Three Aussies 1, 2, 3 in 200 metres backstroke. People are ecstatic here.
Well, on the Gold Coast probably, I'm just watching it at the club :uneasy:
Now the girls have repeated it in the 800m freestyle!
Aussies sure can swim!
Not sure I'm as excited by this as you are George even as an Australian. After all money spent = gold medals. Same applies to the Olympics. Depends on where the government puts its spending priorities. I don't agree with ours.
Webbo
I see your point, Ian, but I enjoy the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games. They have punctuated my life.
To me, my local council putting a palm tree on a pole and calling it art at my expense is worse.
The games showcase us, though. :thumbsup:
I love watching the competition in the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics too George, but gold medal tallies are not my thing.
I still have ties with my UK upbringing, but it's nice to see the locals win. I have three Australian daughters. :thumbsup: :beers:
Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 10:56:25 AM
Aussies sure can swim!
But you have more nasty sharks than we do :P
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
Yeah, I was snorkeling off a tourist boat on the reef back in 1990 (I was still able to do that stuff in those days), and came face to face with this shark which was about a metre long.
Anyway, back on the boat, I was informed it was a local and was used to tourists.
Heck with that. I've never swam so fast!
All sharks have teeth.
Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 12:22:40 PM
Anyway, back on the boat, I was informed it was a local and was used to tourists.
Yeah, probably as a quick snack.
Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 10:56:25 AM
Aussies sure can swim!
Is that because their ancestors told them to train so they could escape? :D
Jon
I don't get this thing about sharks. The fact is that, if you go into the Australian surf, you are about one hundred times more likely to drown than be attacked by a shark!! Fortunately Aussies tend to be aware of this, and most people who drown are foreign tourists.
:worried: :o :worried:
Yeh, but a shark does tend to make you swim faster :D
Hence the medal tally. ;)
Quote from: Stuart Down Under on April 10, 2018, 03:07:39 AM
I don't get this thing about sharks. The fact is that, if you go into the Australian surf, you are about one hundred times more likely to drown than be attacked by a shark!! Fortunately Aussies tend to be aware of this, and most people who drown are foreign tourists.
:worried: :o :worried:
Yep, sharks didn't frighten Austrailian Prime minister, Harold Holt....
:laughabovepost:
Well we never did quiite see him again, eh.
Without wishing to belittle the achievements of many of the competitors it seems a significantly lower standard (at least in cycling) than, for example, the Olympics. I've never heard of most of the competitors!
Just watched the cycling Time Trial - well done Australia for two golds, and for England with silver and bronze.
To be perfectly honest, the club patrons have completely abandoned the games coverage, in favour of rugby league, which rules, here in NSW.
Wot? No mention of cricket, George? :-X :P
Keep yer eye on the balls, Mick. :D
Roosters vs Rabbitohs, if anyone cares.... that's Canterbury vs South Sydney, translated. ;D
I actually have half an eye on it 'cos I'm on top of the tipping comp at the moment! :beers:
And Geez, these big blokes go in hard!
Now c'mon, don't keep us in suspense any longer George! :no:
What's the score? :hmmm:
:D
Dunno at the moment, and don't really give a :censored:
I'm going to have me dinner, then watch a video.
Deltics on the ECML of course. :beers: ;D
Sorry, I misread the topic as Commonwealth Games, rather than rugby or cricket. ;)
Unusually for me, dragging a thread back on topic good to see an English 1-2 in the women's mountain biking, but a tiny field. Definitely feels like a bit of a second string event.
Edited to include a smiley, as it did read slightly churlishly, which was not my intention given my penchant for derailing threads!
Closing ceremony starting. Loved the way the para games were integrated with the games themselves. :thumbsup:
I agree in principle, but the flip side of that is that I heard virtually nothing of the para games. Literally one result that I recall.
Really enjoyed the games, including the paragames events - maybe being retired I get to see more on the live channel.
Australia did extremely well, and the last match I watched live - the women's netball, was brilliant and could have gone to either of two great teams. But well done the Roses for their spirit and determination. :thumbsup:
Watching from the UK with the BBC team was not the best experience - too much studio chat, and commentary on many events that was far too O.T.T. for my tastes. Much of it was mob handed, as seems to be the norm these days, with any one of two, three or even four commentators all vying for prominence and seemingly convinced that what they had to say took preference over whichever colleague happened to be speaking at the time.
Watching the gymnastics event, on the 'uneven bars' (I thought they used to be called 'asymmetric bars', but maybe I'm not dumb enough to understand the change), the male commentator, while edifying me with the names of each move the gymnast was making, thought fit to laboriously inform me of each transistion : " to the high bar......... to the low bar.... to the high bar...... to the low bar.....". Streuth! :o
This was fairly typical, and I resorted to watching with zero sound in many instances. Do these folks go to Commentators School, where the First Rule of Commentators School is "Never let a second go by without filling it with words, no matter how pointless and inane that may seem". :hmmm:
But then I'm an irascible curmudgeon and grumpy old git. :D
Wow. That's a heck of a good reply!
But I agree totally.
The commentary always leaves heaps to be desired.
Obviously, living here, it is oriented to Australian results, but just as annoying.
Thanks! :beers: