Offical Olympics Thread

Well.... someone had to start one.


Those gymnasts look hard as nails. They'd not only kick your ass, but they'd then somersault home.

Awesome! I've ridden that horse on now! 'Chico'. It tried to kick me off because I'm an ass though.

[dizzyblonde]

was a gymnast for 10 yrs, and, yes gymnasts are as hard as nails.....the training regime for olympic level is very demanding. I trained every other day at one point. Saturdays and Sundays trained practically all day.
can't imagine where they get the time for anything other than gym at that level.
Downside to it all by the time they are ready for 'gym' retirement their body is foobarred.....well mine was

I was going to be a gymnast but:

a) I was lazy
b) Iwas cr@p at forward rolls

Otherwise you would have all seen me in a leotard by now.

Chuck Norris would kick everybody's ass, but he wasn't entered as to give the commie's a chance.

tried watching some today but struggled to see through the fog.
i wonder if the great wall of china is still visible from the moon.

Originally Posted by Gene genie

i wonder if the great wall of china is still visible from the moon.

It never was

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1226859.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2053...say-RSPCA.html

The clue is in the link.

Discuss.

I competed in Gymnastics at under 12's county level, and like DB says, there was very little time for anything else in my life.

With a little bit of a warm up I can still do the splits.

That 'Artistic Gymnastics' though is a complete waste of space - all balls and ribbons cr@p.

I'm more dissapointed in our eventing team - one of the strongest teams and yet we're placed fourth at the moment (last time I looked).

[fizzwheel]

I think all sports are like that to stay at the top you have to dedicate pretty much all your time to training etc etc.

I'm watcihng the womens cycle race at the moment, its slashing it with rain and they are going down like skittles.