what makes me chuckle is when certain players and there is a few to use as an e.g..like pat richards -irish,really henry paul played league for new zealand and union for england same with shontane happy(or however you spell is name)cudicini in footy being touted as goaly for england and that great englishman rangi chase..no doubt theres more but we`d be here all night

Told you all before

When you first sign your papers as an athlete/rugby player/footballer etc, there should be a box you tick as a chosen nationality.....AND IT NEVER CHANGES

I've enjoyed it been very good even the wife is taking abit of notice of it,little lad can't wait for Mr Bolt to his business.

How is blowing Pea-shooter an Olyimpic sport for gods sake ????
What next Marbles,jacks,Conkers??

I've just read this whole thread and am laughing again at the good old rugby league chip on their shoulder attitude of a few. Moans about "England's wendyballers" in a thread about the Olympics?



Anyway, I'm off to the football quarter final today at Old Trafford and absolutely cannot wait for the athletics next Friday. If you like sport and can't enjoy the Olympics without whinging about something you really are one bad misery.

The rest of British sport needs to follow the example of the cycling team; they promise and then deliver.

I have a bit of a crush on Victoria Pendleton as well, what a woman!

Natt Cook, Aus beach volley ball player " the sport is easy to understand - keep sand out of pants"

Well you didn't read it very well then. [iI[/i love the Olympics ( got tickets for three events plus one Para event ) but the remark about 'England's wendyballers' was in response to a poster asserting that there was no skill in most Olympic sports.

yeah but as has been displayed elsewhere, he's primarily a football fan, a snobbish one at that.

Haven't you picked up that we're all beneath him.

Considering the problems that most people had when trying to get tickets for key events (via the "fair" ballot system), isnt it somewhat strange that most of the royal family and a number of politicians appear to have been successful?

Then again, I dont suppose any of the above would have managed to a get a ticket for the main event on the 25th August.

my daughters birthday?

You're right, of course, and we should know our place. Still, been intriguing to hear long-term wendyball commentator Alan Green on Radio 5 effectively throw off his media shackles and admit how refreshing it is to interview [ireal [/isportsmen and women, full in the joy of their hard-won triumphs, at the Olympics, compared to the deluded saddos who constitute the soccer playing profession.

Amazing night for British athletics; Gold medals in long jump, 10,000 m and Golden Girl Ennis in the heptathalon.

Meanwhile the football managed to run to form; knocked out in the penalty shoot out

...after what apparently was a completely lack-lustre game. The football tournament has been the big disappointment of the Games for me.

Did you see the Women's Hockey today? NZ team was stacked with talent.

Don't even go there, who gives one, did they play tonight?

Looks like they turned up, but whether they 'played' is open to question, as ever.

I agree the olympics has far exceed my expectations its been brilliant,the horsey event is the only ridiculous thing in the olympics ahead of football and "the walking event" i'm sure a i read someone missed out on a previous olympics because their horse was lame....!!!!??

So Mo Farah could have missed out last night if he had a snapped shoe lace...?

I see Philip Hindes has been brought up or his nationality has.

I've read some real anti English Bull on various forums on the tinternet, welsh people not singing the british anthem heads bowed like its shameful to almost be there. Northern irish people representing ireland and not Great Britain because they are Irish. Scottish footballers not wanting to Represent the great island because that great Scottish footballing institute of getting dry bummed in the champions league Qualifiers may suffer.

and then Here is a winner and absolute English Winner who has some real German heritage. And he stands on the podium and proud as sings "God save the Queen".

best moment of the Olympics.........

She's one hell of a woman. So is Denise Lewis as I pointed out on Twitter.

The GB Volleyball team had some decent talent in it, including a 6' 5" spiker who looked rather fine! Don't think I've seen anyone who's almost at my height, never mind slightly taller than me. :^)

Shame on you.

And before anybody says anything, I was only watching Ennis because I am fascinated by the heptathalon ( at the moment).

After the gold rush last night, I couldn't give a shiny one about the football. I never expected them to get a medal, so they can toddle off back to the comfort of their football clubs, their thousands of pounds per week, and let the real athletes continue bringing home the bacon.

The Olympic athletes, swimmers, rowers, cyclists etc.. Dedicate their lives to their sport they have train hard and diet hard and and miss out on a fair few things life if they want that Gold. That's why i admire them so much..

really enjoyed last night it was gripping stuff.proves we do have some talent out there..and as previously stated about our footballers losing on pens it was only that footballing force korea who beat em..shouldnt we be playing teams like this off the park..pathetic..ennis farah and rutherford are proper sports men/women