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  1. game of james's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    We shouldn't be competing for 1st or 2nd. We're a nation of 60 million compared to China with 1billion odd.
    Considering our population, wealth etc we actually overachieve.
  2. cl_steele's Avatar
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    Re: Anyone else been dissapointed by the medals (or lack of) won so far by Great Brit
    Not really, we're still doing well to have any medals considering the competition we face. Its all just a bit of fun at the end of the day though. Go team GB!
  3. Drewski's Avatar
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    Yawn. Boring rhetoric from someone who hasn't got a clue about sports and just likes to whinge. And has posted this topic for the second time.
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    Nobody who takes part at the Olympics is a joke. They're all bloody brilliant at what they do.
  5. Ice Constricter's Avatar
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    There were complaints about the olympics in general, about the opening ceremony, now about their performance?

    When will it end??!!
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    You say we shouldn't be competing for 1st or 2nd because were small and don't have much money. Then how come we compete with the rest of the world in lots of other things and come out on top. We produce the greatest actors, bands, engineers, doctors, academics, health care, universities and loads of other things but when it comes to sport we can't do it.
  7. megan.c's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    Are you completely retarded?

    How the hell can you consider athletes of that calibre a joke? Get off your ass and take on China then if you think it would be so easy.
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    Being able to compete in the Olympics at all shows their level of skill ..
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    (Original post by megan.c)
    Are you completely retarded?

    How the hell can you consider athletes of that calibre a joke? Get off your ass and take on China then if you think it would be so easy.
    Someone who finishes last at a home Olympics is a joke and needs to quit.
  10. Simran Mars Foster's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    ^You don't know that yet.
  11. game of james's Avatar
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    (Original post by The_Great_One)
    You say we shouldn't be competing for 1st or 2nd because were small and don't have much money. Then how come we compete with the rest of the world in lots of other things and come out on top. We produce the greatest actors, bands, engineers, doctors, academics, health care, universities and loads of other things but when it comes to sport we can't do it.
    :rolleyes: We came 4th in Beijing you know?
    That is "competing with the world" as you call it.
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    (Original post by NapoleonDynamite)
    Being able to compete in the Olympics at all shows their level of skill ..
    Theirs loads of people in the Olympics who r there to make the numbers up who know they will never win a medal or qualify.
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    Looking at your reputation, all I can say is do you not have a positive word to say about anything?
  14. Abbadon27's Avatar
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    Oh stop ****ing moaning and cheer up. The events we are good at haven't started giving out medals yet.
    Last edited by Abbadon27; 31-07-2012 at 21:36.
  15. The_Great_One's Avatar
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    I'd rather shove wasps up my back side.
  16. megan.c's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    (Original post by The_Great_One)
    Someone who finishes last at a home Olympics is a joke and needs to quit.
    Have we finished last though? I don't think we have....? We've actually ranked quite highly in the events, just not quite medalled.

    Shame that acting like a bellend isn't an olympic event or I'm sure you'd be raking in the golds.
  17. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    North Korea are doing better than team GB lol
  18. The_Great_One's Avatar
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    Re: Team great Britain is a joke
    (Original post by megan.c)
    Have we finished last though? I don't think we have....? We've actually ranked quite highly in the events, just not quite medalled.

    Shame that acting like a bellend isn't an olympic event or I'm sure you'd be raking in the golds.
    I mean competitors in general not the whole team.
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    (Original post by The_Great_One)
    I feel like I'm turning into Peter hitchens but we continue to embarrass our selves in sports and everyone feels sorry for us. We cheer like mad for our swimmers and the rest of the world are giving us sympathy and our competitors are patting us on the back which is the final nail in the coffin for me.
    Please i would love to see a keyboard warrior such as yourself do anything remotely on par to what our Olympians are doing.
    Its pretty easy for you to rant and rave from the safety of your computer chair, go do something meaningful with your life and maybe somebody will take you seriously untill then, as you so elequently put it, you're a joke.
  20. megan.c's Avatar
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    (Original post by The_Great_One)
    I mean competitors in general not the whole team.
    Yes, the competitors in general have been ranking quite highly.
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