Olympics 2012

[gbird]

Aug 8, 2012 2:00:53 GMT -5 sunnyirish08 said:

one of our irish boys is in the gold medal fight tomorrow guessed as much the majority of our medals would come from the boxing.

Fingers crossed

[sunnyirish08]

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*facepalm* this is from the daily telegraph, last i checked Katie Taylor is IRISH. *double facepalm*

[irishfan]

Aug 8, 2012 5:17:43 GMT -5 sunnyirish08 said:

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*facepalm* this is from the daily telegraph, last i checked Katie Taylor is IRISH. *double facepalm*

*serious facepalm*
Still a bit gutted from poor Annallise Murphy finishing 4th in the sailing on Sunday but happy with how the boxers are going!
Not sure that my nerves will survive the Katie Taylor fight later so maybe it's a good thing that I'm at work

Fiona

[sunnyirish08]

i know was gutted as well, poor girl was in tears during her interview. probably be watching the fight with my mum, expecting tears from my mum, so tissues will be at the ready

[irishfan]

I was nearly in teras for her too
And I know there'll be tears if I watch Katie in either her semi or the final....My nerves will be wrecked!
Fingers crossed

Fiona

[sunnyirish08]

gold for katie!!! i hope. good fight, my mum was in tears

[margarine]

Ireland just won its first individual medal in show jumping! Congrats, it was cool!

[sunnyirish08]

wooot!!!! yay!!!

[gbird]

Aug 8, 2012 10:10:38 GMT -5 margarine said:

Ireland just won its first individual medal in show jumping! Congrats, it was cool!

Well done Ireland, those Jumps were huge.

[sunnyirish08]

find it amazing that he was only put back in after a competitor couldn't compete. happy days!!!

btw, did any one see the men's 200 meters? blake practically stopped running BEFORE he got to the line. i know it was the semi final, but that was dumb like.

[irishfan]

Nerves for the Katie Taylor gold medal fight have already started
Hope I can still work and type with crossed fingers later haha!!
The show jumping was amazing....They were mighty big fences!
I'm really looking forward to the men's 200m...Bolt v Blake for gold I reckon

Fiona

[gbird]

Yes I think that Blake slowed down a bit too early, where as Bolt slowed down much earlier on but still kept a huge lead .
My money is on Bolt again ,

[sunnyirish08]

bolt is sooo gonna win that one as well.m

[chazak]

The women's 10m platform was...really bad. Aside from Chen Ruolin, obviously. The prelims were bad, the semifinals were bad, the final was bad. So much splashing.

Hopefully the men's event will be better. I know there's an American diver (or maybe two), but I'm rooting for Tom Daley. It's so sad that his father didn't live to see him compete after talking about it for years.

[sunnyirish08]

hoping Daley will win.

thrilled for katie today a lot of celebrating going on around the place at the moment. always nice for an irish to win gold, it lifts the nation a bit.

thrilled for bolt this evening as well!!!