First whinging story in the run up to the Olympics, offical food at venues to be twice the going 'London rate':
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Olympic beer to cost £7.23 a pint
Spectators hoping to celebrate British Olympic medals with a drink at the Games face paying the equivalent of more than £7 for a pint of beer, organisers have said.
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
30 May 2012
Bars at the official Games venues will charge £4.80 for a small serving of London 2012 red wine. For visitors with an appetite for traditional British fare, a portion of cod and chips will set them back at least £8.
The London 2012 organisers, who published sample menus yesterday, claimed the prices were "more than comparable" to catering costs at other sporting events.
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Rest of article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9301233/Olympic-beer-to-cost-7.23-a-pint.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9301233/Olympic-beer-to-cost-7.23-a-pint.html)
So? :huh:
Quote from: garbon on June 18, 2012, 02:52:57 PM
So? :huh:
It's not an inclusive 'our' Olympics, 'we' are just paying for a tourist/officials rip-off honey pot. :bowler:
Seems pretty standard though - no? :D
I just wish there was more of a time difference; +5 GMT is not far enough away for this bullshit.
Quote from: garbon on June 18, 2012, 02:57:00 PM
Seems pretty standard though - no? :D
Standard for London or for the Olympics?
Maybe Ann Romney's horse will win?
http://todayinlondonblog.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/18/12280187-ann-romneys-horse-heading-to-london-to-go-for-olympic-gold?lite
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 19, 2012, 02:32:17 AM
Maybe Ann Romney's horse will win?
If she puts it on top of a car it has a good chance.
Looking forward to the Olympics - got some tickets for boxing and handball (whatever that is). Having visited the site in 2004 when it was a wasteland of car breakers, junk yards, polluted waterways and railway sidings it will be great to see the transformation.
Of course there will be whingers. There has been all the way through. It would be massively over-budget, they'd never finish the construction on time, nobody would buty the tickets. Now we have the shcok of sporting venues selling beer at above the pub rate. Just as they do at every single football, rugby of cricket match all year round.
This article reminded me of this thread:
QuoteThe Olympic Spirit, British Style: When Will This Nightmare End?
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Toby Melville/Reuters
Amid the wettest summer since records began, officials say they hope the rain will go away before the Olympics begin, but there really is no contingency plan.
LONDON — While the world's athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities.
Asked "What do you feel about the Olympics?" the other day, a random sampling of people here gave answers that included bitter laughter; the words "fiasco," "disaster" and "police state"; and detailed explanations of how they usually get to work, how that is no longer possible and how very unhappy that makes them.
"At the end of the day, it's a pain in the backside," Steve Rogers, a construction site manager, said as he puffed on a cigarette near Victoria station the other day. Particularly painful, he said, were the subway plans ("absolute shambles"), the road closings ("complete nightmare") and the fact that instead of creating construction jobs for Britons, the Olympics had provided work for "a bunch of Lithuanians, Romanians and Czechs."
Even in the best of times, whinging, as Britons call the persistent low-grade grousing that is their default response to life's challenges, is part of the national condition — as integral to the country's character as its Eeyoreish attitude toward the weather ("Start Planning for Floods," The Daily Mail advised recently).
But even allowing for the traditional exaggeration, this degree of distress has a different tone to it.
"We're looking at something above and beyond the solace and comfort that the British seek in gentle moaning," said Dan Hancox, 31, a freelance writer. "The Olympics is actively antagonizing people."
On Twitter, Mr. Hancox said that for Londoners, "it's as if someone else is throwing a party in our house, with a huge entry fee, and we're all locked in the basement."
He elaborated.
"The traffic infrastructure has shut down to the point where we're being prepared for a military conflict," he said in an interview. "They're telling businesses to stockpile goods, advising people to stay at home, don't go anywhere, don't travel on the tube, stay on your sofa — it's like it's for your own safety. We have an army on the streets. We're being put on a war footing, and it's not something, after 60 years of peacetime, that the British people are comfortable with."
The news media have added to the general sense of wretchedness with numerous we-told-you-so accounts of mishaps, glitches and grandiose plans gone awry.
"Tube commuters whose journey is delayed by the Olympics will not be able to reclaim the cost of their travel," reported The Evening Standard, "despite dire warnings of having to wait 30 minutes to board a train."
