hurrah. we can continue to rape the world of medals in cycling events unopposed.

Still we would have won a hell of a lot more golds. the 10k free style swimming we were pipped to the post and we fell down to silver position. Had we won them all we would be seeing an event glorious to behold.

BMX, what a farce.

Machie wrote:
> So we failed in 8 out of 17 events, hopefully we'll do better in
> 4 years time.

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There's more medals than they predicted. That'll do!

That's it then...

The Olympics are more enjoyable when Team GB do well :¬)



More in 2012 - it'll soon come round...



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True, although you have to admit we totally kicked ass in the cycling. We were so good that we were winning gold AND silver in the same events :D Brit vs Brit.

I'm surpised none of you mentioned that Cuban attacking the referee. Now he and his coach have got a life time ban :/

Do we have any chance of winning another gold? If we don't then we've failed the Olympics, we need 20!

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Stop whining and get training ;)

no. Its there job to win. I expect them to do a good job of it. My job is to watch it on tv or on the internet. I've done that well. Whats their excuse?

Anyone know how the professional tennis players can compete but boxers, footballers? etc. have to be amateurs?







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well, at least we didn't leave empty handed. But we need more gold! atheletics teams have been rubbish. So has englands football team. If we didn't have top notch cyclists or sailers we would have been much, much lower in the table.

BMX was a travasty.

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but we still have a chance at a bronze right?

She got knocked out in her next fight though... (not literally!)









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Nin wrote:
> It's all kicking off in the taekwondo. The British girl was
> robbed against the Chinese athlete, appeal lodged and the
> decision reversed. The crowd isnt going to be happy.

That's good news! - this was the first bit of taekwondo I'd watched (live this morning). The camera's clearly showed the 'head kick' but not all of the judges saw it.

It didn't sound as if you were allowed to appeal against this - but as the BBC report she "received an unprecedented reprieve".

edit: "It's all kicking off in the taekwondo" only just saw that!!! :¬)


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The last few days have been a bit of a farce in atheletics and especially in the BMX. it was crushing to see her fall and in some ways i'm a bit annoyed and find satisfaction at times that the fall might have injured her.

Atheletics What the hell happened? the rely teams have been disqualified for a cack pass that no professional should make. Hang your heads gb atheletics team, i demand lashes for them ALL.

Yeah the other 2 boxers were well outdone. Jeffries in particular might need to look at his tactics in future and consider throwing punches as part of them.

Just seen the relay. The have to pass the baton before they cross a certain point. Neither did

GB Vs Ireland pt 2 should be coming up next. GB won pt 1 earlier

Garin wrote:
> Theres no such thing as a guaranteed british gold.  BMX rider
> crashed yet again.  I dont think she deserved anything anyway,
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There should have been after we spent £30,000 on a replica course so she could practice on. Oh well maybe in 2012, still I don't know why its an Olympic event.

How are we doing in the other events? A gold for canoeing, thats a first. :) And one of the boxers has got through to the final which means atleast a silver.

I've accepted that Russia will over take us, lets beat the Aussies and the Germans.

A few let downs yesterday and so far today, people have mentioned them, like the BMX rider.

The relay was the biggest joke, USA and GB both looked like it was their first time racing. We are defending champions who didn't qualify. Not good

It seems that most of those expected to take gold have failed.
As for the BMX rider, she was 2nd and instead of accepting that, went for broke with a risky move on the corner and clipped the French riders backwheel.

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Why the f**k am i discussing BMX at this time of the morning

You get easily distracted so it's probably for the best :)

Another gold and another silver. We did have the BMX event today but it was cancelled due to heavy rain. I think we're guranteed a gold in that and we need it as the Russians are catching up.

...and still the medals keep coming :¬)


Looking forward to the Triple jump in the next hour...







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Hmm that womens diving sounds interesting :D

I just noticed that we have 3 boxers that have qualified their quarter-final bout so are guranteed to win atleast a bronze each. There's 4 days left, it'd be nice to win some more golds and keep Russia out of the top 3 for the first time.