BelgianBoy Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 1900 Olympics: "Some unusual events were contested for the only time in the history of the Games including automobile and motorcycle racing, ballooning, cricket, croquet, Basque pelota, 200m swimming obstacle race and underwater swimming." Wikipedia and life pigeon shooting !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 just remember when De Corbetain revived the games he won a gold medal. for.....POETRY....... its Pierre de Coubertain.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted August 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 its Pierre de Coubertain.... my bad. i apologise to everyone in the whole wide world,even though i think many Olympians would know who i meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 no worries, just corrected a typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjxh1k2oXhA Old habits die hard... 83-year old German Walther Tröger, an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee, 'waves' at the German athletes during the London Olympic Opening Ceremony 2012. Maybe he was confused and recalling the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Although to be fair, he claimed afterwards it was only a wave and he had a stiff arm. Boris and Camilla look on in amusement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Why always boxing? Boxing judges under fire amid "fix" claims LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic judges and referees came under fire on Wednesday with one fighter accusing them of "a fix", another successfully appealing a loss and even boxing great Lennox Lewis questioning some of their calls. Iran's Ali Mazaheri cried foul when the heavyweight was disqualified after being warned three times for persistent holding against Cuban Jose Larduet Gomez despite leading by two points going into the second round. "It was a fix. I could have got a bronze easily if it hadn't been for that," an irate Mazaheri, who walked out of the ring before the decision was officially announced, told reporters through a translator. "In my previous fights I had done really well. It was a set up." The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) responded to Mazaheri's allegations in an email to Reuters, saying: "The Iranian boxer received three warnings during his bout. "According to Rule 12.2.1 of the AIBA Technical & Competition Rules, 'only three warnings may be given to the same boxer in one contest. The third warning brings automatic disqualification'." Two bouts earlier, Japan's bantamweight Satoshi Shimizu, trailing by seven points going into the last round against Magomed Abdulhamidov, knocked the Azerbaijani down six times, the first of which he struggled to get up from. The judges scored the round 10-10, handing Shimizu two extra points for a warning against Abdulhamidov, who propped himself up against the top rope as the referee raised his hand in victory. The 25-year-old fighter was helped out of the ring by his trainer and Shimizu's team appealed the outcome. The Japanese boxer's team leader Masamori Yamane accused the referee of trying to support Abdulhamidov by attempting to fix his headgear. After deliberating for over an hour, AIBA said that under its rules, the referee should have given the Azerbaijani fighter "at least" three standing counts which would have resulted in the contest being stopped. They, therefore, overturned the result, handing victory to Shimizu, who was staggered by the original decision hours earlier. "I was shocked about the result. He fell down so many times. Why didn't I win? I don't understand," Shimizu told reporters, adding he thought the referee should have stopped the fight with Abdulhamidov obviously groggy in the final round. "This is the second Olympics I have attended and even in Beijing I wasn't happy about the judgement, so I don't know what to do about that. I am really not happy about that." AIBA officials will consider on Thursday whether to sanction the referee in Shimizu's bout, the association said in a statement. In December last year, an AIBA-appointed investigation committee dismissed allegations that Azerbaijan was promised two boxing gold medals the London Olympics in exchange for a $10-million loan to the sport's ruling body. In a statement released at the time, the Special Investigation Committee (SIC) said the report aired on September 23 on the British broadcaster the BBC's Newsnight program was "groundless and unsupported by any credible evidence". Before sitting down to commentate on the session for British radio, former world heavyweight champion Lewis said he was impressed by the talent on show but had concerns about the judging. "What I'm concerned about is probably the judging. You never know who is going to win until the end of the fight," said Britain's Lewis, a dual citizen who won gold for Canada in 1988. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjxh1k2oXhA Old habits die hard... 83-year old German Walther Tröger, an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee, 'waves' at the German athletes during the London Olympic Opening Ceremony 2012. Maybe he was confused and recalling the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Although to be fair, he claimed afterwards it was only a wave and he had a stiff arm. Boris and Camilla look on in amusement. nasty nazi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 nasty nazi Actually that's not a Nazi salute. It had been done with the right hand, not with the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horneytorney Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 so he is a left-handed Nazi then! luckily nobody heared the Horst Wessel song he was singing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted August 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Why always boxing? not a fan of boxing,but saw highlights of these 2 bouts and just and just thought what happened was wrong. you knock an opponent to the floor many times and still judged to be the loser..... but on another sport. i really felt sorry for the female athlete from Qatar. 17 years old and the first female athlete to be selected from her country to partipate in the Olympics in the 100m. clothed head to foot with only her face and hands flesh in view. ran about 10 yards and pulled up with an injury and was out....such a shame. would never have got anywhere in the event but such a disappointment for her after the honour given to her by her Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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