Just how good will the Olympics be?

[kinboshi]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

Both would be good events in the winter Olympics...

[The Camel]

Still not a massive fan of taekwondo.  Close to the end of the second round and the score is 1-1, both of those points scored as penalties by the other fighter rather than effective strikes.

So that means two blokes waving their feet at each other without scoring a kick for 4 minutes so far...

The martial arts forum made a lot of the olympic scoring turning it into a kicking game - I'd actually completely forgotten that it's 'meant' to involve the hands as well. I don't know whether that would have made it a better spectator sport if there had been more punching though.

FWIW the bloke he lost to has fought Cook this year and last year - and lost both.

Been looking around for some info on this saga and from what I can surmise, Cook was not selected because he left the official training program last year and went to train on his own.

As long as he was told at the time this could affect his selection for the Olympics, it seems fair enough to leave him out.

He went off to train on his own, and at his own expense, and went from an also ran to the world no. 1.

Thought martial arts were about discipline and respect.

As long as he was told leaving the official training scheme might affect his selection, I have no problem with leaving him out.

Mostly I feel sorry for the guy who took the spot on the team. He was subject to ridic scrutiny and questioning from the media through no fault of his own.

Taekwondo isn't a martial art, it's a sport. 

(opens can of worms)

Why all the flipping bowing and scraping then?

[Josedinho]

I thought I'd read that most people that have been drug tested have only had urine samples tested so far, blood tests to follow the games. Is that correct?

[Doobs]

Still not a massive fan of taekwondo.  Close to the end of the second round and the score is 1-1, both of those points scored as penalties by the other fighter rather than effective strikes.

So that means two blokes waving their feet at each other without scoring a kick for 4 minutes so far...

The martial arts forum made a lot of the olympic scoring turning it into a kicking game - I'd actually completely forgotten that it's 'meant' to involve the hands as well. I don't know whether that would have made it a better spectator sport if there had been more punching though.

FWIW the bloke he lost to has fought Cook this year and last year - and lost both.

Been looking around for some info on this saga and from what I can surmise, Cook was not selected because he left the official training program last year and went to train on his own.

As long as he was told at the time this could affect his selection for the Olympics, it seems fair enough to leave him out.

He went off to train on his own, and at his own expense, and went from an also ran to the world no. 1.

This must be a different Aaron Cook to the one that was part of team Visa, had a sky sports scholorship, won the world junior championship in 2008, and the european championship in 2010.  He left the coaching set up last year.



 

[Doobs]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

I just walked in when the Russian routine was just starting. 

Is it wrong to say I was impressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32pz

is around 49 minutes.

Genuine set of scary looking birds mind

[Jon MW]

I wasn't quite sure what Kinboshi had read there either about Cook - I thought he was one of the best but it was last year that he fell out with British Taekwondo when he said they were imposing a single way for all GB fighters to fight even when it didn't suit them or there strengths. So he left because if he fought like that he'd keep losing (like he did in the World championships when he fought the way they were teaching them all to fight) - and as noted when he stopped following their orders, he started winning again.

[The Camel]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

The fact dessage and synch swimming are in and sports like kabbaddi aren't is a real shame.

[Tal]

No reason why we shouldn't have darts and snooker. Neither are sitting down sports and yet we could well win men's and women's in both.


Gaaaaaaaame shot...

[The Camel]

If Cirque Du Soliel was a country, they'd win a hatful of medals.

Gymnastics, diving, sync swimming, rythmic gymnastics and possibly weightlifting too.

[Woodsey]

If Cirque Du Soliel was a country, they'd win a hatful of medals.

Gymnastics, diving, sync swimming, rythmic gymnastics and possibly weightlifting too.

I bet they already have a few medals between them before going on to do cirque.

[jakally]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

I just walked in when the Russian routine was just starting. 

Is it wrong to say I was impressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32pz

is around 49 minutes.

Genuine set of scary looking birds mind

Sure will be clicking on that link.
Genuinely laughed audibly (sat on my own) when I saw the GB team strut to poolside.
Couldn't imagine the rest of it being any less ridic.

[kinboshi]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

I just walked in when the Russian routine was just starting. 

Is it wrong to say I was impressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32pz

is around 49 minutes.

Genuine set of scary looking birds mind

Sure will be clicking on that link.
Genuinely laughed audibly (sat on my own) when I saw the GB team strut to poolside.
Couldn't imagine the rest of it being any less ridic.

You, Stato, Tom Walster and Mitch dressed up in the same outfits - now that would be ridic.

[jakally]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

I just walked in when the Russian routine was just starting. 

Is it wrong to say I was impressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32pz

is around 49 minutes.

Genuine set of scary looking birds mind

Sure will be clicking on that link.
Genuinely laughed audibly (sat on my own) when I saw the GB team strut to poolside.
Couldn't imagine the rest of it being any less ridic.

You, Stato, Tom Walster and Mitch dressed up in the same outfits - now that would be ridic.

I am worried about the kind of dreams you've been having...

[kinboshi]

Synchronised swimming belongs in the same 'it's not a sport' dustbin as dressage.
TV firmly switched off.

I just walked in when the Russian routine was just starting. 

Is it wrong to say I was impressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32pz

is around 49 minutes.

Genuine set of scary looking birds mind

Sure will be clicking on that link.
Genuinely laughed audibly (sat on my own) when I saw the GB team strut to poolside.
Couldn't imagine the rest of it being any less ridic.

You, Stato, Tom Walster and Mitch dressed up in the same outfits - now that would be ridic.

I am worried about the kind of dreams you've been having...

If you follow your dreams, they can come true...

[kinboshi]

4x100m men's relay team manages to balls up the baton change yet again.