Meanwhile, The Daily Mail, whose unofficial motto appears to be "What Fresh Hell Is This?" has published articles noting that hundreds of thousands of tickets are still unsold, that no one wants to watch women play soccer and that some of the paths for the mountain bike competition will not be finished in time. "Security Shambles Could Cause Chaos for Spectators," the paper said this week, next to an article with the headline "London's Transport System Fails Again."
Many Londoners feel that they are getting the worst parts of the Olympics — the cost, the hassle, the officials telling them not to do things or go places — without any of the benefits. The security company hired by the government at huge expense proved to be wildly incompetent; the Olympic brand managers have made it clear that no one, apart from official sponsors, will be allowed to appear to capitalize on the Games.
"It's like living in a police state," said a business owner, explaining that her company had wanted to start a social media campaign tied to the Olympics but had been warned by lawyers that it would be prosecuted and fined if it used the word "Olympics."
"That's why you don't see any references to the Games in shop windows or on the streets — people are too scared," she said.
Also: What if it does not stop raining? Even amid the wettest summer since records began, characterized by deluges and floods, officials keep saying they hope the rain will go away before the Games begin. There really is no contingency plan; the Olympic Stadium, where the opening ceremony is to take place, has no roof.
Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the Games, said this week that some of the Olympic sites outside London were "waterlogged," and he urged spectators to wear raincoats and rubber boots. Should the bad weather continue, even the beach volleyball players will be allowed to change out of their bikinis — one of the things that many spectators appear to like best about them — and into "long pants and/or tops," officials said.
"At the risk of sounding a little bit like a father about to issue their kids off on an Outward Bound trip," Mr. Coe told reporters, "let me make the obvious point that we are a northern European country."
Walking near Victoria station, Linda Vaughn, 68, said she was bewildered by the bombardment of seemingly contradictory messages: Welcome to the Olympics, Now Please Go Away.
"We keep getting told to 'get ahead of the Games,' " she said, referring to the city's program for persuading people to make alternative travel plans. "But it's still a mystery where we're supposed to go, especially because nothing moves in London on the best of days."
Sandy Macaskill contributed reporting.
A lot of the venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympic games are now virtually deserted.
Only six of the London venues are permanent. The rest of the site's going to be further redeveloped after the games.
I think the other venues are actually modular, so may be given to future hosts who want them.
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 19, 2012, 10:23:08 PM
that no one wants to watch women play soccer
Hear this, Valmy? There should be tickets available.
The Olympics are terrible. Worse than the Iraq war.
Bad weather and bad traffic are the least of London's concerns. This was posted on the Bethsoft forums today. :tinfoil:
QuoteThe Illuminati are planning to attack the 2012 London Olympics, How i know this, The proof.
Back in 1995ish, Trading cards were published, they were released by what seems to be an Illuminati member. many of the cards, seem to have predicted 9/11, The Japan nuclear crisis earthquake, haiti, ETC. Even future events. You can no longer buy these cards, as they stopped printing in 1997 due to the secret service. One of the cards, showed people that seemed to be running from an explosion, all dressed in the Olympic colors. Big ben is Exploding in the backround. These cards are prophecies, all 400 of them. Bethesda please don't close this, people deserve to know our future.
The card was made in 1995
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More proof
Look at the mascots
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Note the one eye, that is the symbol for the illuminati.
Cars 2 poster
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Note the plane heading for Big Ben
More proof
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Note the word zion?
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Its obvious in this one,
Marsonic much?
Who are the illuminati?
A satanic group who bid no mercy for a new world order, a population decrease. Cant you see? The illuminati caused 9/11, And blamed it on arabs. The illuminati are enemies of them, and will most likely blame them this time around. Look at the cards! They knew of 9/11, just watch a video on the 9/11 attack, you can see satanic faces.
There you have it, if you dont believe me, i will find more proof.
Please share this, try to get a hold of the cards (Almost impossible) and try to decipher the clues.
Holla!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/london-eye-light-show-based-twitter-enthusiasm-165224018.html
QuoteLondon Eye Will Have Light Show Based on Twitter Enthusiasm
The 2012 London Olympic Games will officially begin in one week, and the queen's city has been sprucing itself up in anticipation of being at the center of the world stage. Along with new stadiums and enhanced security measures comes news that one of the city's biggest landmarks, the London Eye, will be transformed into an illuminating social media indicator of how people feel about the international games.
