Olympics.... Australia KO1 England

Agree. I was just saying it always needs a balancing act to try and get it right and some will always **** up even the greatest of chances.

 

Like Dwain Chambers :deal

If he hadn't taken the drugs and put too much muscle on, he would have won the world title that year.

 

Chambers always seemed to lack belief in himself imo.
Who won that world title?
Were they on drugs too?

 

I may be wrong, but think it was Kim Collins

He certainly won it one year, when Greene was absent I think

 

Yes it was Collins.
Dwain sure did **** it all up.

 

Yes, nearly as humiliating as the Ashes thread you created in 2007 where afterwards Australia won 5 - 0.

Or perhaps the avatar bet I won with you where you bet me that if you took swimming out of the Commonwealth Games, England would beat Australia in the medal tally.

Anyway, I thought you guys would get very close to us this Olympics, I expected us to win more in the pool though where we failed somewhat.

We'll be lucky to get past 10 gold now.

 

Well you've got 11 now (above us due to your silvers). I think you lot will end up with around 15 golds, you've still got the hockey coming up and should win 1 or 2 cycling golds and maybe another in the sailing.

 

yeah, we've gone well outside the pool this time. Our target before the tournament was 15 gold, but that was taking into account we'd win 10 or so in the pool, so if we can get 15, it'd be a good games considering how we went in the pool.

 

Yeah how many of our favourites in the pool choked
Eammon Sullivan 100m Free and 50m Free
Jess Schipper 200m Fly
Grant Hackett 1500m
Libby Trickett 100m Free
Leisel Jones 200m Breastsroke

Thats 6 Golds right there that we should have had.

 

True. I think we got 2 unexpected golds in the pool, but we failed to get 5 or 6 that we were supposed to.

 

Can you believe this choker was $1.02 with most bookers in the final 200 breaststroke??

As the poms wld say Hackett bottled it in the 1500

Don't forget we got one back in the 200 womens relay that the yanks were suppose to win.

 

Yeah her time that she did in the final was the worst time she had done in a final in years in that event.

And Grant was 10 seconds faster in the heat than he was in the final which would have won him the Gold.

Sullivan was the biggest surprise for me after his heat time and semi times i thought he has got the 50m and the 100m sown up.

Leisel Jones always chokes.

 

i wasnt happy with some of the chokers. They showed me one thing that there to soft these days with no heart.

All pampered too much i feel.

 

Yeah, guys like Hackett, Sullivan just simply blew it. Sullivan can take this as a learning experience, not to outdo himself before the final. Hackett however, should have simply known better.

Did you watch the Olyroo's?
Was pissed that Burns and Djiti didn't get selected. Spira was a standout I thought, and I'm looking forward, and hoping he gets thrown into the deep end with the senior squad.

 

Yeah what we needed was Goal scorers and we took Midfielders. Look i like Arnie but really i want us to play attractive football not defensive football.

Spiranovic from Nurnberg was great.
Federici was also outstanding.

And who impressed me aswell was Musialik.

But the rest after those boys under performed for me.