Swimming Thread

[Johnners]

Quality choke from the French (y)

[superkingdave]

Originally Posted by superkingdave

Britain to win a bronze

haha. we won a bronze, but managed to slip the gold as well...well done Adlington!

[Mister Wright]

So many WRs so far in the pool. Astounding!

[Burgey]

Another dud relay effort by the Aussies. Who was the chump who swam third and thought we'd better give the other mobs 2 bodylengths start on the changeover?

Bring him home.

[Smudge]

Originally Posted by Mister Wright

So many WRs so far in the pool. Astounding!

I reckon it's only 49m long...

[Smudge]

Originally Posted by Burgey

Another dud relay effort by the Aussies. Who was the chump who swam third and thought we'd better give the other mobs 2 bodylengths start on the changeover?

Bring him home.

Maybe he goes out with Lay Down Sally Robbins?

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by Voltman

I reckon it's only 49m long...

Yep. Like the running track in that TV series "The Games" that was on before Sydney 2000. The 100 metres track was 94 metres long. Contractor: "Not a problem really, is it?"
John Clarke: "Not until next week when the NSW under 16 state champion breaks the world record by a second and a half".

[silentstriker]

LOved the quality from the US relay team. As Clapo said, that was a quality choke from the French.

I'm hoping so much that US come out on top of the medal lead. Red China and their sweat-shop olympic athlete production-line shouldn't get ahead!

NBC here did a piece on their gymnast programs and they meant it to be flattering toward their athletic training programs, but it came out looking absolutely horrid for them, with kids as young as 2.5-3 years, hundreds of them, working 4-5 hours even at that age.

[Craig]

Originally Posted by Chubb

Kirsty Coventry does Zimbabwe proud once again... she doesn't exactly sound like a Zimbo, sounds more like she's from Minnesota than Mashonaland... spent too much time at uni in America to get better facilities. She's awesome though. Zimbabwe came 3rd in the medals table at the short-course championships behind the US and Oz and she won all the medals! How fantastic is that?

Mugabe has called her "as a national treasure" as quoted from her wikipedia page. Why the **** would he give a toss on what is going on?

[Chubb]

Originally Posted by Craig

Mugabe has called her "as a national treasure" as quoted from her wikipedia page. Why the **** would he give a toss on what is going on?

I reckon because his unhinged mind thinks her success makes it look like everything is normal, and him praising her makes him look like less of a racist.

She is very popular in Zimbabwe though, I've seen pictures of her parade through Harare after Athens and many black and white people celebrate her victories. She is typical of many white Zimbabweans in that she is still very loyal to her country; she's probably lived in the US long enough to qualify for them but she still competes for the land of her birth.

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by Chubb

She is very popular in Zimbabwe though, I've seen pictures of her parade through Harare after Athens and many black and white people celebrate her victories. She is typical of many white Zimbabweans in that she is still very loyal to her country; she's probably lived in the US long enough to qualify for them but she still competes for the land of her birth.

Actually find that a tad perverse tbh. For all the talk of sporting boycotts, surely a stronger signal would be that even the country's own sportspeople refuse to pledge allegiance to the dictator.

World record today though, congrats

[Burgey]

Bronte Barrett into the final of the 200m free style. WIll need an extra leg to medal though.

[Son Of Coco]

Originally Posted by howardj

Well done Libby!



She has such a huge gob.

That's why you'll never find any plankton in the pool at the games.

[Burgey]

Phelps - that's the biggest margin in a big race since Might and Power in the Caulfield Cup.

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Phelps you are an absolute star. Take a bow.