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ginnywings
August 21, 2016, 12:09am

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Great scenes at the Maracana as Neymar scores the winning penalty to beat the Germans in a shoot out 5-4.
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Well, it's more or less over bar the shouting. There were so good bits, some brilliant performances and great to see "amateurs" showing the useless footballers what guts and determination really means. The only thing I saw and enjoyed live and that was accidental was the last part of the women's hockey and that was really good. Most of what I watched was on catch up with a lot of fast-forwarding.

A lot of the stuff takes some swallowing. I watched one bit with some swimming and there's nothing more boring than watching races where you have no interest and you are just waiting for the one you want to see. I used to have to do that at Scartho. No I tell a lie, it's not true. At Scartho there wasn't a set of "experts" and Blue Peter presenters to bore you even further between races.

There were one or two prima donnas, notably Tom Daley who seems to believe he is a legend before his time. He could do with spending less time worrying about his public image and more time on his mental readiness as a competitor.

Judging is a pain as well. I'm sure the bloke on the pommel horse deserved his medal but for the life of me I could see very nothing between gold and silver performances. No wonder the runner up wasn't happy. These events where there is the subjective judgement on style are always dodgy to me. Many moons ago I used to be an occasional judge of junior gymnastics but only floor exercises thank goodness. It was incredibly difficult even for that age sometimes to decide on a 4.7 or a 4.8 so God knows how they did it for adults in Rio with any accuracy. The same applied to some of the boxing too didn't it? Then there was the disqualification of the 400m relay squad for some quite unfathomable reason.

Once the euphoria of the 350 or whatever Team GB medals has died down someone will perhaps look at these games, the costs, the drugs issues, the empty seats, the touting of tickets, the lottery funding allocations, the quality of the officiating ..... which have all been overshadowed by the Team GB performance and rightly so. I wouldn't denigrate any of the GB competitors who have given us such entertainment. The looks on their faces when they achieve their podium place is priceless. I doubt many at home will rush out to take up gymnastics or kayaking or 10k running even, there will be no legacy like that. But they have lifted our spirits and that's all we can ask of them.


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Finished 2nd overall with more medals than we got at our home games,

Well done to all and lottery money well spent imo


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Finished 2nd overall with more medals than we got at our home games,

Well done to all and lottery money well spent imo


I can see that Pete and it is well done.

But there's just this little nagging inside me that says £4m for a rowing medal could have been better spent in a hospice or somewhere.



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I can see that Pete and it is well done.

But there's just this little nagging inside me that says £4m for a rowing medal could have been better spent in a hospice or somewhere.



There's lots of four million pounds being spent on frivolous things in this country. Subsidising minority sports is probably one of the least of them.


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There's lots of four million pounds being spent on frivolous things in this country. Subsidising minority sports is probably one of the least of them.


For the cost of one medal the national lottery good causes fund could have paid for the new Hospice at Peaks Lane with a bit left over.

I know what you mean but it depends how you look at it. The national lottery was set up to fund good causes, but what is good, better, best?


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The other thing to consider is a lot of the lottery money was given to the elite athletes and posh boy sports, nothing has come down to grass roots just look at the swimming pools that are being knocked down an often not replaced, decaying athletic stadiums,( notice we didn't do to well on the track) then there's the school fields that are being sold off and Teresa May has the cheek to call us great again.


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[quote=120855]The other thing to consider is a lot of the lottery money was given to the elite athletes and posh boy sports, nothing has come down to grass roots just look at the swimming pools that are being knocked down an often not replaced, decaying athletic stadiums,( notice we didn't do to well on the track) then there's the school fields that are being sold off and Teresa May has the cheek to call us great
again.

Quick, mayday mayday. Grim has been taken over by left wing spirits...call the exorcist!!


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[quote=120855]The other thing to consider is a lot of the lottery money was given to the elite athletes and posh boy sports, nothing has come down to grass roots just look at the swimming pools that are being knocked down an often not replaced, decaying athletic stadiums,( notice we didn't do to well on the track) then there's the school fields that are being sold off and Teresa May has the cheek to call us great
again.

Quick, mayday mayday. Grim has been taken over by left wing spirits...call the exorcist!!


Yeah, made me do a double take too.
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