Yeah, it’s kinda like horse racing and F1 that way. FFS
Fcuking phelps gliding in ! What a basic mistake , cost him gold
Hail hail to Michael Jamieson. What a swim. 
Oi, fucking watch it!
Ah jaysus Meave Binchy is dead.
The South African lad who beat Phelps old lad is stealing the show. A nut job
:lol:
good evenings sport so far.
The handball tournament is really taking shape at the moment, my beloved Serbia were trashed 31-23 by the horrible nazi croats costing me a 100 euro in the process, the following game was a cracker, reigning european champions denmank beat spain 25-24 with a goal 3 seconds from time, France and Argentina on court now…
for the moment im tied up with France leading a Manu Ginobli inspired Argentina 55-53 in the basketball well into the fourth quarter and am trying to figure out how to leave work early tomorrow night to get to Haifa to watch ironi kiryat shmona’s champoins league tie against baku.,
apologies for another substandard contribution but the dishonesty of our equestrain competitors has me a a little disillusioned with the olympic movement,
64-58 France now, Tony Parker on fire…
:o why did a south African beat Phelps owl lad?
Thanks.
Spectators at Wembley Arena booed as the Olympic women’s doubles badminton competition descended into farce with four pairs deliberately playing to lose.
Players served into the net, hit shots long or wide, and employed time-wasting tactics as they appeared to try to engineer themselves a favourable draw in the next round of the competition.
All four pairs - one from China, two from South Korea, and another from Indonesia - had already qualified for the last eight but top spots were still to be settled.
Spectators reacted angrily to players’ refusal to play.
@lorihalford tweeted: “Didn’t expect to be booing teams tonight. China and Korea women’s doubles teams are a disgrace.”
While Frederik Nielsen said: “Saw the most embarrassing sports match I’ve ever seen today. Women’s badminton doubles. They were rightly booed off court.”
Several hours after the events on court, the Badminton World Federation charged the four pairs with "not using one’s best efforts to win a match"and “conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport”.
A disciplinary hearing is scheduled to be held on Wednesday morning.
The fiasco began when Chinese top seeds Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang started to show little interest in beating Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na to finish top of Group A.
That would mean avoiding compatriots and second seeds Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei at least until the final.
The Koreans responded by copying China and referee Thorsten Berg emerged to warn all the players. The match restarted and the Koreans went on to win 21-14 21-11.
But that was not the end of the matter as a second Korean pair, the third seeds Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung, then attempted to throw their match against Indonesia’s Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.
Their motive was apparently an attempt to avoid Wang and Yu in the quarter-finals, an outcome they failed to achieve as they eventually won 18-21 21-14 21-12. The Indonesians in turn had also tried to lose the game.
Berg intervened and disqualified the players in the second game, prompting a roar of approval from the angry crowd, but quickly reversed his decision.
Britain’s Gail Emms, who was an Olympic silver medallist in 2004, said the scenes were a “disgrace”.
“We had four pairs on court trying to lose - very un-Olympic spirit,” she said. “I’m furious. It is very embarrassing for our sport.”
However, China’s Yu claimed the tactics had simply been to preserve energy ahead of the knockout phase on Wednesday.
“Actually these opponents really were strong. This is the first time we’ve played them and tomorrow it’s the knockout rounds, so we’ve already qualified and we wanted to have more energy for the knockout rounds,” she said.
A bollocks of a racquet…
Ger cuntning giving a masterclass in bland, waffly commentary here for the rowing.
He did some fantastic work on the slow motion replays yesterday:
“Using the legs there, pushing the arms out, the blades cutting through the water” :lol:
All of them fucked out
Disaster for Eoin Rheinisch in the kayaking. Missed a gate completely and is out.
Pot, Kettle, Black
Bit harsh to throw them out, very bad form imo.
John Joe Nevin fighting now.
Nevin should win here, with a bit to spare