Just saw that drop!
TWO teams dropped!!
Amazing.

Japan beat USA in the Softball! that is big and unexpected, well done the Japan girls.


AND, the US women dropped their baton too!

Don't they know they need to keep hold of that thing. Rather basic part of the deal!

You could see on the womans face.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's quite a track they have. Can't wait to see the semi's tonight since it got postponed because of rain yesterday. The 10M+ gap-jump on the men's course is cool/fun/scary looking!

Is "Kamakazi" an Australian word? It sure isn't Japanese!

typhooned in. Had about 64 hours of non-stop olympics this afternoon

>Kamakazi (born Jamie Hildebrandt August 3, 1981 in Brisbane) is an Australian BMX cyclist who was selected to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He changed his name by deed poll, and currently works as a boilermaker.<

Bolt and team does it again. Incredible!

"I'm the best"
"No, you're not"
"Yes, I am"
"Prove it"
etc

The home nation is top of the International Olympic Committee’s medal table and is widely viewed as the highest performing nation of these Games – but not in the United States.

In the USA, newspapers have been reporting the table in terms of totals medal won, rather than by the number of golds as the IOC does. This method moves the States to the top.

Critics accuse the US media of cynically manipulating the figures to keep the USA team at the top of the table.

The debate has been fuelled by this USA Today medal table from the 2004 Olympics, which shows the countries ranked by gold medals instead.

However, the New York Times says that most of the US media get their medal tables from the Associated Press – who stated it "has always aggregated it by total medals for as long as we can remember".

A New York Times medal table from the 1996 Olympics ranks countries by total medal count, supporting that statement.

The issue is problematic because the IOC says there is no “official” system for ranking countries. The medal table is a relatively recent addition to the Olympics because the competition was considered to be against the spirit of the Games, and the IOC, although it orders countries by gold medals won, does not endorse one method over another.

Congrats to the japansese men who got bronze in the relay.
top job,

but the jamaicans just flew.. they are amazing..

They are brilliant, pleasure to watch that lot indeed.

Did anyone see the Cuban Tae Kwon Do fighter kick the judge in the head??!! Quality programming!

Yep. What a tool. I wonder how he even got selected for the games? No disipline at all.

Yeah! I was still awake after coming home from Madi's Farewell Party to the Paralympics ... Papa had fallen asleep, so I woke him up to watch it in replay! What a complete moron. The commentators were agahst...they just could not believe it!

Someone got a little bit of 'roid rage going on perhaps?

I think it says a lot about the cowboy school of tae kwon do that they are doing if they have no discipline at all..

crap carp crap...

he was gold medallist in Athens

Lol That's Pretty Funny (Yanks NBC's medal tally page) - But the REAL medal tally takes into account such results Per Capita, as is Shown Here (Beijing Medal Tally - Total Medals Per Capita page) considering the population base from which to develop our elite athletes.

And here is a funny Response by the Poms to beating Australia in the "Total Gold Medals" Beijing Medal Tally as well - look at it per capita buddies!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

Re: London Olympics 2012 Opening & Closing Ceremonies:


Yea, this needs to be in them (The Goodies):



And this (The Young Ones):



And you can't go wrong with Benny Hill:



The ol' Dad's Army Theme would be brilliant somewhere during the opening:



But the very first act after the lights go down in the main arena to start the opening ceremony, has to be this:

That's funny What we are witnessing is a boil over from 20 years of frustration and humiliation.

It's ironic that not so long ago Britain accused the Aussies of taking sport too seriously, we were obsessed with winning only, we spent too much money on sport, we had lost the 'sportsman's ethic' , we even had an institute of sport! Shock horror!
Now they are about to pump 600 million pounds into British sports funding projects.

Non football sport can be interesting, but I just don't care enough.
Football is what matters.