elise christie...wont be winning any oscars

yup..bringing home the gold.

Had to laugh..on Radio 5 just now they just announced the WHOLE WORLD is waiting to find out if Christie will participate in the 1.000m.Talk about an overstatement

Elise the Eagle (penguin?) getting ready for the 1000m heats on B1 now.  Will she make it three-in-a-row?

TELL DEL    17 Feb 18 12:31 
one pretending to show Elise Christie being wheeled in the hospital..... stretcher crashes into the doors and tips over....

What if it's all a big con and there's nothing wrong with her "soft tissue"? (apart from the crap in her brains)

hope ioc stregnthened the barriers after her overnight recovery from ruptured tendons

I don’t follow this nonsense other than catching parts on the news.

But isn’t it excessive for countries who don’t naturally have conditions applicable for winter Olympic sports, to recreate those conditions simply to be a ‘plucky loser’?

It’s like Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Does this woman get a ‘three strikes and funding cut’?

should get an equity card

Kicking off now ...

lolllllllllllllllllllllllll

another miracle recovery-shes a medical phenomenon

This is painful to watch

How the F does she get a second chance here?

So there's a new rule, if anyone falls over - they get another shot? Walofs!

Oh. and the drama queen gets carried out in her trainers arms. Puke man

Her foot was hurting a second ago when she thought it had all gone tits up

At this rate, the Oscar is hers!

She's out. Official. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Christie disqualified ?

It’s just a shame all those forced into poorly paid work struggling to survive couldn’t have been at home watching this they would have loved it.

Yup. Yellow card. Good ridance to the chav.

What I don't understand about this joke event is why they stopped and re-started the race?

Beats me too., alun.

This next race hasn't been stopped and  re-started after a massive crash.

Think the rule is that if they don't all make it through the first corner (unless a fall without contact), then the race is re-started

cheers Dan

Seems like the yellow card is because she cheated?

Danno - you still there???

She must have had visions of having to give this game up

yellow was for the second contact.  She put her arm across the girl who was trying to pass on the inside.  That's not allowed.

I wondered about that, Dan. looked like she was trying to keep herself up at the expense of taking the Belgian(?) out.  What a cow.

Stupid game anyway
Do the poor get entitled to ask for their lottery bets back?

hope she competes next time . quality tv.

Reckon they should have a mass start like they do in the cycling, with about a hundred of them on the track on the same time; noone would know what's going on, but it would be quite fun to watch.

Hang on, we've not had the balding and arse lick crew yet, all get your hankies out ready

I think we'd all agree, there are some fantastic looking derrieres in those lycra sports trousers

Best watched on Eurosport; they just cover the sport.
Balding and co have probably never heard of the likes of Martin Fourcade, Marit Bjoergen and Marcel Hirscher.

Absolutely, Alun.  I can understand why so many condoms were ordered

Danny - excuse me for changing the subject, but during the Lakeside event I did put out a call to you on the Darts Forum. We needed much more info on your historic Raffle win there.

Let's all hope that at the end of the Speed Skating comp, all the girls will come out together on the ice in those lycra trousers and perform a mass bend-over to take the cheers of the crowd.

There was a report at the start of the games about the amount of supplies they have for the athletes and it worked out around 30 condoms each, or thereabouts.

Gutted I missed this. Well done, Elsie.

Sorry Alun, missed that.  I'm afraid that a tatty 20 pound note in an envelope is the sum total of the winning raffle story.  Didn't even pay for the cab home

elise should have strapped hers all over her body for extra protection

Ah well, the thread "CALLING DANNO' is still there if you ever wish to visit it.

Oh yeah.  Just seen it.  Will cast my mind back to the great day and respond.

What's next up on the beeb?  Four hours of curling?  Or perhaps some nobodies in the bobsleigh?

The bobsleigh has a certain hypnotic and calming quality about it I feel. Probably perfect viewing for people in care homes on a diet of Zombie Drugs.

Let's hope that's the last we've seen of Elsie Subtitles for 4 years.

2 minutes ago

Christie has been disqualified from the 1000m short-track speed skating, ending her Winter Olympic hopes. After falling in both the 500m and 1500m it was hoped Elise Christie could secure a medal in the 1000m. She fell on the first start, but finished second on the restart, only to be disqualified.

Balding seething.

I reckon this disqualification might even be linked to the JFK Assassination.

sponsorship with General Accident would seem a logical tie up

Surely every woman in the public eye will have to wear a black dress in protest about the disqualification ?

@alun2005

And another race stopped.

Definitely the next candidate for a kitkat advert

£4.8m of public funding spent on short track speedskating for this Olympics

No medals will surely mean a loss of funding.

So £4.8m buys you clueless trackcraft and rank bad decision making

what a waste of money

https://www.statista.com/statistics/519322/public-funding-for-olympic-short-track-speed-skating-in-the-uk/

how much has gone on eyelashes?

At least a million of that must have gone on acting classes.

Tbf it did make for good comedy

Maybe a career as a stunt woman beckons

£500 hospital food

Global news according to Balding. Future of Olympics must be in doubt.

I don't get it, why is she not in the womens relays?

