Handball EC, males:
HUN - FRA 26-23 ;D
The European elite of handball is really balanced.
Well, we're sucking since then. :-[ :-X Against Iceland first, and an embarrassing one against Slovenia then...
Most likely we'll be only ninth or tenth...
:( :-[ :'(
8th place in the end. About the right placement, but not the seven better teams are ahead of us. Really poor French performance, and an unlucky German one.
But it seems Hungary will have to face only a moderate difficulty Olympic Games qualification tournament: at the moment it is @ Denmark and against Denmark, FYRO Macedonia/Slovenia and Algeria, 2 qualifies.
And I forgot about a great hockey game on Tuesday:
Red Bull Salzburg - SAPA Fehérvár AV 19 1-7 ;D ;D ;D
in the Austrian League (against the title holder team, which is the dirtiest hockey team).
FVCK OFF OLIMPIJA LJUBLJANA!!!
Dirty Penguins...
Ice hockey Division 1/A WCH has just finished.
Austria and Slovenia got back to Pool A, while Ukraine was relegated to Division 1/B (with the 'help' of Team Hungary... Hungarian top player Balázs Ladányi had an interview in which he almost told that we wanted to lose the last game against Great Britain to keep them in the group).
Final result:
1 Slovenia
2 Austria
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3 Hungary
4 Japan
5 Great Britain
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6 Ukraine
Though I wasn't really satisfied with the play of the team, they weren't in top form. And on last match against Britain, their attitude was also shameful - a very unusual thing from Hungary ice hockey NT, I have never seen from them anything like this. According to Ljubljana stories from the fans, British and Hungarian supporters were cheering and laughing together at the visible deliberate lame play of Hungary...
ETO will lose an international cup final... AGAIN! >:(
EHF Champions League, women, first match of the final:
Györi Audi ETO KC - Buducnost Podgorica 29-27 (Görbicz scored 12 goals)
They are in really bad shape now (Ferencváros almost beat them in the Hungarian championship final), Podgorica will destroy our team in Montenegro...
Don't worry, it's just handball...
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 13, 2012, 10:56:58 AM
Don't worry, it's just handball...
But my favorite team. On the other hand, ask JTK about handball. :D
Podgorica seems to beat ETO. :-\
Quote from: CTG on May 13, 2012, 08:18:04 PM
Podgorica seems to beat ETO. :-\
Buducnost Podgorica - Györi Audi ETO KC 27-25; overall: 54-54
Cup winner is Buducnost Podgorica (more goals as guest)...
Winning on away goals is one of the stupidest things in European sport cups.
At least, Ferencváros beat Viborg twice in the final and took the Cup Winners' Cup title.
A small ray of light after the national team (women) failed to qualify for the WCH and for the OG (bad coach, awful team moral).
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 14, 2012, 07:19:03 PM
Winning on away goals is one of the stupidest things in European sport cups.
I like that (at least in football). Otherwise the visiting team would play defensively as hell, waste time and never attack just to finish with a draw and then try to win at home, where the other team would do exactly the same. It's more entertaining now, when visiting team plays a bit more defensively than usual, but still try to score and a goal away can really be the ticket to the next round.
FOREVER CZECH HOCKEY TEAM!
Quote from: CTG on May 18, 2012, 02:28:17 PM
FOREVER CZECH HOCKEY TEAM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nffFVZRa22k
Sorry... 8)
The Russian team was damned strong with Malkin (he couldn't continue in NHL playoffs, muhahahaha), Ovechkin and Datsyuk.
But now let's focus on the Olympic Games. What do you expect from your own country (medals, points)? I think it will be the worst performance by Hungary ever (max. 2 golden medals, but rather 0).
Kayak-canoe: the current team is far the weakest in the last 20 years (our talents are getting too old). But still, they have the best chance to earn some medals.
Swimming: László Cseh is unable to beat Phelps and Lochte, Dániel Gyurta seems to be slightly slower than Kitajima, the girls are unpredictable. Where are the good old times with Tamás Darnyi and Krisztina Egerszegi?
