Grand Prix Rejects

Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

I watched South Park instead of the opening ceremony. Apparently I missed nurses and Mr Bean...oh well.

I tried watching some events this morning, but somehow even the shooting was boring...

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:I watched South Park instead of the opening ceremony. Apparently I missed nurses and Mr Bean...oh well.

I tried watching some events this morning, but somehow even the shooting was boring...

To be honest, the Olympics would be more British if Vandalism was en event, just to make it more like traditional Britain.

Why not name it the "Park Si-Hun Olympic Thread"? Robbed my hometown hero of a gold medal.

What about the Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Thread? Certainly the most rejectful Olympian.

JeremyMcClean wrote:What about the Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Thread? Certainly the most rejectful Olympian.

Nah. It should be Eric the Eel

JeremyMcClean wrote:What about the Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Thread? Certainly the most rejectful Olympian.

Well, I was trying to put up some sort of a F1 connection in the topic title, and besides Eddie Edwards competed in the Winter Olympics, while the current discussion is about the Summer ones!

the car guy in me is a little peeved that they didn't have a jag or aston or even a range rover featured in the opening ceremonies.
instead they drove a new mini cooper(run and built by bmw for cryin out loud). other than that it was stunning and Rowan Atkinson's bit was hilarious
anyways the events i'm looking forward to are:
Men's sprinting events to see the battle between Tyson Gay(USA) and Usain Bolt(Jamaica).
Bmx events
Velodrome events
men's Basketball

Nuppiz wrote:

JeremyMcClean wrote:What about the Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Thread? Certainly the most rejectful Olympian.

Well, I was trying to put up some sort of a F1 connection in the topic title, and besides Eddie Edwards competed in the Winter Olympics, while the current discussion is about the Summer ones!

In that case, it should be renamed in honour of Alex Zanardi when he inevitably dominates the Paralympics Cycling Road Race

nome66 wrote:the car guy in me is a little peeved that they didn't have a jag or aston or even a range rover featured in the opening ceremonies.
instead they drove a new mini cooper(run and built by bmw for cryin out loud). other than that it was stunning and Rowan Atkinson's bit was hilarious
anyways the events i'm looking forward to are:
Men's sprinting events to see the battle between Tyson Gay(USA) and Usain Bolt(Jamaica).
Bmx events
Velodrome events
men's Basketball

I think that the reason why they used the modern Mini during the opening sequence was because BMW are, IIRC, sponsoring the Olympics.

redbulljack14 wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:I watched South Park instead of the opening ceremony. Apparently I missed nurses and Mr Bean...oh well.

I tried watching some events this morning, but somehow even the shooting was boring...

To be honest, the Olympics would be more British if Vandalism was en event, just to make it more like traditional Britain.

I was expecting a dramatic adaption of the London Riots, with pretend explosions, burning cars, and rozzers to display, errm, passion.

Nuppiz wrote:Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

Pikkarainen herself has a relation to F1 since she's Valtteri Bottas's girlfriend.

Bleu wrote:

Nuppiz wrote:Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

Pikkarainen herself has a relation to F1 since she's Valtteri Bottas's girlfriend.

SkyF1 couldn't get enough of that fact. Poor Valterri was expecting his first interview but all they asked him about was his girlfriend!

Bleu wrote:

Nuppiz wrote:Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

Pikkarainen herself has a relation to F1 since she's Valtteri Bottas's girlfriend.

Now I wasn't aware of that! So as it turns out I finally have some sort of a connection to F1.

Only in London would some incompetent fool lose a set of keys for Wembley Stadium during the olympics

Anyone who can remember how rubbish our gymnasts were 10 years ago should be very chuffed with today's result, notwithstanding the Japanese trying to save their necks and squeak a medal despite falling several times.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

JeremyMcClean wrote:What about the Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Thread? Certainly the most rejectful Olympian.

Nah. It should be Eric the Eel

This thread must be named the Eric the Eel Olympic Thread, he's the Olympic equivalent of HWNSNBM (maybe not in terms of speed - more like Nissany in that aspect)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjCc_VyxM4

Alex Zanardi will have to wait for now, because a different racing driver has just medalled in the Olympics.

Citroen WRC driver and former Dakar champion Nasser Al-Attiyah has won bronze in the Mens Skeet Shooting competition. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18902096

I wish Channel 9 would stop broadcasting so much bathplugging swimming.

eurobrun wrote:I wish Channel 9 would stop broadcasting so much bathplugging swimming.

