The Rio 2016 thread

[steveo]

I don't think a competition exists where you have to stay up all night watching the Olympics and then do a job the following day, but if it did I'd probably make the podium.

Mind you I'm not vouching for the quality of the work. It's a good job I don't work with explosives

But the finishing line is a very long way off and I'm hallucinating already.

Any tips?

Any favourite bits?

[red devil]

With it being the Olympics, I trust you're not using any banned stimulants to stay awake steveo...

[steveo]

Is Phyllosan banned?

[Otta]

The timings have been a bugger, but I'v enjoyed plenty of stuff this Olympics.

I love the Olympics, far better than any other sporting event.

[Technique]

I have some personal interest in the equine bits, which have been exceptional and moving. But as a generally sports adverse person, this games has actually captured my imagination more than 2012!

I have no wise words on the Stayey Uppy bit; but can recommend working from home as a great help...😉

[mancity68]

Pulled the odd muscle making the rapid changes between bbc 1 and bbc 2....

[Loz]

Who thought up some of the more stupid cycling events? Some are excellent (elimination race, points race) but some of the rest are just silly. Riding really slowly before sprinting as fast as possible? Following a motorbike around for six laps?.

What next - participants must cycle backwards whilst juggling and mentally solving mathematical problems? Three laps of reading the third Harry Potter book whilst simultaneously singing "Bohemian Rhapsody", before a final sprint?

[DulwichFox]

We have the Gymnastic Gold Medalists and Cycle Gold Medalists all excited .. elated... really filled with emotion...

Then we get Andy Murray.. who gets a Gold and droooness on and on and on.. aaaah yehhh .. I'm really..drone.. excited..

drone... sounding like he's on Tuinal or Barbs.. with no personality .. what a boing B******d that guy is..

Foxy..

[rendelharris]

Loz Wrote:

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> Who thought up some of the more stupid cycling

> events? Some are excellent (elimination race,

> points race) but some of the rest are just silly.

> Riding really slowly before sprinting as fast as

> possible? Following a motorbike around for six

> laps?.

Kicking a pig's bladder around a field trying to wallop it into a net? Hitting fluff-covered rubber to and fro with paddle shaped frames covered in catgut? Chucking a piece of leather at some bits of wood while another chap uses another bit of wood to try and stop you? All sports are absurd if you reduce them to their essentials - it's part of what makes them such fun and so life affirming, they're basically just silly buggers for the pure unnecessary hell of it!

[Blah Blah]

We got a bronze in the womens hammer - totally random :)

[Loz]

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> We got a bronze in the womens hammer - totally random :)

Perhaps she worked at B&Q?

[Loz]

I think the basic requirement for a sport to be in the Olympics is that an Olympic gold medal should be the pinnacle of the sport.

On that basis, tennis, golf, football should not be Olympic sports. And probably basketball, too.

[Jah Lush]

"It's an odd boy who doesn't like sport."

 

[steveo]

I've taken a sudden interest in Russia's chances in the ladies long jump

[red devil]

That reminds me, double fried egg and chips tonight...

[Jah Lush]

An Olympics pundit meets a man with

an eight-foot metal stick and asks

him, ?Are you a pole vaulter??

?Nein,? says the man, ?I'm German. But

how did you know my name was Walter?"

[Seabag]

That couple 'not shagging' in the background on an outside VT

No, reading a book together I think

Ha ha !

[MrsMcC]

Interview after the race - Beautiful, vibrant GB women's relay team, fighting talk with a smile :)

46mins into the programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07pk6mr/olympics-day-13-bbc-one-22300000

[JohnL]

If I vandalized a garage, I'd keep quiet about it, not make up a story about being robbed.

[red devil]

That pretty much sums up America's foreign policy...