Water polo: fvck off Serbian (/ Montenagger / Croatian / Italian) water polo team in advance. We are the title holders since 2000, but the core of our dream team is getting really old (some of them were already at LEN EC in 1997 / 1999), while the younger players are not enough good to win a tournament. My tip is a 4th place (1 Serbia, 2 Montenegro, 3 Italy).
Gymnastics: Berki is the world champion of pommel horse, but since it's a subjective sport with jury and points, he won't be able to win (or simply he'll make a mistake, Hungarian sportsmen have quite weak nerves).
Others? I don't expect a great surprise.
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
That's only one "sport".
Btw I wonder about Usain Bolt's performance. He wasn't that fast in the last season.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
So you're boycotting the entire olympics because it includes women's boxing?
(liberal mode ON) Earth is a planet where female boxing is the part of Olympic Games. You should move! (liberal mode OFF)
The question was something else about the expected medals.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 24, 2012, 01:23:18 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
So you're boycotting the entire olympics because it includes women's boxing?
Yes, since with that, the whole games become ridiculous and unserious, moreover, the spirit of the Olympics get damaged.
Btw there's an enormous Hungarian Fiesta in Debrecen, at the Swimming European Championships! ;D ;D ;D
Four gold medals today and five silver/bronze medals, we are leading the medal table two days before the end... ;D ;D ;D
BÖFF!!!
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 01:29:36 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 24, 2012, 01:23:18 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
So you're boycotting the entire olympics because it includes women's boxing?
Yes, since with that, the whole games become ridiculous and unserious, moreover, the spirit of the Olympics get damaged.
Too funny ;D
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 25, 2012, 10:56:33 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 01:29:36 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 24, 2012, 01:23:18 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM
Where there's women's boxing event, I'm not interested anymore, as I announced before.
So you're boycotting the entire olympics because it includes women's boxing?
Yes, since with that, the whole games become ridiculous and unserious, moreover, the spirit of the Olympics get damaged.
Too funny ;D
Back to the topic: BJ, what about Denmark?
I don't really know. I'm not expecting much.
Areas in which we have fair medal chances:
Swimming (we have one or two female swimmers that are really good, but probably not candidates for gold)
Rowing (4-person-lightweight) (we usually win medals in this, but I don't know if the current lineup is strong enough)
Handball (both men and women have a good chance for medals)
Track cycling, pursuit (we won silver in Beijing. Competition is very hard because UK, Australia and USA will probably all be very strong)
Badminton (as far as I know, we have good chances in male double, mixed double and female single)
Road cycling (it's highly like that Tom Boonen will win, if not him then Philippe Gilbert, Mark Cavendish, Fabian Cancellara, Nick Nuyens..... but anyway we have two riders - Lars Bak and Matti Breschel - who have a chance to win if they do really really well and also have some luck)
there may be others also.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 25, 2012, 12:50:51 PM
I don't really know. I'm not expecting much.
Areas in which we have fair medal chances:
Swimming (we have one or two female swimmers that are really good, but probably not candidates for gold)
Rowing (4-person-lightweight) (we usually win medals in this, but I don't know if the current lineup is strong enough)
Handball (both men and women have a good chance for medals)
Track cycling, pursuit (we won silver in Beijing. Competition is very hard because UK, Australia and USA will probably all be very strong)
Badminton (as far as I know, we have good chances in male double, mixed double and female single)
Road cycling (it's highly like that Tom Boonen will win, if not him then Philippe Gilbert, Mark Cavendish, Fabian Cancellara, Nick Nuyens..... but anyway we have two riders - Lars Bak and Matti Breschel - who have a chance to win if they do really really well and also have some luck)
there may be others also.
Such a long list... My bet is that Denmark will finish higher on the medal table than Hungary (DEN: 3-1-4, HUN: 1-2-7).