Yet another inquest to Elsie's departure. Should cut off diplomatic ties with Seoul imo.

if she stopped wearing false eyelashes she might see where she's going.

on another note surely funding has to be withdrawn. was article on bbc breakfast yesterday about basketball and its popularity ( team sport only second to football) but it gets no funding, liz nichol (  head  of funding ) said didnt get any as there was no medal possibilities !!! talk about self fulfilling prophecy. why not fund sorts for the greater good rather than meda chances ! i take it she is heaviy bonused on medals.

balding, during a round-up earlier, announced some brit finished an "excellent seventh"


seventh

how many in the race?  Seven?

The whole thing has just escalated into coverage of absolute ridiculousness. joke funding, complete failure and people like balding taking it to a new level, just been looking at the bbc sport website, one comment on there by helen lewis

"anyone else taking what's happened to Elise Christie really personally? hold your head up high, we are all so proud of you"

FFS, i wonder if this anus knew who Christie actually was before this farce started, god if **** like this get's to her, i'd like to see her reaction to a family crisis.

Watched the Handball at the London Olympics, actually a great game we had a couple of decent players who played in overseas league, this was one sport crying out for funding after those games, I'm sure there would have been a decent take up of people playing it but funding was never going to happen & I doubt its hardly  played here at all, millions spent in pursuit of a few medals in obscure sports I'm sure you could answer its all worth it I'm not so sure.

but its not worth is it pumphol  ? only funding minority sports and lets be honest seemingly privileged sports. sailing doesn't come cheap and how many comp kids get the chance to do it ? rowing too, just elitist.cycling expensine. what happens when ther countries invest more than us in cycling ? only ever knew one rowing person and that was when i was at uni, he was called hugo and into fox-hunting too, the c unt.

lol

Handball could have been a sport where anyone could have played even in schools but they never gave it a chance why cos medal chance were virtually nil while other more elitist sports are imo over funded but that's the way of the world sadly.

so vacuous by powers that be though to dismiss a sport as it has no medal potential, what about the greater good ? handball, basketball not exactly expensive to play and therefore low on budget in comparison to elitist sports.

Toboganning got £5m funding, at least they won a couple of medals.

However £5m would build approx 30 all-weather multisports pitches with floodlights

exactly big h, and more kids participating in sport , govt and drs always complaining about fat kids, well here's a chance to do something about it. bollox to medals , lets have a healthier nation.

Some absolute classics on this thread

dustybin 20 Feb 18 10:27
Stupid game anyway
Do the poor get entitled to ask for their lottery bets back?

My personal favourite!



Mikael D'Haguenet 20 Feb 18 11:30
Global news according to Balding. Future of Olympics must be in doubt.





morpteh mackem 20 Feb 18 13:05
if she stopped wearing false eyelashes she might see where she's going.

totally agree MM

also consider the fact that Alexis Sanchez weekly wage could build 3 multisports pitches

all this at a time when grass roots football is really struggling

Basketball is the 3rd most played team sport in UK but is struggling for funding because it won't win elite medals. It's backwards. Funding isn't set up to get ordinary people participating regularly. It's thrown at madness like these idiots on ice, that only a handful of people give a sh1t about, just for propaganda purposes.

Spot on john.

Christie says she'll be back in 4 years in Beijing. Who's gonna pay for that!?

more likely to be on 'im a celebrity ' .

more likely to be on 'im a celebrity ' .

Or 'Dancing on Ice'!

God help her if they bring 'The Jump' back

Epic fail

I bet she'd still get more votes than Hamilton in SPOTY, tho

shed probably fall off the stage

shed probably fall off the stage

hugo the c



remb

andy the c

he prob lot fund fed on DOND

We'll never forget 'Andy The C'.

why keep plugging the darts thread everywhere you go

one time a fuggin year it matters.for 2 weeks.get over it.

So, who fancies a go?

a bit of humility wouldnt have gone amiss;crocodile tears, fake injuries and fake eyelashes betraying her narcissism  didnt help.

Fake accent.

She's on the floor so often her nickname is Lowtush Elise

back with a bang crisp

Winter Olympics. Must be the biggest'  turn off ' ever !

I shouldnt imagine the number of people who want to become speed skaters to be particularly large, and so as a result the extent at which she 'excels' when not failing isnt really a significant factor in how well she does in the greater concept and struggles in life.
Shes existed within an artificial bubble of soviet style funding I should imagine.
Now she has failed, trice.
The question is to what extent do we all care enough to give her that lifestyle when the rest of us have to struggle off our own merit.

still, that ass, tho

i take it team gbs flop at these olympics will result in heads rolling and rediversion of funds to more likely medal sources. bbcs build up of all the failures is embarsassing.

at last!!!

she's just won gold as part of the hungarian men's relay team

Funds should be rediverted to grass roots sport to give the masses the opportunity to actually get involved in sport on a regular basis. This madness of basically buying medals in niche sports in both summer and winter Olympics has to stop when sports facilities throughout the country are closing/overpriced/don't exist.

My three kids are members of our local tennis club which charges just £40 a year for each membership and £5 per child a one hour tennis lesson every Saturday. Terrific value and in the summer they probably play about 5 hours a week. So I would have to agree with the rest of you, I would much much rather see the money go to subsidising grass roots sport to inspire children to take it up permanently and right through to their adulthood.