Half the swimmers throwing up from suspected contaminated water, sprinter's blocks all slipping on the track (with dudes running in front of the sprinters painting the lines), no-one watching anything. Hugely success all round.
― san te cross (onimo), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Also sore losing Englanders stripping Aussies of golds with protests in order to "win" a bronze.
― san te cross (onimo), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
YEah, that protest was fucked imo. England were quite happy to let their dq'ed runner go again, but then cried foul when Pearson won. Boo!
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Radio 5 commentating on this = most embarrassing, condescending, smug, narrow-minded, cutely nationalistic shit I have ever heard - it's like an event designed to give the home nations a sporting chance in as many events as possible
ban the commonwealth games
also ban incessant lyrical descriptions of how someone bravely prevailed in a fucking hurdles race - they were winning and they won, so what - play >1 hour of competitive sport then come back to me
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
An hour of running hurdles would be fucking brutal, that's for sure.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah and I would like to see it
seriously there is nothing more infuriating and pathetic than national radio going batshit for home-grown athletes in a prissy little commonwealth tournament while trying to pretend it's a massive deal
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
you're embarrassing yourselves and your corporation
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, was there some cricket on the radio today then?
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
bwahaha
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Joeks, I pretty much agree with you on this fwiw.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
like, I don't disagree with the tournament's right to exist but christ almighty if you're going to cover it, cover it for what it is and give every participating country a fair hearing, don't treat it like fucking christmas for mediocre british athletes
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
they're all mediocre british athletes tho? commonwealth's a distinction i dont fully get tbh
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the athletics I notice that the phrase "fastest losers" has been replaced by the snappy "fastest non-automatic qualifiers".
― She's got a dog in Ballymena (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
I'm a non-automatic qualifier baby, so why don't you kill me
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 4 August 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Bill Burr is working on a bit about it as we speak
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 4 August 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link