The Olympics/Paralympics 2012

[Dartzap]

I think the image of Boris Johnson dancing to the Spice Girls is one that will haunt me to my last breath.

[Darth Nostril]

You got The Who to round things off what are you complaining about?
Oh and Darcy Bussell in a nearly see through catsuit *drool*

[fgalkin]

Can someone please tell my why rythmic gymnastics is an Olympic sport, yet baseball is not? Seriously, i can dance around with a sparked hula hoop and i'm an old fatasss.

I would very much like a video of you doing this:



And, Baseball was an Olympic sport, but America got tired of getting reamed by Cuba year after year, so they got it dropped. Being repeatedly beaten at your national sport by a bunch of dirty Commies is kinda embarrassing. I mean, some years, the US didn't even get Bronze.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Col. Crackpot]

You got The Who to round things off what are you complaining about?
Oh and Darcy Bussell in a nearly see through catsuit *drool*

It was also nice to see George Michael in public doing something that didn't involve his penis. I always liked that song.

[Darth Tedious]

Can someone please tell my why rythmic gymnastics is an Olympic sport, yet baseball is not? Seriously, i can dance around with a sparked hula hoop and i'm an old fatasss.

I would very much like a video of you doing this:

I also would like to see this. Can we raise to a Double Dare?

[Col. Crackpot]

Can someone please tell my why rythmic gymnastics is an Olympic sport, yet baseball is not? Seriously, i can dance around with a sparked hula hoop and i'm an old fatasss.

I would very much like a video of you doing this:

I also would like to see this. Can we raise to a Double Dare?

only if i can wear the sparkly leotard

[Darth Tedious]

only if i can wear the sparkly leotard

I would insist that you do. Regulation uniform, level playing field and all that...

[fgalkin]

I miss the Cold War....

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[El Moose Monstero]

I was going to say in which case, I miss the British Empire, but apparently (http://labs.pingflux.com/oldelympics/) the Mongols and Romans would have beaten us instead.

[Dartzap]

Best GB result since 1908, medalwise. Thats nought to be sneezed at, heh.

These games have been annoying in one singular regard:A spectacular lack of epic failing. We were promised glorious clusterfuckups, dammit! Nothing to be bitter about. Even the trains ran on time.

Edit: forever third!

[Eternal_Freedom]

Best GB result since 1908, medalwise. Thats nought to be sneezed at, heh.

These games have been annoying in one singular regard:A spectacular lack of epic failing. We were promised glorious clusterfuckups, dammit! Nothing to be bitter about. Even the trains ran on time.

Edit: forever third!

This is the quintissential British mindset, when there is nothing to complain about, complain about having nothing to complain about!

[Lost Soal]

Best GB result since 1908, medalwise. Thats nought to be sneezed at, heh.

These games have been annoying in one singular regard:A spectacular lack of epic failing. We were promised glorious clusterfuckups, dammit! Nothing to be bitter about. Even the trains ran on time.

Edit: forever third!

Maybe not in the running of the event, but if you follow the right sports then there is plenty to scream about.

[Captain Seafort]

Maybe not in the running of the event, but if you follow the right sports then there is plenty to scream about.

Or laugh at. Such as the various horses that decided the pentathletes they'd been issued with were incompetent, and chucking them off.

[Dartzap]

Yeah, that Korean chap had a really rough ride *ahem* 600 penalty points, ouch!

[EnterpriseSovereign]

There was that diver that did the equivalent of a belly flop! And in the pole vault there was a run of at least 4 or 5 guys who couldn't make the jump, some failed to even reach the height of the bar, something funny must have been going on. In the overall highlights they showed the pole actually snapping, unfortunately I didn't catch which athlete that was. There was also that weightlifter who practically dropped the barbell on his own neck too

I watched as many events as I could, yet I still missed so much- damn them for showing so many things simultaneously At least thanks to the official website I could follow team GB.

Nowadays basketball is seen as the US's national sport- there would have been something seriously wrong had they not taken gold

[Hillary]

Or laugh at. Such as the various horses that decided the pentathletes they'd been issued with were incompetent, and chucking them off.

One of the definite highlights, I agree.

[houser2112]

Nowadays basketball is seen as the US's national sport- there would have been something seriously wrong had they not taken gold

I'm not sure how you're determining this. I would say basketball ranks a distant second behind football, at best. If you consider only the professional leagues of the two sports (the roster of the USA basketball team was entirely drawn from the ranks of the NBA), I'd say its popularity is even lower.

[Captain Seafort]

There was that diver that did the equivalent of a belly flop!

And one went in the wrong way round.

[Block]

Nowadays basketball is seen as the US's national sport- there would have been something seriously wrong had they not taken gold

I'm not sure how you're determining this. I would say basketball ranks a distant second behind football, at best. If you consider only the professional leagues of the two sports (the roster of the USA basketball team was entirely drawn from the ranks of the NBA), I'd say its popularity is even lower.

I'm pretty sure it's still a distant third behind baseball.

[fgalkin]

Here is a ranking of US sports by popularity

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[thejester]

Two things stand out about that - how the NFL has cannibalised baseball's market share, and the way basketball was so dependent on the career of one individual.

[Dartzap]

Should be a grand week once again