Good shooting, Peter Wilson! Another gold!

Conoeing looking good too and guaranteed a medal
in the judo later.

 

Gold and silver! Flippin' brilliant, boys!! Now 5th in the table!

 

Self Publicity stunt I reckon

Get me rope lol
Yeah right

 

Good day for team GB .........

 

Who cares honestly? Bread and circuses. Nauseating One eyed jingoism.

 

Post 135, tattoo thread.

 

superb

a good day for GB, just heading off to Horse Guards Parade now!!

 

Women's gymnastics is amazing. The stuff they do is insane.

 

Shame about the women's cycling eh...

 

And then the Chinese are disqualified gifting the gold to the Germans.

 

2 world records , just in the prelims

 

Just as it should be, except they weren't disqualified

 

They were disqualified from that round.

 

 

 

Excellent result in the track cycling, including a new world record .............

 

love all the gymnastics events, awsome skills, male and female

even found myself mildly intereseted in rowing events recently, and archery lol

diving good too, looking forward to track and feild

anyone like the boxing? not doing it for me tbh.

 

GB in fourth now after the women's skulls. Well done, Katherine and Anna!

 

So ****ing what? Why does it matter to you or me where team jee bee come in the medal table?

 

Why not.

Er.... it's something to 'aim' for. A bit of national pride.

Not everyone is a 'Games hating' killjoy.

 

We want our team to win. So the higher up the table the better.

 

TdW, you should take an interest in where your tax money is spent

 

It's extremely parochial and jingoistic.

I enjoyed the skill and drama of the gymnastics but reducing it down to nationalism is nauseating.

 

Oh well. Each to their own.

 

The (good ) countries are all the same as regards the jingoistic aspect.

So nothing to be 'gained' by being frightfully British about it and pretending we're not bothered...

Plus, the medals table is based on each country's collective achievement, so it's totally relevant (otherwise a medals table wouldn't exist). Simples.

Sport is, ultimately, about winning - and the associated bragging rights. Otherwise topflight sport is pretty pointless...

 

It's pathetic. What have the achievements of some national lottery funded athletes got to do with me or you just because we have the same passport?

'lympics was better when it was armature, now we're just cheering on rich corporate reps. Not much romance there for me, maybe a bit of distraction, but the jingoism is nauseating and the media backslapping which goes with it.

 

I see where you're coming from. But, rightly or wrongly, it is what it is.

So may as well just go with the flow (resistance is futile)...

 

It's a competition and it's a competition that I'm thoroughly enjoying. Now kindly stop sullying my thread.

The French have taken our fourth spot.

 

Bitches' Team Pursuit just done a new WR! Qualified in first, beating USA by nearly 4secs!

See, I told you resistance was futile!

 

The inconsiderate c***s!

It's just not cricket.