All About London Olympics and Paralympics 2012
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fightingmom:
So they are likely to meet South Korea to compete for the bronze...Japan beat Singapore in women's table tennis team. :sad:
Hope we can secure the bronze medal !
:please:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/1218215/1/.html -
fightingmom:
Even in a field of incredibly fast guys, he still managed to pull at least 1m away at the end!!Usain Bolt breaks Olympic record in Men's 100m :salute:
He ran 9.63seconds ! :udaman:
http://www.inquisitr.com/293443/usain-bolt-breaks-olympi-record-in-mens-100/
Surprised how small some of the sprinters are (vs Bolt)!!
Disappointed that Lee Chong Wei just couldn't outsmart LD at the end...so close!!
Also, Federer looked so lethargic and so many unforced errors!! -
ksi:
Yup! Agreed !
So they are likely to meet South Korea to compete for the bronze...fightingmom:
Japan beat Singapore in women's table tennis team. :sad:
Hope we can secure the bronze medal ! :please:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/1218215/1/.html -
Way2GO:
Singapore can carve a niche as a regional sports venues -- it's trying anyway -- with F1 and the Youth Olympic Games (2010), and some regional professional golf tournaments. It could develop further, I think. China's government has a system in place much like the old Soviet Union, to specifically develop world class athletes. It is my understanding that promising talent is often hand-picked by officials for further development (when I was in the US, I worked with a woman from Shanghai who was selected in such a program). India doesn't produce much Olympic medal success...cricket is the big sport there and that doesn't lend itself to the format very well, unless they play abbreviated matches. Other sports like field hockey, golf, tennis, football don't seem to get as much national attention.Doubt it will take only a decade or two for SG even when there is political will with infrastructure n systems in place.
We lack three other ingredients - tradition, overcoming inertia n a substantial domestic market.
US n d West has a long tradition in sports excellence as part of a holistic development of d individual. Not in d East for a long time.
Besides lack of tradition, overcoming centuries-old inertia of Chinese, Indian to make sports a viable career.
Look at India, d second most populated country in d world, but one which also has d worst Olympic medals to population ratio to date.
At least d Chinese r doing much better in dat respect ā though I suspect its more for national pride rather than pure luv of sports for its own sake.
Just like many African-Americans in American football, basketball, boxing etc who ride on sports to get out of poverty, many of d Chinese world class athletes r plucked fr relatively abject backgrounds n groomed fr young. Its their ticket to success.
d other obstacle is SG does not hv a big enuf domestic market to encourage strong corporate involvement. -
Olympics boxing: Japan win appeal after controversial loss
2 August 2012, Last updated at 17:41 GMT
(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19088420)
Japan have won an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan.
Shimizu has been declared the winner and goes forward to the quarter-finals.
He trailed 12-5 going into the final round but on five occasions he knocked down his opponent, who also received a two-point penalty.
However, judges scored the round 12-10 to Shimizu, which was not enough to stop Abdulhamidov claiming the win.
Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov, from Turkmenistan, has been expelled the International Boxing Association (AIBA) said.
The AIBA said the contest should have been stopped.
\"I was shocked by the final scores. He fell down so many times,\" Shimizu said.
\"Why didn't I win? I don't understand.\"
No extra points are awarded for knockdowns but the verdict was still greeted with boos at London's ExCeL Arena.
Japanese officials marched to the competition office with the 500 US dollars needed to lodge an appeal.
Shimizu added: \"I did do my best. I performed really well. England is the place of boxing and the spectators supported me so well so I am very pleased about that.
\"This is a very memorable moment. I don't understand why the judgement went against me so I don't know how to improve.\"
There was more controversy in the heavyweight section when Iran's Ali Mazaheri was disqualified in the second round of his fight against Cuba's Jose Larduet Gomez after receiving three warnings for holding within a minute.
Mazaheri said: \"I have never seen such a thing in the world. I could have won the bout but I had three warnings in a minute. I was not doing anything wrong.\"
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Man, what a joke! Guys, you should take a look at this video:
http://deadspin.com/5931226/was-this-disgraceful-olympic-boxing-match-fixed
\"Japan's Satoshi Shimizu knocked down Azerbaijan's Magomed Abdulhamidov five times in the third and final round of their bantamweight bout yesterday. And yet, the judges scored the round in favor of the one who spent more time on the canvas than on his feet.\"
Instead of counting, the referee was asking the knocked down to get up! :rotflmao:
Medal isn't the most important, it is the Olympic Spirit!
