Still a bit raw yet, but that wont stop EH from callingNumbers wrote:I've only seen the highlights of his first bout but he certainly looks like he has the tools for the job.Big D wrote:Eddie will be on the phone at the end of next week.Sandydragon wrote:
Hell yes, cracking performance.
I'm not. Without her it'd just be 'should be gold'.Big D wrote:Don't count out Brianne Theisen-Eaton. She and her husband could be the 1st wife/husband to hold the heptathlon and Decathlon golds at the same time.Mellsblue wrote:Jessica Ennis-Hill and KJT get started today. If all goes well that should be two more medals, one of which could/should be a gold.
Rain and only a token roof won't help either. Nor will the lack of any real local interest (yet).Mellsblue wrote:Athletic stadium is virtually empty. I know it's not prime time but you'd expect a far larger crowd than this.
My godfather is an O'Donovan from Cork - I'll have to ask him the obvious question.BBD wrote:Silver for the O'Donovan bros
Up Skib!
London wasn't like this, but this is quite normal for the Olympics. London was exceptional in having pretty much every seat sold and occupied across the vast majority of sports.WaspInWales wrote:Crowds have been a bit disappointing. Perhaps I'm looking back with rosey retrospective spectacles but can't recall London like this...I may be wrong though.
I'm not sure they make particularly difficult demands. In any event stadia will be fuller in evening sessions and full for finals. Not many cities can guarantee full stadia. You might get it in Tokyo if the big companies give everyone the day off, or even more likely buy up spare seats and make employees take them.Mellsblue wrote:It just makes the IOC's demands on stadia look even more ridiculous.
Apparently she wrote an article in the NY Times admitting she gets starstruck around JEH. That can't be a good thing.Mellsblue wrote:I'm not. Without her it'd just be 'should be gold'.Big D wrote:Don't count out Brianne Theisen-Eaton. She and her husband could be the 1st wife/husband to hold the heptathlon and Decathlon golds at the same time.Mellsblue wrote:Jessica Ennis-Hill and KJT get started today. If all goes well that should be two more medals, one of which could/should be a gold.
JEH will go down as an all time great but, as you say, that can't be a good thing. All looking good at half time even with KJT having a slight wobble.Big D wrote:Apparently she wrote an article in the NY Times admitting she gets starstruck around JEH. That can't be a good thing.Mellsblue wrote:I'm not. Without her it'd just be 'should be gold'.Big D wrote:
Don't count out Brianne Theisen-Eaton. She and her husband could be the 1st wife/husband to hold the heptathlon and Decathlon golds at the same time.
I thought the same but I was on such a high that I just celebrated the achievement. Now that I've woken up with a hangover I'm a bit more dubious but I'll stick with innocent until proven guilty.BBD wrote:Am just being a cynical old scrote or does 14 seconds off a world record that hadn't been approached in 20 years and which itself was under suspicion just seem a bit too good to be true?
Don't think you're being cynical. Old scrote perhaps...BBD wrote:Am just being a cynical old scrote or does 14 seconds off a world record that hadn't been approached in 20 years and which itself was under suspicion just seem a bit too good to be true?
No... well, yes to the old scrote bit; but it's a pretty popular club around here.BBD wrote:Am just being a cynical old scrote or does 14 seconds off a world record that hadn't been approached in 20 years and which itself was under suspicion just seem a bit too good to be true?
It shows how far we've come as a track and field nation when a session providing a gold, silver and bronze is disappointing.Eugene Wrayburn wrote:Super Saturday II has been cancelled owing to lack of co-operation. Feckers.