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Rio Olympic Games | Day 1 | Saturday 6th August | Live Chat Thread

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    zexstreamzexstream Posts: 6,279
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    I'll say it now!

    Rio's opening ceromony was just poor compared to Ours!
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    PorkSausagePorkSausage Posts: 2,656
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    Good luck to Freddie Flintoff in the boxing tomorrow.
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    Calibans DreamCalibans Dream Posts: 3,768
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    I've heard on the news that 23 of our Team GB athletes have gone missing in Rio and filed for political asylum!
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    bluesdiamondbluesdiamond Posts: 11,362
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    Rory McIlroy competing for Ireland. Should we have made room for him in the GB squad?

    Why is the Team GB Rugby team all Welsh?
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    HerefordgirlHerefordgirl Posts: 3,814
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    indiana44 wrote: »
    Remember from earlier in the thread Chris is here competing in all the men's individual track cycling events and in swimming !

    Oh NOES!!!!
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    HerefordgirlHerefordgirl Posts: 3,814
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    Good luck to Freddie Flintoff in the boxing tomorrow.

    I thought he was in the Paralytic Games?
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    djc_22djc_22 Posts: 1,614
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    Good Morning Everyone :)

    Roll on Rio 2016 :D
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    tiger2000tiger2000 Posts: 8,541
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    antero wrote: »
    Does anyone know when Miss Katie Price will be saddling up for the equestrian events? I have been moved to tears by her struggle to overcome adversity and become the face of Team GB 2016
    I thought that she was competing in The Sailing on Copacobana Beach, she already has a Team GB uniform of Thong Bikini and her own built-in Floatation Device :D
    Nice of Sky to provide the 427 ultra HD channels.
    There are only 306 events! what are the extra 100 channels for?
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    Muttley76Muttley76 Posts: 97,888
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    indiana44 wrote: »
    These ongoing track cycling rule changes are getting ridiculous.

    "Any nation that has hosted the Summer Olympics between the years 2009 and 2015 is only allowed one male and one female to cover all the individual events."

    Good effort by Chris Hoy to take it on though when everyone thought he was retiring and "Go Trotty !"

    Also quite perturbed by the rule changes in the rowing that any nation that topped the rowing medal table at the 2012 and 2008 olympic games are only allowed to use one oar per boat. But I'm sure it will work out.
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    bluesdiamondbluesdiamond Posts: 11,362
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    when we starting the day 2 thread?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 8,575
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    djc_22 wrote: »
    Good Morning Everyone :)

    Roll on Rio 2016 :D

    Yes. we're here :confused:.

    What did you think that ceremony was yesterday ?
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    Department_SDepartment_S Posts: 4,924
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    Keep refreshing the web page and tickets are going as soon as they appear. Very frustrating. Only closing ceremony tickets left and they cost 3000 Reals!!
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    FroodFrood Posts: 13,180
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    I'm really looking forward to the three way cage fight between Steve Redgrave, Chris Hoy and Ben Ainslie to decide who is the greatest GB Olympian of all time.

    But I've really gone off Jess Ennis since her sex change operatiom.

    That 'tache:eek::eek:
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    PorkSausagePorkSausage Posts: 2,656
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    Frood wrote: »
    I'm really looking forward to the three way cage fight between Steve Redgrave, Chris Hoy and Ben Ainslie to decide who is the greatest GB Olympian of all time.

    But I've really gone off Jess Ennis since her sex change operatiom.


    That 'tache:eek::eek:

    And it seemed an extreme measure to take just to get into a new category in the paralympics.
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    Calibans DreamCalibans Dream Posts: 3,768
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    tiger2000 wrote: »
    There are only 306 events! what are the extra 100 channels for?

    Advertising channels of course! This is 2016, we don't have adverts on the same channels as programmes any more.

    Don't you remember back in 2014 when ITV1 gave up all pretence of interrupting their adverts with programmes and dropped all the programmes and just showed adverts 24/7? Channel 5 did the same 6 months later. They were the first of many advert channels.
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    jake lylejake lyle Posts: 6,146
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    tiger2000 wrote: »
    This is garbage, no Golds for GB so far its a disgrace, Milliband should resign as PM!

    :D How much lottery money has been spent on them?:mad:
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 303
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    Advertising channels of course! This is 2016, we don't have adverts on the same channels as programmes any more.

    Don't you remember back in 2014 when ITV1 gave up all pretence of interrupting their adverts with programmes and dropped all the programmes and just showed adverts 24/7? Channel 5 did the same 6 months later. They were the first of many advert channels.

    Actually there is a 4k res channel for each athlete of team GB (smaller squad than London mind...)
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    Jason100Jason100 Posts: 17,222
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    There's 1424 days to go until Rio 2016:
    http://rio2016.com/en
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    Calibans DreamCalibans Dream Posts: 3,768
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    Jason100 wrote: »
    There's 1424 days to go until Rio 2016:
    http://rio2016.com/en

    That's good, I have time to nip to the shops then!
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    CBFreakCBFreak Posts: 28,602
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    That show was just one long winded party event. No flair. We did it better.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
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    Glad to see the BBC are still making use of the Buckingham Palace box... I know Rio's thousands of miles away, but it's good to keep it in use.
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    Big Boy BarryBig Boy Barry Posts: 35,391
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    Great first day today.

    Those construction workers were awesome putting that beam onto the flatbed.
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    grassmarketgrassmarket Posts: 33,010
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    ...I'm hearing rumours that the Brazilian synchronised swimming team have all failed gender tests.

    And good to see three Rio natives taking Gold, Silver and Bronze in the AK-47 shooting.

    Astrid Gilberto singing The Girl From Ipanema will be the Rio equivalent of Paul McCartney singing Hey Jude.
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    MD1500MD1500 Posts: 14,234
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    The website is a disgrace. It is impossible to get tickets!
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    Jason100Jason100 Posts: 17,222
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    MD1500 wrote: »
    The website is a disgrace. It is impossible to get tickets!

    They'll go on sale a year before the games.

    According to their website 2 million tickets will cost less than $20USD

    Olympic Park day pass will cost $10USD

    Olympic Park common domain ticket will cost $1USD.
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