Swimming

[Shorty]

At 11.03 I whats apped my wife and said the chokes were on.

FLMAO!!!

Didn't even place.

And thus begins the BS media excuses. Please still love me, blahblahblah.

I dunno, this seems like a worse result than last time despite a few more medals.

And a lot of people are upset lol, I don't remember being quite so p*ssed off last time.
They need to be held accountable, almost all of these swimmers in a great position to win but choked.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I dunno, this seems like a worse result than last time despite a few more medals.

And a lot of people are upset lol, I don't remember being quite so p*ssed off last time.
They need to be held accountable, almost all of these swimmers in a great position to win but choked.

100%

Cate faded so badly in that last 25.

 

[hineyrulz]

Rob us blind, does it even mean that much to this lot??? FFS i know someone quite well who is in the Aussie Water Polo team and over in RIO. They get absolutely nothing whatsoever and he absolutely does every he can to get picked and make the olympics. He bleeds green and gold. Unlike these pampered millionaire scoftcocks in the pool.

 

[Tommy Smith]

Just a thought, Chalmers victory was that of a pure competitor. Loved the big moment and the intense close competition of the 100m free.

I wonder how much of that is down to his AFL background and his ex AFL player father. He's obviously grown up in an ultra competitive environment.

Contrast that with these others who've probably been pampered swimmers since 10 and little more.

 

[hineyrulz]

Wow those 2nd fifty splits. 7th and 8th.

Wtf. Inexcusable.

4 seconds slower in the second 50 lol, what was this the Melbourne cup FFS???

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Just a thought, Chalmers victory was that of a pure competitor. Loved the big moment and the intense close competition of the 100m free.

I wonder how much of that is down to his AFL background and his ex AFL player father. He's obviously grown up in an ultra competitive environment.

Contrast that with these others who've probably been pampered swimmers since 10 and little more.

I agree. As much as I bag AFL, he looked composed.

 

[axl rose]

5% of GDP going to these chokers and not a cent for handball. Farcical.

 

[T-Boon]

Our swimmers need to stop f*cking smiling.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

From Super to Soup...

How can I strut around now, living vicariously by the deeds of gold medal winning swimmers if they don't win gold?!?!?!?

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Our swimmers need to stop f*cking smiling.

TBH, I think they live in pampered rarefied air.

They don't know how to react.

Ch 7 pumping their tyres doesn't help.

 

[smi962]

Its also the media attention, they don't seem to be able to handle the pressure. At Worlds, there is very little media attention and expectation placed upon them.

The only two individual golds so far have been from guys who had far less expectation placed upon them.

 

[Twizzle]

if there was a gold medal for choking, we'd shit it in

 

[lockyno1]

4 seconds slower in the second 50 lol, what was this the Melbourne cup FFS???

They were like Wazn in a Heavy 10 lol

 

[Frankus]

If that Singaporean wins the 100fly, he's up for a government funded bonus of a cool $1mil.

 

[T-Boon]

TBH, I think they live in pampered rarefied air.

They don't know how to react.

Ch 7 pumping their tyres doesn't help.

At times, collectively, they have come across like those American kiddy pageants.
I agree with pulling some funding and maybe make them get a day job.

 

[lockyno1]

Whatever these losers get, give it to Maddie Groves , Mack Horton, and Chalmers they are the only three that have performed

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The only people happy with the Campbell Capitulation will be the ABS.

The way the internet is reacting in Australia, it might completely break down this arvo.

FLMAO!

Go 'Straya!

 

[Shorty]

The interview sort of shows it all really.
I understand they need to be humble but saying 'nothing to be ashamed of' to not even medal in an event you were breaking records in the heats of....you should be filthy at yourself.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Funding should be like HECS and paid back.

But...if they win Gold, we give 'em a $1million.

I'd could handle that.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The interview sort of shows it all really.
I understand they need to be humble but saying 'nothing to be ashamed of' to not even medal in an event you were breaking records in the heats of....you should be filthy at yourself.

Compare them to Bogut yesterday, absolutely gutted for just losing to America and saying doing well ain't good enough.