Author Topic: An Olympic random thread for small things that don't really etc etc etc (Read 40924 times)

Quote from: Veloman on 04 August, 2012, 08:58:46 pm
Quote from: Arch on 04 August, 2012, 08:40:39 pm
I just couldn't help thinking that if you need advice like that by the time you're in the Olympics, maybe you aren't cut out for it...
Surprising how people need support. Look at Victoria P and her open comments on the role of Dr Steve, after all she has achieved.
Does he whisper 'handlebar end forwards, Vicky!' before her races?

Check Vicky P interviews and she always refers to Dr Steve giving her the emotional support she needs. If that support takes the form of "just ride to win, you can do it" or "handlebar end forwards" and it works then who cares. It's the work done before the event that counts and those little things that seem strange to outsiders, like arrow toward the basket, are just there to focus the athlete and stop their minds from wandering.

Might seem strange, but talk to the athletes and the psychologists.

Tewdric · « **Reply #60 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:37:43 pm »

Quote from: Rig of Jarkness on 04 August, 2012, 10:08:47 pm

That was something else. What a night !

As I believe they say in Scotland, oh f*ck aye!

geraldc · « **Reply #61 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:40:05 pm »

http://twitpic.com/7l917b

Made me laugh

Basil · « **Reply #62 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:40:20 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 10:26:17 pm

Am I right in thinking that, a couple of months ago, some twit went on the record to say that Jessica Ennis looked fat?

Yeah. What a porker.

$:-\$

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #63 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:43:08 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 10:26:17 pm

Am I right in thinking that, a couple of months ago, some twit went on the record to say that Jessica Ennis looked fat?

Yes, and I think the twit in question might have been her coach.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #64 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:45:58 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 04 August, 2012, 10:40:20 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 10:26:17 pm
Am I right in thinking that, a couple of months ago, some twit went on the record to say that Jessica Ennis looked fat?

Yeah. What a porker.

$:-\$

Found it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/fat-really-olympic-hope-laughs-off-officials-jibe--but-others-arent-amused-7786325.html

The remarks were made to her coach by some high-ranking suit in British athletics.

Deano · « **Reply #65 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:49:09 pm »

She faced down the pressure incredibly well. She was even playin to the crowd a bit in the 800 metres, chasing out to the front in the first lap.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #66 on:** 04 August, 2012, 11:46:44 pm »

Was Mo Farah actually kissing the ground after his victory? Like the pope!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #67 on:** 04 August, 2012, 11:48:08 pm »

The runners and jumpers are all wearing hi-viz shoes.

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 August, 2012, 11:46:44 pm

Was Mo Farah actually kissing the ground after his victory? Like the pope!

I thought he was praying.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #68 on:** 04 August, 2012, 11:52:37 pm »

Maybe he was. I didn't actually read anything religious into it at the time, it just put me in mind of Pope JP2. Bear in mind I only saw it through a pub window (I was in the pub garden)! In fact, isn't Mo Farah a Muslim - or did I just invent that? - in which case pope-isms probably really aren't his thing.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #69 on:** 04 August, 2012, 11:55:35 pm »

He is Muslim, and he looked to be doing the kneeling/bowing thing Muslims do. There will be a correct term for it but I can't think of it just now.

Deano · « **Reply #70 on:** 05 August, 2012, 12:00:45 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 10:05:11 pm

I've just had to check after Rutherford spoke about Lynn the Leap in the past tense. He is still alive!!

He's on the Beeb now so reports of his etc etc

Peter · « **Reply #71 on:** 05 August, 2012, 12:06:10 am »

Maybe someone's already mentioned this but I love the commentator (Paul Dickinson?) saying of Mo, our favourite Somali, "He's taking on the Africans and showing them how to do it!"

Valiant · « **Reply #72 on:** 05 August, 2012, 12:38:49 am »

With it being Ramadan I'm intrigued to know if Mo was fasting or not.

Peter · « **Reply #73 on:** 05 August, 2012, 12:43:08 am »

Fast enough already, as it turned out!

spesh · « **Reply #74 on:** 05 August, 2012, 12:46:14 am »

Quote from: Valiant on 05 August, 2012, 12:38:49 am

With it being Ramadan I'm intrigued to know if Mo was fasting or not.

I think he got some kind of dispensation to fast after his participation in the Games is over. Fasting during daytime would be totally incompatible with being able to perform at the level he did yesterday evening. IIRC another athloete is paying for a shedload of meals for homeless people in lieu of fasting.