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Pyree

Pyree

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Apr 1, 2011
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Well, it's almost time, so I think it is a good idea to start a thread to keep the medal tally, share the news and events, etc.

It would be nice if you guys in EU and the Americas post a summery of the medal tally and something interesting so that when I wake up in AUS, having missed out everything when I am in bed, I can have a quick catch up without searching what's hot during the game.

And...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

The official Australian chant for any sport event. 12 years since its invention and it does not gets old.
 
"The Redback on the Toilet Seat" was my favourite ... along with "I'd love to have a beer with Duncan" and "The Pub with no beer".

I do like Kevin Bloody Wilson though ... er his songs are not really something to link to here though ...

I hope Liesel Jones does well in the swimming ... we are 100% hoping she gets a medal ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisel_Jones

I am deleting any links to FairFax Media group (shameful Un-Australian Reporters) in this thread as a courtesy to her.

Go Lethal Leisel !!

:)

 
She is a sprinter and she need that physique instead of the super slim build like a marathon runner. Those journalists at FairFax Media are idiotic anorexic worshippers and think the Hollywood skin and bone physique is fit.
 


American football players are only brave when they have all of that armour on.

None of their top sides will play Rugby or Aussie rules against our teams as they are worried about getting hurt.

/ducks for cover ...

:)
 
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/london-games/what-16-year-old-girl-ye-shiwen-did-simply-doesnt-happen/story-fne3a96w-1226438936146

The questions were inevitable. Slender 16-year-old Chinese girls do not bring home the gruelling 400m IM in times comparable to a powerfully built American male, especially one on track to emerge from these Olympics as the greatest swimmer on the planet.

In the 100 years since Australia's Fanny Durack and Wilhelmina Wylie won gold and silver in the first Olympic swimming race, no woman champion has ever finished faster than the winner of the equivalent men's event.

Among the questions that arise from this, two stand out: where is the logic of going to the exorbitant cost of conducting Olympic Games in order to witness athletic feats never achieved before only to cast suspicion on them?

And would Ye be under suspicion if she were not from China, a country still on probation as far as the swimming world is concerned after it cheated a generation of female swimmers out of medals that rightfully were theirs?

Susie O'Neill and Grant Hackett both had cause during their careers to suspect that they had been robbed of major medals by drug cheats, but both cautioned against making any accusations against Ye.

Twice O'Neill was relegated to the bronze behind two Chinese swimmers in the 100m and 200m butterfly at the notorious 1994 Rome world championships - just weeks before a swag of Chinese swimmers tested positive at the Asian Games - but she is adamant Ye's world record deserves to be taken at face value.

 
Well, a test will clear the name.

But I agree with Reynod. It is unfair. Hopefully a clean test result will shut them up for good.

You know some athletes in China are recruited from the poorest part of the country and they are removed from their family some times as young as 9 months to 1 year old and they receive their training as soon as they can walk. In this case, Ye Shiwen could learn swimming even before she can walk!!

Time for wiki too see her biography...

Edit: Not much on her in wiki.
 
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