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« Reply #180 on: August 12, 2008, 02:19:19 PM »

No, its nationality by rider

the horses are generally bred in a few centres, notably France and Ireland for European teams.

New Zealand also has huge tradition of show jumping stock.
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« Reply #181 on: August 12, 2008, 02:19:56 PM »

the badminton earlier was sensational, a real highlight of the games so far. they were dead and buried at 12-17 in the last set.
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« Reply #182 on: August 12, 2008, 02:24:34 PM »

No, its nationality by rider

the horses are generally bred in a few centres, notably France and Ireland for European teams.

New Zealand also has huge tradition of show jumping stock.

Is that a case of the wealthiest buying the best horses?
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« Reply #183 on: August 12, 2008, 02:27:45 PM »

No, its nationality by rider

the horses are generally bred in a few centres, notably France and Ireland for European teams.

New Zealand also has huge tradition of show jumping stock.

Is that a case of the wealthiest buying the best horses?

well its generally quite well spread amongst the major nations. Obviously the whole sport is "old" money and attracts a lot of sponsors. The sponsors can also buy the horses eg "Everest double glazing xxx" and then do deals with the riders to ride the horses for them
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« Reply #184 on: August 12, 2008, 02:35:57 PM »

Bronze medal in the team event, well done!
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« Reply #185 on: August 12, 2008, 02:54:57 PM »

Bronze medal in the team event, well done!

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Did we seriously have a rider in our team called Daisy Dick?  What a great name!
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« Reply #186 on: August 12, 2008, 03:35:09 PM »

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« Reply #187 on: August 12, 2008, 03:36:10 PM »

WOW..that can't be right.....and he buggered up his landing.
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« Reply #188 on: August 13, 2008, 05:47:06 AM »

Looks like a Silver for Emma Pooley in the Women's Time Trial.
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« Reply #189 on: August 13, 2008, 05:53:53 AM »

Yip, silver.

Plenty more GB cycling medals to come on the track mehopes.
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« Reply #190 on: August 13, 2008, 09:18:18 AM »

Yip, silver.

Plenty more GB cycling medals to come on the track mehopes.

The question is 'how many'?  We have something like 9 world champs (or something like that), so we should be looking at at least 5?  Or is that too optimistic?
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« Reply #191 on: August 13, 2008, 10:06:04 AM »

Not sure what the target was for the cycling, but the cycle team seems to be in prime form, expect hatfulls of medals.

Rowers seem to have come in to form at the right time, they need to convert into Golds in the Finals  thumbs up
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« Reply #192 on: August 13, 2008, 10:13:37 AM »

Yip, silver.

Plenty more GB cycling medals to come on the track mehopes.

The question is 'how many'?  We have something like 9 world champs (or something like that), so we should be looking at at least 5?  Or is that too optimistic?


Don't let Kev hear you being so defeatist.

Surely you mean we have 9 world champs, so we're expecting at least 12 golds.
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« Reply #193 on: August 13, 2008, 10:40:10 AM »

I wonder what Kev has to say about people phoning their mum while in the middle of an olympic diving competition and then moaning about their partner thinking that that's unacceptable.
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« Reply #194 on: August 13, 2008, 11:05:08 AM »

Great text been sent in to the BBC website:

"Well done, Michael Phelps. I wonder how many Carl Lewis would have won if there were medals for running in slightly different, inefficient ways."
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