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Post by rubcale on Jul 30, 2012 18:40:59 GMT 1
It is only the third day but things are starting to look shaky.
Our "nailed" Gold sailor Ben Ainslie has been beaten for the third time by the Dane.
Daley made a slight error in the 5th dive but Waterfield cost them a medal with his performance in the 4th.
It's turning in to the usual British farce of near misses.
The AUstralian coxless four looked awesome in the rowing this morning.
Already it is looking as if Team GB will not achieve as many Gold medals as in Beijing.
I still don't think home advantage is helping.
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Post by Da Quen B on Jul 30, 2012 18:51:20 GMT 1
Having watched the BBCs little "Tom Daily is like sooo amazing and has gone through soooo much he should like totally win Promo Video" several times (as they seemed to be played it every ten minutes) I suspect they FLOPPED because they weren't going for Gold - saying "Silver is like Gold because China are amazing" is conceding defeat before doing anything. So it serves them right that they finished 4th with that attitude. Still its not as bad as the sour grapes by that massive stinking FLOP of a cyclist who whinged that everyone was trying to stop him winning it wasn't fair waah waah waah!
Watching the Gymnastics at the moment and they are performing with a passion and commitment that was lacking from that pair who had excuses ready.
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 18:52:36 GMT 1
It is only the third day but things are starting to look shaky. Our "nailed" Gold sailor Ben Ainslie has been beaten for the third time by the Dane. Daley made a slight error in the 5th dive but Waterfield cost them a medal with his performance in the 4th. It's turning in to the usual British farce of near misses. The AUstralian coxless four looked awesome in the rowing this morning. Already it is looking as if Team GB will not achieve as many Gold medals as in Beijing. I still don't think home advantage is helping. After 3 days in Beijing, we had 3 medals.
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 18:55:28 GMT 1
GB get team bronze in the gymnastics!
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 18:57:36 GMT 1
CORRECTION! SILVER!! Japan completely messed up on the pommel horse, which put GB upto 2nd!
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Post by rubcale on Jul 30, 2012 18:59:12 GMT 1
At last something goes right.
Bronze is a great achievement - they've punched above their weight.
SOMETHINGS HAPPENED - THEY'VE BEEN PROMOTED TO SILVER!!!!!!!
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Post by Mart!n on Jul 30, 2012 18:59:44 GMT 1
Wow they got the Silver, I thought they had the Bronze.
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Post by Da Quen B on Jul 30, 2012 19:03:21 GMT 1
Fabulous result for the Men's Gymnastics Team!
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 19:04:10 GMT 1
Looks like Japan are querying their final score but whatever happens, GB are guaranteed a medal.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 30, 2012 19:06:47 GMT 1
japan were robbed, they will get extra points here
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Post by Da Quen B on Jul 30, 2012 19:07:15 GMT 1
Does anyone at the O2 have a change of Pampers for that Japanese Gymnast? You FLOPPED! Get over it and learn to not make mistakes next time!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 30, 2012 19:09:45 GMT 1
well he dismounted, it was a sh*t dismount but it looks like he was docked for not landing a dismount so there should be points added if he was deducted for not landing....when he did
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 30, 2012 19:10:24 GMT 1
hopefully we still in silver, looks like japan will nick bronze
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Post by Mart!n on Jul 30, 2012 19:12:08 GMT 1
Boo, looks like we got the Bronze.
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 19:14:54 GMT 1
So the Japanese gymnast managed to get back something like 0.65, which is a pretty serious scoring error in the first place.
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Post by Da Quen B on Jul 30, 2012 19:14:58 GMT 1
Everyone who made a mistake should put in for an enquiry then and get extra points - and then the well deserving Chinese team might end up 6th because they didn't make any mistakes! The poor Ukranians!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 30, 2012 19:16:28 GMT 1
his score did look very very low from the routine i saw, he messed up at the end but landed it and basically got a score as if he landed on his ass
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Post by Panda on Jul 30, 2012 19:17:28 GMT 1
I do feel sorry for the Ukrainians, but despite the mistake from the Japanese gymnast, there had been a clear error in the awarding of his score.
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Post by Jordan on Jul 30, 2012 19:33:11 GMT 1
Well that was unfortunate. But again, we can't be knocking any form of medal right now. Well done to the GB team who did unprecedentedly well.
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Post by o on Jul 30, 2012 20:01:58 GMT 1
You do wish they hadn't stuffed up the scoring and got us excited about a silver and the ukrainians a bronze But it was quite clearly a scoring error, he dismounted, however badly and should have been given the extra points. I was watching some of the canoeing, the british pairs were doing very well. Some people seem to want us to fail to match beijing, I never thought we would, even with home advantage, in some ways it adds pressure.
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