Olympics 2012

[molehill]

I feel an e-mail coming on to our Aussie friends (and keen cyclists), congratulating them on having nearly as many gold medals as Yorkeshire. They will feel so proud of their sporting nation!

[Danbert Nocurry]

Decent interview with Brailsford on the BBC tonight.

He's a top bloke. I'd love to see him try and influence our ageing geriatric cross country group down at Rochdale Harriers though :w00t:

[Martins Mrs]

Is John Inverdale getting more orange by the day? Is he turning into David Dickinson ?? :wink:

[Alf]

I am impressed with the open water swim 2 hours! It puts my wild swim adventures to shame. Loved the way the coots were racing the swimmers

[Alf]

Come on Keri-Anne !!

[Alf]

Tough luck Keri-Anne .04 second away from Bronze after a 10k swim. Must be the toughest event in the Games.

[CL]

EPO is detectable these days, as is the resultant increase in Hb, now that we have athlete passports. I think Dibaba is capable of going well under 30 minutes for 10,000m, but she doesn't have to, so she has plenty left to sprint the last 400m. She is hardly the only 10,000m runner who is/was capable of doing this.

Innocent until shown to be guilty.

A wholly naive view.

[Dr H Tool]

A wholly naive view.

Totally missing the point again. Try to check out this performance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19190722

For all you consumate bike handlers out there, it aint nothing compared to this, watch and respect.

I'm off to watch a lttle girl batter someone :w00t:

[CL]

Chris I find this a strange comment. It was a 62 second lap. I'm not sure why that isn't possible for one of the best female 10,000m runners.

Yes a 62 second lap at the end of a 30.20 10km. Totally unheard of prior to the EPO era. Even when Kristiansen set her great 30.13 I doubt she ran the last lap much faster than 70 seconds.

The thing is Danbert over the past 20 years you've grown accustomed to performances made possible by drugs, so naturally you regard my comments as strange. All I can suggest is to look back at pre 1993 footage of Women's races and compare them to the Chinese/ post Chinese performances of 1993. If you do you'll see what I mean.

[Alf]

I'm off to watch a lttle girl batter someone :w00t:

...and she did (though I couldn't watch) !

Well done Nicola