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Post by Keith Saffron on Mar 20, 2006 0:28:34 GMT 10
which svetlana?  ?? |
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Post by omni on Mar 20, 2006 19:23:14 GMT 10
Asafa Powell = Idiot
IT'S A STRAIGHT LINE RACE!
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Post by pom pom on Mar 21, 2006 13:55:10 GMT 10
i watched table tennis....ITS FAST.
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Post by DJ on Mar 21, 2006 14:03:24 GMT 10
i watched table tennis....ITS FAST. Thank you for that wonderful and meaningful comment pom pom |
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Post by pom pom on Mar 21, 2006 14:27:48 GMT 10
thank you for being a dick DJ and making me feel like im not ment to be on this forum at all.
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Post by DJ on Mar 21, 2006 14:28:49 GMT 10
thank you for being a dick DJ and making me feel like im not ment to be on this forum at all. rofl - ;D - you know we love you ;D |
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Post by pom pom on Mar 21, 2006 16:28:48 GMT 10
rofl- ahyep sure yous do.....  |
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Post by glen006 on Mar 21, 2006 19:12:28 GMT 10
once again can I reiterate
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Post by Farthing on Mar 21, 2006 20:38:05 GMT 10
I just have to say what an awesome job the womens medly realy team, they done an awesome job and smashed the world record by a minute. And the men actually won a race in the pool, i can not believe it
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Post by omni on Mar 21, 2006 21:08:48 GMT 10
What a race last night, feel bad for Buster (Mottram) ran the race of his life but kicked too early. Was an awesome race, and the 5000m as the headliner on the same night as the 100m amazing!
Great job by the womens MR team? Yea apart from Lenton's stupidity that really should of had them DQed and that WR void, if it was in any other country it would have been a DQ, disgusted.
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Post by omni on Mar 22, 2006 21:45:52 GMT 10
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Post by pom pom on Mar 23, 2006 9:15:25 GMT 10
i was sitting there too and thinking, is he related?
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Post by voice of reason on Mar 26, 2006 11:29:17 GMT 10
What a truly disgraceful exhibition of Australian sportsmanship! I'm talking about both the men's and women's 4x400 track relay.
Although comprehensively beaten by the English runners, the women lodged a protest over the positioning at the changeover point. The positioning is aparently governed by the order of runners at the 200m mark. The Australian at the changeover point should have been closer to the inside of the track than the English runner, but the positions were reversed. Tamzin Lewis was aware of this but chose not to say anything about it till the end of the race. Even though Australia was not disadvantaged by this 'technical' infringement, England were disqualified and Australia went from 2nd to 1st. I did notice that Jana Pittman seemed uncomfortable about the whole business at the time and appeared very cool towards Lewis. Was something going on?
In the men's race it was a lot more blatant. The Australian was simply using ugly and aggressive tactics to muscle the S African runner out of the way, and in turn disadvantaging the other runners who were also being jostled. Australia won gold and a protest was dismissed.
It shows me that the games officials are to scared to rule against Australia.
These medals are worth nothing!
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Post by omni on Mar 26, 2006 22:26:23 GMT 10
Lewis & Pittman have been having a battle for a while, they do not get along.
Tamsyn couldn't do anything about it untill after. The English broke the rules and were disqualified, fair enough I thought.
The mens is a part of track athletics, it happens (you don't see anyone calling for a rerace of the 1500 after an English hand pulled down Mottram), I didn't see it so won't comment.
A disgraceful display of English sportsmanship was witessd at the shooting in the Women's double trap, when the English woman shot in the wrong order, which she knew, and then proceeded to protest she wasn't told, the protest was up held and she robbed the young Australian of bronze.
The Aussie Womens Medly team should have been disqualified for leaving the pool early, Asafa Powell should have been disqualified for breaking lane in the 100m, the officiating in these games has been pretty poor.
As for the medals being worth nothing, that's certainly the case here, we finished with 221 of them compared to England's paultry total of 110.
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Post by douges on Mar 27, 2006 10:08:45 GMT 10
So happey they're finally over. Watched some but was bored with most of the coverage.
