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Apparently restaurants shopping malls, the whole business district in London is a virtual graveyard

London Olympics 2012: Businesses pay the price as 1.5m workers stay at home to stop London seizing up | Mail Online

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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp (Post 7991811)

Honestly, this is not about trying yoru best anyways, is about winning for your country.

Of course it's about doing your best. It's also about sportsmanship and character.

If you want to be hailed as the best, you should be willing to go up against and beat the best.

Where's the glory in weaseling your way to a gold medal?

As stated in the Badminton Federation's Rulebook and recognized by IOC:

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You must use your best effort to win a match

You must conduct yourself in a manner that is not detrimental or abusive to the sport

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Originally Posted by sonick (Post 7991619)

:ahwow:

McKayla Maroney's Vault Was So Good It Literally Dropped A Judge's Jaw

:fulloffuck: holy shit dat landing

hope i dont miss these

anyone know a good stream for these

Spoiler!

Are all Olympics this bad? Or is it just this one?
So much controversy and bad officiating going on.

So much bullshit going on...these judges must be getting paid for this

LOL, what did the Iranian guy do?

I like how London made fun of Vancouver, and now they are fucking up worst in all possible ways.

It wouldn't be the Olympics without controversy!

I don't know much about boxing...did the Iranian dude not deserve the warnings? I don't know what constitutes pushing or holding or whatever the hell the warning was.

Apparently in another match between Japan and Azerbaijan, they overturned a ruling where the Japanese boxer lost despite the Azerbaijani boxer falling down 6 times.

As interesting as controversies are, I rather an athlete not get screwed over. Can't imagine going out of the Olympics like that.

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Originally Posted by jayare604 (Post 7991773)

When does the 100 meter sprints, relay, etc start

Bump

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Originally Posted by Ronin (Post 7992189)

read about the iranian player when i wondered "say is iran in the olympics?"

and this boxing blog/site is up in arms about the officiating too but they don't really explain it :/

Olympics 2012 Boxing Results - Heavyweights: Iranian Fighter Disqualified in Second Afternoon Disgrace - Bad Left Hook

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Jose Larduet (Cuba) vs Ali Mazaheri (Iran) via DQ-2: And right back to the shoddy officiating. This was almost as ridiculous as the Azerbaijan-Japan disgrace in the bantamweight session. Larduet was docked in round one, then in round two, Mazaheri couldn't do anything without being warned, and on the third warning, he was disqualified. It was absolutely absurd, and these two shoddy, shady happenings this afternoon are exactly why Olympic boxing has a bad reputation. For four days, we got by without much happening. Now we've got a disaster this afternoon. I sort of warned about this the other day, but somehow it's still surprising that things like this just happen. To Mazaheri's credit -- and this will surely get him in trouble with AIBA -- he refused to stand by the referee for the official decision at first. After waiting a moment, he went over and shook the hands of the Cuban corner. Then he left to cheers, ignoring the referee and the official announcement. Good for him. Larduet, for his part, looked more confused than anything. He left the ring quietly and didn't appear any happier with what happened than anyone else.

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Originally Posted by Ronin (Post 7992189)

I dont know much about the rules either but I read, as you can see in the first warning at 15 seconds, the Cuban boxer has his head low into the guys chest, if the Iranian doest put his hand over his head, thats like asking to be headbutt in the face.
The other calls look like bull shit too, even the two announcers call it out, one saying the games are going down in a spiral and the other calling it ridiculous.

How do you guys pronounce "Badminton" ?

I've been watching several videos and noticed many people pronounce it as "bad-mitten"
with the "-ten" being almost silent, so it sounds like "badmin" (2 syllables)
:fulloffuck:

Am I the only one that has been pronouncing it as "bad-min-tin" all my life??

Bad-Min-Tin is the correct way.

Well it's

Bad-Min-"ton"

Thoughts on this?

After all the doping cries and underage controversies for Chinese olympic athletes, there seems to be more interest gathering around the world.

Basically the parents are enrolling the kids into these training "camps", and they get trained there...

I guess it's the darker side of the Olympics.

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Originally Posted by StevenDuang (Post 7992257)

Bad-Min-Tin is the correct way.

Well it's

Bad-Min-"ton"

So I dug a bit deeper, seems like it's a UK vs USA variation...

Japan have won an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan.

BBC Sport - Olympics boxing: Japan win appeal after controversial loss

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Originally Posted by inv4zn (Post 7992258)

Check out the article I posted on the last page. It's almost like the USSR all over again. :fulloffuck:

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Originally Posted by Matsuda (Post 7992275)

Japan have won an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan.

BBC Sport - Olympics boxing: Japan win appeal after controversial loss

That was a ridiculous match.

Azerbaijan dude was trying to turn it into a wrestling match going for double legs and single legs while he was on the way down to the canvas. I guess MMA is already in the Olympics, ahahaha.

lol olympics is harsh rigged and fucked this year

GG London