[S4B]

I know Topher, I completely agree.

That swimming marathon thing was a bit nasty!

[Yudster]

Perhaps a stupid question, but what else should people be referring to them as?

The British Team. Or The Great Britain Team. It's not difficult.

[S4B]

It's ping pong now! Is it just me or is this game dull?

[Ballbag]

Our football team is called England, our cricket team is England, our rugby teams are England and Great Britain….. So why this silly name for the olympic squad.

[S4B]

Because we live in an age of abbreviations and brevity where people will shorten anything they can to speed things along. A bit like men and foreplay!

[Yudster]

It's ping pong now! Is it just me or is this game dull?

It would be less dull if either of the players was Chinese. But only marginally.

[S4B]

They can't seen to hit it back and forth more than 3 times. It's making me sleepy.

[MK Chris]

It's ping pong now! Is it just me or is this game dull?

It's not a brilliant TV sport in all fairness.

It's ping pong now! Is it just me or is this game dull?

It would be less dull if either of the players was Chinese. But only marginally.

Assuming you're watching the game on now, Werner Schlager is actually a very good player, albeit past his best and the Koreans also have a strong team.

Chen Weixing should be playing for the Austrians as well, he's about world number 17 or so.

They can't seen to hit it back and forth more than 3 times. It's making me sleepy.

There are less rallies these days because it's so fast. There have been measures to try and slow it down, but nothing has worked all that well. Nowadays I find British League tournaments more entertaining.

You may not be interested, but if I get a chance later, I'm going to try and find some decent rallies to post.

[Yudster]

You may not be interested, but if I get a chance later, I'm going to try and find some decent rallies to post.

Oh Topher, that's a lovely thought - but you must be busy, please don't put yourself to any trouble on our account!

[S4B]

You may not be interested, but if I get a chance later, I'm going to try and find some decent rallies to post.

Oh Topher, that's a lovely thought - but you must be busy, please don't put yourself to any trouble on our account!

I heartily agree. You have so much to do in your busy life that it would be mean of us to ask you to do something like that.

Did anyone ASK him?

[MK Chris]

You're both hilarious.. true, if you play a sport, you're more likely to be inclined to watch it, but I do remember Steve Redgrave saying in Athens that he had been enthralled by the table tennis and earlier they showed Adrian Chiles getting very worked up over one of the Croat players playing (apparently his mother is Croation).

[Yudster]

Adrian Chiles speaks fluent Serbo-Croat. And Steve Redgrave has been proved to be a lunatic over the years. Their opinions are not reliable.

[Boboff]

I like Adrian Chiles, he is the only person from Birmingham who has a sense of humor, and that is a fact.

No, Lenny Henry and Jasper Carrot are just NOT funny.

[MK Chris]

I like Jasper Carrott and Lenny Henry has done some funny stuff in the past, but not recently.

[S4B]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA The American women dropped the baton.

[MK Chris]

Yes... so did the American men and the Nigerian men. The British men, on the other hand, messed up the final changeover and Craig Pickering didn't have the baton in time. Disqualified.

I felt very sorry for Pickering actually, he took the entire blame in the interview and Marlon Devonish insisted it's a team event and they would all take the blame. The poor lad looked devastated though.

[S4B]

Bless him. I can only imagine how devastated he must be

On the plus side we're winning the men's triple jump and second fastest in the heats for the women's 100m relay!

[MK Chris]

I can't see us doing brilliantly in the women's relay, we had a reasonable chance of bronze in the mens though.

Come on Phillips Idowu, make it our second athletics gold! That was a cracking jump.

[S4B]

It really was!

Oh false start by Rooney in the 400. Does he have a chance Topher?

[S4B]

Ah that's a no then! Bugger. Good race though.

[MK Chris]

Martyn Rooney is still improving though, so he could be a fair prospect in 2012. Not brilliant though.

[S4B]

Bugger, Philips is down to 2nd. That Cuban's jump was HUGE!

Come on Philips

[MK Chris]

Under pressure now and looking like a silver at best.

[S4B]

Balls. He screwed up his last jump. Silver then

[Yudster]

Going back to our earlier discussion about performance enhancing drugs - seems even the bloody horses are at it now!