I think Argentina's only real chances of gold medals are our female hockey team and yatching. Judo can get medals and maybe Del Potro in tennis or the volleyball team. Basketball team was an elite team but is too old now, football team did not qualify (Yes, despite being the two-times defensive champions!!!!) and athletism is a forgotten discipline here (although we have some young talents, hopefully we can give them what they need for future competitions).
Congratulations to THW Kiel for another Champions League trophy :)
(although it doesn't matter because it's still only handball...)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 01:29:36 PM
the spirit of the Olympics get damaged.
What do you think is the spirit of the Olympics? I don't see it damaged by including a sport both male and female play. I think it was much more damaged when they allowed pros to take part in it.
Professional boxing is getting like Wrestlemania...
Our male water polo team is weaker than ever (even USA kicked our ass twice). They are quite far from defending their title owned since 2000...
The olympics are getting started soon. It is time to make this topic alive.
I'm hoping for 4-5 gold medals plus 7-12 other medals from Hungary. That would be much less than the average Hungarian 'production', but better than the Beijing performance.
I would be glad to see Katinka Hosszú winning a gold medal in swimming 400m medley, Gergö Kis winning a medal in any long distance freestyle swimming, men's water polo team winning the gold, men's handball team advancing from an extremely hard group, and of course as many medals from kayak/canoe as possible.
One bronze so far (female judo).
None so far for us.
However, I was very happy to see Cavendish and the British team fail to win the road cycling competition. They did what they could, but they were not strong enough to kill the race, so they needed the German team and the Australian team to help, but they didn't until it was too late. This way, strong riders from not-so-strong teams could battle for the victory, and we saw a "real" race. It's not that I really like Vinokourov - after all he's' a known doper - but he is certainly a charming pipsqueak who brings colour to cycling. Also nice surprise silver medal for Colombia.
The only problem is that I quite like Mark Cavendish, and now he will be discredited in the media even though that the fact he didn't win had absolutely nothing to do with his own performance or how good he is. People who aren't very interested in cycling will not be able to understand this.
Disappointing day for the swimmers yesterday. Cseh doesn't even reach the final in 400m medley, while Hosszú managed to reach only 4th in her main event, 400m medley. Kis' 6th place is okay.
Today's top events:
- HUN-SRB water polo, it is 2-2 in the first quarter
- HUN-DEN men's handball, late in the evening... we only have a slight change
Good news:
- Miklós Ungvári will fight in the final in men's 66kg judo, so silver medal at least
- Áron Szilágyi reached semi final in men's fencing, 4th place at least
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 29, 2012, 04:41:33 PM
Disappointing day for the swimmers yesterday. Cseh doesn't even reach the final in 400m medley, while Hosszú managed to reach only 4th in her main event, 400m medley. Kis' 6th place is okay.
Today's top events:
- HUN-SRB water polo, it is 2-2 in the first quarter
- HUN-DEN men's handball, late in the evening... we only have a slight change
Good news:
- Miklós Ungvári will fight in the final in men's 66kg judo, so silver medal at least
- Áron Szilágyi reached semi final in men's fencing, 4th place at least
HUN - SRB 10-14, our team is a piece of old crap.
Of course Ungvári earned only the silver.
Szilágyi will finish 4th.
Don't forget Dániel Gyurta, he's a finalist in 100 m breaststroke - the first Hungarian ever swimming under 1:00.00. And he's a lot stronger in 200 m...
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The first Hungarian gold medal has just arrived! Áron Szilágyi is Olympic Champion in fencing!
Silver in judo for Ungvári, let's see what Gyurta can do in tonight's 100m breaststroke swimming final (which is not his main event).
Water polo: see another topic...
Production by now: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze for Team Hungary.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 29, 2012, 08:32:54 PM
Production by now: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze for Team Hungary.
Not bad! I think that realistically we couldn't expect so much for the first 2 days. And seeing our performance in the last years, I really thought that Hungarian fencing and judo wouldn't be world-class anymore.
