Bit of an epic bump...but this was pretty impressive...

Bit of an epic bump...but this was pretty impressive...

Don't get foxtel they said, 9 will have good coverage of the Olympics, they said.

Sick of fucking Equestrian.

Disgraced shot-putter 'framed by coach'

From: The Australian August 15, 2012

DISGRACED Belarusian athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk is accusing a former coach of framing her, resulting in a positive Olympics drug test.

Ostapchuk was stripped of her women's shot put gold medal after testing positive to using metenolene, promoting New Zealander Valerie Adams to her second Olympic title.

In an interview with Belarus newspaper Pressball, translated by news website Charter 97, Ostapchuk fingered former head coach Anatoly Baduyev, who was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service in June under suspicion of embezzlement.

One accusation against Baduyev was that he extorted money from coaches and athletes by blackmailing them with the threat of positive dope tests.

Ostapchuk said she had been victimised.

"The person (Baduyev), you know who I mean, the one who was involved in blackmail, he promised me long ago: you will have problems with doping control," she said.

..."Now I think his threat begins to come true, even though he no longer works with us."

Ostapchuk repeated a desire to carry out her own investigation of the International Olympic Committee test result.

"I have nothing to hide from people. I've spent a lot of efforts to become an Olympic champion, I do not need excuses. I do not want to finish a career like this.

"Athletes need to know that there is someone to rely on, from whom they can receive support and advice. We want to feel protected instead of waiting for meanness from those who should help us."

Meanwhile, Adams wants to be presented with her Olympic medal in Switzerland.

Adams defended her shot put title at the London Games after Ostapchuk was stripped of the gold.

While there have been suggestions that Adams could receive her belated gold medal in front of a big crowd at an All Blacks rugby Test - either in Auckland against Australia, or in London against England later this year - Adams told Fairfax Media she wanted to receive it at an athletics meeting.

Ideally it would be at her training base of Lausanne, which hosts a Diamond League meet on August 23.

''I would like it sooner rather than later - and if I can get it before I go back home,'' Adams said.

''I'd love to do it in Lausanne where the IOC is based, and have it in a stadium at an athletics meet just full of people. And also Switzerland is sort of my second home and they've embraced this just as much as New Zealand has.''

Officials have suggested it could take months for Adams to receive the medal, particularly as Ostapchuk is protesting her innocence.

NZN

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/london-games/disgraced-shot-putter-framed-by-coach/story-e6frgdg6-1226450665259

I thought everyone knew that this time we weren't going to perform that well.

I thought everyone knew that this time we weren't going to perform that well.

We did do well though. Not as well as previous Games and not as well as we assumed we would, but still good.

Hey the Pakis still have a million without homes years on after the floods, did they send a team to the games?

Hey the Pakis still have a million without homes years on after the floods, did they send a team to the games?

It certainly was... Had a choice of 8 channels and every event under the sun. Didn't see a single horse...

Cant tell if serious or .....



People harp on about the money spent and what not, but these countries are spending more every day fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq etc etc which we all know nothing about, quite frankly, id rather we spent it on these events. People will always never be pleased with money spent, but thats how these things go nowdays.

i dont think that surprises anyone. Why would they show football when they can show equestrian, swimming, equestrian highlights, swimming highlights, preview of the equestrian and swimming and then about 2 mins of every other sport and then the swimming from earlier.



...........Well so i hear, foxtel was just fantastic

Kiwis just won another gold medal after Belarussian shot putter was stripped for doping

Enjoyed the closing ceremony. Not bad at all.

He does this all the time, normally he just tunes with the ladies. But anyway I remember team GB were meant to be targeting 70 medals, so is this considered a failure?

its such a nice moment, i just love it. Shows the human nature of Bolt and the steward went against the protocol to be all to themselves and not disrupt the athletes blah blah blah. Its a moment he will never ever forget...

can you imagine

people going:
"I was in london in the stadium when Bolt won his 200m Gold"

and hes like
"Yeah, well, Usain Bolt gave me a fist pump just before he won 200m gold"

Edited by zimbos_05: 13/8/2012 04:40:17 PM

Shared moments like that prove that $14.5 billion is worth every penny.

Fuck yeah, 'lymics!

i dont think that surprises anyone. Why would they show football when they can show equestrian, swimming, equestrian highlights, swimming highlights, preview of the equestrian and swimming and then about 2 mins of every other sport and then the swimming from earlier.



...........Well so i hear, foxtel was just fantastic

i dont think that surprises anyone. Why would they show football when they can show equestrian, swimming, equestrian highlights, swimming highlights, preview of the equestrian and swimming and then about 2 mins of every other sport and then the swimming from earlier.



...........Well so i hear, foxtel was just fantastic