[QUOTE=tagos]
Our ranking system excludes colonials who didn’t kick our asses out of the place.
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So, the US and Australia are out of the game, and so is China (since it showed you the door in Hong Kong about 11 years ago). That means the Brits are in the lead!
Did they clone Daley Thompson or something? It’s been ages since I’ve even seen Britain on a medal table, let alone at the top.
If they cloned him that would earn us precisely one medal.
But Britain did OK at the last two Olympics. Atlanta was really our darkest hour, with just one gold.
It’s track and field over the next week or so, so we’ll drop down the table (although we should pick up a couple of female track medals and silver in the triple jump at the very least).
That said, we’ve got a lot of promising young trackers coming through the ranks, and given that a good chunk of our current medalists will still be around in 4 years London 2012 should be interesting.
And yes, Phelps is an abomination of nature and should be banned for making everyone else look a bit silly.
Same goes for that damned Jamaican. When you can virtually stop to wave at the crowd and still bust the men’s 100m sprint record wide open there’s something freaky about you.
Anyone listen to Alan Green’s commentary on the quad rowing (where the Brit’s snatched it from the Aussies), by the way? It was incredible.
Huzzah for our gallant friends from across the pond, and God save the Queen!
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
Sailing, rowing, track cycling. Domains of rich white people. True British sporting excellence. 
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I got the same “gentleman’s” vibe off the sports listed as Britain’s favorites.
The posh sports hark back to the early days of the modern Olympics, when the whole thing was conceived and run by European nobs. Many of those sports are anachronistic now, but the IOC seems to be a conservative organisation, so I guess we’re stuck with Dressage and Fencing. But track cycling? When has that ever been a rich person’s sport? No double-barrelled names there.
If only snooker and darts were olympic sports …
From the BBC news site:
How come we don’t still have tug of war in the olympics? I reckon we’d totally own that event.
Hold on…
High jump…
seems to be going well
yay silver
(although I think we nicked him off Jamaica)
[QUOTE=mutantmoose]
How come we don’t still have tug of war in the olympics? I reckon we’d totally own that event.
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Because Iceland would destroy everyone. Haven’t you seen the World’s Strongest Man lately?
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Because Iceland would destroy everyone. Haven’t you seen the World’s Strongest Man lately?
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We’d own ya! Finally something we could excel in!
(goes back to tugging the rope)
Is that an Icelandic euphemism?
[QUOTE=Usram]
Is that an Icelandic euphemism?
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Nah… just mine. I might start using it regularly though 
When come back wash hands.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
When come back wash hands.
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Funny 
And silly, silly me for not even thinking in that direction - must be something in the air.
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
Funny
And silly, silly me for not even thinking in that direction - must be something in the air.
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A guy who gives himself the user name red worm claims not to think in that direction? I think you have it on the brain pal
Hey, we just won a gold in something you do standing up. Christine Ohuru… Ohouru… plucky Christine won the 400m. I thought the American had it there, but she was running through treacle at the end.