gogo Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 I'm DVRing today's game. Should probably try to avoid the internet for the next 10 hours, until I can get home from work to watch... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Well I have to say, of all the sports at which women excel and which I am happy to watch, footie is not one of them. They never seem anything other than unbalanced and awkward to me, as if all the women who want to play sport but are too uncoordinated to do anything else end up playing football. Sorry ladies ... However, to their credit they don't do hardly any of the falling down pretending to be hurt stuff that the Wendyball men get up to. I'll stick to rugby ...Meanwhile, caught the Iceland v Hungary handball over lunch streaming on my work PC the other day. A real thriller into double extra time, with the Icelandic goalie making some great saves with his face. Developing quite a handball crush - like basketball but with a bit more intentional violence, and for normal people not 7 foot freaks.Also, really,that bmx racing isn't a sport. Much too much hoodies and cider. What were the IOC thinking?Plus - Irish boxing gold. No doubt it's a distant cousin of yours Gogo :-)Finally, felt quite barren and unsettled yesterday as the medals failed to roll in, but today the gold fever is back and Brits are whistling at work again.. God bless the individual dressage. We're really not used to it, being much more at home with the usual poignant and heroic failures - though there have been some of them too. With all those athletes devoting their lives to preparing for the Games, our overpaid football players can't be bothered to do a half hour a week penalty taking practise. Typical. Rugby sevens is at Rio. Now we're talking ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWjMQmPtrcU Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I'll check out Gold Medal matches or World Cup Finals if the U.S. is involved. I enjoy women's and men's soccer equally. If there is one team sport that is unbearable to watch the women play, it's basketball. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shakespeare In The Alley Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 yeah women's basketball is never not awful. women's soccer is great though. in many ways they play tougher than the men ever do. you'll rarely see players take a dive and plead for a foul call in a women's match. anyway, nice to see the us women take gold when the men cant even make the tournament. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Irish Commentary - Olympic Sailing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Plus - Irish boxing gold. No doubt it's a distant cousin of yours Gogo :-)Oddly enough... Katie Taylor looks like a nice girl. So, no relative of mine! Paddy Barnes, on the other hand... is a cousin of a cousin. He handled himself badly in Beijing. It looked like he'd been robbed of some points in his match; he wasn't expected to win it, but the result was 15-0, which didn't seem quite right, either. But he gave a few interviews after where he mouthed off a bit about the refs and the judges. He ended up with a bronze, the Chinese boxer who beat him ended up winning the final and getting the gold. Coming into this Olympics, he's made an effort to sound like a bit of a better sport, but he's been holding up signs at inappropriate moments promoting his twitter, etc. Probably not the classiest move! He made it exactly far as last time, fought this morning against the same Chinese fighter who'd beat him in Beijing, and with the points at 15-15, they gave it to the other boxer on a countback (45-44). So he's bronze again, first Irish boxer to medal in two Olympic games (first Irish athlete to do so at all, since the 1920s). And he was gracious in interviews, said he's friendly with the Chinese boxer now, happy with the close result, and pleased with his improvement from 15-0 to 15-15. He also had to be happy with the response of the crowd. Obviously in Beijing his opponent had the home-field advantage; but when Paddy came back hard in the 3rd round this morning, the crowd went nuts chanting his name. I'm not a boxing fan, and only met Paddy once when he was about 3 yrs old, but I'm happy for his mother (who I do know well), and glad to see that he's satisfied with the result today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I am having fun with the Google homepage activities. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Ricky Gervais tweeted today that he and Karl Pilkington are honored that they were used as the models for the soccer game. That was a good laugh once you look at them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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