London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread

[espire]

CMON BOONEN

[pkay]

Women's fencing.... intense

[hugh]

Kazakhstan just owned the cycling road race. wut.

[pkay]

That silver meadlist fucked up looking back

[hugh]

lol wuts goin on some guy is talking shit over everything Lolool

[magma]

da fuq? I was expecting them to show a few more of the 1st session table tennis games, they only showed one mens and one womens game. little downs Olympic coverage.

Has everyone noticed that you can see everything live on the iPlayer? The BBC are running like 15 live channels at the moment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video

And that "restart current programme" option just fucking came into it's own. This is amazing.

[mIrReN]

Belgium couldve done so much better

[hugh]

da fuq? I was expecting them to show a few more of the 1st session table tennis games, they only showed one mens and one womens game. little downs Olympic coverage.

Has everyone noticed that you can see everything live on the iPlayer? The BBC are running like 15 live channels at the moment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video

And that "restart current programme" option just fucking came into it's own. This is amazing.

wow didn't know about this. good stuff from the beeb!
see if I can spot any fitties in the volleyball <3

[Liam92]

The gymnastics is amazing, these guys are incredibly strong

[hugh]

too much sport I don't know what to watch!

[hutyluty]

cycling coverage was awful lol, timecheck once every hour or so

and "cavendish coming in sprinting for fourth!!!" oh dear

i like vino even if he is an unrepentant drugs cheat

[mIrReN]

Belgian channel covered it well, cheecky looked when judo was up at ours to the British and NOC and both were laughable to say the least

[pkay]

Croatian womens team hanging with USA. That sg for Croatia is gorgeous

[idontreallygiveashit]

I'm know i'm a bit late with this, but apart from dizee fucking rascal , the arctic fucking monkeys, that singer who i thinks number 4 in the charts or something and the whole "omg bbz were r u 2nite" shit, i thought the opening ceremony was really good!

[1point5]

I'm know i'm a bit late with this, but apart from dizee fucking rascal , the arctic fucking monkeys, that singer who i thinks number 4 in the charts or something and the whole "omg bbz were r u 2nite" shit, i thought the opening ceremony was really good!

I'm really not a fan of the arctic monkeys at all but I enjoyed their performance.

I was surprised to not hear any Led Zep or Sabbath in with all the influential british music British people should be extremely proud of inventing heavy metal imo haha

[pkay]

Holy shit at men's archery team final literally details used by a millimeter

[hugh]

can somebody explain all this post-cycling "everyone was against us" stuff? I don't really understand the sport properly and can't work out how the other nations supposedly made it impossible for Britain to win?

[pkay]

Everyone was against them because they set pace for 80% of.the race

[hugh]

Everyone was against them because they set pace for 80% of.the race

still don't get it

[hutyluty]

britain have cavendish- the fastest sprinter in the world by quite a way (only greipel of Germany can get near him) aswell as a strong team to help him.

Being the favourites, many of the other teams attacked again and again to affect a breakaway and prevent a bunch finish with only germany helping slightly to pull the attacks back. By the last time up Box Hill, the British team were spent from all the chasing (its much easier to ride in the back of the peleton than at the front as Britain were doing) and they couldn't pull the breakaway back made up of fresh riders desperately working together to avoid being caught by the British, as they wouldn't have a chance- only going for the win in the last 5-10 km when they knew they were safe.