One rather disgusting thing I heard about on the ABC's Offsiders show: Apparently there was an offical out here by invitation from Sth Africa or some place far away to present medals for some womens walk event.
An hour before the ceremony he gets dumped for Steve Bracks simply because Australia gets 1, 2 and 3 - Disgraceful!!
Anyway, like I said, glad they're finally over.
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Post by marinermick on Mar 27, 2006 12:09:16 GMT 10
What a truly disgraceful exhibition of Australian sportsmanship! I'm talking about both the men's and women's 4x400 track relay. Although comprehensively beaten by the English runners, the women lodged a protest over the positioning at the changeover point. The positioning is aparently governed by the order of runners at the 200m mark. The Australian at the changeover point should have been closer to the inside of the track than the English runner, but the positions were reversed. Tamzin Lewis was aware of this but chose not to say anything about it till the end of the race. Even though Australia was not disadvantaged by this 'technical' infringement, England were disqualified and Australia went from 2nd to 1st. I did notice that Jana Pittman seemed uncomfortable about the whole business at the time and appeared very cool towards Lewis. Was something going on? In the men's race it was a lot more blatant. The Australian was simply using ugly and aggressive tactics to muscle the S African runner out of the way, and in turn disadvantaging the other runners who were also being jostled. Australia won gold and a protest was dismissed. It shows me that the games officials are to scared to rule against Australia. These medals are worth nothing! another whinging pom |
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Post by DJ on Mar 27, 2006 13:48:13 GMT 10
What a truly disgraceful exhibition of Australian sportsmanship! I'm talking about both the men's and women's 4x400 track relay. Although comprehensively beaten by the English runners, the women lodged a protest over the positioning at the changeover point. The positioning is aparently governed by the order of runners at the 200m mark. The Australian at the changeover point should have been closer to the inside of the track than the English runner, but the positions were reversed. Tamzin Lewis was aware of this but chose not to say anything about it till the end of the race. Even though Australia was not disadvantaged by this 'technical' infringement, England were disqualified and Australia went from 2nd to 1st. I did notice that Jana Pittman seemed uncomfortable about the whole business at the time and appeared very cool towards Lewis. Was something going on? In the men's race it was a lot more blatant. The Australian was simply using ugly and aggressive tactics to muscle the S African runner out of the way, and in turn disadvantaging the other runners who were also being jostled. Australia won gold and a protest was dismissed. It shows me that the games officials are to scared to rule against Australia. These medals are worth nothing! another whinging pom Negative comment I know but personally I couldn't give a toss  If it were football thou................... |
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Post by NOMESSSS. on Mar 27, 2006 13:52:25 GMT 10
our 84 medals are worth everything i think.they did well.and just because in a couple of events things went wrong doesnt mean the other 82 medals are rubbish.i think we did awesome.
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Post by voice of reason on Mar 27, 2006 14:40:13 GMT 10
What a truly disgraceful exhibition of Australian sportsmanship! I'm talking about both the men's and women's 4x400 track relay. Although comprehensively beaten by the English runners, the women lodged a protest over the positioning at the changeover point. The positioning is aparently governed by the order of runners at the 200m mark. The Australian at the changeover point should have been closer to the inside of the track than the English runner, but the positions were reversed. Tamzin Lewis was aware of this but chose not to say anything about it till the end of the race. Even though Australia was not disadvantaged by this 'technical' infringement, England were disqualified and Australia went from 2nd to 1st. I did notice that Jana Pittman seemed uncomfortable about the whole business at the time and appeared very cool towards Lewis. Was something going on? In the men's race it was a lot more blatant. The Australian was simply using ugly and aggressive tactics to muscle the S African runner out of the way, and in turn disadvantaging the other runners who were also being jostled. Australia won gold and a protest was dismissed. It shows me that the games officials are to scared to rule against Australia. These medals are worth nothing! another whinging pom The Australian today has called Tamsyn a cheat. Had a look at as many on-line UK papers and couldn't find a single mention of the incident. No doubt the underwhelming experience of the games in general has generated zero interest. |
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