In the men's relay it looks like Magnussen has been listening to the pesky 'T' man from the Commonwealth Bank again.

jbshack said...

I think there may be some funny moments this year thanks to the organisers
Starting with this one.



Story
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jW2wGvXpfq_xoTK39vrk3iqJMgqg?docId=CNG.1b3f5cfb3c1ee653321abac96108990b.781

Some interesting choice of words in that article too - a bit Dr. Suess? "...caused consternation among the delegation, who demanded an explanation"

It'll probably mean something TOTALLY different in 20 years time. Like the time when people were gay.

evlPanda said...

When is the Australian synchronised swim team on?

Is that a gee up panda or fair dinkum ?
If it is fair dinkum let me know when they are on.

www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/7408940/Mini-Minis-to-be-Olympic-athletics-retrievers

Watched the women last night in the 100m heats,semi-finals tonight.Felix is the one i'm rooting for.

100 + 200m should be awesome, Blake,Bolt and Gay for top three.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-icke-claims-london-2012-1199641

Anybody got some black spray paint - it's dying for an apostrophe 'T'.

How about that runner with prosthetic lower legs competing in the 400m race.
Surely that isn't fair.

The guy has ~4kg less to throw forward with every stride and his blood pressure must be lower and his heart is doing less work. Those fibre composite springs he runs on weigh next to nothing, demand no physical resources to work and return nearly every bit of energy put into them.

Sure the bloke would no doubt rather have his original real legs and he certainly has spirit to come back as an athlete after such a disastrous loss but that's not the point. The Paralympics exists for "differently abled" athletes.

I think if they let him compete on those things then they should let the rest of the field compete on Powerizers (technabob.com/blog/2007/07/16/powerizer-leg-springs-perform-superhuman-feats/). he he That would be an interesting race

tatkins said...

stamp said...

such a load of ****. every 4 years all the armchair athletes become passionate experts in obscure sports they know nothing about and don't normally follow.

Yea right.......if its not footy then it must be obscure. Think you'd be surprised how many people participate (or have in their younger days) in these obscure sports.

I enjoy watching all these obscure sports. It's a pot purri of events. Much better than pass-pass-tackle-tackle-pass-pass-tackle-fake scrum.

^^ Gold and true