2012 Summer Olympics Thread

[Wakarimashita]

[Jd-]

Now that Badminton and Table Tennis are finally over, the USA should stay on top for the rest of the games.

[Stopwatch]

Meh, I really doubt Britain's going to get 30 golds now, they've just missed out on too many they were expected to get. I mean, Victoria Pendleton was aiming for two golds iirc and only ended up with silvers, so the velodrome stuff didn't go as well as expected, plus things like the open water marathon and the sailing where they missed out for various reasons. Now GB's best sports are out of the way they're probably only going to get a few more, maybe Mo Farah will get his race and apparently they're guaranteed some medals in boxing or something, but they'd have to be seriously lucky to manage all golds.
Although, as GB got medals in things like equestrian events that were unexpected it could make up partly for some of the things they missed out on...
Well, they tried their best and third's pretty good anyway imo.

[Jd-]

Current medal counts going into the last two days, since Wakarimashita didn't update yesterday:

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[Wakarimashita]

Yeah, I've started doing an update every 2 days because of lazyness and because I don't follow the 2nd week nearly as much as the first (almost all of my favorite sports, including swimming, being in the first...).

Funny your tracker goes with total medals. I've always seen the medal tables being based on the total gold medals first (in the end both don't really make that much sense since 1 gold obviously isn't equal to 1 silver but 1 gold obviously isn't superior to 15 silvers, it should be like gold = 3 points, silver = 2, bronze = 1 and then make the total).

[Stopwatch]

Yeah, the official medall tables basically have it like golds, then resorts to silvers, then to bronze if, say two countries have the same number of golds. I kinda agree with Wakari on the way it'd be best done though. Although 5, 3, 2/1 instead of 3, 2, 1 would be closer to how I see it...

And correction on my previous statement about Pendleton. She was predicted three golds and ended up with one gold, a silver and was disqualified in her other event due to an illegal changeover.

[El Huesudo II]

My country won gold medal for soccer.

Against Brazil.

I can't believe this. This is amazing. ;_;

[mangaluva]

You should've heard my dad yelling at the TV during the men's 5000 metres XD

Anyway, well done Mo Farah! That was literally an epic win!

[Wakarimashita]

And here's the final medal table, it will no longer change now :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summ ... edal_table

[Stopwatch]

Jd- cameo
...I mean-

I preferred the beginning parts of the ending to the opening, but I have to wonder just how many people cried/almost cried for them to have that much footage. BBC spies!

Eh, had some bad bits, but overall pretty good again imo .

(I'm not too early *cough*)

[Hime-Chan]

there they went, the spice girls, underwhelming, nobody did the choreography!
It's the first time I followed this close the olympics, but I found british athletes to be real cheaters, starting over I don't know how many times their races because they didn't feel like it...

[Wakarimashita]

Jd- cameo
...I mean-

I preferred the beginning parts of the ending to the opening, but I have to wonder just how many people cried/almost cried for them to have that much footage. BBC spies!

Eh, had some bad bits, but overall pretty good again imo .

(I'm not too early *cough*)

An impressive number of athletes cry, whether it be from joy or disappointment, sometimes right after the result, sometimes during the ceremony when the national anthem plays (ex : Felix Sanchez) Finding that footage musn't have been that hard, really. ^^

I found the closing ceremony pretty nice overall. It dragged a bit here and there because of the usual rituals and maybe because of an excessive amount of performers (I think it lasted around 3/4h longer than planned) but most of the singers/groups provided something to enjoy (except maybe the boy bands and the Spice Girls but I'm not really the target audience of that stuff so...). I was really fond of the 'Imagine' sequence (but why did it have to come only a few seconds after 'Bohemian Rapsody' started playing ?) and the one with the Kate Bush song (I'm a big Kate Bush fan). I know that type of ceremony isn't really her thing but too bad she wasn't there. I also liked the smaller replicas of the London Eye and other tourist attractions.

