Olympics '08 - the Saddo thread

[Dizaster]

I'll admit that I enjoy the olympics as well.... Ever since I can first remember watching it, I was glued to it as a kid, and yeah.. It's great competition..

Weightlifting is one of my favourite events to watch, however they don't show much of it at all these days..

I also don't mind watching the gymnastics like, the rings and those double bards where they swing around..

Pretty much all of it is cool..

[smashup]

The Brit boxing team will win a good few medals (some gold),superb team of fighters going over so watch out for them.
Also the BMX event should be pretty cool with the UK sending over the World Champ (some half cast girl) to compete.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Lookin for at least one medal from the Irish Boxing Squad.

After a brace of golds at the Euro finals, we should come back with something!

[Mikkel_K]

Still plan to create a separate (and somewhat educated) thread about boxing, but here goes.

Lookin for at least one medal from the Irish Boxing Squad.

After a brace of golds at the Euro finals, we should come back with something!

The gold medals were in the European Union championship, right? I think, this makes a difference, as Eastern European boxers, sight unseen, tend to do pretty well in amateur competition. Anyway, out of the 5 Irish boxers competing, who do you fancy?

If these rankings Mens World are anything to go by, an Irish medal should be considered an upset btw.

How do you see Ireland doing in other sports? I guess, it's fair to say that the country rarely dominates the Olympics, right? Funny, since it is one of those countries, I somehow associate with 'always being good at sport'. I do remember Michelle Smith though.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Still plan to create a separate (and somewhat educated) thread about boxing, but here goes.

Lookin for at least one medal from the Irish Boxing Squad.

After a brace of golds at the Euro finals, we should come back with something!

The gold medals were in the European Union championship, right? I think, this makes a difference, as Eastern European boxers, sight unseen, tend to do pretty well in amateur competition. Anyway, out of the 5 Irish boxers competing, who do you fancy?

If these rankings Mens World are anything to go by, an Irish medal should be considered an upset btw.

How do you see Ireland doing in other sports? I guess, it's fair to say that the country rarely dominates the Olympics, right? Funny, since it is one of those countries, I somehow associate with 'always being good at sport'. I do remember Michelle Smith though.

Ireland never dominate, we're too small.

Of the boxers....Sutherland is seen as the biggest hope.
However, I'd imagine Nevin/Joyce/Barnes would win a medal before either Sutherland or Egan.

In the other sports, we've got a contendeer for the womens shot put, but not very much else to be quite honest.

Our rowing team is screwed becuase of shady management.

[OumaFan]

I love the Olympics. I find myself watching gymnastics and thinking why are you watching gymnastics. But its the Olympics, its like gymnastics actually matters.

[Chris Nagel]

Who are the boxers on the USA team?

[Phil]

Still plan to create a separate (and somewhat educated) thread about boxing, but here goes.

Lookin for at least one medal from the Irish Boxing Squad.

After a brace of golds at the Euro finals, we should come back with something!

The gold medals were in the European Union championship, right? I think, this makes a difference, as Eastern European boxers, sight unseen, tend to do pretty well in amateur competition. Anyway, out of the 5 Irish boxers competing, who do you fancy?

If these rankings Mens World are anything to go by, an Irish medal should be considered an upset btw.

How do you see Ireland doing in other sports? I guess, it's fair to say that the country rarely dominates the Olympics, right? Funny, since it is one of those countries, I somehow associate with 'always being good at sport'. I do remember Michelle Smith though.

Ireland never dominate, we're too small.

Of the boxers....Sutherland is seen as the biggest hope.
However, I'd imagine Nevin/Joyce/Barnes would win a medal before either Sutherland or Egan.

In the other sports, we've got a contendeer for the womens shot put, but not very much else to be quite honest.

Our rowing team is screwed becuase of shady management.

yeah I think Joyce might go far at the games, not sure about Sutherland seen him a couple of times and wasn't 2 impressed.

[Macho]

I really like Olympics , in this event you can reach great goals and is good for create your resume boxing , when you jump to Pro .........

[HattonTheHammer]

Still plan to create a separate (and somewhat educated) thread about boxing, but here goes.

Lookin for at least one medal from the Irish Boxing Squad.

After a brace of golds at the Euro finals, we should come back with something!

The gold medals were in the European Union championship, right? I think, this makes a difference, as Eastern European boxers, sight unseen, tend to do pretty well in amateur competition. Anyway, out of the 5 Irish boxers competing, who do you fancy?

If these rankings Mens World are anything to go by, an Irish medal should be considered an upset btw.

How do you see Ireland doing in other sports? I guess, it's fair to say that the country rarely dominates the Olympics, right? Funny, since it is one of those countries, I somehow associate with 'always being good at sport'. I do remember Michelle Smith though.

Ireland never dominate, we're too small.

Of the boxers....Sutherland is seen as the biggest hope.
However, I'd imagine Nevin/Joyce/Barnes would win a medal before either Sutherland or Egan.

In the other sports, we've got a contendeer for the womens shot put, but not very much else to be quite honest.

Our rowing team is screwed becuase of shady management.

see thats why you fucked yourselves over

the northern part of ireland gets to celebrate an endless medal hall every single games, you on the other hand have to hope sonia o`sullivan runs the race of her life

Bradley Price to take gold in the super heavyweight with frankie gavin taking silver and billy jo saunders to get a bronze!!

[donnydarkoIRL]

Still plan to create a separate (and somewhat educated) thread about boxing, but here goes.



The gold medals were in the European Union championship, right? I think, this makes a difference, as Eastern European boxers, sight unseen, tend to do pretty well in amateur competition. Anyway, out of the 5 Irish boxers competing, who do you fancy?

If these rankings Mens World are anything to go by, an Irish medal should be considered an upset btw.

How do you see Ireland doing in other sports? I guess, it's fair to say that the country rarely dominates the Olympics, right? Funny, since it is one of those countries, I somehow associate with 'always being good at sport'. I do remember Michelle Smith though.

Ireland never dominate, we're too small.

Of the boxers....Sutherland is seen as the biggest hope.
However, I'd imagine Nevin/Joyce/Barnes would win a medal before either Sutherland or Egan.

In the other sports, we've got a contendeer for the womens shot put, but not very much else to be quite honest.

Our rowing team is screwed becuase of shady management.

see thats why you fucked yourselves over

the northern part of ireland gets to celebrate an endless medal hall every single games, you on the other hand have to hope sonia o`sullivan runs the race of her life

Bradley Price to take gold in the super heavyweight with frankie gavin taking silver and billy jo saunders to get a bronze!!

I do believe it was England that fucked us over originally.

[Mikkel_K]

Messi on the scoresheet today, opening ceremony tomorrow? About time to revive this thread.