Former British decathlete Daley Thompson arranged for the Ferris wheel, the largest in Europe, to display a light show based on positive and negative reaction to the Olympics on Twitter. Here's how it works: When users use the hashtag #Energy2012, an algorithm based on "sentiment analysis" will track the tweets. The more positive the comments, the more the London Eye will glow. The program will rely on real-time "social sentiment tracking" that will split the tweets into positive and negative conversations, filter them, and then convert them into a light show
Thompson, who won gold in 1980 and 1984 in Moscow and Los Angeles, said he knows how important it is for athletes to know they're being supported. So far, people on Twitter are excited about the plan. One user wrote, "This is amazing," and another tweeted, "Let there be light."
According to EDF Energy, the company sponsoring the Ferris wheel, this will be the first-ever social media-driven light show. Thompson said, "We want to make the EDF Energy London Eye a spectacular showcase of national support for the athletes -- and one that will inspire them every night of the games."
I'd be whinging like mad about the mascots and logo. Who came up with those? :lol:
Quote from: sbr on July 19, 2012, 10:56:12 PM
Bad weather and bad traffic are the least of London's concerns. This was posted on the Bethsoft forums today. :tinfoil:
I wonder if those cards are from the Illuminati game published by SJgames. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati:_New_World_Order
If so, he's off by 12 cards.
Quote from: Malthus on July 20, 2012, 03:25:25 PM
I'd be whinging like mad about the mascots and logo. Who came up with those? :lol:
someone who loves the dick. Two phallic mascots and fellatio logo :lol:
I heard that sponsor McDonald's got them to ban french fries for everyone but McD's and the chippies.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 20, 2012, 03:33:47 PM
Quote from: sbr on July 19, 2012, 10:56:12 PM
Bad weather and bad traffic are the least of London's concerns. This was posted on the Bethsoft forums today. :tinfoil:
I wonder if those cards are from the Illuminati game published by SJgames. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati:_New_World_Order
If so, he's off by 12 cards.
They are. I still have a complete set of those cards. :tinfoil:
Wait was I desperate to get women's soccer tickets or something?
Quote from: Valmy on July 20, 2012, 04:21:49 PM
Wait was I desperate to get women's soccer tickets or something?
Yes you was, Bill from Sinton.
There was a great deal of Whinging in the months and weeks prior to the Olympics in Vancouver. When the games actually started the mood changed and you couldnt find a nay sayer. I wonder if that will happen in London.
Quote from: HVC on July 20, 2012, 03:59:17 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 20, 2012, 03:25:25 PM
I'd be whinging like mad about the mascots and logo. Who came up with those? :lol:
someone who loves the dick. Two phallic mascots and fellatio logo :lol:
I'll never look at Lisa Simpson the same way. :puke:
Quote from: Valmy on July 20, 2012, 04:21:49 PM
Wait was I desperate to get women's soccer tickets or something?
You'll watch anything. :contract:
Used to love the Olympics. But somehow the recent outings have left me "meh". Too big, too sensationalist, too commercialized. My favorite games remain Sydney (summer) and Lillehammer (winter) - both times I had the feeling the hosts were really happy and proud to hold the games and not just going through the motions or using it as a propaganda tool.
L.A., Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athens, Beijing, Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville, Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin . . . . I've watched as much coverage of those games as I could, but I'll be damned if I remember anything too specific about them.
And this is a surprise?
Places with captive audiences always grossly overcharge.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 20, 2012, 09:37:33 PM
You'll watch anything. :contract:
Well that's true.
But I never get to...too busy :(
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2012, 10:47:32 PM
Used to love the Olympics. But somehow the recent outings have left me "meh". Too big, too sensationalist, too commercialized. My favorite games remain Sydney (summer) and Lillehammer (winter) - both times I had the feeling the hosts were really happy and proud to hold the games and not just going through the motions or using it as a propaganda tool.
L.A., Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athens, Beijing, Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville, Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin . . . . I've watched as much coverage of those games as I could, but I'll be damned if I remember anything too specific about them.
Well, Vancouver was a good party.
