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PinUp wrote:

Hedley King wrote:For 2020:

Baseball and softball have put in joint bid while climbing, karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboard and wushu are also hoping for inclusion

http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/20 ... evaluation

Squash would be good, the rest can piss off!

I reckon they could all be decent. Squash would be good but perhaps a bit hard to see the ball as a spectator? Climbing could be good if it was done as head to head races, or some sort of chasing like in gladiators.

And think I'd rather watch Karate than Taekwondo and wakeboarding rather than windsurfing.

Roller sports?!?

Climbing could be good if it was a longer versiuon of the wall on gladiators. Baseball can fuck right off.

How about Olympic skydiving? See who's brave enough to open their parachute last

Speed climbing is great to watch.

southstar wrote:Climbing could be good if it was a longer versiuon of the wall on gladiators. Baseball can fuck right off.

How about Olympic skydiving? See who's brave enough to open their parachute last

Might aswell dish the medal out now if they want to include Baseball. USA, a couple of the other north American countries and Japan are the only ones that would ever win anything.

I know this was posted before, but deserves a re-post incase anyone missed it....think it might well be the best advert I've ever seen, more like a short film:

LA_Boxers wrote:

southstar wrote:Climbing could be good if it was a longer versiuon of the wall on gladiators. Baseball can fuck right off.

How about Olympic skydiving? See who's brave enough to open their parachute last

Might aswell dish the medal out now if they want to include Baseball. USA, a couple of the other north American countries and Japan are the only ones that would ever win anything.

Netherlands have a good team but I see your point and tbf most of the Dutch team are ex pats

Orbital! Stephen Hawking wearing orbital glasses!!

Think it was decent to have a ceremony focussed on enlightenment and so much of that on science- makes it seem odd to then have a national anthem about god saving our un-elected queen.

Some Hawking quotes from it:

"Look up at the stars, not down at your feet. Be curious"

“Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist.”


“There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe, and what can be more special than that is there is no boundary…..there should be no boundary to human endeavour.”


"We are all different, there is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. What is important is that we have the ability to create… This creativity can take many forms, from physical achievement to theoretical physics… However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

inb4 pun about rolling threads and wheelchairs etc

Missed the ceremony because I was out... looks like it was pretty great though, going to stick it on tonight!

The opening ceremony almost matched the other ones cringe levels.

Right, so the Paralympics have so far been fucking amazing and the wheelchair rugby hasn't even started yet. I'm a little bit addicted to Wheelchair Basketball (largely because the GB team are such LADS) and I've accidentally developed a bit of a thing for Hannah Cockroft... if only the C4 coverage was a liiiiittle bit better (i.e. you could go back and watch what you've missed), I think it'd be trumping the main Olympics for entertainment value about now. We've not had anything else on our telly for the last week!

So as our little thread winds towards a close, am I the only one feeling horrendously proud and a little misty eyed about the show this city's put on over the last month or so? Flawless production, decent telly coverage (even Channel 4's live coverage online lets you skip adverts) and absolutely phenomenal competition all the way through... but the crowds have probably stood out even further than the actual sportspeople. The biggest cheer on the day I spent in the Stadium was for a completely unknown runner coming in over a lap after everyone else and although the crowd are rightly cheering British success, they're so enthusiastic about everyone, whether it's Ellie Simmonds, Jessica Ennis and Chris Hoy or Usain Bolt, Michael McKillop and Oscar Pistorius or pretty much anyone else that looks like they're trying that the whole event has been given a huge boost.

It's all just been SO beautiful. The Olympics is always hyped as this utopian coming-together for humanity, but I've rarely seen it done in such a friendly and welcoming way... pretty minimal national posturing, just the best facilities we could offer and the best crowd in the fucking world. Well done LOCOG and everyone that's filled up the grandstands... you've done the nation properly proud.

One interesting thing to me is the US performance and coverage. Languishing in 6th place and looking like they'll finish with around half the medals of Britain, let alone put any challenge in to China. NBC, who own the rights to the Games are apparently not showing anything live in favour of showing a few highlights packages once they're all over. I'm prrrrrrretty confused, tbh... has there been any fuss about the lack of coverage, or is America just not that interested in disabled sport?

Anyway, bring on the fucking Murderball!

Shout out Ellie Simmonds too. Multiple golds from two Paralympics by the time you're 17... not.. bad.. at.. all.. - she's going to be the youngest Dame in the country at this rate!

I don't want it to end.

ur gay sometimes mag

LOL

^amazing

also, did anyone see Richard Whitehead's 200m run? lol this is some Usain Bolt shit:

pkay wrote:

No, I really am pretty fucking fruity occasionally... but this is AMAZING. Massive ups David Wire and Johnny Peacock!

JizzMan wrote:also, did anyone see Richard Whitehead's 200m run? lol this is some Usain Bolt shit:

All I could think about when that was on was how hard he must have to concentrate to stay dead in the centre of his lane... wouldn't want to get a swipe from one of those blades; if he ran any faster he'd look like Sonic! Amazing.

I want to see people win some medals today. Guess I'll have to go to Afghanistan.