Olympics 2012

[wharfeego]

Silver for Lizzie


Olympic Silver for Lizzie Armitstead by Andy Holden, on Flickr


A Reet Yorkshire Lass

[Graham Breeze]

Lizzie is far from the favourite and I really want to see a decent race (not always the case in women's cycling) with a worthy winner but I don't mind someone from Otley winning. See? I am always completely objective!

Perfection: best rider in the world gets Gold and local rider gets Silver.

[Dynamo Dan]

Perfection: best rider in the world gets Gold and local rider gets Silver.

She could have got gold. There was moment when Vos and the Russian (sorry can't remember her name) looked at each other and one flicked towards the other, they slowed momentarily and Armistead had the perfect opportunity to attack. I bet she'll be kicking herself slightly when she watches it back.

[molehill]

I certainly could but it would take a while. think of it as physical chess on water. Lots of tacticks which will come in to play near the end includeing pushing your rival over the start line to get him disq as they did to Ben years ago which cost him a gold. all part of the rules.

Any point inpaticular you want yo know.

They all appear to be sailing randomly around the Solent. I'll take your word they are following some plan, teaching me the rules would be on a par with teaching an American cricket

[Mike T]

She could have got gold. There was moment when Vos and the Russian (sorry can't remember her name) looked at each other and one flicked towards the other, they slowed momentarily and Armistead had the perfect opportunity to attack. I bet she'll be kicking herself slightly when she watches it back.

But Vos would have been on her wheel in no time and passed her - some days you are just not going to win, no matter how much you want it. Looking back to see how things could have been done better helps us to learn for next time, but we should celebrate what we achieve, not regret what we didn't.

[Mike T]

Lineker interviewing Lizzie: "Are you going to go out and celebrate?" - in other words are you going to drink alcohol - she looked at him with an absolutely brilliant "I feel pretty good as I am thank you" look on her face.

[Danbert Nocurry]

About all these empty seats.

At the swimming yesterday they said that the families of the swimmers had to apply for tickets and many missed out yet there were empty seats - imagine if you were one of those families. :thunbdown:

[Stagger]

About all these empty seats.

At the swimming yesterday they said that the families of the swimmers had to apply for tickets and many missed out yet there were empty seats - imagine if you were one of those families. :thunbdown:

This is 2012 Danbert. The rich dont give a monkies as we've seen with our own in westminister, bankers and fifa. Why should these to$$ers be any different.
NAME and SHAME is the only way forward.
Coe is a bottler and is one of them.

[OB1]

Nowt strange about it, I frequently think Cav sounds like a knob but agree with what his saying. Im not going to think about that too much.....

Indeed, catching up with the last 24 hrs of this thread, sounds like there's 'knobs galore' in evidence on here too, but I'm not going to think about that too
much either...

[wharfeego]

...sounds like there's 'knobs galore' in evidence on here too...

Never a truer few words spoken on here.