And we're not even doing remotely well this year either

eurobrun wrote:I wish Channel 9 would stop broadcasting so much bathplugging swimming.

It's Channel 9, they only broadcast something which Australia has the slightest chance of winning (which is swimming, swimming, swimming, sailing and swimming.)

Wizzie wrote:And we're not even doing remotely well this year either

On the plus side, we're beating Great Britain

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

eurobrun wrote:I wish Channel 9 would stop broadcasting so much bathplugging swimming.

It's Channel 9, they only broadcast something which Australia has the slightest chance of winning (which is swimming, swimming, swimming, sailing and swimming.)

And cycling when Cadel Evans is not too busy being shite

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:And we're not even doing remotely well this year either

On the plus side, we're beating Great Britain

But we're being thrashed by North Korea however

Wizzie wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:And we're not even doing remotely well this year either

On the plus side, we're beating Great Britain

But we're being thrashed by North Korea however

...and Kazakhstan...

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

eurobrun wrote:I wish Channel 9 would stop broadcasting so much bathplugging swimming.

It's Channel 9, they only broadcast something which Australia has the slightest chance of winning (which is swimming, swimming, swimming, sailing and swimming.)

The best part of the Olympics, in my opinion, is watching obscure sports that would never otherwise be shown on TV, let alone to a live audience of millions, such as Handball (the European style handball, not the Australian style handball you would usually find played at primary schools), yet all I've seen Channel 9 show in the hours I'm awake is swimming, swimming, more swimming, replays of swimming, swimming highlights, ads for Coles, replays of swimming highlights, 5 minutes of the mens road race... then back to the aquatics centre for heat 4 of the 100M butterfly, highlights of gold medal winners (usually in swimming), rowing, yet more swimming, and (finally) a full game of hockey.

Also, my biggest source of frustration from Channel Nein - the fact that they let Karl Stefenovic host, while forgetting the greatest Olympic commentators in Australia, "Rampaging" Roy Slaven, and "The Ace up the Sleeve", HG Nelson.

About the badminton scandal. All those players should be banned by their association for a minimum six months. In football this type of behaviour is not taken lightly. Just because Badminton is considered a more civilised sport doesn't mean the punishment should be less. The way the WBF have described the offence is far too soft, "not using one's best efforts to win a match" makes it sound trivial. It was cold hard match-fixing. They are lucky there isn't any money involved or it would would be jail for them. Look at Andrea Masiello, he could theoretically end up with a 3 year prison sentence for deliberately scoring an own goal.

kostas22 wrote:About the badminton scandal. All those players should be banned by their association for a minimum six months. In football this type of behaviour is not taken lightly. Just because Badminton is considered a more civilised sport doesn't mean the punishment should be less. The way the WBF have described the offence is far too soft, "not using one's best efforts to win a match" makes it sound trivial. It was cold hard match-fixing. They are lucky there isn't any money involved or it would would be jail for them. Look at Andrea Masiello, he could theoretically end up with a 3 year prison sentence for deliberately scoring an own goal.

Thank you for bringing this issue, Kostas. A great reaction from many parties has started to appear because of this. Especially from the Indonesian contigent - Taufik Hidayat (which just lost to China's Lin Dan) mocked them and called the matches of the DSQed players a 'circus'. (Source: Jakarta Globe)

For the unknowing, the DSQed players in question were:

• Ha Jung-Eun and Kim Min-Jung (South Korea)
• Jung Kyung and Kim Ha Na (also South Korea)
• Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii (Indonesia)
• Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli (China)

FMecha wrote:

kostas22 wrote:About the badminton scandal. All those players should be banned by their association for a minimum six months. In football this type of behaviour is not taken lightly. Just because Badminton is considered a more civilised sport doesn't mean the punishment should be less. The way the WBF have described the offence is far too soft, "not using one's best efforts to win a match" makes it sound trivial. It was cold hard match-fixing. They are lucky there isn't any money involved or it would would be jail for them. Look at Andrea Masiello, he could theoretically end up with a 3 year prison sentence for deliberately scoring an own goal.

