2012 Reasons why the Olympics are crap

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I’ll start:

  1. Discus
  2. Shot putt
  3. Hammer
  4. Terry McHugh allegedly “excelling” in all of the above
  5. Victor Costello
  6. Steroids
  7. 10km walk
  8. 40km walk
  9. Cian O’Connor
  10. Waterford Crystal
  11. Tony O’Reilly’s media campagin
  12. Erick de Bruin
  13. Michelle Smyth
  14. Cathal Devan’s media campaign
  15. George Hamilton commentating on something random like clay pigeon shooting
  16. The presence of Tracey Piggott on screen
  17. Deferral of Home and Away in the evenings
  18. Deferral of Home and Away at lunchtime
  19. Joe Public having an opinion on the 100 metres final having watched athletics for the first time in 4 years
  20. Soccer in the olympics
  21. Stupid corporate sponsorship tie-ins like the Coca Cola Olympic Village or the Mastercard Swimming Pool
  22. The fact Ireland are brutal at every event
  23. Staying up until 4 in the morning to see Ireland’s elite rowers in some obscure rparcharge
  24. Having to learn the formats of competitions that include rparcharges

Feel free to continue this from 25 onwards

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25 crap tracksuits that athletes wear
26 sonia o’sullivan
27 diarrohea
28 chocolates
29 seeing that annoying lady from the north who won a medal 100 years ago talking about British athletes today
30 debate over whether there should be a british football team for the event
31 a question of sport special all about olympics
32 sue barker

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  1. Craig Doyle on BBC saying ‘and it’s great to see the Union Jack flying high and to hear the anthem once more’ as some obscure British pentathlete gets presented with the Gold medal.
  2. Jerry Kiernan.
  3. Dame Tannii Grey.
  4. Bryan Smyth, father of Michelle, still protesting her innocence.
  5. Jim Sheridan being wheeled out of some nursing home to commentate on the swimming.
  6. Some random cooont breaking the Irish 400m record or something and still getting eliminated in the heats.
  7. Getting dizzy watching the indoor cycling.
  8. Seeing a stream of boats all weaving around some markers and not having an idea what’s going on before a loud BBC commentator exclaims ‘And Ben Ainslie’s won yet another Olympic gold for Britain’.
  9. Sir Steve Redgrave.
4
  1. synchronise swimming
  2. female weightlifters
  3. the 2 weightlifting events called “the snatch” and “the clean & jerk”
  4. archery
5
  1. the opening ceremony
  2. the closing ceremony
  3. the London Olympics logo
  4. the bidding process to host the games
  5. the fact that they’re called “The Games”
  6. Peter Collins anchoring sports coverage
  7. Garry O’Toole chickening out of voicing his real thoughts on Michelle Smyth
  8. Marian Finucane having an opinion on Michelle Smyth’s performances
  9. Welcome home greetings for bronze medalists
  10. Anoerexic gymnasts
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  1. Jokes about how the swimming could have been held anywhere in Ireland because of the amount of rain we get during the summer
  2. The President commenting on the achievements of our athletes
  3. Des Cahill comments on the Games
  4. The Memory Man Jimmy McGee talking about his favourtite Games
  5. The Memory Man
7
  1. Pat Hickey - President of the Irish Olympic Council
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61. Pat Hickey - President of the Irish Olympic Council
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He is now President of the UCI (world cycling organisation). We might have him talking about both roles come Olympic Time. We really are a fortunate nation.

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  1. The word “balmy” being used to describe the weather for evening athletics
  2. Smart casual dress code in the television studios in the evenings reminiscent of Match of the Day 2
  3. Irish runners getting lapped in distance events while running PBs
  4. Mad Irish priests affecting the outcome of marathons
10
  1. Fencing
  2. Stupid olympics competitions on Mars bars and the likes
  3. Con Murphy presenting GAA coverage because everyone else is at the Olympics
  4. Ronnie Delaney - nice bloke I’m sure but are we going to always refer to our one credible track athlete every 4 years?
  5. Fat Scandinavian female javelin throwers
  6. Fat British female javelin throwers
  7. Fat Finnish female javelin throwers
11
  1. The 26k Walk
  2. People talking about the olympics pretending they are experts.
  3. People talking about the olympics pretending they give a shit.
  4. Long Jump
  5. That other long jump event
  6. High Jump
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  1. Long jumpers and high jumpers turning around and getting the crowd to start a slow hand clap to help fire themselves up. Then when they feel the crowd are right behind them they proceed to either make a foul jump or shatter through the bar.
  2. Sally Gunnell
    81 Kris Akabusi.
  3. The way Kris Akabusi used to always shout ‘awooga’ when he presented Record Breakers.
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  1. Clay pigeon shooting
  2. Clifton Wrottesley
  3. Jonathan Edwards
  4. Athletes praising Jesus
  5. False starts
  6. Debates about grants and funding for obscure sports
  7. Security threats
  8. Failed drug tests
  9. Unattractive female German hurdlers
  10. Watching highlights of yachting on tv
  11. Dressage
  12. Tom Humphries moaning about the weight of his laptop in his column
  13. Tom Humphries moaning about the overcrowded train in his column
  14. Tom Humphries moaning about the under-resourced media facilities in his column
  15. Ger Canning left to cover the GAA by himself
14
  1. A Newsround Special On The Olympics

Post edited by: thepiedpiper, at: 2007/07/09 22:10

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  1. American legends like Michael Johnson coming over and fawning over the British athletes just because they’re getting a fat cheque from the BBC even though these athletes invariably are crap.
  2. The debate on whether Great Britain should enter a football team in the 2012 games.
  3. One of the Royals competing in the 3-day eventing and receiving the Sports Personality of the Year award based on their heroics.
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Bandage wrote:

  1. American legends like Michael Johnson coming over and fawning over the British athletes just because they’re getting a fat cheque from the BBC even though these athletes invariably are crap.
  1. The debate on whether Great Britain should enter a football team in the 2012 games.
  2. One of the Royals competing in the 3-day eventing and receiving the Sports Personality of the Year award based on their heroics.

We’ve had number 100 already Bandage. Need a different one:

  1. Seb Coe
  2. Steve Ovett
  3. Colin Jackson bottling the hurdles every 4 years
  4. Allan Wells
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  1. Irish athletes struggling to make even the pre-qualifying times for the track events.
  2. Des Cahill’s ‘witty’ radio reports from the Olympic village.
  3. Paul Collins on Today FM trying to become the new Des Cahill - Christ, what a template to follow.
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  1. Des Cahill’s Olympics Special Phone-in Show
  2. Marion Finucane discussing the Olympics
  3. Joe Duffy discussing the Olympics
  4. Ireland making a humiliating attempt to lure some London-bound Olympians here to train at Belfield before “the Games”
  5. People referring to the Olympics as “the Games”
19
  1. The “Olympic Spirit”.
  2. No mention of Berlin 1936.
  3. No mention of Munich 1972.
20
  1. Oceans of newspaper headlines proclaiming that ‘London Games will have knock-on 25bn boost to the Irish economy’. Pretty similar to the way the Ryder Cup was meant to give us a few billion euro and a hand job too or something.