Random Thoughts On The Olympics (Page 2)

xox G xox: Anyone watching the womens hammer throw OMFG I thought this one woman massively injured herself ......Ive never heard a noise like it. Worse than the grunting from the tennis

After we heard it, all look at each other and burst out laughing.

StuckInTheSixties:

They SCARE me!

CerealKing: The grunting in tennis is beyond annoying. they don't HAVE to do that, they just do it to be annoying and stupid. I was glad when Serena Williams won, I don't know how she is in most of her matches but at least she wasn't grunting like the other girl in that game.

lavendar_star: "Australia's sports minister Kate Lundy will don a Team GB shirt and row a length of the Olympic Eton Dorney course after conceding defeat in a bet with her British counterpart over which nation wins most gold medals.

Lundy made the light-hearted wager ahead of the London Games with Britain's Hugh Robertson, who faced the penalty of putting on a Kookaburra hockey shirt and dribbling a ball around the Australian high commission in central London.
She admitted defeat after a night of winning performances by British cyclists in the velodrome that helped take the British gold tally to 22, the best outcome since 1908 and well ahead of Australia's four. Five days remain in the Games." http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/australian-sport-minister-row-dorney-losing-bet-115206701.html

Maybe we should give the lady a break after all we do have the home advantage even though we did win 11 gold medals compared to 16 gold for the Aussies at the Sydney Olympics, but a bet is a bet.

dizzyb4u: go team GB. Carry on with thread......

StuckInTheSixties:

I love seeing emotions erupt from a gold medalist when they're listening to their national anthem, and watching their flag being raised. I'm a total sucker for that.

jink88: It is awesome, in the last winter games Canada did really well. I know the feeling PRIDE

Karma: I love the Olympics. I spent the last 11 days in the hospital with not much else to do but watch.

Proper respects to the Water Polo players. That is quite a workout.

StuckInTheSixties:

I like the gymnasts that have the little stick with a long ribbon on it. Reminds me of when I used to take acid.

Karma: I only ever see rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. It's quite impressive.

jink88: Sits...were you friends with Timothy Leary lol

StuckInTheSixties:

No. I'm old, but not that old.

jink88: Hey age is just a number...good old Berkley days

orkanen: I had a crush on Nadia Comaneci, growing up, but that's as much sports or Olympics as I've ever watched, or cared to watch for that matter. Oh, the crush has passed, she's not quite as cute now as she was back then.

Hyenablood: who's going to be watching the closing ceremonies ?

dizzyb4u: Me! musical theme & the Brits making fun of themselves (seen clips)

lavendar_star: I am too, there should be some great British music, fun and thrills. Been a great Olympics and some great moments.

dizzyb4u: I agree lavendar_star team GB has had a good Olympics but also Usain Bolt is something else !

lavendar_star: I know I just watched the men relay and he just bolted that last leg, he is probably the greatest ever sprinter but Mo Farah winning both the 5,000 n 10,000 was great too. It will be a memorial Olympics not just for us brits but globally.

dizzyb4u: & as i am typing this we have yet another gold (boxing)

lavendar_star: Yes we are on a roll, its fabulous. Go

Desslock: Maybe you're referring to the Joshua gold medal stolen to Cammarelle. It's a real pity that Olympic games ended in such a shameful way.

Hyenablood: now that I've seen the closing ceremonies, I am disappointed, I thought that they'd be better

Comrade_: In closing, I'd say those European women athletes were beautiful ahman

StuckInTheSixties:

Perhaps with the exception of the shot putters.