They also live in a world where only the very cream of the crop make a good living out of it.
London 2012 - Track & Field/Athletics
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They also live in a world where only the very cream of the crop make a good living out of it.
I'm not so sure if the comparison works or not but I'm not a patriotic person by much. But this past week has made me proud to be British in a way football can never come close.
It's strange how individual glory can drive the passion of the collective but hey it works.
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Amazing scenes when Ennis went on the podium and collected her medal with the anthem playing/crowd etc. Proper emotion from Ennis and even the silver medalist to the side of her look genuinely happy for her. Mo was awesome, wanted him to win more than the football team which was on in the background. Fair play to the 'ginger bloke' as well.
The rowing, the track, the cycling, judo even, been some great stuff. Well worth the money paid out for the games and puts all the moaning into perspective.
The rowing, the track, the cycling, judo even, been some great stuff. Well worth the money paid out for the games and puts all the moaning into perspective.
Bang on
Even the newsreader on BBC1 is fighting back the tears
Great tweet:
Really?
I was lucky enough to be in the stadium this morning. I saw Ennis in the long jump and javelin and was lucky enough to see Usain Bolt and co in the 100m heats.
I have to say that the atmosphere in the stadium when anybody British competed was amazing, then x that by about 5 for whenever Ennis competed. She's certainly captured everybody's imagination.
There was a great vibe around the Olympic park and London in general and there were lots of national colours and smiling faces on show. I even shared a tube carriage with some French athletes! It's a fantastic event and I feel privileged to have experienced that great atmosphere.
I have to say that the atmosphere in the stadium when anybody British competed was amazing, then x that by about 5 for whenever Ennis competed. She's certainly captured everybody's imagination.
There was a great vibe around the Olympic park and London in general and there were lots of national colours and smiling faces on show. I even shared a tube carriage with some French athletes! It's a fantastic event and I feel privileged to have experienced that great atmosphere.
Unbelievable. Patriotism in the UK must be at its highest level since forever.
6 golds in one day - the rowers are unreal, the cyclists are absolutely unbeatable and the athletes pulled out their very best for the occasion.
Fair play to the crowd as well - the atmosphere is better than I've ever heard in an Olympic stadium.
6 golds in one day - the rowers are unreal, the cyclists are absolutely unbeatable and the athletes pulled out their very best for the occasion.
Fair play to the crowd as well - the atmosphere is better than I've ever heard in an Olympic stadium.
Katherine Merry: "I have tinnitus and the roar in the stadium tonight is the only thing that has ever deafened it out"
Yes, really mate. That's why I posted it. You have your view, I have mine and for me, the Olympics have been special so far and many people agree.
Brilliant from all of them today. I'd never really call myself a patriotic Brit but I'd have to say this is the closest I've been to feeling like one.
Nice to forget about the bad stuff, the economy etc...and see the emotion of these individuals putting their bodies on the line for the Olympics. Awesome stuff, and yep, I had a rare patriotic swell too.
He's worked years for it and then it comes overnight. Crazy, but yep, richly deserved.
Well said!
Oh yeah! Mary Peters on the BBC highlights show!
Crazy rollercoaster of emotions we have seen from that 400m hurdler who crashed out and was distraught, to Dai Green who was shell-shocked but scraped through and then to the victors.
They seem like much more interesting people than footballers for a start. Jesseninnis & Mo are impossible not to love. Even the ginger guy seemed sound. I don't take much pride in the vicarious achievements of my countrymen, I'm merely happy for them as people. But I'm certainly proud that a mixed race girl, a muslim immigrant and a ginger anglo saxon have all been represented under the same banner of the place I live in such a glorious way. It's how I'd like modern Britain, nay the modern World to be represented.
As Nick Parry just said on Twitter: NICK GRIFFIN, DAVID STARKEY, DAILY MAIL, EDL, AIDAN BURLEY - CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOU BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING!
As Nick Parry just said on Twitter: NICK GRIFFIN, DAVID STARKEY, DAILY MAIL, EDL, AIDAN BURLEY - CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOU BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING!
Christ Mockney, you've perked up. Everyone's in the mood now.
I never said I wasn't enjoying the Olympics, I think it's been great. I've just found the ultra GB focus on people who haven't won rather annoying. It's completely warented tonight, cos we were genuinely the top story. I also want to do horrible, horrible things to Ennis and her manly abs.
That's happy Mockney? Maybe we have a vulcan among us.
I can't believe how much I actually care about these people competing for us. I also have joined the legions of men in love with Ennis.
That bit in the 800 when she surged ahead, was literally breathtaking and as been said before, it made me forget all about the doom and gloom around us, and certainly made me forget about the football.
Amazing how it's made even people like me who didn't give a flying feck about olympic events before hand, get emotionally invested. Great stuff.
That bit in the 800 when she surged ahead, was literally breathtaking and as been said before, it made me forget all about the doom and gloom around us, and certainly made me forget about the football.
Amazing how it's made even people like me who didn't give a flying feck about olympic events before hand, get emotionally invested. Great stuff.
The best thing about the last race is that she could've finished well behind and still won the event easily, but she went "nah, I'm going to fecking win this race"....That's what competitive sport IS.
Multi-eventers are the superstars of these things for me anyway. All rounders rather than single discipline monsters. Gimmie a Carl Lewis or a sexy Ennis over a Steve Redgrave any day. She thoroughly deserves her adulation.
Multi-eventers are the superstars of these things for me anyway. All rounders rather than single discipline monsters. Gimmie a Carl Lewis or a sexy Ennis over a Steve Redgrave any day. She thoroughly deserves her adulation.
Bang on. Bang bang bang bang...whoops, she slipped in there again.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to a woman with a stomach like a male underwear model!
As Nearco indicated above, footballers don't come out too well when you realise that Bolt only earns about £200K a year from running, footballers don't appear to practise routines (penalties) or basic technique (kicking with both feet), and can't hold a 60s interview without acting the contemptuous arse while athletes come across as very likeable.
Also, fwiw 27.20
I am completely infatuated with Denise Lewis.
Brilliant, pure and simple brilliant for sport in (our) my country. Never been so proud.
Ennis isn't all that lookswise..decent face and her job demands her body to be the way it is. Great athlete and competitor though, fabulous victory.
Ha awesome, he actually did it aswell!. I wondered what that was about, what a top man
I hate James Corden. If ever a man believes his own hype it is him. Unfunny cnut.
How is he still famous or liked? I've never met anyone that has actually admitted they like him. I don't get it.
Ditto. I saw one episode of that 'comedy' sports quiz on Sky and he would tell a bad joke then start doing rapid fire 'gun gestures' with his hands, laughing at his own jokes saying 'we are nailing this' or the like. Felt like I was missing something, then realised I wasn't. Maybe that is enough to please pissed half-wits who have tuned in after stumbling home from the pub. No other explanation.
Apart from all the obvious ones, this is my favourite pic of the day:
James Corden won the 2012 Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in 'One Man, Two Guvnors'. The Tonys are the Oscars for theatre and he beat Frank Langella, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Earl Jones and John Lithgow to the award.
I saw a clip from the play and it was highly impressive, you might not like him but some more important people than you certainly do.
He's repulsive. So is Gervaise, IMO.
The 100m final should be something special today. Bolt obviously being the favourite although he doesn't look as good as some of the other athletes and i'd be shocked if there was a WR time today.