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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:02:29 PM   
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I would suspect that there is a lot of new athletes to consider for knighthood.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:06:09 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:31:44 PM   
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I just heard a rumor that IOC are about to disqualify 5 athletes from the Athen's olympic games. Some medal winners are supposed to be among them.
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Strange that they take this action but do nothing about the East German swimmers - very odd.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:35:27 PM   
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I just heard a rumor that IOC are about to disqualify 5 athletes from the Athen's olympic games. Some medal winners are supposed to be among them.
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Strange that they take this action but do nothing about the East German swimmers - very odd.


Question presumable is if they have any blood material to "convict" them on. It seems they have gona back and done new test not availble in 2004 to the old blood samples from 2004.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:40:15 PM   
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I just heard a rumor that IOC are about to disqualify 5 athletes from the Athen's olympic games. Some medal winners are supposed to be among them.
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Strange that they take this action but do nothing about the East German swimmers - very odd.


Question presumable is if they have any blood material to "convict" them on. It seems
they have gona back and done new test not availble in 2004 to the old blood samples from 2004.

Rasmus
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Except in the case of the East Germans it's not hearsay or rumour or supposition - they (the athletes) have all admitted it.

Very sad for the clean athletes e.g. Sharon Davies, to name just one, who devoted her young life to training, training, training and all for what? To get beaten by cheats.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:45:32 PM   
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I would suspect that there is a lot of new athletes to consider for knighthood.


They (I suppose she, theoretically at least) don't give them to sports-persons that often, but this year will be interesting. As Redgrave and Hoy got them, Ben Ainslie should and it would be criminal if Bradley Wiggins doesn't with the Tour de France win (the first ever by a Brit) as well as his medals over the years.



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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:51:18 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 9:56:45 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:17:22 PM   
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This Usain Bolt geezer - he's quite good isn't he?


For a foreigner?! Yeah he's ok, just imagine if he were a Brit, the stadium would have gone beserk.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:24:04 PM   
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Becky Addlington should get a female equivalent. She is a star - we've never had a female double gold medal winner in swimming and one who then won medals at a second Games.


Fair point. Might have to do something else on top, though, for 'charitee' and such. I was going to compare her with Kelly Holmes, but it seems she (Holmes) had already been awarded an MBE (military division) long before Athens.


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I just heard a rumor that IOC are about to disqualify 5 athletes from the Athen's olympic games. Some medal winners are supposed to be among them.


If that's true, it would be nice if they could fly those who were cheated out of their rightful medal to London for a special ceremony to receive them in front of a full stadium.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:31:21 PM   
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This Usain Bolt geezer - he's quite good isn't he?

Indeed he is.

Did anyone notice the bottle thrown into the stadium just before the start? Good that the sound of the bottle landing didn't interfere with the start of the race.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:33:32 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:34:12 PM   
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Where did you hear about the IOC potential action Orm?

Swedish Text-TV.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:38:59 PM   
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Where did you hear about the IOC potential action Orm?

Swedish Text-TV.
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Very interesting. Its good that cheats get their deserts - even if it is late in the day.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 10:54:29 PM   
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This Usain Bolt geezer - he's quite good isn't he?

Indeed he is.

Did anyone notice the bottle thrown into the stadium just before the start? Good that the sound of the bottle landing didn't interfere with the start of the race.


I saw it, looked like a microphone to me - thought it was from one of the suit wearers. Hope they find out who threw the bottle. Isn't quite sportsmanship like, is it?

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 11:25:43 PM   
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This Usain Bolt geezer - he's quite good isn't he?

Indeed he is.

Did anyone notice the bottle thrown into the stadium just before the start? Good that the sound of the bottle landing didn't interfere with the start of the race.


I saw it, looked like a microphone to me - thought it was from one of the suit wearers. Hope they find out who threw the bottle. Isn't quite sportsmanship like, is it?

Mat


Here is a link that shows the bottle landing. It is about 12 seconds into the movie. Hopefully this link works in your countries as well.

http://www.svt.se/os/inkastad-flaska-pa-banan-bredvid-bolt

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/5/2012 11:57:38 PM   
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Here is a link that shows the bottle landing. It is about 12 seconds into the movie. Hopefully this link works in your countries as well.

http://www.svt.se/os/inkastad-flaska-pa-banan-bredvid-bolt


Nope. Says it can only be viewed in Sweden.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 12:06:16 AM   
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Here is a link that shows the bottle landing. It is about 12 seconds into the movie. Hopefully this link works in your countries as well.

http://www.svt.se/os/inkastad-flaska-pa-banan-bredvid-bolt


Nope. Says it can only be viewed in Sweden.

I was afraid of that. The youtube video of this was removed just a few minutes after it was uploaded.

I find that the policy of restricting internet access by country annoying. Hopefully I didn't make a to political statement.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 12:08:42 AM   
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Can't wait for the Winter Olympics.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 6:17:21 AM   
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Let's hope so.....

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 5:49:15 PM   
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Literally?

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 6:40:12 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 6:43:44 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 7:41:16 PM   
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Until there's a final collation of which education sector won what at London 2012, the debate over schooling is likely to rage on. At the time of writing, private school athletes had won 32% of Team GB's medals.

And that's the BBC.

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 7:42:08 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 7:48:27 PM   
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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 7:59:30 PM   
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Inspiring a generation?

Until there's a final collation of which education sector won what at London 2012, the debate over schooling is likely to rage on. At the time of writing, private school athletes had won 32% of Team GB's medals.

And that's the BBC.
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WTF?!?!

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 8:00:51 PM   
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Meanwhile, women's shot putting. Those are chunky girls.
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I wouldn't.......

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 8:02:02 PM   
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Pole Vaulting. Why? How?
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Why? - dont know
How? - with great difficulty....scary

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RE: All things Olympics and London 2012 - 8/6/2012 9:03:02 PM   
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I think we need more cycling and rowing events in the Olympics

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