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| I met a Hull FC Supporter today outside the Supermarket and we discussed the trials and tribulations on our Beloved team. After 10 min I said I really have to go and get back to the Olympics and he said o no not for me - BMX Biking , Long Distance Swimming no. What a misory.
How do we all feel - how great has it been.
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| Was excellent up until the cycling finished. the triathlon was class. slight interest in the boxing. pretty bored of everything else
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| Quote ="Willa"Was excellent up until the cycling finished. the triathlon was class. slight interest in the boxing. pretty bored of everything else'"
What about the dressage !!!!
I cannot wait for the 'legacy' after the games when all the 's start up riding schools( with all the tethered horse around Hull) in East Park and Pearson Park to encourage 'ordinary' kids into the sport.
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| Quote ="rover49"What about the dressage !!!!
I cannot wait for the 'legacy' after the games when all the travelling friend's start up riding schools( with all the tethered horse around Hull) in East Park and Pearson Park to encourage 'ordinary' kids into the sport.'"
Its just a horse doing the monty python ministry of silly walks sketch. seen one you've seen them all
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| Quote ="Willa"Its just a horse doing the monty python ministry of silly walks sketch. seen one you've seen them all'"
indeed, I mean, YOU could do it, coudln't you?
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| Quote ="Willa"Its just a horse doing the monty python ministry of silly walks sketch. seen one you've seen them all'"
Well at least its nice that you watched it - how do you think your big boy mates think of you eh.
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| Bit touchy on here aren't we?
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| Quote ="Basher"Well at least its nice that you watched it - how do you think your big boy mates think of you eh.
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These Olympics have been brilliant, I think the Jubilee and the Torch Relay really got the country "up for it" and the atheletes and volunteers and spectators have been swept along on a wave of almost euphoria, a few people on message boards that don't quite understand the sacrifice and comittment required to become an Olympian in ANY sport, let alone to medal, and let alone again for that medal to be gold will not detract from that, they just show themselves up for being narrow minded.
I've watched just about every sport, from double trap shooting, sailing, dressage, show jumping, archery, basketball to athletics, rowing and cycling, the list is endless. Each and every day I have been proud to be British, and more recently as we've climed the medal table in our own right, a Yorkshireman.
I was sceptical, and I am proud to admit I was totally wrong.
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| Quote ="Standee"These Olympics have been brilliant, I think the Jubilee and the Torch Relay really got the country "up for it" and the atheletes and volunteers and spectators have been swept along on a wave of almost euphoria, a few people on message boards that don't quite understand the sacrifice and comittment required to become an Olympian in ANY sport, let alone to medal, and let alone again for that medal to be gold will not detract from that, they just show themselves up for being narrow minded.
I've watched just about every sport, from double trap shooting, sailing, dressage, show jumping, archery, basketball to athletics, rowing and cycling, the list is endless. Each and every day I have been proud to be British, and more recently as we've climed the medal table in our own right, a Yorkshireman.
I was sceptical, and I am proud to admit I was totally wrong.'"
Please read my first post again i said the first 10 days where excellent. sorry if the fact that i get bored essier than you means i dont appreciate what real sportman go through.
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| Quote ="Willa"Please read my first post again i said the first 10 days where excellent. sorry if the fact that i get bored essier than you means i dont appreciate what real sportman go through.'"
you called one of the most difficult equestrian disciplines "like the ministry of silly walks", you have no concept of what it takes to get a horse to do those things, I would bet £20 you can't even ride a basic nag, let alone make it trot or gallop.
if some poster on a message-board wrote "I got bored at the rugby, it's just a bunch of big thick blokes throwing an egg shaped ball around" what would you say?
anyone who reaches the pinnacle of their sport deserves respect, I bet you love darts, easier to throw an arrow than to get a 3/4 of a ton animal to "dance" at your command.
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| Quote ="Standee"indeed, I mean, YOU could do it, coudln't you?'"
They're talented i just dont think it is interesting enough to watch. i realise that there is afew narrow minded people who have really taken to the london games and wont have a word said against them
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| The Olympic Games have been fantastic. This afternoon alone I've watched dressage, BMX cycling and women's boxing. I've watched nothing but sport since the games began.
The British success has certainly given the country a feel good factor it's needed after the economic gloom of the last four years or so.
Hopefully the likes of Wiggins, Ennis, Trott, Brownlee, Adams etc etc will inspire young people as true role models rather than the overpaid, foulmouthed primadonnas in the Premiership or contestants in The X Factor and Big Brother.