Quote from: sbr on July 19, 2012, 10:56:12 PM
Look at the mascots
Note the one eye, that is the symbol for the illuminati.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Who the fuck picked the Union Jack-clad spermatozoa?
I think the Winter Ganmes in general are more interesting and vibrant.
But either way, the IOC ranks in the top 3 of the most corrupt organizations on Earth.
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2012, 10:47:32 PM
Used to love the Olympics. But somehow the recent outings have left me "meh". Too big, too sensationalist, too commercialized. My favorite games remain Sydney (summer) and Lillehammer (winter) - both times I had the feeling the hosts were really happy and proud to hold the games and not just going through the motions or using it as a propaganda tool.
L.A., Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athens, Beijing, Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville, Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin . . . . I've watched as much coverage of those games as I could, but I'll be damned if I remember anything too specific about them.
Atlanta you should be able to remember for the bombing of the Olympic Park.
Granted, not what the organizing committee would have hoped you remember.
I'm sure the Chechens will make every forget Atlanta in 2014.
Quote from: dps on July 21, 2012, 10:34:17 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2012, 10:47:32 PM
Used to love the Olympics. But somehow the recent outings have left me "meh". Too big, too sensationalist, too commercialized. My favorite games remain Sydney (summer) and Lillehammer (winter) - both times I had the feeling the hosts were really happy and proud to hold the games and not just going through the motions or using it as a propaganda tool.
L.A., Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athens, Beijing, Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville, Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin . . . . I've watched as much coverage of those games as I could, but I'll be damned if I remember anything too specific about them.
Atlanta you should be able to remember for the bombing of the Olympic Park.
Granted, not what the organizing committee would have hoped you remember.
Why on earth do you say that, it isn't even a 'footnote' in history; what happened, a pipe bomb killed a spectator or two and I forget the name of the perpetrator, which is as it should be.
Quote from: mongers on July 21, 2012, 11:05:02 AM
Quote from: dps on July 21, 2012, 10:34:17 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2012, 10:47:32 PM
Used to love the Olympics. But somehow the recent outings have left me "meh". Too big, too sensationalist, too commercialized. My favorite games remain Sydney (summer) and Lillehammer (winter) - both times I had the feeling the hosts were really happy and proud to hold the games and not just going through the motions or using it as a propaganda tool.
L.A., Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athens, Beijing, Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville, Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin . . . . I've watched as much coverage of those games as I could, but I'll be damned if I remember anything too specific about them.
Atlanta you should be able to remember for the bombing of the Olympic Park.
Granted, not what the organizing committee would have hoped you remember.
Why on earth do you say that, it isn't even a 'footnote' in history; what happened, a pipe bomb killed a spectator or two and I forget the name of the perpetrator, which is as it should be.
Yeah, whats an Olympics without a pipe bomb killing a spectator or two.
:cry: thats more expensive than beer in norway :cry:
Quote from: dps on July 21, 2012, 10:34:17 AM
Atlanta you should be able to remember for the bombing of the Olympic Park.
Granted, not what the organizing committee would have hoped you remember.
I meant in terms of sports performance.
Quote from: sbr on July 19, 2012, 10:56:12 PM
Note the one eye, that is the symbol for the illuminati.
One of the Black Company's wizards was a member of the Illuminati?
Quote from: mongers on June 18, 2012, 02:52:01 PM
First whinging story in the run up to the Olympics, offical food at venues to be twice the going 'London rate':
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Olympic beer to cost £7.23 a pint
Spectators hoping to celebrate British Olympic medals with a drink at the Games face paying the equivalent of more than £7 for a pint of beer, organisers have said.
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
30 May 2012
Bars at the official Games venues will charge £4.80 for a small serving of London 2012 red wine. For visitors with an appetite for traditional British fare, a portion of cod and chips will set them back at least £8.
The London 2012 organisers, who published sample menus yesterday, claimed the prices were "more than comparable" to catering costs at other sporting events.
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Rest of article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9301233/Olympic-beer-to-cost-7.23-a-pint.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9301233/Olympic-beer-to-cost-7.23-a-pint.html)
Heineken is no beer.
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 21, 2012, 10:33:00 AM
But either way, the IOC ranks in the top 3 of the most corrupt organizations on Earth.