Gyurta finished 4th, only 0.04 s behind the bronze medalist. Quite promising before the 200 m.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 24, 2012, 07:03:41 PM
Btw there's an enormous Hungarian Fiesta in Debrecen, at the Swimming European Championships! ;D ;D ;D
Four gold medals today and five silver/bronze medals, we are leading the medal table two days before the end... ;D ;D ;D
The usual bad timing...
No medals yet, but none expected, and things are really going quite well for us.
STATUS:
Swimming (we have one or two female swimmers that are really good, but probably not candidates for gold)
- our two serious candidates, Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen Gray, are in their respective finals. Lotte Friis almost made a surprise by winning bronze in 400m freestyle, but took 4th place. Her favourite distance is 800m.
Rowing (4-person-lightweight) (we usually win medals in this, but I don't know if the current lineup is strong enough)
The "Golden 4" looked weak in the preliminary heat. Semi-final today. Medals seem sadly unlikely.
Handball (both men and women have a good chance for medals):
- Men's team has a better chance than women's team. Victory in the first match against Hungary (:P). Women lost against South Korea and will have a difficult time.
Track cycling, pursuit (we won silver in Beijing. Competition is very hard because UK, Australia and USA will probably all be very strong)
- competition not started. Strongest member of the team, Alex Rasmussen, recently got busted for messing up his whereabouts and is out.
Badminton (as far as I know, we have good chances in male double, mixed double and female single)
all our participants are doing well and are either qualified or will probably qualify for the quarter finals
Road cycling (it's highly like that Tom Boonen will win, if not him then Philippe Gilbert, Mark Cavendish, Fabian Cancellara, Nick Nuyens..... but anyway we have two riders - Lars Bak and Matti Breschel - who have a chance to win if they do really really well and also have some luck)
- missed this one. 12th place for Jakob Fuglsang.
Tennis: Caroline Wozniacki
- has been in some rough fights to get to the 3rd round. Medals highly unlikely.
Sailing:
- 49'ers and 2-person-somethings (not sure about the English name) both in 1st place so far. Looking very good.
Apart from that, some archers are doing pretty well and Michael Maze (table tennis) looked very strong in the 1st (or 2nd?) round. But medals are unlikely.
Water polo:
Hungary - Montenegro 10-11, zero point so far. SHAMEFUL! The remaining opponents: USA (they could beat Montenegro, I give 40% for the HUN victory), Romania (90%) and Great Britain (99.99%).
Male handball: South Korea was beaten by Hungary, great result.
So, the Hungarian team still has a chance to win gold?
Looks like we just got our first silver medal up here - at Skeet Shooting. I hardly knew that existed. But here we go.
4 team advances from the group and 2 teams are beatable to say the least, so we'll reach the playoff round, so there is still a chance for the gold medal. I thought we might beat one of the big teams in the first two matches, well, we couldn't. It's still not a problem, we have to find top form not at the group stage, rather for the playoff. Btw we can still reach 2nd place in the group, since USA beat Montenegro (surprise). I only hope that we can avoid playing Croatia in the quarter final.
The female water polo team started with a one-goal loss against big favourite USA - that is also not bad, though not good, either, since 0 point for this in the group. But promising.
I was very sad after the DEN-HUN handball game, we didn't deserve a loss... Today we edged South Korea with good play in the last 15 minutes. The key game will be against Serbia and/or Spain. I hope we can advance from the group.
Gyurta is great in swimming, I hope they can win the gold medal (200m breaststroke). Katinka Hosszú, 4th place in 400m medley, might hope for a bronze medal, since the Chinese girl ahead of her is blamed for doping. It is good to see the 4x200m freestyle team in the final (men). Cseh is awful, and Biczó was also better in the Budapest ECH...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 31, 2012, 05:08:18 PM
since the Chinese girl ahead of her is blamed for doping
I guess "she" has more testosterone in "her" vessels than any of us at this forum. Word-class Chinese swimmers appear too fast, but usually they disappear even faster (steroids are harmful! :D ).
