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[KimyReizeger]

Anyone looking forward to anything in particular? I'm pretty excited about seeing table-tennis on the box for once, though I think China will pretty much wipe the floor with everyone.

Just popped the tele on now to a bit of show-horse-riding. I can't describe how shit I think this sport is. It's really big in Germany and I went to a stable when I was over there, which basically consists of the middle classes prancing around for hours at a time. What's more, they have gymnastic-horse-riding, where people do gymnastics...on horses! As if gymnastics / horse-riding weren't both gash enough in isolation.

[Morning View]

I saw the end of the ladies road race this morning. The first gold medal for GB.

[Sam L4]

My friend missed out in the 200m freestyle final by 0.01, which is a tad unlucky. GB have done really well to get to the final of the 4 x 100m freestyle relay, they broke the GB record by over 5 seconds to get there.

[Alkaline]

I missed the very minimal coverage of the lassies Beach Volleyball in HD yesterday. Gutted

[KimyReizeger]

GB won a gold in women's road cycling this morning.

Not sure what to make of gymnastics. It's seriously impressive what these wee girls can do, but it's surrounded by so much pomp and they generally look as though ready to cry at any moment.

[Captain America]

I'm following the basketball. I missed all the games today though cos of work. Will watch the mens on tuesday though.

[TheTickingTime-Bomb]

I didn't even realise it had started!

[Stripey]

the olympics is a total waste of money and should be abolished, and all televised sport should be put on some obscure pay-per-view cable channel with porn in the ad-breaks so that the drooling, bloated, 3-fingered cross-eyed pie eating unwashed who want it can be satisfied without clogging up the airwaves and wasting licensepayers money on such completely inconsequential shit.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by Stripey

the olympics is a total waste of money and should be abolished, and all televised sport should be put on some obscure pay-per-view cable channel with porn in the ad-breaks so that the drooling, bloated, 3-fingered cross-eyed pie eating unwashed who want it can be satisfied without clogging up the airwaves and wasting licensepayers money on such completely inconsequential shit.

Christ that's a lot of vitriol. Even if you did always get picked last at school sports, nobody can hold that much resentment towards all sports surely?

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

Christ that's a lot of vitriol. Even if you did always get picked last at school sports, nobody can hold that much resentment towards all sports surely?

"i watched the telly and a man ran faster than another man it was really exciting and me and my friends cheered a lot it was really good" - no, this wasn't written by a 5 year old primary school child, it was written by a 45 year old plumber called dave in a letter, dictated to and written down by his mother, to his estranged 10 year old kid who is in prison for rape and murder.
That's the kind of people who enjoy televised sports.