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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 20:25
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| ruben |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:08
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Lol France beats America at 4x100 relay
Lochte fucked up. Phelps was actually strong!
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:09
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My god, Agnel was strong!  Phelps as well, but yeah, Lochte wasn't.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:28
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ruben wrote:
Lol France beats America at 4x100 relay
Lochte fucked up. Phelps was actually strong!
Not sure there's much to lol about. France have a very consistent pool of crawl sprinters (and they're well-prepared too, look at Muffat's face and tell me those cheek bones have nothing to do with HGH  ).
Word was that the qualifying events two months ago for the individual events at the games were a tougher competition than the European Championships.
Strangely enough, swimming is a bit like cycling, and unlike athletics, you don't need to do a minimal performance to qualify, the number of athletes per country is limited. |
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Posted on 29-07-2012 21:46
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Aquarius wrote:
ruben wrote:
Lol France beats America at 4x100 relay
Lochte fucked up. Phelps was actually strong!
Not sure there's much to lol about. France have a very consistent pool of crawl sprinters (and they're well-prepared too, look at Muffat's face and tell me those cheek bones have nothing to do with HGH ).
Word was that the qualifying events two months ago for the individual events at the games were a tougher competition than the European Championships.
Strangely enough, swimming is a bit like cycling, and unlike athletics, you don't need to do a minimal performance to qualify, the number of athletes per country is limited.
Isn´t there a strange swim club in Marseille or so where a lot of French swimmers had Sky-like improvements? But in the Sky thread we already learned it´s only the training methods.
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| johnnyjur |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:50
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Spain is eliminated from the football tournament
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Posted on 29-07-2012 21:52
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I like Italy, they have really strong volleyball team, but Poland just destroyed them
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:54
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felix_29 wrote:
Isn´t there a strange swim club in Marseille or so where a lot of French swimmers had Sky-like improvements? But in the Sky thread we already learned it´s only the training methods.
Most train in Marseilles, Nice or Antibes. One of my mates was there last year (the whole year) and still goes there every other week-end now. So he got to meet them all.
I'm not sure in which of them it is, but all those who changed club became asthmatic there.
If it was just asthma and ventoline that wouldn't be as bad as it looks. I mean look at their faces. I know some people have weird faces, etc. but I'm not naive enough to think that people with normal faces all grow big chins, big cheek-bones and foreheads (as well as being very muscular, though that makes sense for swimmers, especially sprinters), without using and abusing HGH.
Of course this is all jealousy by me, and it's well-known that it's only about training methods and small margins.
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Posted on 29-07-2012 21:56
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Van den Burgh!
Yeah, proud to be D.... Wait what? He's not Dutch.  |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 29-07-2012 21:58
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johnnyjur wrote:
Spain is eliminated from the football tournament
Yep, they're the second team which put themselves out of contention because of their arrogance in the Olympics so far. So much for a sure medal in football.
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| itsmichael |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:16
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No big suprises in the woman gymnastic qualifications. One Little suprise; Australia didn't make it to the final of the team event. Also Jordyn Wieber(World Champion all round) didn't make it to the individual allround final, although she was fourth, there just two Americans better. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:21
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Aquarius wrote:
felix_29 wrote:
Isn´t there a strange swim club in Marseille or so where a lot of French swimmers had Sky-like improvements? But in the Sky thread we already learned it´s only the training methods.
Most train in Marseilles, Nice or Antibes. One of my mates was there last year (the whole year) and still goes there every other week-end now. So he got to meet them all.
I'm not sure in which of them it is, but all those who changed club became asthmatic there.
If it was just asthma and ventoline that wouldn't be as bad as it looks. I mean look at their faces. I know some people have weird faces, etc. but I'm not naive enough to think that people with normal faces all grow big chins, big cheek-bones and foreheads (as well as being very muscular, though that makes sense for swimmers, especially sprinters), without using and abusing HGH.
Of course this is all jealousy by me, and it's well-known that it's only about training methods and small margins.
You're just jealous that the French have awesome training methods and because your country will never be as awesome as them because your country's sportsmen don't work hard enough. Oh, wait
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:31
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Americans performing well without the amazing Gold medalist from 2008, Shawn Johnson.
Who at 20 years old has had to retire because of a serious knee injury she suffered whilst skiing in 2009. She would have bumped America's medal tally abit more for Gymnastics 
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:32
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Ste117 wrote:
Americans performing well without the amazing Gold medalist from 2008, Shawn Johnson.
Who at 20 years old has had to retire because of a serious knee injury she suffered whilst skiing in 2009. She would have bumped America's medal tally abit more for Gymnastics
she is also easy on the eye
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| itsmichael |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:37
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Ste117 wrote:
Americans performing well without the amazing Gold medalist from 2008, Shawn Johnson.
Who at 20 years old has had to retire because of a serious knee injury she suffered whilst skiing in 2009. She would have bumped America's medal tally abit more for Gymnastics
With Wieber, Raisman, Douglas and Maroney (and Ross in some way) the americans will certainly win three or four gold medals in gymnastics. |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 29-07-2012 23:43
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Ste117 wrote:
Americans performing well without the amazing Gold medalist from 2008, Shawn Johnson.
Who at 20 years old has had to retire because of a serious knee injury she suffered whilst skiing in 2009. She would have bumped America's medal tally abit more for Gymnastics
she is also easy on the eye
Very easy on the eye, it's how I became a fan of her, was gutted when she retired, I loved watching her in Beijing, I stayed up all night every night the Gymnastics were on to watch her
Also the Romanians tend to be nice looking
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 30-07-2012 00:29
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Is anyone going to see the Olympic TT at Hampton Court on Wednesday?
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| Gulvplanke |
Posted on 30-07-2012 00:42
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Ste117 wrote:
Americans performing well without the amazing Gold medalist from 2008, Shawn Johnson.
Who at 20 years old has had to retire because of a serious knee injury she suffered whilst skiing in 2009. She would have bumped America's medal tally abit more for Gymnastics
she is also easy on the eye
I'm pretty sure being easy on the eye is one of the requirements for making it to the olympics in gymnastics.
How hard can it be?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-07-2012 01:14
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Ste117 wrote:
Is anyone going to see the Olympic TT at Hampton Court on Wednesday?
Im going, and Doddy will be doing his Games Maker stuff again
Im off to Wimbledon tomorrow / technically today
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 30-07-2012 01:24
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Ste117 wrote:
Is anyone going to see the Olympic TT at Hampton Court on Wednesday?
Im going, and Doddy will be doing his Games Maker stuff again
Im off to Wimbledon tomorrow / technically today
I am staying at the Kings Arms Hotel, not too far from the finish. I will be probably trying to get a position as close to the finish as possible. Should all meet up and finally meet you guys in person either during or after, my train ain't until near 7pm so I will be hanging around for a while after it.
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