Olympic Athletics

[awaybreaktoday]

its was a new olympic record

 

[Moothead2]

What was Semenya doing? She'd have Bolt on the ropes over that last 50-100m!

 

[Merlin5]

Is that south african 800m runner a woman? Seriously looks male

 

[Moothead2]

Is that south african 800m runner a woman? Seriously looks male

Don't start that again .

 

[Participant]

Is that south african 800m runner a woman? Seriously looks male

Which she was accused of and had to undergo gender testing, poor bloke.

 

[Guerrilla]

Semenya could have won that one, don't know why she hung back so long.

 

[philip2009]

behind every great man is a great woman. ...

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife." -Groucho Marx

 

[Steedie]

What was that incident in Berlin they were referring too as to why she might not want to win?

 

[cm1179]

i shouldn't have called her a 'cow'. i retract the cow and wish to keep the miserable.

 

[mithrandir]

4x400m relay now. Hope we can get a medal of some sort.

 

[NZB]

Anyone know if they'll do Mo's medal ceremony tonight? Plan on watching the boxing but don't want to miss that.

 

[Mr Jones]

Damn it, I miss Mo winning!!

 

[Viper²]

What was that incident in Berlin they were referring too as to why she might not want to win?

She beat the rest so convincingly that they all said they didn't want to race against her...

Canadian runner Diane Cummins said: Is she man, is she lady? What constitutes male, what constitutes female?

“Even if she is a female, she’s on the very fringe of the normal athlete female biological composition from what I understand of hormone testing. So, from that perspective, most of us just feel that we are literally running against a man.”

 

[NZB]

Exchange let's us down again

 

[Merlin5]

Big rubbish

 

[Guerrilla]

Great run by the US team, comfortable win.

 

[NZB]

First lap was brilliant with us 2nd then the exchange dropped us down to something like 6th :/

 

[drunkenmaster]

2nd? we were still in lane weren't we and only 2nd in terms of on the track, taking into account the lane and where we started we were way way down already. We just weren't anywhere near, our 4 girls weren't even close to fast enough to get a medal unfortunately. Didn't they say they went faster than the previous time, so they've improved, can't complain about that.

Just idiot commentators basically before every race insisting we really have a chance of a medal, we didn't. Sure if two teams collided and took each other out we did and it was worth being in it, but without other team screw ups we had no chance.

 

[Westyfield2]

Is that south african 800m runner a woman? Seriously looks male

Can open... worms everywhere!

 

[NZB]

2nd? we were still in lane weren't we and only 2nd in terms of on the track, taking into account the lane and where we started we were way way down already. We just weren't anywhere near, our 4 girls weren't even close to fast enough to get a medal unfortunately. Didn't they say they went faster than the previous time, so they've improved, can't complain about that.

Just idiot commentators basically before every race insisting we really have a chance of a medal, we didn't. Sure if two teams collided and took each other out we did and it was worth being in it, but without other team screw ups we had no chance.

We were second to the first changeover, it was gubbed and they were no where near fast enough from there to pull it back.

I still say it was a great first lap.