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| Quote ="Willa"They're talented i just dont think it is interesting enough to watch. i realise that there is afew narrow minded people who have really taken to the london games and wont have a word said against them'"
I assume that's directed at me, I'm happy for genuine and deserved criticism of the event, there have been some errors, but on the whole it has been magnificent.
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| I have oved the Olympics, made me proud to be British.
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| Quote ="Standee"
if some poster on a message-board wrote "I got bored at the rugby, it's just a bunch of big thick blokes throwing an egg shaped ball around" what would you say?
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I`m a rugby league fan in england. ive had to listen to those jibes all my life. never spat my dummy out though. people like what they like.
Before this turns into me looking like an anti-olympics moron
i watch pretty much as much as i could the first week (off work) and really got into it, cheered every medal with as much gusto as when hull win. i even watced the equestrian with the cross country a favorite.
The cycling for we was the highlight. unfortunately everything since has been a bit tedious and i have stopped watching. i apologise and will as ukba if i can be deported with mr chase
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| Quote ="rover49"What about the dressage !!!!
I cannot wait for the 'legacy' after the games when all the travelling friend's start up riding schools( with all the tethered horse around Hull) in East Park and Pearson Park to encourage 'ordinary' kids into the sport.'"
The lass who's just won the Individual Dressage Gold was born in Enfield and educated at a Comprehensive school - which she left at 16 to work in stables so that she could get lessons and compete. Not exactly the stereotypical equestrian type and she's reached the pinnacle of the sport. Maybe she just might inspire some 'ordinary' kids after all.
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| I am not too proud to admit i had virtually no interest in the run up to the games. The torch relay did nothing for me when divs like Will.i.am were carrying it and tweeting at the same time.
However, since the amazing and i mean amazing, opening ceremony the games have been an absolute triumph. The amount of people at work who are usually not even remotely interested in sport that are all of a sudden experts in the pommell horse, track cycling and equestrianism is mind-boggling. I dont want it to end!
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| Quote ="Willa"I`m a rugby league fan in england. ive had to listen to those jibes all my life. never spat my dummy out though. people like what they like.
Before this turns into me looking like an anti-olympics moron
i watch pretty much as much as i could the first week (off work) and really got into it, cheered every medal with as much gusto as when hull win. i even watced the equestrian with the cross country a favorite.
The cycling for we was the highlight. unfortunately everything since has been a bit tedious and i have stopped watching. i apologise and will as ukba if i can be deported with mr chase'"
no interest in the mens 200M final, the decathlon, tai-kwan-do?
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| The double trap shooting guy has should feel very hard done to, got pretty much nil coverage.
The Olympics have been utterly fantastic. Very much hope Mo can do the double. In bits on Saturday night.
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| Quote ="Mrs Barista"The double trap shooting guy has should feel very hard done to, got pretty much nil coverage.'"
matches the funding he was given, I think he's a bit "inconvenient" for the BBC and LOCOG in all honesty.
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| I have really enjoyed the sport at the Olympics, as I always do.
It is great that we have had a lot of success, although we also did well at Beijing.
Tbh, I don’t give a hoot where it is held, Beijing, London, Rio or anywhere else.
I didn’t watch the opening ceremony, and I won’t be watching the closing ceremony. I think the torch relay is and was a farce as is everything else apart from the actual sporting events (excluding football and tennis)
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| Quote ="Isaiah"I have really enjoyed the sport at the Olympics, as I always do.
It is great that we have had a lot of success, although we also did well at Beijing.
Tbh, I don’t give a hoot where it is held, Beijing, London, Rio or anywhere else.
I didn’t watch the opening ceremony, and I won’t be watching the closing ceremony. I think the torch relay is and was a farce as is everything else apart from the actual sporting events (excluding football and tennis)'"
I'm interested, why was the relay a farce in your opinion?
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| Every single part of the olympics that I have seen has been first class just a shame ive had to work and found out results before ive got home on a few events.. Ive found myself watching sports that I would never usually watch like hockey , archery . The womens football and boxing have really suprised me by how high the standard has been ( the missus has been telling me the women are showing us how its done )
Cant wait for the diving , all the relays and usain bolt in the 200
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| Oh and Ennis , pendleton and the volley ball have been a big plus too
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| I knew little about the Olympic games but I have watched them and learned a lot. I can't wait for next years.
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