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Galfon wrote:I'd just like to point out that Tarzan won the 100m freestyle gold in both the '24 & '28 Olympics, and David Wilkie is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, world and Olympic swimming titles at the same time.That's what I call synchronised swimming.
Also, my pool of choice was Warrender Baths back in the day, Wilkie's home turf, rather than the grander Meadowbank facility.
I didn't realise at the time I was sharing the great man's waters..

I have fond memories of Splash the original one with David Wilkie, here he is teaching the crawl:

I'm loving the inverted swimming facism. It's almost as if Millfield were clean in the 80's.

Joe Clark bags gold in K1 slalom.
Conway loses judo semi..
laugher/mears going well in springy-board-synchro-dive-to-green-lagoon...

weather & crowds not as good as london 2012 I would say, so far.

Farce in the synchro 3metre diving as the Mexicans are given a redive then have it taken away as they prepared to execute it

laugher/mears get the gold..kept their nerve.
sally conway from embra gets bronze in judo..good scrap.
whitlock going well in indiv. gymnastics..

Well done team GB, tidy medal haul today, including two golds in sports that we really didn't expect.

BBD wrote:Farce in the synchro 3metre diving as the Mexicans are given a redive then have it taken away as they prepared to execute it

it was a c*ck-up - officials still chunnering on 10 mins. later, not that it would have changed anything.

I can only assume that because the light flicked on before he stepped forward for his dive that the reasoning was that he could have pulled out and presumably stopped his partner too. It's not a convincing argument, would have been much easier to just say yeah go again.
Not sure that its significance to the final result either way should be part of the decision though

Got to feel for the Argentinians, so close. As GB go into the semi finals of the 7's

Well gym'd Whitlock..bronze against some incredible competition.

Eugene Wrayburn wrote:Really? We're going pretty well actually.

Great day today but quite a few missed chances and the occasional mishap in previous days.

What a story for Chris Mears considering his injury a few years back.

Both Mears and Laugher were superb.

WaspInWales wrote:

Eugene Wrayburn wrote:Really? We're going pretty well actually.

Great day today but quite a few missed chances and the occasional mishap in previous days.

There are always missed chances but there are always unexpected bonuses as well. We appeared to be roughly where expected. We're probably a little ahead now.

Is anyone else disappointed in the bbc Olympic breakfast programme?
It can't seem to decide if it's the One show, a highlights show or 24 hour rolling news

The website isn't very helpful either

Its pretty poor. The glamour this morning to speak to anyone who might have once dived off a diving board is particularly irritating.

I wouldn't mind if they actually were skilled at asking questions but the endless closing of questions, telling the person what they must be feeling and then asking them to agree is painful to listen to

My highlight this morning was the leader of Leeds City Council joining in the glory hunt.

I get why the news is Olympics focused at the moment, but if there is such a need to pad space so much then I question what their news editor is actually doing.

50m rifle shooting today. 50m! Are you serious?

Sandydragon wrote:My highlight this morning was the leader of Leeds City Council joining in the glory hunt.

I get why the news is Olympics focused at the moment, but if there is such a need to pad space so much then I question what their news editor is actually doing.

But I don't get the need to pad. It out, there is hours of footage we haven't seen overnight

One of the great things about the Olympics is we get to see sports that don't get the coverage the rest of the time, and you get to build your own knowledge if you get to watch the full event, the commentators highlight what the judges are looking for, you can see for yourself how performances compare

Conways quarter final against the world champ. The pin down she got was even more remarkable because she had just been pinned herself and managed to flip her opponent, a fantastic bit of sporting drama when I saw it live. The coverage this morning showed a 2 second clip of her celebrating
Repeating the same 5 second footage of the last dive and then padding is just poor programming
Show us a segment, a build up of scores, the neck and neck drama is where the highlights next morning should be, not in a cold swimming pool in leeds

OptimisticJock wrote:50m rifle shooting today. 50m! Are you serious?

Thats blindfold range. Might be more challenging with a basic air rifle but otherwise, meh.

Come back and talk to me when the targets shoot back.

BBD wrote:

Sandydragon wrote:My highlight this morning was the leader of Leeds City Council joining in the glory hunt.

I get why the news is Olympics focused at the moment, but if there is such a need to pad space so much then I question what their news editor is actually doing.

But I don't get the need to pad. It out, there is hours of footage we haven't seen overnight

One of the great things about the Olympics is we get to see sports that don't get the coverage the rest of the time, and you get to build your own knowledge if you get to watch the full event, the commentators highlight what the judges are looking for, you can see for yourself how performances compare

Conways quarter final against the world champ. The pin down she got was even more remarkable because she had just been pinned herself and managed to flip her opponent, a fantastic bit of sporting drama when I saw it live. The coverage this morning showed a 2 second clip of her celebrating
Repeating the same 5 second footage of the last dive and then padding is just poor programming
Show us a segment, a build up of scores, the neck and neck drama is where the highlights next morning should be, not in a cold swimming pool in leeds

The whole bbc coverage is poor. Why not have a bar at the bottom giving you warnings that x, y or z are about to compete on the red button. I find myself jumping around too much to find a brit to watch. Even the presenters barely bother "andy murray is in action right now on the red button", aye and Andy is about to win his first set! How no tell me 15 minutes ago when you came on you twat? Or how about warnings that you're about to show the results from the K1 in case I want to watch the highlights you were banging on about instead of telling me murray is on? Nah why bother you numpty!? Just laugh about instead!

Morning all.

I'll be there are thousands of BBC employees deployed there to provide coverage, which they can barely control themselves. Oh well, its not as if we are taxed for their efforts....

OptimisticJock wrote:50m rifle shooting today. 50m! Are you serious?

They're throwing the bullets at the targets, right?

BBD wrote:

OptimisticJock wrote:50m rifle shooting today. 50m! Are you serious?

They're throwing the bullets at the targets, right?

At that, ahem, range they might as well.

OptimisticJock wrote:50m rifle shooting today. 50m! Are you serious?

Do'nt forget the American ex-SWAT cop who managed to miss his target and hit the (black) man lying prostrate on the ground from 12m recently - with an assault rifle.
Apparently, 12m is a long way to even hit a 6'2 target with a rifle; 50m must be practically impossible.


Sorry.

Anyway, shooting's not a sport; it's a skillful hobby.