[Burning Spear]

Originally Posted by Kunjufu

Why should he be 'more gracious' and why is it wrong for people to celebrate when they achieve something? I really hate this false pretentious self deprecation crap...

The man won.. he won fair and square...he is ALLOWED IMo to celebrate that achievement instead of pandering to the sensiblities of Jaque rogg or anyone else...

OK, I'll remember this if the US men win the relay's and start showboating.No whining on here because of it.

[jett Black]

Congrats to Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica in the 200 meters,JA also picked up the bronze in this race.

[astmartins]

GUTTED!!...Alyson Felix stuffed by the Jamaican sprinter...Jamaica have won both Male and Female 100 and 200 Metres!!..

Yep!!do remember Maurice Green and his posse..no offence give me Bolts Celebration any day that is original and spur of the moment..
Hopefully Nigerian footballers would be doing their little dance when they stuff Argentina..more misery for the IOC...hehe!!

Michael Johnson..was and still is my fav AA runner had to do with his unique running style..though always felt bad when my fav Athlete Frankie Fredericks lost out time and time again
I can see America..willing to pay millions to find the man that would beat Bolt..yanks are relentless..this ain't over..Bolt would need to be on his game

The only thing that Bolt has erred on is not paying due respect to Michael Johnson at least in the interviews we have been allowed to see..but when the euphoria is over he probably would

Hopefully Wariner..would restore a bit of pride for the yanks..hopefully!!

@Rachie
Naijj has too much talent..however they do not get funded adequately to compete against the best...too much corruption..though the Athletes should still try to do their best and reprezent..as a consequence we can afford to dash some off to Europe and Middle East...the only team that was well prepared was the football team and you can see the results..

Called Naijj yesterday and heard they were wild celebrations in the offices during the game with Belgium..only God knows what happened in Jamaica after Bolt won the second medal..think that was sweeter than the 100M..somehow

[rachie]

Oh my gosh what just happened there the US and Nigeria both didn't qualify for the men's 4x100m relays. This is just not a great year for US athletics.
I am sure that both those teams would have made it as well. This was another final that i was looking for that didn't happen.

Now it leaves it wide open for GB to get a medal now and i hope that they make it.

[Kunjufu]

Gwarn JAMAICA.......................oh btw to the yank from overseas were you watching LMAO!!

[Real Roxanne]

Well done Jamaica. Jamaicas gonna get more golds, 4x100 male and female. US aint really saying it in athletics this year bwoy.

[astmartins]

yep!!..thats a bit of a letdown the mens 100m relays has already been decided Jamiaica..the relay used to be the event to round off the Olympics..No USA-NIGERIA-GB...going to be predictable..no drama there...

watch out for this chap...he has done more sub 13 secs in a season than Colin Jackson and Liu Xiang in their entire track life..This is the Bolt of 100M high hurdles

Cuba's Robles wins men's 110m hurdles gold_English_Xinhua

Dayron Robles overtakes Liu Xiang in 110m Hurdles

Horses..fail drug test...some people????..what the.....

[CashMoney]

They should leave Idowu in Beijing, let him claim chinese citizenship

What a prat! I was suspicious because leading up to the games his mouth was too big for someone who hadnt done shit to back it up previouly but I thought this would be his time. But nope, he chokes..again

[meknow]

If I were Usain's coach I would not do very much except watch films of his coming out of the blocks. When it ain't broke don't fix it. So far his natural ability is more than enough. After a while start to tweak his starts slowly. It just my be that his frame and physique may call for an unorthodox style that can not even be mimicked.

I don't know if he can stay low as long as a typical sprinter. I won't do shyt to this guy. He is a jet as we speak.

[astmartins]

@meknow
I agree just polish the starts and keep on the same regime..not much to alter really...he can only get better you know with that....aura that comes with being a winner

@et al
Phillip Idowu..what a bottler I had my doubts but when he regained the no1 spot when the portuguese first went ahead i thought yes!!..hes up for a fight unfortunately..as soon as the Portuguese guy jumped further..he just sank and i have never seen Philip pull a last gasp winning jump..so i knew he was more or less doomed..

