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Post by lostinspace on Jul 21, 2021 12:54:46 GMT
Amber Hill, GB, Skeeter shooter is forced to withdraw from the Olympics after a positive test result,( had not actually left the UK) as the Team GB women open their account with a 2_0 win against Chile, ...My personal view is that the C19 is going to be the dominant part of these games,ruin aspirations of some yet will give some totally unknown a medal they would only ever have dreamt of , not sure it should be even taking place
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Post by bluetornados on Jul 28, 2021 20:40:58 GMT
Shame Murray crashed out of the doubles, our GB womens football team play again on friday v Australia at 10am, looking forward to that one.
Great performances by our swimmers / divers / taekwondo / equestrians / bikers / rowers / triathlon / gymnastics / judo and others.
I have enjoyed the vast majority of the games so far, the best is usually the 2nd week track and field events.
Our medal haul so far is G5, S6 and B5 total 16, many more to come i think too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2021 9:38:13 GMT
This is the opinion of the vast majority of Japanese people. www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/world/asia/covid-japan-olympics-poll.htmlThere are protests outside of the hotels where IOC officials are staying. And to top it all off, they flattened Tsukiji fish market, a great old historic site in Tokyo, to make a car park for the athletes' village. OK, the fish market was run down and very dated, but it was an iconic Tokyo landmark. |
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Post by Nobbygas on Aug 3, 2021 19:31:03 GMT
This is the opinion of the vast majority of Japanese people. www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/world/asia/covid-japan-olympics-poll.htmlThere are protests outside of the hotels where IOC officials are staying. And to top it all off, they flattened Tsukiji fish market, a great old historic site in Tokyo, to make a car park for the athletes' village. OK, the fish market was run down and very dated, but it was an iconic Tokyo landmark. Blimey. In Bristol we have an old iconic outdated fruit market that I think someone is hoping to flatten to build some sort of entertainment/sports facility. Should we be protesting?  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 19:33:45 GMT
This is the opinion of the vast majority of Japanese people. www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/world/asia/covid-japan-olympics-poll.htmlThere are protests outside of the hotels where IOC officials are staying. And to top it all off, they flattened Tsukiji fish market, a great old historic site in Tokyo, to make a car park for the athletes' village. OK, the fish market was run down and very dated, but it was an iconic Tokyo landmark. Blimey. In Bristol we have an old iconic outdated fruit market that I think someone is hoping to flatten to build some sort of entertainment/sports facility. Should we be protesting? When people from around the world travel to Bristol is the Fruit Market on their list of 'must see' venues? |
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Post by Nobbygas on Aug 3, 2021 19:53:09 GMT
Blimey. In Bristol we have an old iconic outdated fruit market that I think someone is hoping to flatten to build some sort of entertainment/sports facility. Should we be protesting? When people from around the world travel to Bristol is the Fruit Market on their list of 'must see' venues? I can almost guarantee that there is a fruitcake out there somewhere who is making it his/her life's ambition to visit every fruit market in any major city in the world. In fact, I reckon there is probably a 'fruit market club' out there somewhere. Thinking about it, what are Alf's hobbies? I reckon he fits the profile.
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Post by Nobbygas on Aug 3, 2021 19:55:47 GMT
Anyway, back to the Olympics. We have just got a puppy, who seems to think it is a good idea to wake me up at 6am every morning for walkies/s**t/piss etc. The good part about that is that I can then sit down early to watch the Olympics while the rest of the family are still in bed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 20:06:57 GMT
When people from around the world travel to Bristol is the Fruit Market on their list of 'must see' venues? I can almost guarantee that there is a fruitcake out there somewhere who is making it his/her life's ambition to visit every fruit market in any major city in the world. In fact, I reckon there is probably a 'fruit market club' out there somewhere. Thinking about it, what are Alf's hobbies? I reckon he fits the profile.
In which case, if they haven't seen Bristol's fruit market they won't need to worry, it's going to be stood there for a little while yet. Struggled to contain my excitement yesterday, medals in BMX bicycle riding and for a group of upper class toffs messing around on horses. The absolute pinnacle of sporting excellence. |
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Post by alftupper on Aug 4, 2021 7:06:42 GMT
When people from around the world travel to Bristol is the Fruit Market on their list of 'must see' venues? I can almost guarantee that there is a fruitcake out there somewhere who is making it his/her life's ambition to visit every fruit market in any major city in the world. In fact, I reckon there is probably a 'fruit market club' out there somewhere. Thinking about it, what are Alf's hobbies? I reckon he fits the profile.
