4 favourite happenings so far

Gibbons getting to Judo final

Ohuruogu getting beat.

1. Ennis
2. Murray
3. Gibbons semi win
4. Farah
5. Wiggins

1.GB performance in gymnastics.
2.Mo Farah
3.Australian performance in swimming.
4.Opening ceremony.

1, gb judo medals
2, ainslie 4th gold 'don't make me angry'
3, mo farah 10000m
4, mens team gymnastic bronze

1. Andy Murray - Gold
2. Gemma Gibbons - Silver (coz it meant such a lot to my mate Rick)
3. Team Showjumping - Gold (coz Nick Skelton was part of it)
4. GB performances on Saturday night 

1 - Women's team pursuit gold
2 - Rutherford gold
3 - Ennis gold
4 - Farah gold
5 - Being there for Britain's best day in the Olympics in 104 years

so Darlo, in your opinion the last day of the London 1908 Olympics was better than any of this one eh?

1. The Queens beaming smile upon seeing Team GB enter the Olympic stadium.
2. 19 year old Kirani James dominating 400m but remaining modest in BBC interview 20 seconds after the race.
3. Peter Wilsons double trap gold.
4. Felix Sanchez rolling back the years.

German diver landing flat on his back, and the comm laughing.

murray?

1. 15yr old Lithuanian Swimmer

2. Phelps winning Butterfly

3. Saturday night

4. Bolt

1. Our first Gold, dunno why but it made me emotional
2. Saturday night
3. Kirani James, future GOAT
4. Bolt

1 - pendelton
2 - bolt
3 - ennis
4 - farah... even though lost ££££

and felix medal ceremony after winning 400m hurdles

Hey, how come the OP had 5?

I'll have another then.

5.Zoe Smith lifting her pesonal best in weightlifting.

1   the arrogant Idowu getting his come uppance
2   the two English girl rowers who just couldn't believe they'd won
3   the English clay pigeon shooter who won despite not getting funding
4   our useless hurdlers who can't jump    (surreal)

1.  Kath Grainger and Anna Watkins winning the Double Sculls
2.  Mo Farrah's 10,000 metres win (even if he is a Gooner!)
3.  Greg Rutherford's win, under the radar, against all expectations and largely unhearalded in it's own right, lumped in with 'Super Saturday'.
4  Not a moment but the Vibe in the Country that we can put on a show and are a decent nation of people all told, when we put our minds to it.

1. Gary Lineker to Mo Farah... "describe your emotions, as you crossed the line"
2. Gary Lineker to Kath Grainger... "descibe your emotions, as you crossed the line"
3. Gary Lineker to Jason Kenny... "describe your emotions, as you crossed the line"
4. Gary Lineker to Alistair Brownlee... "describe your emotions, as you crossed the line"


Television journalism at it's very best.

Arise Sir Gary...

4 choices isn't enough

1. Mo Farah
2. Hoy's refusal to be beaten in the keirin
3. Le Clos 200m butterfly finish                                   
4. Melutyite in 100m breaststroke
5. Italian archers "10" with the last arrow to win team final
6. Ye Shiwen freestyle leg in 400m Individual Medley

I know this ain't patriotic but I didn't mind Queen Victoria having her crown knocked off. Funny how the guard of honour was reserved for Chris Hoy even though he's not even retiring.

why so against queen vic darlo bantam?

1. VP winning keirin
2. VP receiving gold medal
3. VP crying and singing national anthem
4. VP not crying as the crowd chanted 'Vicky Vicky Vicky' when she received her silver (robbed)

Hope that redresses Darlo's treasonable comment earlier .

I would have been there but my restraining order says I must stay 5 miles away from VP.

1. Gemma Gibbons punching the air as she lay on the French girl
2. Katarina Johnson-Thompson mouthing 'oh wow!' as the crowd cheered her name at the start of the heptathlon
3. German discus bloke running the hurdle track!
4. Dutch guys high bar routine yesterday

Aug 8, 2012 -- 9:48AM, NonShy.. wrote:

why so against queen vic darlo bantam?

I'm not sure. I want to like her but can't. Ever since that documentary I took a dislike and it's got worse. I seriously want to push her over when she gets on a bike. And I hated her interview yesterday. "How dare someone relegate ME." and "I can't wait to never do this stupid sport again." I get the feeling the rest of the team don't like her. For example, the guard of honour thing and I think her nickname Queen Vic is a derogatory one.

fair enough... i like her and watched documentary

think she fell out of favour after relationship with coach, now fiance.

as i stated in my thread yesterday when backing guo... i think she is mentally fragile at times... v emotional, which isn't always a bad thing but maybe yesterday after she got relegated she struggled to accept it ..... who knows.

done now and she's retired... credit to cycling

She is a credit to cycling, I'll agree there. But she isn't a touch on the likes of Hoy and Wiggings. And Laura Trott potentially could be a fantastic ambassador, she performs with a real smile and style.

Although it's probably heresy and treason to say it, I don't like the whole British cycling set up or indeed the whole sport in fact. The whole thing reminds of a discussion I had with an American about their military he was saying 'Yeah, we are way the best, no one can touch us' and I was saying 'yes but you spend $900 billion a year and you borrow that money, don't you feel that makes it less than a level playing field?' and he said...

'who cares, we are the best'

and that's what I think the cycling is like - really puts me off all the use of wind tunnels and super-materials

judorick - you bring up vietnam?

I don't think it is heresy to say it to be honest. I don't agree with you but there's something very formula one about it and less about the actual athletes - which is really what the Olympics is - and more about the science of sport.

science/technology is part of british engineering though isn't it..... use the best available to you.

kenyans have high altitude
canadians have snow
jamaicans have genetics
we have a few boffins and £££ to spend

i'd have loved to get into track cycling...

1. Wiggins
2. Sanchez
3. Rupp Silver
4. Le Clos
5. Hoy

1.mo farah gold...great performance, amazing atmosphere
2.chris hoy gold...6 of the best for the powerhouse scot
3.ye shiwen tearing it up in the swimming
4.usain bolt,a class above anything we've ever seen...never in doubt
5.

1. RUDISHA

2. Ennis
3. Bolt/Blake/Weir
4. French winning the 4*100 relay

:)  good times

yes

1. Rudisha