Hard to say. I mean, any body that involves Third Worlders or Europeans is prone to corruption.
The games has it's first political controversy since the opening, some toe-rag tory boy MP has gotten his tweeting foot stuck in his twitter orifice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Burley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Burley)
Quote
Twitter controversy
During the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics of the 2012 Olympic Games, taking place in London, Burley caused a stir on Twitter by denouncing the content of the ceremony as
"...leftie multicultural crap. Bring back Red Arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones."
Burley went on to suggest that it was
"the most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen - more than Beijing, the capital of a Communist state." [11]
Downing Street sources swiftly sought to distance themselves from Burley's comments.[12] Following criticism of Burley's remarks by fellow parliamentarians and celebrities, alongside calls for his resignation on Twitter, speculation was fuelled that Prime Minister David Cameron would either advise him to stand down or withdraw the Conservative whip. No statement has yet been issued. [13] Subsequently, Burley attempted to row back on his remarks, tweeting
"Seems my tweet has been misunderstood. I was talking about the way it was handled in the show, not multiculturalism itself."
Burley's attempt to clarify his remarks was met with incredulity my many on Twitter.
Did he tweet that in his Nazi uniform?
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 27, 2012, 08:01:15 PM
Did he tweet that in his Nazi uniform?
:D
Yeah, he's a rather creepy character.
Yeah caught that hullabaloo through friend's twitter responses to opening ceremonies.
You know, lately I've been seeing the "whinging" as a same word for whining. Never saw that word used before.
Quote from: KRonn on July 27, 2012, 09:03:04 PM
You know, lately I've been seeing the "whinging" as a same word for whining. Never saw that word used before.
I don't know it's origins, I guess it's impart popular over here because Aussies were/are want to talk about whinging Poms who visit or emigrate to their fair continent.
See also "whinging pommy bastard". :)
Ah yes, the US team looked great in their Chinese made uniforms! Actually, I did like the uniforms. I had to laugh when our politicians made a stink about the uniforms being made outside the US. Where have they been, haven't been noticing the world wide economy and trade, except when they want to make a lame political point? Lol. Then do something, if they can, to help some of these manufacturing businesses to come back to the US!
Quote from: KRonn on July 27, 2012, 09:03:04 PM
You know, lately I've been seeing the "whinging" as a same word for whining. Never saw that word used before.
Brits have been using it as long as I've been on the internet.
I prefer it with the "e" - whingeing, without the "e" it looks suspiciously colonial and is indicative of the fall that this once great nation has endured since the close of WW2.
With an e? crazy pommie.
Quote from: katmai on July 28, 2012, 03:05:01 AM
With an e? crazy pommie.
Same with "ageing" and "dieing". Even my Macbook keeps correcting that. :bleeding:
In any event, the Aussies are right about the whingeing poms. Whinge, moan and bloody complain.....it is the national sport; where other countries have revolutions the Brits just keep on grumbling. It is one of the main reasons I never emigrated, one can't go to a place like the US, Canada or Australia and wander about moaning about how everything is going to the dogs.........it is grossly impolite to do that in someone else's country that you have chosen to live in........so I stayed in this bloody dump instead and kept my freedom to whinge :mad:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 28, 2012, 03:15:53 AM
In any event, the Aussies are right about the whingeing poms. Whinge, moan and bloody complain.....it is the national sport; where other countries have revolutions the Brits just keep on grumbling. It is one of the main reasons I never emigrated, one can't go to a place like the US, Canada or Australia and wander about moaning about how everything is going to the dogs.........it is grossly impolite to do that in someone else's country that you have chosen to live in........so I stayed in this bloody dump instead and kept my freedom to whinge :mad:
:lol:
And So True.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 28, 2012, 03:15:53 AM
In any event, the Aussies are right about the whingeing poms. Whinge, moan and bloody complain.....it is the national sport; where other countries have revolutions the Brits just keep on grumbling. It is one of the main reasons I never emigrated, one can't go to a place like the US, Canada or Australia and wander about moaning about how everything is going to the dogs.........it is grossly impolite to do that in someone else's country that you have chosen to live in........so I stayed in this bloody dump instead and kept my freedom to whinge :mad:
Ian Leslie made that point about Romney:
QuoteFrom the point of view of Seb Coe and co., Romney's foot-shot was perfectly timed. Suddenly, our poor indigenous moaners had all the air sucked away from them. Nobody wants to be associated with an American's criticism. (It reminded me of the last-minute boost to British support for the Iraq war created by France's stubborn opposition to it). Nothing brings the British together more than a foreigner doing what only we're allowed to do: have a moan about Britain.
