ages saying or doing nothing,usual etiquette for plumbers

1st time poster    22 Aug 16 10:04 
now its all over wtf designed them gb tracksuits, scousers wouldnt have worn them in the 80,s

yeah,i thought they were naff as well
scousers would were anything!