Favourite bit of the Olympics

[agricola]

I appreciate some people have mentioned their best bits on some of the other threads, but anyway here is mine:

i) Nicola Adams winning the boxing
ii) Mo Farah winning the 10k
iii) Laura Trott winning the omnium.

 

[Pickman's model]

i liked seeing that couple from belarus beat andrew murray and his schoolgirl friend.

and the kayak sprint was good.

and the mo farah 10,000m

 

[krtek a houby]

All of it

 

[The Boy]

France-Spain quarter-final in the Handball probably.

 

[newharper]

I appreciate some people have mentioned their best bits on some of the other threads, but anyway here is mine:

i) Nicola Adams winning the boxing
ii) Mo Farah winning the 10k
iii) Laura Trott winning the omnium.

All of those plus

Jade Jones
Star

 

[SpookyFrank]

I appreciate some people have mentioned their best bits on some of the other threads, but anyway here is mine:

i) Nicola Adams winning the boxing
ii) Mo Farah winning the 10k
iii) Laura Trott winning the omnium.

These three, probably in this order.

 

[tangerinedream]

In a softie way, I liked the judo girl who thanked her mum who had died when she was a kid when she won silver. There was something really genuine about her grief and delight mixed together, something moving about how raw and cathartic the moment was. The mo farrah 10000 was the most tense, exciting bit in a pure sporting spectating way. I also liked the Kenyan guy who was so much better than everyone else in one of the middle distance races.

 

[Firky]

Paul McCartney singing Hey Jude.

 

[tangerinedream]

The badminton match when they tried to lose was also pretty good.

 

[twistedAM]

iii) Laura Trott winning the omnium.

Specifically the Elimination Race. She was well canny in that.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Steph Houghton's goal against Brazil at Wembley. I was there.
Mo winning the 10,000.
Mo winning the 5,000.

And as tangerinedream has said, Gemma Gibbons mouthing "I love you mum" to the heavens after winning her silver medal was incredibly moving and it made me well up when I saw it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Anyone who didn't see Nicola Adams' gold medal fight should watch it in full while it's still up on t' beeb.

I mean there's winning a fight and then there's winning a fight.

 

[bi0boy]

Meseret Defar beating Tirunesh Dibaba to win the 5,000

 

[DJ Squelch]

Bolt showing he's still untouchable. A living legend.
Opening ceremony
Mo's 10K win topping off that great Saturday
Katie Taylor winning Gold for Ireland

 

[pianistenvy]

Anthony Joshua and Nicola Adam's fights were my favourite bits.
Oh - and the men's gymnastics which gave this middle-aged lady a bit ov a thrill.

 

[twentythreedom]

Anthony Joshua is a Finchley boy, repping da endz

*reflected glory*

Boy done good though

 

[twentythreedom]

^^not my fave bit btw, was just saying..

 

[marty21]

Bolt - particularly his post gold interviews - he gives good interview
the Judo girl telling her mum she loved her - ( I welled up badly at that)
Mo winning the double
Katie Taylor winning the gold in boxing
Nicola Adams winnin the gold
The 800 m final - awesome
plenty others -

 

[mwgdrwg]

All the swimming in the aquatics centre, really inspired me to improve my swimming and get back in the pool. The chat and analysis with Ian Thorpe was always entertaining. Also I sat watching most of it with my daughter who always laughed at the presenters attempts to pronounce Kromwidijojo, so that's a nice memory.

Screaming at the telly near the end of both Mo Farrah's races, and watching Nicola Adams' win on the big scren in Cardiff and everyone clapping and cheering when she won

 

[Orang Utan]

Jessica Ennis' reaction to getting gold
Mo Farah getting his second gold

 

[Pickman's model]

Paul McCartney singing Hey Jude.

it's always good to see innovative new singers parading their compositions.

 

[The Octagon]

Laura Trott's look of utter disbelief at the Velodrome going nuts around her after she won the Omnium (and her 2nd Gold), I think I fell in love for a few brief moments.

Bolt pausing post-race interviews for other athlete's national anthems, then carrying on without missing a beat.

And a couple of parents:

Beth Tweddle's father, when asked "Tell me what you've been going through this week"
"I've been laying a patio"

Chad le Clos' dad being interviewed - "Look at him! He's beautiful! Love him!"

 

[DotCommunist]

It was all shit, I just liked that the Cameroons did a vanishing act and are no doubt now lolling to themselves at having managed a defection ably.

 

[skyscraper101]

Hearing that the first lesbian kiss ever to be shown on Saudi television was the brookside one, from the opening ceremony

 

[Ted Striker]

1) The second I walked through the entrance to the stadium on Saturday night and the ticket I bought off craigslist 45 mins earlier and the machine bleeped and the green tick came up and I got through (and ergo knew the ticket was kosher!)

2) Gemma judo (for that is what I call her!) was just amazing in a 'unexpected/sudden interest/emotional back-story' kind of way and typified a real charming underdog story!

3) Being part of the slowest, but loudest, Mexican wave roaring Mo home in a brilliant race for his second medal I WAS THERE!!!

 

[trabuquera]

In no order, for all must have prizes:

Mo Farah x2 ... proper Chariots of Fire stuff, everyone I know was in bits on Saturday night (even the ones who hate sport and/or patriotism of any kind)

Rudisha ... because he's a cool bloke and inspired the whole field to give their best ever performances in the 800m... new world record's pretty tidy too.

Bolt. Just because he's Bolt. But also because of the JA team's esprit de corps and how they looked after their baby brother to get the 200m 1-2-3.
(Honorary mention: the footage from Kingston celebrating the 200m)

Nicola Adams in the boxing - goes without saying

The opening ceremony's flashes of real inspiration and subversion (amid the astroturf)

The fact there were female competitors from every nation

Felix Sanchez's epic weep for the Dominican Republic at the medals ceremony for the 400m hurdles.

 

[Libertad]

This was pretty good:​

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[kabbes]

It has to be Mo's wins. There's something special about a good distance race -- they way it winds up and winds up and winds up and winds up and then it explodes in the last lap and then MO IS HOLDING ON TO THE LEAD AND HE'S HOLDING ON AND HE'S MOVING AWAY AND GO MO GO MO GO MO GO MO

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

South African dad, 'My beautiful boy' - top stuff from that big man there

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

the bit where it stopped and London became London again...

one more hump to go then the world can fuck off again...

I'd have lightened up a bit if rather than the new build community who've been their for less than 2 weeks weren't accoladed and exulted as having been amazing by Coe and the people who'd have 7 years of bullying shit from the local councils, LOCOG and the Majors office and lost our local amenities having had every promise to us broken and now to find out the ethnic cleansing will go ahead as most families live in what is now expensive prime building land being forced and compulsory purchased after promises this wouldn't happen not mentioned....

not a fucking foot note...

locals, you lot, you pov's who've been ridden rough shod over for the last 7 years you without a voice who've been locked out, priced out and now we're taking your homes too... shut up, stay quite, we don't need to thank you for your tolerance... fuck you.. fuck you very much....

that's what Coe and LOCOG said loud and clear last night... FUCK YOU Olympic boroughs and Fuck you Olympic residents...

Fuck you...

that's London 2012's legacy...