Go and f**k yourself, Nobby. I`m sick of you inseminating that I`m a sad individual, who would be interested in such a thing. And anyway, I don`t have the time. I`m far too busy, cataloguing my milk bottle collection.
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Post by Nobbygas on Aug 4, 2021 16:20:14 GMT
I can almost guarantee that there is a fruitcake out there somewhere who is making it his/her life's ambition to visit every fruit market in any major city in the world. In fact, I reckon there is probably a 'fruit market club' out there somewhere. Thinking about it, what are Alf's hobbies? I reckon he fits the profile.
Go and f**k yourself, Nobby. I`m sick of you inseminating that I`m a sad individual, who would be interested in such a thing. And anyway, I don`t have the time. I`m far too busy, cataloguing my milk bottle collection.
Do you have one of those pink milk bottles from Thompson's Diary in Cornwall in your collection? Asking for a friend. |
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Post by alftupper on Aug 4, 2021 17:34:53 GMT
Go and f**k yourself, Nobby. I`m sick of you inseminating that I`m a sad individual, who would be interested in such a thing. And anyway, I don`t have the time. I`m far too busy, cataloguing my milk bottle collection.
Do you have one of those pink milk bottles from Thompson's Diary in Cornwall in your collection? Asking for a friend. I most certainly do. Drove all the way down to St Austell to collect it. Got a spare one too, if you your friend is interested.
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Post by alftupper on Aug 4, 2021 17:40:09 GMT
I can almost guarantee that there is a fruitcake out there somewhere who is making it his/her life's ambition to visit every fruit market in any major city in the world. In fact, I reckon there is probably a 'fruit market club' out there somewhere. Thinking about it, what are Alf's hobbies? I reckon he fits the profile.
In which case, if they haven't seen Bristol's fruit market they won't need to worry, it's going to be stood there for a little while yet. Struggled to contain my excitement yesterday, medals in BMX bicycle riding and for a group of upper class toffs messing around on horses. The absolute pinnacle of sporting excellence. And park skateboarding. WTF? If they`ve got tellies in the afterlife, I bet Emile Zatopek can`t believe what he`s watching. He won the 5,000, 10,000 and Marathon in the same Olympics.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 18:09:12 GMT
In which case, if they haven't seen Bristol's fruit market they won't need to worry, it's going to be stood there for a little while yet. Struggled to contain my excitement yesterday, medals in BMX bicycle riding and for a group of upper class toffs messing around on horses. The absolute pinnacle of sporting excellence. And park skateboarding. WTF? If they`ve got tellies in the afterlife, I bet Emile Zatopek can`t believe what he`s watching. He won the 5,000, 10,000 and Marathon in the same Olympics.
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Post by Nobbygas on Aug 4, 2021 19:19:46 GMT
Got to say that my 10 year old son thinks that the skateboarding and BMX events are the dog's danglies ! It's a younger generation thing.
I've got to agree that I don't think Horse dancing is a sport.
As for the 180's....don't you know they are doing 540's nowadays, you old codger !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 20:25:31 GMT
Got to say that my 10 year old son thinks that the skateboarding and BMX events are the dog's danglies ! It's a younger generation thing. I've got to agree that I don't think Horse dancing is a sport. As for the 180's....don't you know they are doing 540's nowadays, you old codger ! Sounds like there may be such a thing as a half pipe and a superman in that case. Utterly preposterous. |
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Post by alftupper on Aug 4, 2021 20:40:00 GMT
And park skateboarding. WTF? If they`ve got tellies in the afterlife, I bet Emile Zatopek can`t believe what he`s watching. He won the 5,000, 10,000 and Marathon in the same Olympics.
Yea, but could he hang 180 or flip a forward Superman in a half pipe? Probably not, no. He probably smoked a half pipe, as he ran 26 miles round the streets of Helsinki. They did that sort of thing, in those days.
Edit.. and what does the Superman involve? Getting changed in a phone box?