Thank you for bringing this issue, Kostas. A great reaction from many parties has started to appear because of this. Especially from the Indonesian contigent - Taufik Hidayat (which just lost to China's Lin Dan) mocked them and called the matches of the DSQed players a 'circus'. (Source: Jakarta Globe)

For the unknowing, the DSQed players in question were:

• Ha Jung-Eun and Kim Min-Jung (South Korea)
• Jung Kyung and Kim Ha Na (also South Korea)
• Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii (Indonesia)
• Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli (China)

To be fair to the WBF, they haven't ruled out further action against the players in question and have hinted that they might consider imposing further penalties on those players. As for the national teams, the Chinese are probably handling this in the best manner - they were the only team to accept the decision of the WBF (and in fact seem to have come out in support of its decision), and have announced that they will be holding an internal disciplinary meeting immediately.

Hey, this DSQ means Canada is almost guaranteed to win a medal! I'll take that

JeremyMcClean wrote:Hey, this DSQ means Canada is almost guaranteed to win a medal! I'll take that

They were 0-3 in the group stage, and become 2-1 through the magic of television.

I'll take that too. One of the rare times I feel semi-patriotic. Too bad A1 died in a fire in 2009, that was the only time I could say I was patriotic for my nation's drivers.

And Australia sinks further in the medal tally ... clearly we are approaching these Olympics the 2003-spec Kimi Raikkonen way. Just the one win, loads of 2nds.

MinardiFan95, can I just say thank you for bringing back Fatso.

But for Fatso and The Dream and the legends that are Roy & HG, there would have been no inspiration for the F1 Rejects podcast.

P.S. If you look closely at our Indian GP pre-race show, you will see a little nod to Roy & HG, which harks back to Jamie's own connection with the 2000 Olympics. First one to spot it wins ... kudos.

For anyone, who is not satisfied with the broadcast they're provided by television channels:

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html


I'm happy with the olympics so far, Hungary's results are pretty decent - especially compared to the terrible one in Beijing. 2 golds already (more than Australia ), one of them I actually know from high school. The "anthem" played for him was really rejectful, though.

And for naming the thread, a late candidate from the London games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2eAYK1eRes
Pure rejectdom, gotta love it.

Nuppiz wrote:Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

Wasnt Jackie Stewart close to making the olympics many years ago in shooting?

David AGS wrote:

Nuppiz wrote:Right, so in this thread named after (as far as I know) the only F1 driver who also took part in the Summer Olympics, we shall discuss the ongoing Olympics in London.

I'll start off by claiming that I have a slight connection to the current Olympics. The Finnish swimmer, Emilia Pikkarainen, went to the same high school as I did, although she's younger than me and I never had any courses with her. But her brother (who is also a swimmer, though not on the Olympic level) did have a few courses where I also took part.

Wasnt Jackie Stewart close to making the olympics many years ago in shooting?

Aye, skeet shooting. Former Scottish, British and European champion in the sport, just missed the cut for the 1960 Olympics. If it wasn't for Jimmy we may never have seen him in Formula One.

David AGS wrote:Wasnt Jackie Stewart close to making the olympics many years ago in shooting?

Yes, and I just found out that Roberto Mieres and Prince Bira represented their countries in sailing, so there's actually at least three Summer Olympian F1 drivers. However, Ben Pon is the only reject out of the three.

Bathplug. Now the Kiwis are beating us as well.

Excuse me while I move to North Korea

The most annoying part about Australia is not that we're not winning, but that the commentators have stopped caring and keep forgetting what our flag looks like

In table tennis,Singapore won their first medal in 56 years and most people(not me) are going completely wild here.Even if it's only a bronze.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, we're still without a medal. So there's a good chance that these Olympics will be the worst in history for us.

I love how Hong Kong managed to win a bronze medal in the women's keirin (cycling) event last night, with Wai Sze Lee fighting off top competition to finish behind Shuang Guo of China and our own Vicky Pendleton. It was a joy to see, as I believe that was Hong Kong's very first Olympic medal in all competitions.

But my God, was that Chinese cyclist miserable during the medal ceremony. You have Pendleton crying tears of joy at her second gold medal, and Lee with the biggest smile I've ever seen with her bronze. Contrast that with the stony look of nothing from Guo.

But still, hats off to Victoria Pendleton!

East Londoner wrote:I love how Hong Kong managed to win a bronze medal in the women's keirin (cycling) event last night, with Wai Sze Lee fighting off top competition to finish behind Shuang Guo of China and our own Vicky Pendleton. It was a joy to see, as I believe that was Hong Kong's very first Olympic medal in all competitions.

According to the oracle, they already have a gold from Atlanta:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_at_the_Olympics

Still, a great result for Wai yesterday.