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McCartney is passed it.
Summer Olympics 2012 LD
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Shucky Ducky Quack Quack
Fuck Yeah! Canada just beat South Africa 3-0 in football.
McCartney sounded dreadful; he failed to hit a lot of notes in Hey Jude.
Plus it's the fact that it's just McCartney on his own, and seeing as he pops up a few times a year for these big occasions it doesn't seem as special as it should be. Perhaps if they'd put together a one-night-only supergroup of British musicians it would end up being much more memorable. Something like McCartney on piano, May on guitar, Sting on Bass, Collins on drums, Bowie singing. How epic would that've been?
Plus it's the fact that it's just McCartney on his own, and seeing as he pops up a few times a year for these big occasions it doesn't seem as special as it should be. Perhaps if they'd put together a one-night-only supergroup of British musicians it would end up being much more memorable. Something like McCartney on piano, May on guitar, Sting on Bass, Collins on drums, Bowie singing. How epic would that've been?
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Since when did all these Asians learn how to swim?
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
I had a really horrible joke but it isn't the bar room
Bernkastel
Reaper of Miracles
Watching beach volleyball; May-Treanor and Walsh haven't lost a single step.
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It is one of those events where if you are not intimately familiar with the moves/techniques involved, it means absolutely nothing to you.
Good to see the first GB medal.
Good to see the first GB medal.
Aye. The thing is, I've watched dressage before, like the proper one not the one that's part of eventing, and is essentially making a horse dance. Not my cup of tea, but can see why it's a sport. This one was so watered down that it's basically "walk a horse round a big square", it'd be like someone doing forward rolls in the gymnastics floor exercise.
Glad to see the first medal though, well done Lizzie.
Glad to see the first medal though, well done Lizzie.
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I have to say that I am not a big fan of sports that are marked on the interpretation of a judge panel.
Due to the professionalisation of sport over the last few decades and gradual bunching of the ability that it entails at the highest levels, it has become increasingly difficult for the average fewer to understand or recognise what is a truly great dive, routine etc. The commentators do not make it any easier by talking about all the technical terms that only people involved in the sport would know.
My least favourite is actually the Ski Jumping. I have never understood why a sport that claims to be about jumping has marks for technique and have it weighted in such a way that the person who jumps the furthest does not necessarily win. Some of the greatest ever across various sporting disciplines have not used textbook techniques - Jesse Owens, Dick Fosbury, Michael Johnson etc.
At least some sporting federations are starting to recognise that if they are to grow their sports any, they must make them easier for people to watch; this is perhaps most obvious in the changes to the rules and ball in table tennis and the new colour of the pitch in hockey.
Due to the professionalisation of sport over the last few decades and gradual bunching of the ability that it entails at the highest levels, it has become increasingly difficult for the average fewer to understand or recognise what is a truly great dive, routine etc. The commentators do not make it any easier by talking about all the technical terms that only people involved in the sport would know.
My least favourite is actually the Ski Jumping. I have never understood why a sport that claims to be about jumping has marks for technique and have it weighted in such a way that the person who jumps the furthest does not necessarily win. Some of the greatest ever across various sporting disciplines have not used textbook techniques - Jesse Owens, Dick Fosbury, Michael Johnson etc.
At least some sporting federations are starting to recognise that if they are to grow their sports any, they must make them easier for people to watch; this is perhaps most obvious in the changes to the rules and ball in table tennis and the new colour of the pitch in hockey.
Jordan Wieber, out of the running in individual women's gymnastics. What a shock, gotta feel for her.
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I agree with you there, especially when the differences between an 9.0 and 10 are incredibly slim and highly subjective. It's a necessary evil of something like gymnastics (which I find fun to watch for no other reason than the shit being done should be impossible) though.
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I do find it funny that after every cycling section they go to Baronness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who appears to be stuck outside. Is there no disabled access in BBC London?
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Spain beaten by Japan and now beaten by Honduras and out...
I didn't think they played badly at all. The first quarter wasn't good execution, but the rest of the game they played pretty well.
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And several of the Spanish players showed very poor sportsmanship.
I always tend to lose focus on who's winning and losing...
Stormtrooper
Championship Contender
I would watch this more, but stupid fucking NBC decides to air the big events in prime time, meaning that they are aired on Tape Delay like it's 1976 or something. Of course virtually every network (including NBC itself) spoil the events, meaning there is much less of a point in watching the event.
Fucking NBC.
Fucking NBC.