Very good olympics overall with a much better atmosphere than Beijing's, and that's coming from someone still annoyed at Paris losing the bid back in 2005.  ;D

[Stopwatch]

there they went, the spice girls, underwhelming, nobody did the choreography!
It's the first time I followed this close the olympics, but I found british athletes to be real cheaters, starting over I don't know how many times their races because they didn't feel like it...

What? Can I just point out what you're tallking about happened what... 3 times? In the sailing which I didn't manage to catch (but from what I've heard it was still within the rules even if you find it unfair and I doubt they planned it ). Then, the cycling where the guy very possibly did cheat, though there are very small chances he said it incorrectly 'cause he's not been learning English long or that he was joking and everyone just took him seriously. That's one instance of possible cheating. Only other thing I can thiink of is with Tom Daley having to redo his first dive because a load of idiots in the audience ignored instructions about no flash and for some reason thought it would actually have an effect in a lit stadium. With this, the entire reason why flash isn't allowed is because it distracts the divers and obviously the referee thought it was justified or he wouldn't have let him retake it.
Not to mention that doping is also a form of cheating you've utterly ignored in saying that.
Can you please not generalise so much and be so insulting unless you can actually back it up, please....

[mangaluva]

there they went, the spice girls, underwhelming, nobody did the choreography!
It's the first time I followed this close the olympics, but I found british athletes to be real cheaters, starting over I don't know how many times their races because they didn't feel like it...

What? Can I just point out what you're tallking about happened what... 3 times? In the sailing which I didn't manage to catch (but from what I've heard it was still within the rules even if you find it unfair and I doubt they planned it ). Then, the cycling where the guy very possibly did cheat, though there are very small chances he said it incorrectly 'cause he's not been learning English long or that he was joking and everyone just took him seriously. That's one instance of possible cheating. Only other thing I can thiink of is with Tom Daley having to redo his first dive because a load of idiots in the audience ignored instructions about no flash and for some reason thought it would actually have an effect in a lit stadium. With this, the entire reason why flash isn't allowed is because it distracts the divers and obviously the referee thought it was justified or he wouldn't have let him retake it.
Not to mention that doping is also a form of cheating you've utterly ignored in saying that.
Can you please not generalise so much and be so insulting unless you can actually back it up, please....

^ This. It's quite petty and hurtful to generalize like that, not to mention cruel to suggest that any of the athletes who won, and have been working hard for many years to do so, didn't earn their medals. Next time, pay attention and don't be so sore.

[Hime-Chan]

there they went, the spice girls, underwhelming, nobody did the choreography!
It's the first time I followed this close the olympics, but I found british athletes to be real cheaters, starting over I don't know how many times their races because they didn't feel like it...

What? Can I just point out what you're tallking about happened what... 3 times? In the sailing which I didn't manage to catch (but from what I've heard it was still within the rules even if you find it unfair and I doubt they planned it ). Then, the cycling where the guy very possibly did cheat, though there are very small chances he said it incorrectly 'cause he's not been learning English long or that he was joking and everyone just took him seriously. That's one instance of possible cheating. Only other thing I can thiink of is with Tom Daley having to redo his first dive because a load of idiots in the audience ignored instructions about no flash and for some reason thought it would actually have an effect in a lit stadium. With this, the entire reason why flash isn't allowed is because it distracts the divers and obviously the referee thought it was justified or he wouldn't have let him retake it.
Not to mention that doping is also a form of cheating you've utterly ignored in saying that.
Can you please not generalise so much and be so insulting unless you can actually back it up, please....

These were the 3 instances where it was dubious, the other people didn't restart because of it! I generalised a bit, true, they weren't the only ones, like for example this algerian guy in race, one day he says that he's completely sick, and the day after he's winning at a race and he's fine, he should have been disqualified...
I didn't say I was sore either, I just noticed that it wasn't everyone that played fair in there!