Olympic Athletics

Spenty · 4 Aug 2012 at 00:29

How estebanrey has amounted nearly 2800 posts without a permaban is beyond me. He trolls 90% of the threads he posts in.

LiE · 4 Aug 2012 at 09:16

Hopefully Ennis and Katrina do well today.

NZB · 4 Aug 2012 at 09:24

I'm barely waking up and machines like Ennis are already out there, i feel knackered already just watching

Aesir · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:07

Hep just started. Ennis hasn't jumped yet

Egon · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:21

I'm in France for the games and obviously French TV is concentrating on the French team!

This unfortunately means I am forced to watch 5 sweaty basketball players rather than the beautiful Ennis.

Anyone got any idea how I might be able to watch online from France?

Guerrilla · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:24

Love the prelims, so many countries I know nothing about

Guerrilla · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:25

Egon said:
I'm in France for the games and obviously French TV is concentrating on the French team!

This unfortunately means I am forced to watch 5 sweaty basketball players rather than the beautiful Ennis.

Anyone got any idea how I might be able to watch online from France?

Can you not watch through the BBC website? They have all the streams on there.

Egon · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:26

Guerrilla said:
Can you not watch through the BBC website? They have all the streams on there.

Not in France, no

Guerrilla · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:27

What about tvcatchup?

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:30

Skeeter said:
Ennis ran a 12.54 in the 100m hurdles leg of the heptathlon this morning....

Check out the results of the 100m hurdles individual event from Bejing 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlet...r_Olympics_–_Women's_100_metres_hurdles#Final

Why isn't she entered for both?

ALSO

Jenson Button is supposed to be pretty good at triathlons? How good is he and if he was Olympian worthy could he have been entered?

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:31

Egon said:
Not in France, no

Help this person out. For american-only stuff we can use hotspot shield, is there an equivalent tool to give a UK IP?

Aesir · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:34

Nice start from ennis 5.95

Guerrilla · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:34

Oscar running, history in the making

jonneymendoza · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:37

wait im confused. in the 400m mens race now, there is a man that lost his legs and using artificial ones to run?

i thought these types of athletes should be competing in the paraolympics?

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:38

When will paralympic legs be quicker than human legs I wonder...

The_One · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:39

desires said:
When will paralympic legs be quicker than human legs I wonder...

never

that oscar bloke is having to use LOADS more energy compared to an able bodied person

One · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:41

The_One said:
never

that oscar bloke is having to use LOADS more energy compared to an able bodied person

What are the rules surrounding the legs though? Could technology advance them in such a way that makes them quicker than human legs: springs, motors, etc.

jonneymendoza · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:41

The_One said:
never

that oscar bloke is having to use LOADS more energy compared to an able bodied person

is he allowed to compete?

Merlin5 · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:41

Does seem odd that oscar with the artificial legs is competing in normal Olympics as well as the ParaOlympics. But good luck to him!

Guerrilla · 4 Aug 2012 at 10:41

jonneymendoza said:
wait im confused. in the 400m mens race now, there is a man that lost his legs and using artificial ones to run?

i thought these types of athletes should be competing in the paraolympics?

He does compete in the paralympics, he has ran the qualification times for the able bodied races and after a fair amount of boardroom discussion was finally cleared to compete in those meets.