Alfred J Kipper
Sunday 5th August 2012 7:53am [Edited]
Aldershot
8,385 posts
Quote: Harridan @ August 4 2012, 2:25 PM BST
This is so heartbreaking:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19124776
Poor guys are grief-stricken after coming second. I've never seen people react like that outside of responding to a death.
Just shows the high standard they set themselves and they were I think favourites. The sheer physical exhaustion rowers feel possibly had more to do with it. They might be feeling better today, a silver's a silver! Best GB rowing performance ever, there was a private duel on between them and the cyclists for the most medals here, not sure who won that, must have been very close. Maybe more medals for the rowers but more golds for the riders?
What a shame the football team couldn't join in the medal fun. 
Have to say our football's got to a very sad state when we're beaten by South Korea! That should never happen.
Quote: Harridan @ August 4 2012, 8:18 PM BST
Watched some of the cycling in a cafe and I can't help feeling there should be some way for us to see how amazingly fast they are actually going. I seem to remember someone once saying that all of these races should have a non-athlete running along too for comparison - can we do that? Can someone sort that our for me?
Yes I agree totally with this. Basically, unless we are there, we can't. This is all to do with the stupid sports filming policies of broadcasters. It's been complained about for years now that we don't get a real idea of their speed, whether it be racing cars or horses or bikes. They have a technical term for the way all races must be filmed, it's a sort of standard rule in race filming.
If you want to see the real thrilling speed of a race on screen then you need static camera shots on the fastest bits of track. TV sports broadcaters don't allow this at all now, sadly because of the risk of it looking like they've lost track of the race! Really. To see the thrill of speed in sports races you have to watch sports movies like Grand Prix, Le Mans and others. Totally different and way more thrilling.
