Wales wins its first Gold
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Stobart Stopper
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Excellent stuff!
Hard luck to Italy.
Hard luck to Italy.
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Fantastic!
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Threshers_Flail
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Yay go Wales! 
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Excellent! Well done Nicole and Wales
TrippyLondoner
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I love it when Wales claims something like this from a team sport
And its so typical to.
And its so typical to.
How dare they celebrate when a welsh person wins gold at the Olympics
No other country celebrates olympic success do they.
I love it when Wales claims something like this from a team sport
Maybe they should give the medal to the team then?
TrippyLondoner
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No, but its great britain, not wales. You know, they're part of a team? Not just wales. All i'm saying.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
How dare they celebrate when a welsh person wins gold at the Olympics
No other country celebrates olympic success do they.
She was part of the GB TEAM
No one says they arent? does that mean people in say Nottingham or Yorkshire shouldnt celebrate if a local won gold?
TrippyLondoner
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Exactly, but let them celebrate, they obviously always think its ALL about them.
TrippyLondoner
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I don't think about it in that way tbh. If someone won it and they came from where i live, i still see it as the whole of GB.
twistedAM
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It's actually something I've always wondered about. Most of the time in the Olympics and Cycling World Championships you can almost guarantee that the winner will come from a strong team, hence Italy's brilliant record and why a Spanish rider had a good chance of winning the men's race as their team was awesome. It was also a big factor in why Sastre beat Evans in this year's tour and every winner for the past 20 years apart from Greg Lemond had arguably the best team behind them.
It's one of the quirks of the sport that although it is very much a team event, the medal is given to the first across the line.
I know you're excited about someone who was born in Wales winning a medal but to call it a Welsh as opposed to British victory is erroneous.
twistedAM
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But no ones saying it isnt!
The OP reads quite nationalistic.
TrippyLondoner
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But no ones saying it isnt!
Funny i ain't heard one of you say 'well done GB'.
But well done anyways.Until the IOC decide to give a team rather than individual medal then gold was won by a welsh sportswoman.
I dont make the rules
TrippyLondoner
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Agreed.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I am happy for Team GB but I am also more than happy for Nicole to 'claim' the gold for Wales if she wants to. And I think she should be allowed to take the Wales flag to the podium if she wishes
Tbh if I were ever in that position I would claim it for Yorkshire as well as the GB
Tbh if I were ever in that position I would claim it for Yorkshire as well as the GB
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Funny i ain't heard one of you say 'well done GB'.
Well I'm no fan of the Union Jack or BBC jingoism or whatever but I tell you what, after having experience of being a humble club cyclist and seeing the efforts put in by the likes of ole Jim who was president of our club it makes me VERY proud of British cycling. There's hundred of people like him around the country helping riders out financially, cooking them dinners, driving them to races at a time when no one cared or gave a fuck about cycling in this country.
In the past few years it has improved with a little lottery cash and Dave Brailsford and his team upping the ante.
But even with that support and organisation on board, let's not forget we did it against nations like France, Italy etc etc who all give cyclists a lot more help than they get in England, Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland
twistedAM
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Until the IOC decide to give a team rather than individual medal then gold was won by a welsh sportswoman.
I dont make the rules
Was she in a Welsh team?