Predictions for 200 m breaststroke: Gyurta changed his tactics lately, pushing harder the first 100 m, so he won't be able to bring his usual final attack. I think we will see Kitajima and the two GBR swimmers on the podium (winner ~2:07.50, all of them under 2:08.00), Gyurta will finish only 4th (~2:08.20).
Btw I was sooooooooo happy to see Phelps losing by worse touch at the wall (200 m butterfly). ;D
Quote from: CTG on August 01, 2012, 08:56:08 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 31, 2012, 05:08:18 PM
since the Chinese girl ahead of her is blamed for doping
I guess "she" has more testosterone in "her" vessels than any of us at this forum. Word-class Chinese swimmers appear too fast, but usually they disappear even faster (steroids are harmful! :D ).
"She" swam the last 50 metres faster than Ryan Lochte, gold medallist of the same event (400m medley) for men... Chinese say it is nothing special, we should accept this... Olympic Committee too...
(Bi)O(chem)lympic games
It is possible that she and other Chinese swimmers are doped, but we should remember that it's much more likely that Chinese swimmers can produce exceptional results without doping than, for example, American swimmers or Australian swimmers. This is because in China, the authorities have scouts whose job is to find kids with unusual talents for certain sports, and then haul these kids into training camps from a very early age. The parents' consent is required of course, but usually it's a formality because it is very honorable for them to have a chance to represent their country - and because there is a chance of economic gain. In America or Australia, only those people start swimming who "feel like it", and the talents can only be found among those.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 01, 2012, 01:01:39 PM
It is possible that she and other Chinese swimmers are doped, but we should remember that it's much more likely that Chinese swimmers can produce exceptional results without doping than, for example, American swimmers or Australian swimmers. This is because in China, the authorities have scouts whose job is to find kids with unusual talents for certain sports, and then haul these kids into training camps from a very early age. The parents' consent is required of course, but usually it's a formality because it is very honorable for them to have a chance to represent their country - and because there is a chance of economic gain. In America or Australia, only those people start swimming who "feel like it", and the talents can only be found among those.
But then why are they so crappy in football, ice hockey, baseball, car racing, etc.? Because it would be really hard to cheat in them. They cheat with the age of gymnast girls and dope their swimmers heavily. The only sport I believe they are really good in is the table tennis.
It is a known fact that swimmers usually dope and if they're good enough for the business, the committee (or whoever controls that) looks the other way. It is also very weird that a guy that won everything 4 years ago didn't win anything now...
Quote from: Chulk on August 01, 2012, 03:15:30 PM
It is also very weird that a guy that won everything 4 years ago didn't win anything now...
Four years ago Phelps said he eats a lot of pasta and that's the reason of his great performance (probably he tried kidding). Maybe he ran out of spagetti... ;D
It is again interesting that it can only be done with women... China has only good female athletes, like GDR had some decades ago. Medicine can transform women to men, and it is efficient, maybe we won't hear from them after their sport career, or at least not as women... To train a good male athlete, you need more talent instead of gender transforming medicine. (The same for training a good water polo player...)
Once again, this Chinese geek swam faster than men's top swimmer Ryan Lochte at the same circumstances... That is biologically an impossible thing.
Quote from: CTG on August 01, 2012, 01:09:45 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 01, 2012, 01:01:39 PM
It is possible that she and other Chinese swimmers are doped, but we should remember that it's much more likely that Chinese swimmers can produce exceptional results without doping than, for example, American swimmers or Australian swimmers. This is because in China, the authorities have scouts whose job is to find kids with unusual talents for certain sports, and then haul these kids into training camps from a very early age. The parents' consent is required of course, but usually it's a formality because it is very honorable for them to have a chance to represent their country - and because there is a chance of economic gain. In America or Australia, only those people start swimming who "feel like it", and the talents can only be found among those.
