Anyone give a flying bollock about them ?

I hope Jemma Lowe does well and may even bring back a medal.

Good Luck Jemma.

will be a shambles and full of smog and fury

I'll be watching to see if I can glimpse Kev.

It would be interesting to hear from him how things are going in China whilst it's on like, general public opinion, how it's being supported etc...

It would be only fair as we give him an unbiased, honest and truthful reflection of what's happening in Hartlepool.

Just a second while I ask around me...


Hmm. The response I got was "Olympwhat??"

it will be the military in civvies

Probably not , the only thing that will interest people is who will be the first competitor to fail a drugs test.

Maybe we should form a prediction league, nationality of first cheat and sport he/she will be taking part in.

Some winners will be clean some winners will be drug cheats who not get caught, it nearly as bad as the Tour de France now for cheats, 2nd only to that competition.

I'll go for a Russian weightlifter to be the first to fail a drug test, either that or a Chinese swimmer, but that a long shot as they wont want it to be the nation holding it who are caught.

OF COURSE !!!!

As I previously argued with regards to the Eurovision Song Contest - the Olympic Games of Music - we did care about it (and should care about it even more today) because it was a matter of national importance and pride.

The situation with Jemma Lowe proves an important point. We as a country should support anybody who we send to represent us at events like the Olympics and the Eurovision Song Contest. You might not like their style of competition but the country has got to unite behind the competitors to after they are chosen in order to give as much support to the competitors as possible, which will install them with the confiodence they need to perform the best they can.

You can not expect 100% that Jemma will bring home even a medal, not just the Gold, because that would be too much pressure on their shoulders after what they have essentially achieved by qualifying is fulfilling a lifelong dream. There is a lot of media coverage around Tom Daley, the 14 year-old diver obviously because of his age and he has admitted that he feels his chances of winning a medal are slim. I don't believe you should totally write off your chances, but neither should you be over confident.

A hypothetical question: If someone from Hartlepool had been chosen by the British public to represent the UK at Eurovision, surely you would support them, even if you didn't like the song, because they were born and bred in Hartlepool ?

Using that argument, I shall be throughly supporting Jemma Lowe at the Olympics and really wish her the best of luck. I really hope she does come home with a Gold Medal. If she does it, she should be given a civic reception by Mayor Drummond and given the Freedom of the Borough of Hartlepool.

When you see the words "United Kingdom" at the bottom of a scoreboard, it hurts because the UK is your country and our country, as well as the fact that our history shows that we should be getting better results.

Therefore if we do great as "Great Britain" at the top of a medal table, we'll all be happy, if not the country will be overtaken by a load of complainers.

You can't really be passionate about sport in general if you can't be interested in the Olympics.

Mind you, what with Tibet, pollution and human-rights abuses, I really can't undersatnd how Beijing got the Olympics in the first place. Hosting it shows they want to be more friendly but these things are gholding China back.

There is the risk of Beijing being the worst host city in the history of the Games.

To be honest Bob, the Tour de France has been known to have a reputation for drugs cheating and its credibility is often challenged as much as Eurovision, but thousands still turned out in their droves down here to see the race from London to Canterbury, although people thought like Eurovision that we shouldn't watch it because of the conception that it's corrupt.

I'm interested and will be watching, too be honest at the moment I'm more up for the Olympics
than I am the forthcoming Pools season!

Top post from Poolie of Kent btw

I've got that much on my plate at the minute sport is taking a back seat.

So Kent are you advocating that we should have supported the DRUG CHEAT Dwain Chambers if he was selected by the GB team.
The CHEAT who cost his team mates their relay medals.Through no fault of their's.

He took THG,EPO,LIOTHYRONINE,INSULIN,MODAFINIL.
For one reason to give him an unfair advantage over athletes who did the sport they loved honestly regardless of the result.Now if we can guarentee that every athlete is clean maybe, just maybe more would be interested in the reults

The olympics are for the gays and the woman

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it was waffles egg beans and chips actually!!!!!

Thank you Smythe.

With regards to what Bob, no by all means I think the court made the right decision not to send Dwain Chambers to the Olympics. The main difference between modern Eurovision and the Olympics is that our Eurovision representatives are "democratically elected" by the British public, whereas the BOA and UK Athletics both liaise to decide which of our "best-performing" athletes should go to the Olympics based on their qualifying standards. Technically, if Chambers had not had the Olympic lifetime ban put on him by the BOA which the only thing stopping him going to Beijing, he would have been eligible to qualify for the Olympics through his times.

I think the voting process for a Eurovision representative is more democratic in that by deciding who we want to represent us, we should ideally elect a Eurovision represenatative who is both talented and a person / act who will represent our country with dignity and fair play and honourable behaviour. I think the voting public liked Andy Abraham because of his humble honest nature and hard-working background, in which in today's modern society seems to be declining.

Last year Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) was a prospective Eurovision candidate and he had told the Daily Star that he had entered Eurovision because he had dreamt one night that he had won the Eurovision Song Contest. When he was eliminated from the running in the UK Final to leave Scooch and Cyndi, he became so very upset at the result to the extent that he actually stormed off the stage in a bit of a huff. Then at the end of then night, when Terry Wogan mistakenly announced Cyndi had won the ticket to Belgrade, Scooch were standing on the other side of the stage to her. They turned to face and all politely clapped her in congratulations and smiled in a warm manner. That made me like Scooch even more when they were declared winners because they exibited the shared valkues of fair play in competition that every generation is taught as kids. That makes Scooch far more honourable characters than Dwain Chambers ever coul;d be.

it was waffles egg beans and chips actually!!!!! :laugh

how the fuck did I do that???

where's the picture gone???

logged in as me eh

dodgy

I've scrambled the picture somehow!!!!!