Olympics.... Australia KO1 England

Its just too sunny and dry over there, their athletes can't work out in it. They don't have the cold nights to toughen them up as well. IF only the aussies had a better climate they could be as good as us in the Olympica.

 

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:yep

 

Yeah if only we had more people to choose from atsch

20mil compared to the UK 80mil or so

For every gold medal we get you shld get 4 :deal

 

Perhaps if we didn't have teeth as well, it would serve as a bigger motivational tool to go that extra few yards to win gold. Being fully accountable in the teeth department has perhaps made us a bit complacent.

 

...i truely never saw this coming haha

 

80 million mmmm try 60million, and lots of them could not represent us , we have slightly different rules on who can represent GB. For example if a load of Hungarian high jumpers moved to London they could not get on our team.

Can any of you guys recommend a good Aussie WHine to have with my lunch ?

 

What a load of bad sports aye. Ya whinging aussies... :rofl

 

I can remember when Australia were good at sport.

 

It's all good fun, though I do wish we had of finished ahead of you.

In the end, you guys did great, I thought we'd be pretty much level pegging and that you'd have a much better games than in Athens.
we did fairly good too. Missed a few gold in the pool, but got a few surprise ones in the last few days.

Unlike the 2005 Ashes series where it appears it was a win out of the blue, I think the trend will continue and you should finish stronger in the next few set of games.

Congrats, now I'm off to go rub it in to some Kiwi's about how we smashed them in the Olympics. :hi:

 

Top man:good

**** them Kiwis

 

Hey Pecks maybe we shld embrace the kiwi's and add there medals to our tally Although i think the poms still beat us atsch

P.S Do any of the poms know why they did so well in the cycling? I think u guys won 7 or 8 gold. We won zero in the cycling compared to winning 4 or 5 in Athens.

 

we have invested **** loads of goverment an lottery funding into sports where we know we can pick up medels such as rowing sailing and cycling. we also have multinational companies and researchers working for the BOC finding ways of redesigning the bikes and everything thaty goes with racing making us better.

 

I think the coaching has a lot to do with it as well. I think the advances in the bike design have only come in, in recent years and we were pretty dominant a few years ago still (albeit not quite this dominant.)

The British cycling coaching team are very sought after now but I think we will manage to keep hold of them as the next Olympics are in London.

I think our cycling success can be comparable to Australia's success in swimming for the last few games, here in Britain in the last 10 years there havent been many Olympic standard swimming pools (50m long) in the UK. I was a competitive swimmer when I was young and even when I swam in Welsh national finals it was in Swansea in a 25m pool. In Aus from what I heard there were excellent training facilities and coaching for the Aussie swimmers even from a young age. This will have all been down to money, and now in recent years we've put money into swimming and we have seen the start of some fruition to that funding.

I dont think there's been a huge amount of money put into rowing tho, we've been succesful in that for over 20 years I think now. There's a culture of rowing in this country and every University has a rowing team that are motivated, The Boat race is televised every year and of course we always see the coxless fours mens team win the Gold every Olympics which encourages the big young men to go into it. Id say with Cycling its a case of funding breeding success and with rowing its been a case of success breeding more success. As for sailing I think thats just bred into us, being an island race we could hardly be **** poor at sailing otherwise any ****er would be able to come and take us over back in the Imperial days.

 

mate you just added 20mil to our popultation , niceone


you had 100 more athletes at the games than us.

 

I did say 80mil or so, oh well i was a little off.

100 more athletes :think are you sure??? If this is true i'm very surprised/disappointed in our comparable results then.