But then why are they so crappy in football, ice hockey, baseball, car racing, etc.? Because it would be really hard to cheat in them. They cheat with the age of gymnast girls and dope their swimmers heavily. The only sport I believe they are really good in is the table tennis.
Football: because it's so unbelievably big in other parts of the world and everybody plays it, that you can't just make a world-class team like that. Football culture is quite small in China. If it gets a lot bigger, they will get better.
Ice hockey: I'm not sure there even is an Ice Hockey rink anywhere in China. I could be wrong, but I haven't heard about it.
Baseball: because nobody gives a fùck about baseball.
Car racing: because this is not about talent, but about equipment, technical skill and practice. China has never had a car industry, unlike Japan, Germany and USA. Ordinary people only began to drive cars in the 1970's, and many places in the country they still don't. It is possible that they will be good in the distant future, but not any time soon.
The gymnast age thing was a total joke. It wasn't true, and if it had been, what the fúck would that have helped, that their gymnasts were only 13 years old instead of 16? Then their opponents must just have sucked even more.
The reason why this pisses me off is because it's incredibly racist of you to say the things you are saying. With China being the most populous country in the world and having the toughest and biggest training programs, why would they not be the best in the world (with or without doping)? Please answer this.
Now, North Korea winning gold in women's weightlifting, that seems a bit more suspect. When I heard that North Korea had won gold medals, I immediately thought "it must be weightlifting".
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 01, 2012, 07:41:57 PM
Now, North Korea winning gold in women's weightlifting, that seems a bit more suspect. When I heard that North Korea had won gold medals, I immediately thought "it must be weightlifting".
Exactly the same story, see my previous post. Another communist, uncontrollable country with good lobby.
DÁNIEL GYURTA IS OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN SWIMMING, 200M BREASTSTROKE!!! FOREVER!!! WORLD RECORD!!!
Female water polo: Hungary - China 11-10!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS!!!! skid OFF BRITISH CRAPS! skid OFF KITAJIMA!
Congratulations on Gold and WR for Gyurta !
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 01, 2012, 07:58:29 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 01, 2012, 07:41:57 PM
Now, North Korea winning gold in women's weightlifting, that seems a bit more suspect. When I heard that North Korea had won gold medals, I immediately thought "it must be weightlifting".
Exactly the same story, see my previous post. Another communist, uncontrollable country with good lobby.
Uncontrollable? Who should control them?
And do you think China is a communist country? That shows something about your level of insight into the situation...
Forever Maria Alexandra Escobar Guerrerón! ;D ;D ;D
http://sportgeza.hu/2012/london/cikkek/bepisilt_az_erolkodestol_az_ecuadori_sulyemelono/#
Phelps' mom celebrates... the silver?!?!? HAHAHA!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnc90ILygI
Today:
Male handball: Hungary - Croatia, it will be a damned hard match (I can' name another single sport where the elite is that balanced), prediction: 23-27
Male water polo: Hungary - Romania, it's obligatory to win, because 1, being three times title holders, we must survive the group phase 2, Romania is a lot weaker 3, we hate Romania very much :D; prediction: 12-7
Male swimming, 200 m individual medley: László Cseh qualified to the final with the second best result behind Lochte. However, Cseh is not enough good to beat Phelps. Predictions: 1 Lochte 1:54.10; 2 Phelps 1:55.05; 3 Pereira 1:55.95; 4 Cseh 1:56.00
Because they used to be a lot worse in the past, showing their real "genetic" skills to sports. 110 m hurdles? Swimming? They were nowhere, even when only amateur sportsmen could participate. Most of their current results are based on biotechnology (the same goes for the American swimmers, probably they use different - less harmful? less effective? - chemicals).
To train a good sportsman, you have to start it early, at the age around 5-7 years. Fluent training will cause slow fluent improvements in performance. That's why I think that sudden excellent time results are suspicious (for example 2 seconds improvement in one year / 100 m). Swimming the last 50 m faster than Lochte... that's something you can't show up suddenly without dopes.
