Guest Longdog Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 The way the Brits are reeling in the golds it wont be long until most of us will know someone with one.:jimlad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabo Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 The rowing commentary on Channel 9 is immense....:notworthy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 The rowing commentary on Channel 9 is immense....:notworthy: Are they showing that American team again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 The rowing commentary on Channel 9 is immense....:notworthy: Is it any better than the shocking biased BS on Foxtel? Or is it the same feed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabo Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 They are perpetually convinced that the Aussie rowing team are on the attack...give it up! We can all see the Brits are half a length ahead and 'coasting'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabo Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 That'll be the team with the thighs Kate?? Are they showing that American team again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 That'll be the team with the thighs Kate??Err err yes that's the one:wideeyed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 The rowing teams were incredible this morning, more golds and a silver, AWESOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 They are perpetually convinced that the Aussie rowing team are on the attack...give it up! We can all see the Brits are half a length ahead and 'coasting'. Check out the athletics commentary fleabo - like chalk and cheese Rowing: Totally partisan, suspect level of knowledge, obsessed solely with Australians or how other nations are "cheating" them, garbage Athletics: WAY more balanced, well-informed, patriotic but delighting in the competition and the efforts of all competitors. Credit where it's due, it's excellent It's like the difference in the SMH between Richard Hinds (great incisive writing) and Rupert Guinness (pathetic boganistic rabble rousing and clutching at straws to whine about technical infringements). Fair restores my faith in the ability of the media here to cover a sports event without being total bellends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabo Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Yes - have picked that up. I guess Channel 9 just hired some Joe's from a local pub to commentate on the rowing. Check out the athletics commentary fleabo - like chalk and cheese Rowing: Totally partisan, suspect level of knowledge, obsessed solely with Australians or how other nations are "cheating" them, garbage Athletics: WAY more balanced, well-informed, patriotic but delighting in the competition and the efforts of all competitors. Credit where it's due, it's excellent It's like the difference in the SMH between Richard Hinds (great incisive writing) and Rupert Guinness (pathetic boganistic rabble rousing and clutching at straws to whine about technical infringements). Fair restores my faith in the ability of the media here to cover a sports event without being total bellends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugby Lad Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Yes - have picked that up. I guess Channel 9 just hired some Joe's from a local pub to commentate on the rowing. No even worse than that - they're from the AFL Footy Show!!! Just be eternally grateful that they didn't have Sam Newman with them. Got to admit that the athletics is much better. Even my wife couldn't believe how one-eyed the rowing commentary was and she's a proper one-eyed Aussie (family of Port Adelaide fans; they remove an eye at birth apparently). Great Olympics, loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugby Lad Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 To be fair the fact that there were people from outside Victoria, let alone outside Australia, competing was enough to send their brains into meltdown. They probably did OK given the circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 What I don't get is that the most "private school" of all sports, rowing - even here it's a posh boy's sport - appeared to be covered by a couple of p!ssheads in fluoro T shirts. Weird. Still, enough of my snobbery. I'm still midly irritated that a piece on the SMH website yesterday about the women's Heptathlon that suggested the name of the even was "Latinesque" wasn't open for comment. Honestly, I don't want to be a pommie intellectual snob, but I was itching to correct them. What happened to newspaper sub-editors all being second-rate Classics scholars? :biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieF8 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 What I don't get is that the most "private school" of all sports, rowing - even here it's a posh boy's sport - appeared to be covered by a couple of p!ssheads in fluoro T shirts. Weird. Funny how people always say Rowing is for the posh school boys, Rowing Club near mine, http://www.lvrc.co.uk/ About the Adult Learn to Row Programme The club offers 4 sessions (2 Saturdays and 2 Wednesdays) to new adult beginners who wish to try out the sport of rowing. During these sessions beginners will be coached on rowing machines and on the water. At the end of the programme they should have an idea of whether or not they want to continue and become club members. The cost for the whole programme of sessions is £30. So £7.50 per session to see if you like it or if you're any good at it Full Year Membership: £280 (£28 per month for 10 months)....not that 'elitist' really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Funny how people always say Rowing is for the posh school boys, Yeah - because it is Not because it's particularly difficult or expensive to take it up or get involved. But because 90%+ of those who are involved started at (private) school, and it's reinforced through the (almost wholly private) school competitions and then the university competitions that are dominated by the products of private school I'm not taking an opinion stance on this, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing I don't care. But making out rowing isn't dominated by private school people isn't right. It's the same in Oz fwiw, check out the "Head of the River" competition fought out by the old NSW private schools for an example My dad was a grammar school boy who rowed for Cambridge, I rowed for my Uni (NOT Oxbridge!), my outlaw are from Marlow and are leading lights of the Marlow Rowing Club (I've rowed for them in their regattas on a couple of occasions), when I lived in the UK I went to Henley most years, so I do know something of what I'm talking about. As a comp boy (albeit not a chavvy or skint one) I have always felt in a tiny minority in those social circles. Like I said, not saying it's good or bad; just the way it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieF8 