Yes Weedy but you killed me, you won! There was ALOT of blood.

Yay! Bronze is great! And you beat Team GB too Was thinking of you and Suzy when I saw the news...

No medals today


I'm clearly as sceptical as you then gotterz, I thought exactly the same - I bet every other Eurovision fan did too...


A bloodbath or baldness, not sure which is worse!

As for great athlete names, de Araujo of Brazil has to be the best. ('Au' being like the 'au' in the German word "Haus", and j like the French j and the 'o' like the 'oo' in "hoot".)

EDIT: His fellow decathlete, Newdick, isn't so subtle.

Great day for us Irish! Cian's bronze in the showjumping, Katie upgrading her medal to at least silver (and we have high hopes for gold) and three more boxers on at least a bronze. Our most successful Olympics in 56 years.

I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Katie. She's brutal.

I think its pretty common knowledge than countries like Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Qatar (and also Turkey) imports former Kenyans/Ethiopian to win medals for them in Championships.

the olympics have taught me that athletes all around the world in all kind of different sports are really fit

I did find it odd that there were so many black people in these countries.

More eurovision in the Olympics! An Azeri rythmic gymnast just used a snippet of Volare in her routine.

My best find of the Olympics is Leryn Franco of Paraguay....

Now that is a good find!

I've had a brilliant week at the Olympics. I got to see Bolt in the 200m last night which was amazing and Grabarz win his medal in the high jump on Tuesday night.

Eurovision is never far from my mind though. I had a Eurovision moment when I was queuing for lunch on Tuesday. I spent the rest of the day with the Trackshittaz in my head after spotting this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/212pm.jpg/

The dressage to music is actually amazing to watch

I agree.. the dressage is great..

I think the girl was better though.. it would be great if they both get medals

whoooo.. a gold and a bronze in the dressage!

what is it with our (male) athletes that they refuse to groom? all the other athetles (bar the japanese) do it... max whitlock's armpits just look nasty :sleep: is it a macho thing you guys think?

in other news bmx riders are also very hot...


why do they wear helmets again ?

another gold medal.. the first female boxing medal..


ireland about to box.. katie taylor

I think a man with a shaved body is just wrong.

No offence to any shavers here

C'mon Katie!!!!

very close..

brilliant.. ireland has a gold medal...

Yay. Soo happy right now. Even if i am in England currently.

Also you really cannot beat an Irish Crowd!!!!

see there's the problem then. i think a man who thinks a completely hairy armpit is okay and expects every woman to have her body hair shaved really is not from this era. but no offence to you hmm? :sleep:

(and congratulations ireland!)

the atmosphere in the hall is fantastic