It's not racism. It only means I lost the last traces of faith in the purity of Olympic Games by this evident, but unrevealed cheat.
Before you start to charge our swimmers (why not, Gyurta won with WR): in Hungary, the governmental subsidy for sports is so low that they simply don't have money for high-tech chemicals - not even for normal training conditions (think on Fazekas and his outdated stanozolol). You need a lot of money to get the newest, undetectable steroids / biological dopes to dodge WADA. So: if somebody from a poor country produces a negative sample, it must be considered as a really negative one (if he/she dopes, it will be recognized easily). While in the case of Yang, Ye, Li, Chen, Ding, Wong, other stupid short names (but I could say Michael or Ryan from the USA, too)... well... you know my opinion. Keep their samples, analyze them again in two years and you will get the answer.
Ah yes, car racing: even you can say 10 other countries without serious car industry, but with talented car pipsqueaks. They are only good in sports where dopes count.
Btw if the results of these sport events are based on the number of inhabitants... but they aren't. It's not a reason.
How strange: we are traditionally good in "wet" sports (swimming, water polo, kayak / canoe), although Hungary is in the center of the continent without seaside.
It is always the hardest against the Croatians. They know us very much, especially the keeper, who is a star player in the Hungarian championship. Probably it is more possible to upset any other top team...17-23 in the 54th minute...
Today: 6th place in shooting, 5th place in female judo (Joó injured in the quarter finals, it is a miracle to win a match after it when she wasn't even able to walk...). HUN-ROM water polo in progress. Good Hungarian times in the swimming heats.
Edit: CRO-HUN 26-19, HUN-ROM 17-15.
Who cares about gold, when we have this beauty? :D
http://coedmagazine.com/2012/07/28/zsuzsanna-jakabos-hungarian-swimmer-is-the-hottest-olympian-ever-83-photos/
László Cseh saved himself from a virtual dick cutting... bronze medal @200m medley...
2-1-2, not that bad so far, although I miss some surprise medals.
Wheeeeeeeee, Olympic Gold, finally! ;D Surprise rowing victory for the lightweight double-sculler.
1-2-2 now. Rowing, Rowing, Shooting, Rowing, Badminton.
Two more medals are already sure (badminton men's double, gold or silver, and sailing: gold, silver or bronze. All our swimmers fucked up though. No swimming medals for Denmark. Cycling track team finished 5th. Missed bronze match by 0.1 secs. Wozniacki got thrashed by Serena. Female handballers are out. Male handballers have won 3/3 so far.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 01, 2012, 07:58:29 PM
with good lobby.
How could North Korea lobby for anything, anywhere? :o
I feel a tad bit ashamed again to be Hungarian, reading all this racism, hate, suspicions and accusations here. If only ever we would invest our energy wasted for hate into improving ourselves we, and the country would not stand where it is. But this is going off-topic so I rather stop here.
I have my preconceptions and porblems with China. But what BJ said is true. Their talent seeking, training and raising process is second to none (but inhumane).
Well...
Swimming competitions were finished. No more medals, only finals from Hungarian swimmers. Hosszú and Kis left without a medal, but good 6th place from Boglárka Kapás (800m freestyle) and good 5th place from men's 4x100 medley relay. Personally I find the latter really amazing.
The same with judo, Bor finished 7th. Sidi collected a 8th place in shooting, his best event is still to come - though he is always svcking in Olympics...
Terrible continuation from the handball team. Of course we have the key game against Serbia left, but the performance against Spain (22-33) did not left anything promising...
The water polo team beat Great Britain without a doubt (6-17). Tomorrow we'll play against the USA to decide 3rd/4th place in the group. Possible opponents in the quarter final: Italy, Spain or Croatia - I would prefer Spain from them.
The female water polo team is in the semi final now. They beat Russia (11-10) in the quarter final! Good result, very good result!
The hammer throw final is starting now! Krisztián Pars (=Krisztián SARS) have a good medal chance there, though Murofushi and Kozmus are very dangerous as well. I hope the lobby was good enough in order to avoid him being deprived from his potentially won medal.