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Yeah - because it is Not because it's particularly difficult or expensive to take it up or get involved. But because 90%+ of those who are involved started at (private) school, and it's reinforced through the (almost wholly private) school competitions and then the university competitions that are dominated by the products of private school I'm not taking an opinion stance on this, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing I don't care. But making out rowing isn't dominated by private school people isn't right. It's the same in Oz fwiw, check out the "Head of the River" competition fought out by the old NSW private schools for an example My dad was a grammar school boy who rowed for Cambridge, I rowed for my Uni (NOT Oxbridge!), my outlaw are from Marlow and are leading lights of the Marlow Rowing Club (I've rowed for them in their regattas on a couple of occasions), when I lived in the UK I went to Henley most years, so I do know something of what I'm talking about. As a comp boy (albeit not a chavvy or skint one) I have always felt in a tiny minority in those social circles. Like I said, not saying it's good or bad; just the way it is But isn’t it just the opposite with football... If you go to a school where they have it as part of the sports program, you do it more, train more, compete more, they can filter out the best ones and therefore have an advantage and more of a chance of going on to do it in the Olympics Whereas 'poorer' schools have a playground or playing fields where football is played more than other sports and so that’s where most footballers seem to come from You only ever seem get these kind of comparisons with sports and 'elitism' during the Olympics....never during the World Cup...and look at the wages footballers get compared to rowers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 You only ever seem get these kind of comparisons with sports and 'elitism' during the Olympics....never during the World Cup...and look at the wages footballers get compared to rowers....\ I think you're tilting at windmills a bit - I don't see anyone worrying about elitism You've got to remember where the modern Olympic movement came from - it was set up by the upper classes to provide an international competition for amateurs - ie, in the main, people of independent means who did their sports as a bit of a hobby. It centered around the sports they played, and there was a definite class element to it. By the simple expedient of excluding professionals and professional sports, they excluded most of the working classes' games - no football, rugby league, hurling, gaelic football, aussie rules, baseball etc etc. It was athletics, shooting, archery, rowing, sailing, and so on (I mean, Modern Pentathlon, come on). The legacy of that lives on, although they bring in and discard some sports every year of course Again I'm not taking a view as to what *should* have happened - just reflecting the origins of where the Olympic movement actually came from in the late 19th century. Since then it has transcended those classist roots and I don't think there's really any concern these days as to where people come from. All I was doing on the rowing comments was noting that it's a sport that's largely based in the products of private school. Which is a fact for many of the countries involved, and certainly where Team GB are concerned. Doesn't make them any less committed or valid athetes of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieF8 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM GB Womens Team Pursuit - World Record Team GB 26 Medals (+2 Guaranteed Silver Medals in the Tennis) Team Oz 17 Medals Edited August 4, 2012 by StevieF8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Fwiw i think rowing IS an obviously elitist type sport,but as the link to the Liverpool rowing club put up by stevie shows there IS opportunities to break into it,i think attitude/awareness has a lot to do with it,IE i didnt even know it existed(the club that is) So if kids or whoever are a bit open minded and not so entrenched in their thinking then i see no reason why others cant break into the sport,its just a question of steering people away from thinking that rowing is for rich upper class types alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Yeah - because it is Not because it's particularly difficult or expensive to take it up or get involved. But because 90%+ of those who are involved started at (private) school, and it's reinforced through the (almost wholly private) school competitions and then the university competitions that are dominated by the products of private school I'm not taking an opinion stance on this, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing I don't care. But making out rowing isn't dominated by private school people isn't right. It's the same in Oz fwiw, check out the "Head of the River" competition fought out by the old NSW private schools for an example My dad was a grammar school boy who rowed for Cambridge, I rowed for my Uni (NOT Oxbridge!), my outlaw are from Marlow and are leading lights of the Marlow Rowing Club (I've rowed for them in their regattas on a couple of occasions), when I lived in the UK I went to Henley most years, so I do know something of what I'm talking about. As a comp boy (albeit not a chavvy or skint one) I have always felt in a tiny minority in those social circles. Like I said, not saying it's good or bad; just the way it is Apparently GB rowing has addressed the imbalance in the sport already. BBC ran a report, read it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19109724 Interesting bit re the rowing Rowing has already taken action to address the imbalance - with Moe Sbihi, who won bronze in the men's eight yesterday, one of the beneficiaries. A programme was launched more than a decade ago to pick teenagers with the necessary physique from comprehensive schools to become elite rowers. At this Games, 50% of the rowing team are from state schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieF8 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM GB Womens Heptathlon - Jessica Ennis :wubclub::yes: Team GB 27 Medals (+2 Guaranteed Silver Medals in the Tennis) Team Oz 19 Medals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Longtime Lurker Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Well done Jessica Ennis - gold medal winner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shell15 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Very well deaerved as well!!! She absolutely smashed it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Get in there you beauty, what a girl, AWESOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Well done Jessica Ennis - gold medal winner! That was brilliant. In the same mould as the great Daley Thompson. Cheers, Bobj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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