[rachie]

I don't think that Idowu deserves a hard time. The guy did his best on the day and he came 2nd that is no disgrace to come away with a silver medal in the Olympics. People really couldn't ask more than that although of course i would have liked him to get Gold. He jumped a season best and the guy who got Gold had jumped further than him in the past.

Hopefully he will be able to have his moment in London in 2012.

[astmartins]

@rachie
When we really take things into perspective the Silver is good..but when you get a chance of getting GOLD you better give it your very very best 'cos it only happens every 4 years or one might end up never getting the chance to win GOLD ever again...

[rachie]

I think that he did try he also did do a seasons best.

Anyway though lol at that US guy in the 400m race who came third and threw himself over the line. I think that should not be allowed you cannot have people throwing themselves over the line like the event is called running and not jumping or something. It is one thing to stick your chest out etc but to physically throw yourself over the line is something else.

lol the BBC said that the Jamaican team was trying to claim Tasha Danvers as well because her parents are Jamaican.

[Mr. Equanimity]

[quote=rachie;1485267]I think that he did try he also did do a seasons best.

Anyway though lol at that US guy in the 400m race who came third and threw himself over the line. I think that should not be allowed you cannot have people throwing themselves over the line like the event is called running and not jumping or something. It is one thing to stick your chest out etc but to physically throw yourself over the line is something else.
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That was funny. Good luck to him, if he hadn't done that he would've come fourth. Big up Veronica Campbell for getting the gold in the 200. Team GB are winning medals all over the gaff.

@ Watcher

Natasha Danvers is kinda alright still. She look STRANG (lol). I like the little slim tings like sherone simpson tho. Alot of them American athletes are nice too.

[Kunjufu]

Originally Posted by Burning Spear

OK, I'll remember this if the US men win the relay's and start showboating.No whining on here because of it.

Burning spear: its not the show boating that offends people its the arrogance that came with it that really got on peoples goat...Maurice Green being a top contender for horses head of the year!!!

[astmartins]

if its any consolation to the Yanks...their women should take GOLD in the looks stakes...this is one area where the Jamaican female athletes have no chance of claiming GOLD..oops!!!..way too masculine

[Mr. Equanimity]

Didn't realise the guy who won the gold in the long jump was a brother. Well done to him.

[Mokele Mbembe]

@ Watcher

Natasha Danvers is kinda alright still. She look STRANG (lol). I like the little slim tings like sherone simpson tho. Alot of them American athletes are nice too

She was aight on the track but looked stunning in the studio later on. Can't find decent pics for Ks thread but if you were watching you get the idea.

BTW I don't get the dudes who find the womens volleyball sexy. Those girls are long and straight with none hips or anything... Sure they're fit athletes but I don't understand all the ogling. Not my scene.

[Kunjufu]

[quote=The Watcher;1485299]

Originally Posted by Mr. Equanimity

She was aight on the track but looked stunning in the studio later on. Can't find decent pics for Ks thread but if you were watching you get the idea.

BTW I don't get the dudes who find the womens volleyball sexy. Those girls are long and straight with none hips or anything... Sure they're fit athletes but I don't understand all the ogling. Not my scene.

Thank you....I read some guy in a broadsheet drooling over some beach volley ball woman.. the woman marga like wha... no batty..and look like she needs a bowl of soup to rahtid!!!

[Mr. Equanimity]

I think its to do with the flat stomachs.

[Burning Spear]

Well the US t&f meltdown is complete.But the overall athletics medal count still may surpass Athens, we made some boneheaded mistakes.

Congrats to Bolt.Truly special.I just hope his agents don't pimp him with races all over the globe racing planes,horses and the like.

[Le Moor]

John Baxter Taylor, First African-American to Win an Olympic Gold Medal





At the age of 26, John Baxter Taylor was considered one of the best quarter-mile racers in the world. Not surprisingly, he went on to win a gold medal in the 1908 Olympics and became the first African American gold medalist. Just months after winning, however, Taylor suddenly died of typhoid pneumonia at his home.

