Friday, August 08, 2008

Beijing #1

So the opening ceremony gets going today and then its sports madness for two weeks.
 
It's always interesting looking at the make-up of our squad, due to all the politics that go with it.
 
So lets talk about the biggest joke i can see.
 
Amateur boxing, probably the third biggest sport in the country after soccer and athletics.
 

Jackson Chauke (51kg Flyweight)  - Profile | Schedule

1 dude. I reckon boxing south africa must be a bunch of incompetent buffoons.
 
then you compare it to something like, fencing: Putting up electric wires around houses - big in south africa. swordfighting in gymhalls? she not very beeg.
so how big is the fencing team?

Jyoti Chetty (Women, Sabre) - Profile | Schedule
Adele Du Plooy (Women Sabre) - Profile | Schedule
Elvira Wood (Women Sabre) - Profile | Schedule
Michael Wood (Men's Epee) - Profile | Schedule
Dario Torrente (Men's Epee) - Profile | Schedule
Sello Maduma (Men's Epee) - Profile | Schedule

WTF?
 
 if that attachment comes through, you can see that someone here is sucking cock at SASCOC, and they all have Sello to thank. I bet the Woods are married and couldn't afford a honeymoon. Dario is 42, our oldest dude the olympcs.
case of beer says none of them even make it past the first round. 
 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love the 'lympics, me. Gives me something to watch in the morning. There should be more extensive coverage of the 15m air pistol and stuff like that. And, of course, there's always the creeping sense of disappointment as our brave lads and lasses slowly fail to live up to expectations.

I enjoy BMX the most. I like to imagine how fast they'd go if they were riding adult size bikes.

Then I can't wait to see Paula Radcliffe having a massive shit in the gutter during the Marathon (which she will blame on a dodgy Kung Po Prawn she had the night before) and still come in 27th after a blind pygmy from Unga Wutang.

Apparently the North and South Koreans won't march next to each other, but I think it would be in everyone’s interest if this were to occur. The resulting fight between the two groups of athletes would make great television as the men can all fight like their in some John Woo film and the women can have one big rinky dink lez up.

I shall be watching glued to my screen, glued with what remains to be seen of course.

My olympic predictions.

All the running races - black people
All the water sports - posh people
All the weightlifting - people who live in what used to be russia