Olympics '08 - the Saddo thread

[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?

[amat]

Raushee Warren is probably the most talented on the US team, but the best chance for gold is Demetrius Andrade imo. Though Warren caught a big break being a division above Zou Shiming who at this point is pretty close to a lock for gold. Not sure who the main competition is now since he moved up in weight.

Andrade won the world championships at welterweight, fairly easily he beat a Thai opponent in the finals who at the time was 1 in the world and he pretty well handled him.

Gary Russel Jr., Raynell Williams, Javier Molina, Sadam Ali round out the squad and there are a couple other's who's names I forget.

[Chris Nagel]

Looking forward to Andrade, he's always looking for an opportunity to excite.

[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.

[OumaFan]

I woke up this morning kind of excited to watch the first day and when I turned on the TV women's fencing was on. After that long distance cycling which I have to say is unimaginably bad TV.