:lol:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 28, 2012, 03:02:55 AM
I prefer it with the "e" - whingeing, without the "e" it looks suspiciously colonial and is indicative of the fall that this once great nation has endured since the close of WW2.
Hah! You Brits are ruining the Queen's English! ;)
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:lol:
The Ed Anger edition...
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Quote from: Tonitrus on July 28, 2012, 07:09:30 PM
The Ed Anger edition...
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I thought that was a cause for celebration for Ed? :hmm:
The brits are being accused of bad sportsmanship by forcing restarts in both cycling and rowing. In cycling the athelete "fell" before the first half circle and in rowing they had a "mechanical" issue that apparently no one else could see, waving a screwdriver about in the air seemed to fix the boat..
In both cases they got a restart of the final.
In rowing they still didn't get gold though :menace:
V
No restart for Lasse Norman when he fell in the velodrome due to the British rider going up when he was suppose to go straight. He didn't need it though. :menace:
Nope and as I wrote, no gold for the boat crew who had "technical" difficulties...
V
:blink:
Gamesmanship ? :hmm:
Quote from: Valdemar on August 06, 2012, 08:23:01 AM
The brits are being accused of bad sportsmanship by forcing restarts in both cycling and rowing. In cycling the athelete "fell" before the first half circle and in rowing they had a "mechanical" issue that apparently no one else could see, waving a screwdriver about in the air seemed to fix the boat..
In both cases they got a restart of the final.
In rowing they still didn't get gold though :menace:
V
You obviously weren't watching the race. His seat came off, which he was physically waving in the air towards the race referee. In a sliding-seat vessel, that's a pretty important part of the boat.
Quote from: Warspite on August 06, 2012, 03:34:53 PM
Quote from: Valdemar on August 06, 2012, 08:23:01 AM
The brits are being accused of bad sportsmanship by forcing restarts in both cycling and rowing. In cycling the athelete "fell" before the first half circle and in rowing they had a "mechanical" issue that apparently no one else could see, waving a screwdriver about in the air seemed to fix the boat..
In both cases they got a restart of the final.
In rowing they still didn't get gold though :menace:
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You obviously weren't watching the race. His seat came off, which he was physically waving in the air towards the race referee. In a sliding-seat vessel, that's a pretty important part of the boat.
Indeed, and the officials who went to watch him fix it wondered out loud afterwards how he could so easily attach it with a screwdriver if it was truly broken...
You can take a seat of.. that doesn't mean its broken.
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The boat isn't the responsibility of the team?
Quote from: The Brain on August 07, 2012, 06:05:10 AM
The boat isn't the responsibility of the team?
If the problem emerges in the first 100m of the race then a restart can be allowed, after 100m then it is just tough luck.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 07, 2012, 06:35:09 AM
Quote from: The Brain on August 07, 2012, 06:05:10 AM
The boat isn't the responsibility of the team?
If the problem emerges in the first 100m of the race then a restart can be allowed, after 100m then it is just tough luck.
Indeed, the issues is for both boat and bike race (where the GB athlete admitted to diving) is that in both cases the GB team got a bad start and apparently tried for a restart. The rule is meant for accidents and true malfunctions, not for getting restarts at will.
In the boat case obviously the truth of the technical difficulty will never be proven, and they still only got silver so it all ended well :D
In the bike race however the rider admitted the fall was on purpose, but later said he had been misunderstood......
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Just a question like that, isn't there any reason not to allow men's heptathlon in the Olympics - and make them with the same rules as the women's (100m, and outdoors)?
I wouldn't call the boat thing bad sportsmanship at all. His boat broke and it is in the rules of the match that a restart can happen. It was just bad luck.
I'm unfamiliar with the cycling incident.
