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 Stuk  Top half 17 Aug 16 4.33pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
Brazilians don't like Sport, they like winning. This is obvious when most people competing against a Brazilian get booed. A load of the boxing results have been farcical with Putin's mate IOC President Thomas Bach present at fights where the Russians have got highly questionable unanimous decisions for their fighters. Here's one boxer calling him out: See the Olympic South London thread. The crowd booing the French Pole Vaulter in competition was bad enough, booing him on the podium (when Brazil won the bloody event) was disgraceful.
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regal_eagle  somewhere 17 Aug 16 4.40pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
See the Olympic South London thread. The crowd booing the French Pole Vaulter in competition was bad enough, booing him on the podium (when Brazil won the bloody event) was disgraceful. Haven't seen that thread, cheers. I've never seen anything like the booing on the podium, and the fact that nothing has been made of it in local media (apparently) shows their lack of class. Their football has been over-admired for far too long, and they've always been cheats underneath all the flicks of the likes of Ronaldinho, then taking turns to foul opponents. I hope they fail in the football so they can boo their own players again.
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| Sedlescombe Sedlescombe 17 Aug 16 4.44pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
See the Olympic South London thread. The crowd booing the French Pole Vaulter in competition was bad enough, booing him on the podium (when Brazil won the bloody event) was disgraceful. The booing probably had more to do with the fact that the pole vaulter compared himself to Jessie Owens performing in Berlin in '36. What booing there was on the night was pretty brief (though to be condemned nonetheless)
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| Stuk Top half 17 Aug 16 4.59pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
Haven't seen that thread, cheers. I've never seen anything like the booing on the podium, and the fact that nothing has been made of it in local media (apparently) shows their lack of class. Their football has been over-admired for far too long, and they've always been cheats underneath all the flicks of the likes of Ronaldinho, then taking turns to foul opponents. I hope they fail in the football so they can boo their own players again. It was silence that greeted Sweden's winning penalty against their women yesterday. The men would get slaughtered however.
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| Stuk Top half 17 Aug 16 5.02pm |
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Originally posted by Sedlescombe
The booing probably had more to do with the fact that the pole vaulter compared himself to Jessie Owens performing in Berlin in '36. What booing there was on the night was pretty brief (though to be condemned nonetheless) No, it didn't. They'd booed him in competition as he had an opportunity to beat the Brazilian's height. They then booed him again because he'd rightly called them out for it, and they didn't like that. Even Braz da Silva, who acted honourably throughout it must be said, was trying to get them to show some respect to him.
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| Stuk Top half 17 Aug 16 7.41pm |
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Originally posted by Pete53
It will be interesting to see how much support is given to the Paralympics by the Brazilian public. I fear it will be very little. Blimey, only sold 12% of tickets reportedly. Rio 2016 have also not paid out the £7m in travel grants to paralympic committees that were due in July, as they've spent the money on running repairs at the Olympics.
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Frickin Saweet  South Cronx 18 Aug 16 10.31am |
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BBC commentator at the women's hockey semi final yesterday said 'that atmosphere here is electric' or words to that sentiment. Yet the stands were empty. Who was he trying to kid? Just say it as it is. It's scandalous that so many of the venues across all sports are empty. The teams competing probably have bigger crowds at their local home games. If it is down to ticket price then shame on the organisers for not setting the prices to reflect the local communities. The Olympics should unite and inspire all Brazilians, instead it's probably alienated all of the poor people. They should be handing out tickets to local kids and families if they couldn't sell them. Couple of those NZ hockey players though
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| Stuk Top half 18 Aug 16 10.58am |
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Originally posted by Frickin Saweet
BBC commentator at the women's hockey semi final yesterday said 'that atmosphere here is electric' or words to that sentiment. Yet the stands were empty. Who was he trying to kid? Just say it as it is. It's scandalous that so many of the venues across all sports are empty. The teams competing probably have bigger crowds at their local home games. If it is down to ticket price then shame on the organisers for not setting the prices to reflect the local communities. The Olympics should unite and inspire all Brazilians, instead it's probably alienated all of the poor people. They should be handing out tickets to local kids and families if they couldn't sell them. Couple of those NZ hockey players though I scoffed at the same comment. 30 people clad in union flag clothing doesn't equate to an electric atmosphere. Even the USA v Argentina basketball game had plenty of empty seats and that's a sport the locals enjoy and featured two countries that would have the larger number of tourists at the games.
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