'Team GB'

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Ahhhhh. Isn't that nice. I hope he's had a nice holiday, the £#%&!ing failure.

What sports do i partake in you ask? 5-a-side football and £#%&!ING WORKING FOR A LIVING!

Might be there's some athletes out there think that being a postman counts as failure.

You're sounding a bit bitter here Sparky.


Were you a budding gymnast as a youngster until a broken nail stopped you in your tracks?

Originally Posted by Gypsum Fantastic

Might be there's some athletes out there think that being a postman counts as failure.

True, but they'd be wrong.

I'm class at table tennis, reckon i could of made it.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

What sports do i partake in you ask? 5-a-side football and £#%&!ING WORKING FOR A LIVING!

I think Gypsum is trying to point out the malaise that affects the sporting prowess of our nation and the hypocrisy, admittedly light hearted, that you are displaying.
There is poor grass roots sport in this country because few people are interested, paticularly in organising and training youngsters
You complain that you are working for a living and have not time to train for the pole vault gold you would have been assured of winning whilst also complaining that our athletes are no good. Many of them had to hold down a jobs while training in the past but are now lottery funded. I don't think any money from tax payers goes to them.

Originally Posted by Carrick

You're sounding a bit bitter here Sparky.


Were you a budding gymnast as a youngster until a broken nail stopped you in your tracks?

No, no. Ether was right, i just like moaning.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

True, but they'd be wrong.

Not if you dump the mail or drop those £#%&!ing red laccy bands all over the @#%&!ing place.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

And so we £#%&!ing should. We've got about 50 million more people in our country and tons more money.

have you seen the medals table? China have 14 medals, USA 12, South Korea have 8 and so do Italy.

Italy?! What the £#%&! passes for olympic sports these days, piaggio scooter racing and harassing women?

Surely there must be a medal for growing mean side-burns

Originally Posted by Sparky***

And so we £#%&!ing should. We've got about 50 million more people in our country and tons more money.

have you seen the medals table? China have 14 medals, USA 12, South Korea have 8 and so do Italy.

if you're going to bring up population and resources don't complain that china and usa have got more medals than us. especially 3 days in ffs.

what britain has contributed to the world, in all areas not just sport, is far greater than you'd expect for a country of our size.

smaller than congo, iran, thailand, ethiopia, vietnam, phillipines, mexico, nigeria, bangladesh, pakistan, india. who between the 2 billion plus of them have also amassed 3 medals.

Originally Posted by fix up look SHARPE

smaller than congo, iran, thailand, ethiopia, vietnam, phillipines, mexico, nigeria, bangladesh, pakistan, india. who between the 2 billion plus of them have also amassed 3 medals.

True but there are hundreds of millions of people in those countries who are more concerned about not starving to death rather than perfecting their triple jump.

Why isn't it Team UK ? We're in it too but we aren't in GB.

Either way if the olympics was never held again the majority of people wudnt give to shits

Originally Posted by wee man

Why isn't it Team UK ? We're in it too but we aren't in GB.

I was discussing this with somebody earlier with regards to the football team we will be sending to 2012.

Originally Posted by wee man

Why isn't it Team UK ? We're in it too but we aren't in GB.

Aren't you allowed to compete for either Team GB or Team Ireland though?

I used to work with a male gymnast who was 3rd in the country. He would have loved to have gone to the Olympics but we only have 2 places. That's why we only have 2 people there.

Originally Posted by Spiffy

I used to work with a male gymnast who was 3rd in the country. He would have loved to have gone to the Olympics but we only have 2 places. That's why we only have 2 people there.

They must struggle in the team competition...

Originally Posted by Ether

Aren't you allowed to compete for either Team GB or Team Ireland though?

yeah - don't want to get into any political stuff - but generally those not good enough for Team GB (UK) do sometimes compete for the Republic. Particularly thinking of the Athletics. The Republic have had a few from here but Mary Peters, Mike Bull etc will always elect for GB first. Team is called Great Britain and Northern Ireland - could never understand why it wasn't simply called UK.

7 medals. Pffft.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...le/default.stm

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Er, try 70 million + .

I didn't have time to count ffs.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Italy?! What the £#%&! passes for olympic sports these days, piaggio scooter racing and harassing women?

Originally Posted by Spiffy

I used to work with a male gymnast who was 3rd in the country. He would have loved to have gone to the Olympics but we only have 2 places. That's why we only have 2 people there.

Did you ask why?

I'm not expecting medalists, but we should at least have people competing ffs.

You have to qualify for the gymnastics, you don't get given places. So presumably everyone else was just too shit to qualify for the olympics. Believe the 2 lads that did get through are doing quite well though, both made their finals.