Posted on 08/09/2012 8:58:40 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Great Britain's Nicola Adams made history by beating China's Ren Cancan to become the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
Leeds fighter Adams produced a stunning performance to overcome the three-time world champion 16-7 in the final of the flyweight competition.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Maybe the Beeb will have it.
NBC sports network was showing live stuff. Over the weekend, CNBC showed women’s boxing.
American Men’s Boxing is depleted because of the concerns for head injuries. But American Women’s Boxing “EMPOWERS WOMEN”!
Women’s boxing = yet another completely ridiculous sport. This is a new one but some of the other goofy sports have been around awhile but are still oddball, fringe activites. E.g., team handball, modern pentathlon, kayak racing... Just my humble opinion of course! But I think sports like this demean the entire Olympics - how can the medal of a canoeist be viewed in the same light as that of a swimmer or an up-and-coming mass participation, bona fide sport such as triathlon?
Brilliant!
This goes beyond sport.
The Brits and Irish have major blood ties, that only the media seem happy to manipulate (think slavery)
If the haters who want Scotland to have Independence have their way (and it is THEIR choice), then the British Isles and Ireland will cease to exist as such within a hundred years.
However, bring everyone together as has happened in this Olympics, and as James Thomas stated "Britain (and for that matter Ireland) will never be slaves."
James Thomson, a Scot no less.
Very quick off the mark sir!
But lets face it, and I am from Yorkshire, the Scots have always pulled their weight!
Keep smiling,
Philip
LOL
Yorkshire and Scotland have won most of Team GB’s golds!.
24 golds for team GB as of today.
If the Scots do pick independence, it might work in the favour of the ordinary citizen (as opposed to the governing elites). As it is likely that as with Ireland, ordinary people will have de-facto common citizenship anyway.
I recall that Ireland is a handy place to escape to when England’s social services, and perhaps our other government bodies, start to get power-crazed and irrational,and presumably vice-versa.
http://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-the-networks-helping-families-flee-social-services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_pentathlon_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics
I agree about enjoying the pentathlon! While it isn’t as grueling as the decathlon (or even the heptathlon), it is far more varied in the types of skills necessary, and its “story” of the skills needed by a military officer trying to escape from behind enemy lines is classic.
But all those three sports you mentioned make perfect sense. Germany’s Gold for C-2 was gripping.
You should have included an obviously fake one. I guess most people put synchronized swimming in that category.
Can’t even see it on the web. “Can not show this video in your area.”
Patton’s training for the Olympics was very interesting. Not sure where I read about it - if in his autobiography, or in one of the other bios I read...
Ageed. No man wants to see women beating each other up.
“Ageed. No man wants to see women beating each other up.”
Unless they’re covered in mud or jello?
Nicola Taylor is half-English. Her father is from Leeds. Also, the captain of the British women’s boxing team is called Lucy O’Connor, so there’s obviously a bit of Irishness on her father’s side at least...
LOL
Yorkshire and Scotland have won most of Team GB’s golds!.
24 golds for team GB as of today.
Why is it, that Scotland, England and Wales have their own soccer teams, but not their own Olympic teams?
Out of respect for Patton, I hereby withdraw the claim that modern pentathlon is ridiculous. And offer synchronized swimming as a substitute.
Can we claim Katie Taylor for one of those, since she’s half-Yorkshire?
Synchronised swimming is basically dancing. Why exclude all the other forms of dancing?
That has been a matter of debate since virtually the moment the event was complete. The scorers/judges contend that Patton missed the target with one round. Patton insisted he placed two bullets through the same hole. IIRC, that would have made all the difference.
I think, and I may be wrong, the reason England and Scotland are separate entities in football is that we started the whole thing, the first international football match was England Vs Scotland, and such out of respect for this we are allowed to keep our separate identities.
The schemers at FIFA are desperate to get us playing as Team GB more often (google Jack Warner, a thoroughly nasty piece of work), and that was the main opposition to fielding a football team in this olympics. The Scots and the Welsh feared, rightly so, that if it could be done for the Olympics, then perhaps we would be forced to do it for the World Cup/Euros. If it wasn’t a home games there wouldn’t have been a Team GB in the football. There certainly won’t be one in Rio.
And from a personal standpoint, i’m chuffed with our success in the games, but I couldn’t cheer on our football team. 2000 years of parochialism coming through i’m afraid
But still, imagine if there was a GB team in the 70s, and Georgie Best and the great Scot players of that era combined with the English players, no telling how many WCs, they might have won.
It’s a lovely idea (although even then I still think the West Germans and Brazilians would have been too strong) but there is literally no way on earth the Scots and the English could or would support the same team. Ever. Ever!
Do you realize that the US Women are on the verge of sweeping Gold, in almost every single major team sport?
Gymnastics
Water Polo
Volleyball
Basketball
Soccer
Beach Volleyball
Women’s Doubles Tennis
They also won 2 out of 3 of the Swimming Relay Races, and are favorites to win the Track Relay races as well.
That’s called “Domination.”
I partly blame the almost inevitable break up of the Union on the fact that we have had separate teams. It discourages ‘Britishness’ and fosters an attitude of division between the peoples of Great Britain.
I can’t help but think that the attitude of ‘anyone but England’ in sporting events, particularly football, has engendered a habit of antipathy towards England in the Scots and Welsh that encourages petty nationalism at the expense of a British national identity.
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