Bad sportsmanship- now that would be the likes of those badminton players trying to lose deliberately so they could get an easier next round draw, or the Japanese women's team against South Africa trying to draw so they would finish lower in their league and not have to travel to the other side of the country.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 28, 2012, 03:15:53 AM
In any event, the Aussies are right about the whingeing poms. Whinge, moan and bloody complain.....it is the national sport; where other countries have revolutions the Brits just keep on grumbling. It is one of the main reasons I never emigrated, one can't go to a place like the US, Canada or Australia and wander about moaning about how everything is going to the dogs.........it is grossly impolite to do that in someone else's country that you have chosen to live in........so I stayed in this bloody dump instead and kept my freedom to whinge :mad:
I think we all do this. I am always hearing people saying how the US is doomed and Americans are fat and worthless and entitled and unworthy of our heritage, our economy is soon going to melt down Greek like, our government is hopelessly corrupt and so forth. But I think the Brits just have a self-awareness and sense of humor about moaning and complaining the rest of us don't. Americans tend to get use our whining as a reason for our constant state of national outrage.
@Valmy - I've temporarily totally lost my moaning mojo because of the Olympics. It has cost a lot to put on but it is one hell of a party........and the British team are doing brilliantly. As an additional bonus we have hardly heard a peep out of Cameron, Milliband and the others .........only that silly arse Clegg managed to make the news, but only briefly and we will wave goodbye to him at the next election :cool:
Quote from: Monoriu on July 19, 2012, 10:35:46 PM
A lot of the venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympic games are now virtually deserted.
Which is not that unusual for large construction projects in China.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 07, 2012, 01:35:55 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 19, 2012, 10:35:46 PM
A lot of the venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympic games are now virtually deserted.
Which is not that unusual for large construction projects in China.
It's also true fot many venues of past Olympics.
The velodrome is a problem everytime.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 07, 2012, 01:50:39 PM
It's also true fot many venues of past Olympics.
The velodrome is a problem everytime.
Next time I'm in Montreal I challenge you to follow the moped.
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The US & China dominate in way too many events. Their medal count is ridiculous. The ROTW should get together & do something about it.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 07, 2012, 04:28:55 PM
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The US & China dominate in way too many events. Their medal count is ridiculous. The ROTW should get together & do something about it.
Take up badminton and ping pong. :shifty:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 07, 2012, 12:18:18 PM
@Valmy - I've temporarily totally lost my moaning mojo because of the Olympics. It has cost a lot to put on but it is one hell of a party........and the British team are doing brilliantly. As an additional bonus we have hardly heard a peep out of Cameron, Milliband and the others .........only that silly arse Clegg managed to make the news, but only briefly and we will wave goodbye to him at the next election :cool:
I suspect that England is in a state of shock. All that happiness, well being and good news is ... well... just un-english to be honest. you'be got like twice as many medals as australia, it's the world turned upside down.
Looks like the Cameroonians (Cameroonites?) are bah-humbugging the Olympics, too.
QuoteOlympics 2012: Athletes abscond during games
By Olga Khazan
Europe may be going through rough economic times, but the grass still seems greener in Britain for some athletes who are competing in London this summer.
Seven Cameroon Olympians have disappeared and are suspected of attempting to stay in Britain for economic reasons.
Soccer player Drusille Ngako was the first to go missing, and she was followed by swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue and five boxers, the BBC reported.
"What began as rumor has finally turned out to be true," Team Cameroon mission head David Ojong said.
It's far from the first time that visiting athletes have sought to stay in a host country.
Several Sudanese runners have already sought asylum in British police stations during these games.
Australian authorities prepared for asylum applications from athletes in 2000, but they warned that permission to stay would not be granted leniently, according to the Canberra Times. The entire Romanian junior world wrestling team sought refuge during a 1999 Olympic test event, the Australian reported.
A Shiite Iraqi weightlifter defected in Atlanta in 1996, fleeing persecution under Saddam Hussein's regime. Five Cuban soccer players fled their hotel in Tampa during an Olympic qualifier in 2008, wearing only the clothes on their backs, and said they wanted to play for a South Florida team instead.
In 1988, a Romanian athlete requested political asylum during the Calgary Winter Olympics. Canadian authorities had gone so far as to set up a hotline for people with immigration questions during the games, leading the Soviet team to complain that the measure would only encourage more athletes to defect, the Globe and Mail wrote at the time.
