olympics 2012

[Mjt]

Now Im not really a sports person, and dont get time to watch the olympics much any way, BUT
BUT BUT BUT
just found out our murderball team made it in, and will start playing on september 5th.
These guys are seriously awesome
I am so fricken excited.:thu mbsup:
http://www.paralympic.org.au/news/mu...mpic-qualifier

[Logic please]

@Mjt: aka Wheelchair Rugby.

Their game is called wheelchair rugby for a reason: its competitors set about each other with the relish of Lewis Moody piling into a ruck. In their Mad Max chairs, pumped up, tattooed, muscular players tear around, smacking their bull bars into their opponents, giving the gym the appearance of the local bodybuilding club’s annual outing to the dodgems.
Every couple of minutes, a pair of helpers sprint from the side to right a stricken player who has fallen over in the tackle and is lying on the gym floor like an upturned tortoise.

“I broke my neck playing ice hockey,” David Willsie, the Canadian captain, told me. “At first, I couldn’t see the point of disabled sport: where’s the competitiveness? Then one day I was persuaded to go down to a display of wheelchair rugby at a gym. The moment I saw a guy being knocked out of his chair, I signed up.”

[Mjt]

Yeah, but murder ball is a more apt name, these guys and gals are amazing. I got hooked a few years ago, but it's hard to find any info or updates on the game, and it's hardly ever televised.
So excited the guys made it. Rylie Blatt played the qualifier with a buggered shoulder. We used to have a mixed team as well but I couldn't find anything about them now so maybe it is no more.

[Logic please]

Originally Posted by Mjt

Yeah, but murder ball is a more apt name, these guys and gals are amazing.

Hehe, fair call. There's also a movie of the same name too, IIRC.

[AUSloth]

Shouldn't really laugh but i'm going to
Borat's countrymen are doing better than the poms on their home turf!
Kazakhstan has 3 gold to the UK nil and aren't the press ripping it up them for it

Originally Posted by news.com

It's a sad and sorry state of affairs. Except that we're neither sad nor sorry.
Forget the fact Australia has one gold medal and Britain has none. Nada. Donuts.
The really amazing thing is that while Britain has, just to reiterate, no gold medals, Kazakhstan has three.
The Brits are copping a pasting in the press. The Sun ran a huge picture of a gold medal on its front page with the caption: “WANTED".
The Daily Mail says: “Carpe diem, Team GB: After a day of muddle, we need a gold medal!"
The Telegraph's splash reads: “Keep calm and carry on", while the Guardian reports that Team GB officials have revised their medal target back to 60.

London's Mayor Boris Johnson says the GB athletes are “too polite" to win gold, perhaps referring to flops from previous gold hopes Tom Daley and Mark Cavendish.

my bold

[Rhys]

It's pretty pointless comparing medal counts after only four days. The track cycling and rowing haven't had any medal events yet and that's where the British are likely to pick up quite a few golds.

Whilst Kazakhstan have picked up medals in Weightlifting, which just happened to have their medal events early on.

[two dogs]

Originally Posted by Rhys

It's pretty pointless comparing medal counts after only four days.
...

I think it's pretty pointless comparing countries' medal counts, at all.

[AUSloth]

Originally Posted by Rhys

It's pretty pointless comparing medal counts after only four days. The track cycling and rowing haven't had any medal events yet and that's where the British are likely to pick up quite a few golds.

Whilst Kazakhstan have picked up medals in Weightlifting, which just happened to have their medal events early on.

Of course.

I think it's great for the Kazakhs to have their grandstand moment on the world stage and take special note two out of three are in women's events so it a double bonus for a majority Islamic country to not only have women compete but succeed.

The chance to rev some of my pommy mates? Now that's just GOLD

[wolty]

I love social media.

CHANNEL Nine has had to defend its Olympics coverage in the face of a social media storm of criticism, with the network's 3D channel coming in for special criticism.

One comment on Channel Nine's Facebook page, asking for the network to show sports other than ''swimming, repeats of swimming, interviews of swimming, analysis of swimming, previews of swimming'', posted by Matthew Taylor and signed ''the rest of Australia'', has attracted more than 105,000 ''likes''.

And a Facebook page called ''Channel 9 Olympics Coverage Sucks'', has more than 3000 ''likes''.

My bold. That's quite a number.

[Logic]

I enjoy the athletics most so am patiently waiting while these people swim up and down a pool following a black line.


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