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Post by lostinspace on Aug 8, 2021 10:33:50 GMT
Yea, but could he hang 180 or flip a forward Superman in a half pipe? Probably not, no. He probably smoked a half pipe, as he ran 26 miles round the streets of Helsinki. They did that sort of thing, in those days.
Edit.. and what does the Superman involve? Getting changed in a phone box?
not likely to be enough room in one nowadays, as a load of them are taken up by Defibrillators[bloody good show] and drop in libraries or as in Cheddar an almost permanent art exhibition centre [ no harm in that] but i am still looking for the penny i lost after pushing button"B" |
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Post by mangogas15 on Aug 9, 2021 20:49:51 GMT
So Team GB won the only medals table that can possibly be measured for any Olympics.
Medals per population.
Surely the most accurate measure of true performance.
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Post by eppinggas on Aug 10, 2021 14:47:12 GMT
So Team GB won the only medals table that can possibly be measured for any Olympics. Medals per population. Surely the most accurate measure of true performance. Well - for 'large' nations maybe! Sorry for pedantry. We came 26th according to www.medalspercapita.com/Decent size nations like The Netherlands, Hungary and Czech Republic all beat us... medals/head of population 1 San Marino 3 33,931 11,310 2 Bermuda 1 63,918 63,918 3 Grenada 1 112,523 112,523 4 Bahamas 2 393,244 196,622 5 New Zeal 20 4,822,233 241,111 6 Jamaica 9 2,961,167 329,018 7 Slovenia 5 2,078,938 415,787 8 Fiji 2 896,445 448,222 9 Netherls 36 17,134,872 475,968 10 Hungary 20 9,660,351 483,017 11 Georgia 8 3,989,167 498,645 12 Croatia 8 4,105,267 513,158 13 Denmark 11 5,792,202 526,563 14 Australia 46 25,499,884 554,345 15 Estonia 2 1,326,535 663,267 16 Switz 13 8,654,622 665,740 17 Norway 8 5,421,241 677,655 18 Armenia 4 2,963,243 740,810 19 Cuba 15 11,326,616 755,107 20 Mongolia 4 3,278,290 819,572 21 Kosovo 2 1,859,203 929,601 22 Latvia 2 1,886,198 943,099 23 Czech Rep 11 10,551,219 959,201 24 Qatar 3 2,881,053 960,351 25 Serbia 9 8,737,371 970,819 26 Great Brit 65 65,138,232 1,002,126 |
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Post by alftupper on Aug 10, 2021 17:29:01 GMT
So Team GB won the only medals table that can possibly be measured for any Olympics. Medals per population. Surely the most accurate measure of true performance. Well - for 'large' nations maybe! Sorry for pedantry. We came 26th according to www.medalspercapita.com/Decent size nations like The Netherlands, Hungary and Czech Republic all beat us... medals/head of population 1 San Marino 3 33,931 11,310 2 Bermuda 1 63,918 63,918 3 Grenada 1 112,523 112,523 4 Bahamas 2 393,244 196,622 5 New Zeal 20 4,822,233 241,111 6 Jamaica 9 2,961,167 329,018 7 Slovenia 5 2,078,938 415,787 8 Fiji 2 896,445 448,222 9 Netherls 36 17,134,872 475,968 10 Hungary 20 9,660,351 483,017 11 Georgia 8 3,989,167 498,645 12 Croatia 8 4,105,267 513,158 13 Denmark 11 5,792,202 526,563 14 Australia 46 25,499,884 554,345 15 Estonia 2 1,326,535 663,267 16 Switz 13 8,654,622 665,740 17 Norway 8 5,421,241 677,655 18 Armenia 4 2,963,243 740,810 19 Cuba 15 11,326,616 755,107 20 Mongolia 4 3,278,290 819,572 21 Kosovo 2 1,859,203 929,601 22 Latvia 2 1,886,198 943,099 23 Czech Rep 11 10,551,219 959,201 24 Qatar 3 2,881,053 960,351 25 Serbia 9 8,737,371 970,819 26 Great Brit 65 65,138,232 1,002,126 It`s depressing to see so many nations above us. Lord Palmerston wouldn`t have stood for it. There`d have been gunboats steaming out of every port in the UK. |
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