QuoteThe entire Romanian junior world wrestling team sought refuge during a 1999 Olympic test event, the Australian reported.
Hubcap theft up 40% since then in Australia.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 07, 2012, 04:28:55 PM
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The US & China dominate in way too many events. Their medal count is ridiculous. The ROTW should get together & do something about it.
It is because of our College Athletics programs, powered by money from College Football mostly.
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 07, 2012, 12:18:18 PM
@Valmy - I've temporarily totally lost my moaning mojo because of the Olympics. It has cost a lot to put on but it is one hell of a party........and the British team are doing brilliantly. As an additional bonus we have hardly heard a peep out of Cameron, Milliband and the others .........only that silly arse Clegg managed to make the news, but only briefly and we will wave goodbye to him at the next election :cool:
I was going to say you Brits look pretty proud to be Brits on TV even if you do not sound like it on the internet.
Quote from: Tyr on August 07, 2012, 10:16:07 AM
I wouldn't call the boat thing bad sportsmanship at all. His boat broke and it is in the rules of the match that a restart can happen. It was just bad luck.
I'm unfamiliar with the cycling incident.
Bad sportsmanship- now that would be the likes of those badminton players trying to lose deliberately so they could get an easier next round draw, or the Japanese women's team against South Africa trying to draw so they would finish lower in their league and not have to travel to the other side of the country.
In the cyckling event the rider took a dive by simply lying down on his side, just like the Chinese trying to lose on purpose. That created a restart and team GB got a better start. The rider admitted to taking the fall.
I still think the boating thing was the same as ppl question A how he seat could come of entirely while he was sitting on it and B, how he could fix it that easily waving a srewdriver... but then Harry Potter lives in England too :D
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Quote from: Valdemar on August 08, 2012, 02:45:49 AM
I still think the boating thing was the same as ppl question A how he seat could come of entirely while he was sitting on it and B, how he could fix it that easily waving a srewdriver... but then Harry Potter lives in England too :D
A because a screw was loose
B because twisting a screwdriver around is how that problem is solved
My understanding is that the clip which secured the seat to the runner below had seized-up, ie his seat was not moving back and forth and he therefore waved the seat as a signal.
Re the cyclist, deliberately buggering up your start is within the letter of the law in that event. I would agree that he broke the spirit of the law and Chris Hoy looked rather pained as the younger chap explained what he had done. Hopefully the team and coach have privately told him not to do it again.
In both cases I'm getting my info from the BBC and BBC commentators, I don't know enough about either event to make my own decision, but that is why we have expert umpires, judges and whatnot.
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2012, 10:05:07 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 07, 2012, 12:18:18 PM
@Valmy - I've temporarily totally lost my moaning mojo because of the Olympics. It has cost a lot to put on but it is one hell of a party........and the British team are doing brilliantly. As an additional bonus we have hardly heard a peep out of Cameron, Milliband and the others .........only that silly arse Clegg managed to make the news, but only briefly and we will wave goodbye to him at the next election :cool:
I was going to say you Brits look pretty proud to be Brits on TV even if you do not sound like it on the internet.
There is plenty of patriotism Valmy, it's just that we like to grumble :bowler:
Mittens didn't get that during his visit of course. While the country was busy moaning about the Olympics he made the mistake of joining in. As a visitor he was supposed to say something like "I'm sure everything will be fine, London is a great city......blah blah blah". Instead he made his comment and united British opinion against him, "WTF? Bloody Yank comes over and tells us we don't know how to throw a party? It's going to be a great Olympics and we'll win loads of medals so up yours!"......or something like that :lol:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 08, 2012, 03:02:41 AM
My understanding is that the clip which secured the seat to the runner below had seized-up, ie his seat was not moving back and forth and he therefore waved the seat as a signal.
I will bow to your understanding as all I know of the event is what I've gleaned from Valdemar's bitching about it. :lol:
How can he wave the seat if he is sitting on it? :lmfao:
Any how, I agree with your overall statement re letter of the law vs. spirit
I only got my info from BBC and DK broadcasting, they quoted an official who diplomatically found no obvious technical issues, but that whatever had made the brit call it of could be fixed by "waving a screwdriver.."
The other rowers said that had the brits gained from it they considered calling a protest.. but as the brits still failed to win they saw no reason to call it.
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