:rotflmao: What a disgrace! -
concern2:
This is just soooooooooooooo bad sporting spirit of the referee... :spank: :nunchuk: Lucky the boxing association was fair...Olympics boxing: Japan win appeal after controversial loss
2 August 2012, Last updated at 17:41 GMT
(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19088420)
Japan have won an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan.
Shimizu has been declared the winner and goes forward to the quarter-finals.
He trailed 12-5 going into the final round but on five occasions he knocked down his opponent, who also received a two-point penalty.
However, judges scored the round 12-10 to Shimizu, which was not enough to stop Abdulhamidov claiming the win.
Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov, from Turkmenistan, has been expelled the International Boxing Association (AIBA) said.
The AIBA said the contest should have been stopped.
\"I was shocked by the final scores. He fell down so many times,\" Shimizu said.
\"Why didn't I win? I don't understand.\"
No extra points are awarded for knockdowns but the verdict was still greeted with boos at London's ExCeL Arena.
Japanese officials marched to the competition office with the 500 US dollars needed to lodge an appeal.
Shimizu added: \"I did do my best. I performed really well. England is the place of boxing and the spectators supported me so well so I am very pleased about that.
\"This is a very memorable moment. I don't understand why the judgement went against me so I don't know how to improve.\"
There was more controversy in the heavyweight section when Iran's Ali Mazaheri was disqualified in the second round of his fight against Cuba's Jose Larduet Gomez after receiving three warnings for holding within a minute.
Mazaheri said: \"I have never seen such a thing in the world. I could have won the bout but I had three warnings in a minute. I was not doing anything wrong.\"
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Yes, ksi, it takes a firm hand to put everything in perspective and keep the right spirit alive:
IOC looks to crack down on results-fixing that's marred the London Games
(source: http://trib.com/sports/olympics/blogs/ioc-looks-to-crack-down-on-the-kind-of-results/article_7110e3c7-cfba-5136-a25c-4c5f7352138e.html)
LONDON ā Olympic chiefs have implemented a sweeping range of cross-sport measures designed to avoid a repeat of the badminton result-fixing scandal that marred the 2012 Games.
The International Olympic Committee was deeply embarrassed by the situation that saw four badminton women's doubles pairs disqualified for trying to lose a group match and has looked at every remaining event of the Games to ensure there is no repeat.
IOC chief Jacques Rogge wants to ensure \"full effort\" from every competitor and has targeted situations where the correct result could be affected by the actions of athletes.
\" 'Full effort' is the catchphrase right now,\" said an IOC source. \"Everything is being looked at. [Rogge] is clear. The badminton issue must not appear elsewhere.\"
One event that has been singled out is the men's triathlon competition, due to be held in Hyde Park on Tuesday. The possibility for a fixed result was highlighted when British brothers Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, the top two ranked triathletes in the world, deliberately crossed the line together at an event earlier this year. Jonathan Brownlee has previously spoken of how his dream for the Games would be for him and his brother to cross the line together and win a joint gold medal.
\"Intentionally trying or agreeing to cross the line together under ITU rules brings a mandatory penalty of automatic disqualification,\" spokesperson Paula Kim said. \"Given what has happened in the badminton at the Olympics, we need to be clear about the rules, that there is no room for suggestion that the race has been manipulated in any way at all.\"
In most events, especially those with a single-elimination format or track and field competitions, there is nothing to worry about as any lack of effort would only penalize the competitor responsible.
But the IOC is also conscious of monitoring any event where a contestant is not fully invested in trying to win. In the men's cycling road race, France's Mickael Bourgain intentionally withdrew just a few minutes into the event so that he could also compete in the track cycling (to fulfill criteria set out in cycling's complicated international rules). Such scenarios are high on the IOC's \"hit list\" as it moves forward towards Rio in 2016. -
A inspiration - Oscar Pistorius :salute:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-2184229/London-2012-Olympics-Oscar-Pistorius--I-wasnt-proving-point.html -
fightingmom:
no matter how fast Usain Bolt ran, he could not out run his elder brother in speed. His brother's name is Lightning BoltUsain Bolt breaks Olympic record in Men's 100m :salute:
He ran 9.63seconds ! :udaman:
http://www.inquisitr.com/293443/usain-bolt-breaks-olympi-record-in-mens-100/
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