The next morning, the notice of his death was the featured story in the Philadelphia Inquirer sports section. The headline, above a large photograph of him, read "Red and Blue Athlete Runs His Last Race. John Baxter Taylor, the Former Colored Champion Quarter Mile Runner of the Pennsylvania Track Team, Dies After Severe Attack of Illness."

The New York Times, in its report on the funeral, called Taylor "the world's greatest negro runner." It went on to list many of the great American track athletes, coaches, and officials who came to Philadelphia for his memorial, and wrote: "Several thousand persons viewed the remains and after the services at the house in which four clergymen [from as far away as Boston] officiated, fifty carriages followed the hearse to Eden Cemetery [some four miles away]. It was one of the greatest tributes ever paid a colored man in this city."

[nsogbu1562]

Well done to Veronica Campbell-Brown for retaining her Olympic 200m title I really thought that Allyson Felix would win it this time. If 'Team GB' are really interested in winning more medals on the track then perhaps they should try and emulate what the Jamaicans are doing and focus on identifying and nurturing talent from a grassroots level.

What happened to Jeremy Wariner in the 400m?? but well done to LaShawn Merritt for taking the gold...at least the Americans managed to retain their dominance in the longer sprint.

Well done to Phillips Idowu for winning silver although that wasn't what he was hoping for. I don't think he choked. He jumped 17.62 which was a season's best for him. I think ordaining him with the olympic title beforehand was tempting fate however he would have had to at least equal or surpass his outdoor PB (17.68) to beat the Portugese jumper (17.67) who was the reigning world champion. Jonathan Edwards was in a similar-ish position in Atlanta in '96 when everyone was expecting him to win but he was beaten by Kenny Harrison despite jumping a season's best.

I know it's 2 days late but congratulations also to Christine Ohuruogu for winning the women's 400m. With all that she's been through lately she has the most appropriate surname 'she saw war'!

[Le Moor]

Originally Posted by nsogbu1562

Well done to Veronica Campbell-Brown for retaining her Olympic 200m title I really thought that Allyson Felix would win it this time. If 'Team GB' are really interested in winning more medals on the track then perhaps they should try and emulate what the Jamaicans are doing and focus on identifying and nurturing talent from a grassroots level.

What happened to Jeremy Wariner in the 400m?? but well done to LaShawn Merritt for taking the gold...at least the Americans managed to retain their dominance in the longer sprint.









Well done to Phillips Idowu for winning silver although that wasn't what he was hoping for. I don't think he choked. He jumped 17.62 which was a season's best for him. I think ordaining him with the olympic title beforehand was tempting fate however he would have had to at least equal or surpass his outdoor PB (17.68) to beat the Portugese jumper (17.67) who was the reigning world champion. Jonathan Edwards was in a similar-ish position in Atlanta in '96 when everyone was expecting him to win but he was beaten by Kenny Harrison despite jumping

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season's best.

I know it's 2 days late but congratulations also to Christine Ohuruogu for winning the women's 400m. With all that she's been through lately she has the most appropriate surname 'she saw war'!

hmmm, not so sure i agree nsogbu1562

The Olympics is the time to beat PB and WRs. In fact you could say you have more chance of doing it here because of the stiff competition and adrenline heights you reach. Besides winning the Gold medal is all about beating PB and WR, its the definition of winning. Phillips didnt rise to the occasion and its as simple as that. Sometimes a silver is a real achievement but i dont feel so here with Phillips and feel desperately diappointed for him. He could have taken the Silver all day long and even he knows it, judging by his response afterwards. He missed a trick by not getting Gold.

Although you're right about Johanthon Edwards in Atlanta, you cant compare Phillips to him. Edwards did rise to the occasion in an Olympics and a World Championship, beating a WR that had stood for yrs. So him finally losing his crown is not at'll comparable or as disappointing as never actually holding a title.

Im guessing but Phillips is probably still young enough to put a worth while attempt in the next Olympics. If hes got what it takes, hell use this disappointment to spur him on to win next time, as many Gold winning Olympians have done after a disappointment.

[Le Moor]

Pure drama in the virgin event BMX racing and comiserations to British girl Shanaze Reade.

LOL this event looks lethal.....Shit times have changed, as since when did girls get so tough...