Sports Category
Sports news, commentary and scores with wit and added value. We compare and contrast the best and worst sports reporting in the mainstream press, blogs, TV and online. We love the English Premier League (Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Manchester United and Manchester City) and all things football but we cover cricket, rugby, the Olympics, tennis, golf, F1 and highlights of the sporting year.
John Terry thanks Usain Bolt for helping him win Olympic 100m gold (photo)
CHELSEA John Terry, reportedly, has thanked Usain Bolt for helping him win Olympic 100m gold (photo). JT for BBC Sports Personality of The Year! JT does it again!!!!
Spotters: @IanWright0 @kylebartley22 @Mark__Bright
The London 2012 Olympic losers prizes go to The Sun, Franciose Hollande and NBC
AND the prize of the biggest losers of London 2012 Olympics (so far) are:
GOLD: “The British have rolled out a red carpet for French atheltes to win medla. I thank them very much” – President Franciose Hollande tants Team GB for having less medals than France, a country chiefly famous for not staging the Olympics and having a lot less medal than GB.
SILVER: The Sun for this dire front page:
BRONZE: NBC – The US broadcaster is showing the Olympics on delay as if it never happened earlier. The TV executives thought it a good idea to edit Opening Ceremony, replacing the hymn and images of the dead of 7/7 with a video of Ryan Seacrest interviewing Olympian Michael Phelps.
Olga Korbut is unfairly treated at London 2012
LONDON 2012 Olympic exchange of the week featured the great Belorussian gymnast Olga Korbut, as told by the Sunday Times’ Hugh McIlvanney:
Gabby Logan: “Olga, do you think it’s a golden age in gymnasics now?”
Olga Korbut: “No, this is era going down. We need to find a new Olga to change to grace…more passion, more smiles, more joy…This is why the world fell in love with me, because I smile from the heart.”
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Posted: 5th, August 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Team USA beach volleyball players ask McDonald’s to let other foods into Olympics Village
THE beach volleyball is all about sex. It’s not a sport. It’s not darts or snooker or space hopper racing or golf. If the players aren’t to your tastes, there are the dancing girls, who trot on to prance and perform, looking like extras from one of those old adverts for the Soaraway Sun, in which stunnas sit on seaside deckchairs to read up on shaggers, knockers and scoreres.
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London Olympics 2012 day 8 – the best photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 8…
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Lee Bum-Young knocks Team GB from London 2012 Olympics
THE South Korean whose team knocked Team GB out of the London 2012 Olympics is called Lee Bum-Young. And that is all – other than to say that after all those victories, that’s more like it…
In photos: Mo Farah wins 2012 London Olympics gold
MO Farah won the men’s 10,000-meter final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at London 2012. He avoided the dastardly Eritreans, his training partner’s spit, a one-shoed Kenyan and more spikes than a hedgehog’s bum. He’s no Slow-Mo. But then Mo’s a winner. He once beat The Cube on ITV:
Dive faces of the London 2012 Olympics – photos
DIVE faces of the Lonodn 2012 Olympics:
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London Olympics 2012 day 7 – the best photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 7…
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London Olympics 2012 day 6 – the best photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 6:
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Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present
ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the British are rather good at riding bicycles. We’ve trawled the archives and can bring you the history of British cycling in photos – 1895 to the present:
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Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
London 2012 in photos: Venezuela’s Ruben Limardo Gascon takes the Tube
HATS off to Venezuela’s Ruben Limardo Gascon, who after winning Olympic gold against Norway’s Bartosz Piasecki in the Men’s Epee Individual, went for a ride on the London Underground.
I see your Oyster card and raise you a…
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Port Talbot’s Daniel Thomas dreams of Tom Daley having homoerotic sex (allegedly)
PORT Talbot footballer Daniel Thomas watches Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield finish in 4th place at the London 2012 Olympics and issues a homoerotic tweet. A light is shone into what Thomas thinks happens after a match:
“if there is any consolation for finishing fourth atleast daley and waterfield can go bum eachother”
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Bullshit maths at the ‘under budget’ London 2012 Olympics
HOW bullshit works at London 2012 Olympics:
“The London Olympics is set to come in under its £9.3bn budget with £476m of the contingency funding left, according to new government figures. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it was “fantastic news” that the Games would be on time and under budget” – BBC, July 13, 2012
Under budget?
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London 2012 gets a second Nazi salute and monkey chants in Super Hi-Vision Ultra HD
RACISM at London 2012! The Evening Standard, spots a fan of Lithuania’s basketballers in the stands giving what might be a Nazi salute into the faces of two black stewards. This would be the second of the Games. Later, in Lithuania’s 72-53 win over Nigeria, the Baltic Nazis booed the blacks.
Undercover police infiltrated the crowd and seized the man during the game between Lithuania and Nigeria at the basketball arena in the Olympic Park.
One witness reported hearing monkey chanting from a group of Lithuania supporters.
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Posted: 2nd, August 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Japanese Sumo kids – in photos
TO the National Children’s Sumo tournament in Tokyo, where a new germination of saddle dodgers are getting to grips with matters of the flesh…
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Posted: 1st, August 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Olympic athlete of the day: Kum Sok
OLYMPIC athlete of the day is Kum Sok, of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
London Olympics 2012 day 4 – the best photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 4:
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Emily Seebohm is London 2012 Twitter victim Number 3
SEB Coe was right! Twitter has claimed its third scalp. Following Michel Morganella and Voula Papachristou on the one-way twitter tick out of London 2012, we meet Emily Seebohm, who reveals:
Devastated Emily Seebohm has admitted her obsession with social media may have cost her an Olympic gold medal.
After waking on the day of her 100m backstroke final as the raging hot favourite, Seebohm said she had stayed up for too long texting on Twitter and Facebook about her prospects in the race …
“I’ve obviously got to log out of Twitter and sign out of Facebook sooner than what I did. It’s part of the big learning and I definitely still want that gold and it is going to drive me for the next four years.”
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London Olympics 2012 day 3 – the best photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 3:
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Swiss footballer Michel Morganella expelled from Olympics for calling South Koreans ‘mongs’
FIRST a Greek jumper, now a Swiss football has been expelled form the London 2012 Olympics for writing a racist tweet. Michel Morganella reacted to Switzerland’s 2-1 defeat to South Korea by tweeing:
“I made a huge mistake after a disappointing result. I wish to apologise to the people in South Korea and their team, but also to the Swiss delegation and Swiss football in general.”
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Let’s talk about Robert Förstemann’s legs (photo)
THANK to Kiwi cyclist Greg Henderson’s tweet we know that German cyclist André Greipel has thunderous thighs less thunderous than German sprinter Robert Förstemann:
You thought Greipel has a big set of legs. There was a quad off in the German camp today. Greipel lost.
His top half resembles Mr Bean…
London 2012 – day 2 in photos
OUR daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 2:
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London 2012 prize money: Russian millionaires and British begging letters
WHAT is winning a gold meal at London 2012 worth? No, not in endorsements, appearances on A Question of Sport and advertising junk food and insurance. What will your country give your for bringing home gold?
Malaysia: £400,000 for any gold medlaists plus a solid gold bar worth £380,000 if that gold comes in badminton
Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia: £600,000
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Posted: 29th, July 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
