Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:51 am  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18993023 South Korean flag put up along side the North Korean female football teams pictures on the big screen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18993023 South Korean flag put up along side the North Korean female football teams pictures on the big screen

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:54 am  

Ooooops. That's Kim Jong-whatshisface declaring war on us.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:36 pm  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18997930 Welsh midfielder Joe Allen listed as 'English' in Team GB's programmes Oops #2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18997930 Welsh midfielder Joe Allen listed as 'English' in Team GB's programmes Oops #2

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:55 pm  

It's embarrasing so far. Some of the tickets for the diving are massively restricted as well.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:49 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Ooooops. That's Kim Jong-whatshisface declaring war on us.

It'll be 'reet, we can just send in team America...

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:22 pm  

Have you seen Kim Jong-un's wife though ? She's rather tasty.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:04 pm  

I enjoyed the opening ceremony,it was better than i thought it would be...i do think Sir Macca should call it a day though he was cringworthy last night imo.

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:06 pm  

Can anyone explain to me what's going on in this cycling road race? Britain have been miles back throughout, yet the commentators just go on and on about them being totally in control. They are a minute behind with 20 miles to go. Surely they could quite easily lose and probably will now?

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:49 pm  

Seems I was right and the commentators don't know what they are talking about. For five hours of that they were going on and on about how perfect the GB team tactics were. I'd question that, staying at least a minute behind throughout is never going to work. Every time anyone attacked the commentators mercilessly mocked them, saying GB would mop them up, but they've mopped no one up.

Rather pathetic from everyone involved in the GB team really. What was all the hype about? What's all this about team tactics? They are now saying it's because they only had 5 riders, yet the Kazakhstan winner didn't have a team holding his hand. One wonders about the money spent inflating these egos. Oops.

The coverage was utterly terrible from the BBC. Why they are given big sporting events is beyond me. Ridiculously poor coverage, no stats, no tables of gaps etc.

[John_D]

Re: Olympic Games London 2012 : Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:25 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

The coverage was utterly terrible from the BBC.

Coverage was terrible, but not by the BBC. Olympic Broadcasting Services provide the pictures.

GB were basically hung out to dry by everybody else. With riders up the road in the shape of Philippe Gilbert and Stuart O'Grady, Belgium and Australia weren't ever going to contribute to the chase. Why Germany held back is more of a mystery. Their best chance, like GB, was in a bunch sprint, but they contributed sod all to the catch and GB can rightly be narked about that. Over Box Hill, GB were totally in control, but when it came to catching a 32-man break they needed more legs from somewhere and didn't get them.
Chapeau to Ian Stannard though. He totally buried himself on the front of that peloton. Weepy scenes when Fabien Cancellara finally rolled in as well, after 15km riding with a broken collarbone.
Better luck in the pointy hats on Wednesday where tactics don't really come into it - just man versus clock.