The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[PDH]

Your mother.

[Grey Fox]

Watching a replay of Women's Handball GB vs Montenegro.

Nice sports, alot like basketball, like basketball it needs more tackling.

Some of those Montenegro girls are pretty hot.

[crazy canuck]

Also, forgot to mention the roadrace showed London off quite well.  As a tourism advert it worked well in the CC household.  We decided we really do need to go back to London for a visit.

[Syt]

There's an American volleyball player named Destinee Hooker. That's a bit of overkill, don't you think?

In '88 or '92 the U.S. had a male volleyball player called Bob CTVRTLIK. Name tripped up commentators rather badly.

[Josephus]

WTF: Brazillian and Dutch women's beach volleyball teams wearing body suits

[Neil]

WTF: Brazillian and Dutch women's beach volleyball teams wearing body suits

DISQUALIFIED.

[Ed Anger]

Dear god that argie girl...BUTTERFACE

[Ed Anger]

LOL Spain.

[mongers]

The womens road race was more interesting than the mens, but the organisation of the event and it's coverage lacked a certain something.

[crazy canuck]

The womens road race was more interesting than the mens, but the organisation of the event and it's coverage lacked a certain something.

Wide roads

[mongers]

The womens road race was more interesting than the mens, but the organisation of the event and it's coverage lacked a certain something.

Wide roads

I was thinking more of the time keeping failures and relay the information to the riders, that seemed rather bad.

Also, they should have hired the French to film the races, in comparison the British/BBC bike based crew were a bit naff, the view point seemed too high up. And the helicopter shots weren't anywhere near as 'artistic' as the Tours. 
Oh and what was with cutting to a wide angle shot of constitution hill during the last few hundred metres, just to show that the resulting tinny figures of the racers were passing Buck.Pal.  You know some of us just want to see the actual race.

And I think they'd have done much better if they'd got the two channel 4 bike commentators (Phil Leggit and thingy) rather than have the two taciturn ones they went with, even if one was Chris Boardman.

[PDH]

Both road races suffered from the fact that they weren't part of the Tour.

[Grey Fox]

I spent most of the day watching NBC instead of the CTV feed. Why you ask? Because CTV kept showing the Road Race.

It's the worse sport of all the Olympics! FFS. I rather watch Air Rifle.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

The Chinese won the first gold.  Though any sport in which a woman who is 8-months pregnant can compete in shouldn't really be an Olympic sport.

You would, of course, be wrong.

[katmai]

I am all of a sudden interested in woman's field hockey thanks to the Dutch national team.