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Off Topic The Olympics/Paralympics thread

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  1. Cityswall

    Cityswall Well-Known Member

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    I'm sorry but you still seem to not be getting the point.
    GB's performance director stopped talk of anything else but gold across the board no matter how outlandish if was and the upturn is nothing short of astounding. Because aiming for top gives you a damn sight more chance of getting it than aiming and excepting second best more money or not.

    If aiming for the top gives you a better chance of achieving it why in the **** do the English FA set their bar so low.
     
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  2. originallambrettaman

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    Isn't it annoying when you go to collect your luggage at the airport and find that everyone has the same bag...

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  3. originallambrettaman

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    BREAKING: Court of Arbitration for Sport rejects Russia's appeal against exclusion from Paralympics. #SSNHQ
     
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  4. Cityswall

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    CAS have upheld the Russian ban for the Paralympics maybe now the cheating ****s will get the message.

    My view is obviously that Russia didn't have a leg to stand on over this ban and that TBH the IOC were cowards to not do it in the olympics as well.

    I hopefully they sent Putin a direct message telling him to go **** himself.
     
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  5. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Putin will come out with his stock answer, this is a Western conspiracy against them.
     
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  6. augustatiger

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    I know there will always be a debate as to which sports should be in the Olympics and every one will have an opinion.
    Tennis can not be an Olympic sport.
    Murray carried the flag at the opening ,won gold ,but at the closing was playing for $ in a professional closed tournament.
    How can that match with the Olympic ideals?
     
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  7. Cityswall

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    Look back at our previous bygone medalists you now have to ask just how good where they? Bearing in mind that many were part time and yet the managed to strike gold.
    As an example Sally Gunnell admitted this morning.that she was part time and yet managed to beat full time athletes in 1992. That makes me straight away ask just how good she could have been if she had been full time with the then cutting edge of sports setups like we have today?
    I could roll this out to Seb Coe, Daily Thompson, etc and in my mind makes their achievements even more striking. That in no way takes away what team GB have done in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
     
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    A lot of them are rich.
    What about Usain, Wiggins Phelps Cav etc.
    Where is the line drawn coz all of these diamond league athletes get well paid.
    Even some of the Gold medal womens hockey are off to play in Holland.
     
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    :emoticon-0104-surpr
     
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  10. Cityswall

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    I can honestly say that wasn't deliberate. <doh>
     
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    "Bing bong". "This is a security announcement. In the interest of safety,please do not leave your luggage unattended. Thank you".
     
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  13. Cityswall

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    I think this needs a bumpage.
     
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  14. Cityswall

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    Ollie Hynd has qualified for the S8 400M freestyle a full 9 seconds clear of anyone else.
    Josef Craig has also qualified.
     
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    I was looking for this thread t'other day. I was wondering if all the comments about Russian 'cheating' would be reviewed in light of Bethany Woodward quitting Team GB after she considered wrongly classified athletes were being brought into the team to boost medal hopes?
     
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  16. Cityswall

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    Well looking at how a GB swimmer has been reclassified and has just had the floor wiped with her by the current best in the heats in the S8 category (She qualified miles behind her).I would say being reclassified isn't always the best for you.
     
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  17. Cityswall

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    It would also seem that channel 4's website's geolock isn't working properly.
     
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    Of course it wont but that wasnt the point I was making. The point is someone who has devoted their life to training for this is so incensed by what she considers - (in quote marks to make it very clear) "cheating" that she has quit Team GB just days before the competition starts.
     
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  19. Cityswall

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    Speaking of reclassification they are running a piece on Libby Clegg being reclassified as T11 (totally blind) she now has to wear a blindfold something that she has just said at the start totally panicked her.

    Her eye sight has got worse.
     
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  20. Cityswall

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    True and I see your point but however it could be more the case that her nose has been put out of joint because it adversely effects her.
     
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