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Been catching the occasional glimpse of the games as I momentarily pass through the living room. Seems GB is doing pretty well this time, and good old Ulster has contributed to a gold in the mens rowing and a silver in the ladies cycle sprint.

Keep up the good work!

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It's been great hasn't it.Some of the performances have been quite inspirational.Chris Hoy is a monster on that bike!!
 My 10 yr old son is a keen runner and got up to watch the women's marathon staying up until 2.45am! I hope that many other youngsters are inspired to take up more sport.

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19/8/2008, 19:12   
 
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Unfortunately mine caught a bit of the boxing at lunchtime, and spent the afternoon beating the **** out of each other.

The cyclists have been unbelievable. 7 out of the 10 golds available on the track. Pendleton today was just streets ahead of the Aussie in her final, and the team pursuit knocked huge chunks off of the world record.
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You're right "bigbird" ,Pendleton left the aussie way behind. I'm a Scotsman and its usual for me to support the Aussies if they are playing England at anything ! This is different! It's great to see the Aussies gettin' bushwhacked by the Brits! Chris Hoy is the most successful Scottish Olympian ever to compete for Great Britain.
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According to the BBC, he's the only Briton to have won three golds in a single games for 100 years!
19/8/2008, 21:20   
 
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Local farm girl is in the K4 women's final later this week. She is also paddling in the K1 semi-final, just got pipped for second place in the first heat. Was visiting a client on Monday, we adjourned business to watch the K4 heat live as she is his niece. Needless to say everyone was super chuffed with their good showing.

Phelps is a phenomen, but have really enjoyed Usain Bolt's performances on the track.

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20/8/2008, 5:25   
 
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It's a bit weird to be watching Britons winning so much - seems a different attitude about the whole team. On a more international note I thought Steiners win in the super-heavyweight weightlifting was very dramatic. Amazing to get there after the personal tragedy he had recently been through.
20/8/2008, 8:34   
 
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And us irish are finally guaranteed medals in the boxing, whoo hoo!!!! I have to agree with smous, Usain Bolt is just unbelieveable, how someone can smash a world record by jogging the final 20m is unthinkable!!

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Surely he's kicking himself he didn't keep the throttle on til the end? I know I would be. (In my dreams of course)

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He seems to be too laid back to be kicking himself about anything!!

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Bolt looks so smooth and easy, real class.

In the Olympics there's only a medal for the winners. In the european grand prix meetings there are huge bonuses for breaking records. No point smashing it in Bejing when you can make a fortune breaking it several times in Europe.

Anyone else remember Sergei Bubka moving the pole vault mark up 1cm at a time over several seasons? He never attempted to see how high he could really go, just that 1cm at a time and pocket the cash for breaking the record.
20/8/2008, 13:44   
 
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Bolt just broke the 200m record, i suppose he wanted to have something to aim for during the grand prix's, johnsons' record would probably just be too easy!!!

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20/8/2008, 14:46   
 
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after his performance I'm sure Usain Bolt will be well payed just for showing up at various track meets. to my recollection only Carl Lewis has managed to win both the hundred and the two hundred meters but nobody has ever broken both world records in the same olympics before.

as for the performance of our athletes, it's made me about as cheerful as Walter


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