OLYMPIC GAMES 2012

[rajo]

Andy and Jamie Murray have been knocked out of the tennis doubles.

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[MyHeartIsYours]

The male British gymnasts I watched and ***** I was blown away, so perfect everything about them and their 'acts'!!!
The swimming too was spectacular, watching the men they just look like mermaids in the water, spectacular!!! Really happy with Lochte winning Gold for the United States, great to see Michelle in the audience too !!

 

[Charly]

I love the Equestrian Dressage ;D

I watched the Womens Fencing and Italy came 1-2-3

Beach Womens Volleyball:
2 - 0

I also watched the Archery with Italy gaining an victory over US by 1 point but the best I believe was from South Korea as 1 of the Archers is partially sighted perhaps the same vision distance as me as I might not be able to see the target :S

And the Womens 10m Air Rile when Bogocka was close of getting Gold for Poland =.=

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

The opening ceremony last night had an average 82% audience share in the UK (roughly 23 million viewers) between 9pm and 12:30am, with a peak of nearly 27 million (getting closer to 90% share) at 10pm.

Pretty impressive for such a long-running show :shock:

It was the 13th most watched programme ever in the UK too!

 

[Archer]

Women's volleyball:

3 - 2

It was an unbelievable match. We came back from 8 points down at the 4th set but lost by a shave at the last set. Our performance against the last olympic champion shows that we will not leave this branch without a medal. Go fairies!

 

[doctormalisimo]

The reception for the Irish athletes at the opening ceremony, and the Irish boxers who were fighting today was just incredible.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

The reception for the Irish athletes at the opening ceremony, and the Irish boxers who were fighting today was just incredible.

I knew you would get the best reception after Great Britain I said as the parade was starting on Friday, I bet Ireland gets the biggest cheer, and yup I was right ... we were cheering for Ireland at the screen just too just to add

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

This is what the Saturday press had to say about it here btw

Im shocked to hear about the American NBC's coverage of the Ceremony though. During the memorial segment to those killed in the London Terror Attacks, they cut to an interview with Michael Phelps as their coverage is "tailored for a US audience"... :?
Also, they thought it was actually Her Majesty jumping out of the helicopter, and they didnt know who Sir Tim Barners-Lee was.
Pure ignorance!!

 

[rajo]

I am very afraid of a (false flag) attack on the London Olympics, since I am a conspiracy theorist.

There are also youtube-documentaries covering the possible attack event.

 

[doctormalisimo]

they didnt know who Sir Tim Barners-Lee was.

sorry, but who?

 

[Synergise]

An American gymnast performed to Wild Dances on the floor!

 

[LalehForWD]

Dutch Marianne Vos wins gold in women's 140km Road Cycling.

Sweden's medal hopes on Emma Johansson vanished.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

GREAT BRITAIN has it's first medal!! A Silver for Elizabeth Armistead in Cycling!

 

[Archer]

Men's basketball:

98 - 71

The game was going head to head in the first period but then America took the control and iced the game.

 

[Archer]

Women's weightlifting 53 kg

1 -

Zulfiya Chinshanlo
2 -

Shu-Ching Hsu
3 - Cristina Iovu

Chinshanlo broke the world record with 131 kg! Kazakhstan wins their second gold medal and gets to the 4th place on the medal table

Our representative Aylin Daşdelen could also have got a medal here, she was the last European champion but withdrew from the last attempt (129 kg) cause I think she had a problem with her waist. We should have gained some medals till now already but I don't know why we are so unlucky in this tournament

 

[Archer]

Men's volleyball:

3 - 0

Serbs tried really hard in the last set, I thought they would give up when the gap was about 7 points as well as the fact that America was 2-0 ahead, but they made a great comeback, although they lost in the end.

 

[Sim]

Let's overlook the Belgian day (so far)

Judo

5th place: Ilse Heylen (-52kg women): sooo close :-(, but brilliant done

Swimming

4x100 m freestyle:heats

3:13.89 , new NR: what a performance, for the first time in final

100 m backstroke: heats

Kimberly Buys, 1.01.92, 29th: hmm, she's not having her time this olympics

200m freestyle: heats

Glenn Surgeloose, 1.48,77, 25th: not bad, started well, but ended bad

Canoe Slalom: K1: heats

Mathieu Doby, 87.92, 4th: Great performance, through to SF, and hopefully to F too

Hockey: women

Belgium - Netherlands : 0-3; great match of our goalkeeper; netherlands is the team so not bad, they are here for learning for OS 2016

Table Tennis: 2nd round

Jean-Mi Saive -Kreanga: 1-4; respect for a 42-year old! 7th olymics in a row, maybe 2016? Then he would the record holder in Belgium, atm he shares it with someone from archery in the 50-70's

Cycling: Women road race

Liesbeth De Vocht: 9th
Maaike Polspoel: 29th
Ludivine Henrion: DNF

Not bad, but didn't expect that much

Equestrian: eventing: team

After day 2 we are 8th, not bad, but yesterday we were 4th

Equestrian: eventing: individual

Karin Donckers is 7th after the first round, good

Gymnastics: women's qualification allround

Gaelle Mys: 53.698, she is still waiting if she is in top 24, I hope so

Weightlifting: -56kg men

Tom Goegebeur: 247 kg: disappointing, 7kg under his NR, 5th in group B

Still to come

Badminton: men singles

Yuhan Tan: almost impossible to win, but here to learn

4x100 m freestyle final

They swum great this morning, now they must just enjoy!

Did not play

David Goffin - Juan Monaco : postponed till tomorrow

 

[LalehForWD]

Sweden's biggest hopes on medals goes to Sarah Sjöström who very soon will swim 100m butterfly. Will she succeed?

edit:
Nopp Sarah didn't peak her form and finished 4th, (in tears for now).

 

[Venage]

North Korea’s Om Yun Chol lifted three times his body weight and therefore joined the likes of world record holder Halil Mutlu and Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey. Asked how a he could lift a weight so big, Om credited the “Great Leader” as he looks after him all the time and gives him the needed strength

 

[Milos-BC]

Men's volleyball:

3 - 0

Serbs tried really hard in the last set, I thought they would give up when the gap was about 7 points as well as the fact that America was 2-0 ahead, but they made a great comeback, although they lost in the end.

Not a surprising outcome for me, as the American team is very strong, and too strong for us atm. The players gave their best, but it wasn't enough. USA is the current Olympic champion and also a #1 favorite for gold in London as well. They are very well prepared and they were temping their form for the Olympic games so it's not surprising. Also, their team is well experienced, while we changed a lot of players, and these young ones cannot compete with experienced "old school" players yet.

In water polo outclassed the current Olympic champions with 14:10. This is one of the sports where we are aiming for gold, so this is a promising start Our next opponent is .

Handball players lost against with 26:21. We had everything in our hands but we managed to beat ourselves in the very end. And we lost witn the same margain as the number of attacks we've sold - 5.


Zorana Arunovic made it into the final in air pistol discipline and there achieved the 7th position, which is a great result imo.