By the way, Hungary is 3-1-3 now on the medal table, since Krisztián Berki has just won gold medal in gymnastics. A surprise bronze medal has also won lately by Péter Módos in wrestling.
First Bronze - Tennis - Del Potro
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 05, 2012, 09:56:08 PM
First Bronze - Tennis - Del Potro
Grats! Awesome match against Federer on Friday!
Btw I really feel sad for Federer after the final...
Great Sunday! Gold medal from Krisztián Pars - athletics, hammer throw! Our European Champion is now Olympic Champion, too!
4 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze for team Hungary. Well, the amount of gold medals is really good. The amount of medals, that's okay.
Btw Ezekiel Kemboi is a double Olympic Champion now! My former nick here (when Zak banned me, I used that one) ran really well! Grats to the niga! ;D
And another Hungarian gold medal from Pars!
It's been a fantastic day for Denmark. Silver medal for the men's double in badminton (expectedly lost to Chinese people), another silver medal in sailing (superstar Ben Ainslie overtook Jonas Høgh-Christensen in the last event), and a surprise gold medal for Lasse Normann Hansen in the omnium event in track cycling! (Omnium is like decathlon in athletics: combination of all the different race formats). He's probably doped, but who knows. We are now at 2-4-2. The handball team still has a good chance of winning a medal, and we also still have some chances in kayak and sailing, so it might be the best olympic result since 1948. We are also apparently leading in the medals / population index. At least we were before Pars' victory.
Really not a bad Olympics for Denmark. And yes, the handball team is a serious medal contender.
Left Hungarian medal chances:
- modern pentathlon - who knows... it is like biathlon at Winter Games... luck is needed to be winner, lot of medal contenders
- Péter Sidi - shooting... he is the best, but always svcker at Olympics
- men's and women's water polo team (I hope for a medal by one of these teams)
- maybe, maybe wrestling, it has just started
- kayak/canoe... Hungarian team manager said that the expectations are 2 gold medals and 3 other medals
- Harcsa, boxing (he is in the QFs now, two bronze medals, so only 1 match to be won)
- maybe a surprise, or anything left by me?
Pars should pee something negative now to get that fuckin' gold medal.
He's quite a figure... I'm not sure I've seen anyone whose neck is wider than his head before. Even if he's clean, he sure has some serious amounts of testosterone in him.
Great start of the day!!! Hungary handball team beat Serbia (26-23) WITH A GOOD PLAY in the second half, and from a very difficult group, advanced to the playoff round. We will face Iceland in the quarter final - well, still better than playing against France...
Péter Sidi is lying in 2nd place - men's shooting.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 06, 2012, 09:31:18 AM
Even if he's clean, he sure has some serious amounts of testosterone in him.
I can't imagine a human being able to throw 80 m without dopes. Not even 75...
Btw Bolt ran only an OR instead of WR. Disappointing. ;D (kidding, 9.63 is the second fastest 100 m ever)
200 m will be more exciting, since Blake is also able to do 19.2-19.3.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 06, 2012, 12:17:22 PM
Great start of the day!!! Hungary handball team beat Serbia (26-23) WITH A GOOD PLAY in the second half, and from a very difficult group, advanced to the playoff round. We will face Iceland in the quarter final - well, still better than playing against France...
Péter Sidi is lying in 2nd place - men's shooting.
Let's beat the yankees in water polo!
Sidi almost managed NOT to get into the final... he secured his place in the final only in a four-men shootout for the last berth... And he starts only from the 8th... though even the 2nd place can be caught, it is extremely close between 2nd-8th. An Italian is leading.
Mihály Deák-Bárdos is leading in his first wrestling match!
sidi alpenmilch
That was a weak day, Deák-Bárdos lost in the 2nd round in wrestling, Harcsa lost in the quarter final, Sidi finished only 6th... I expected a medal for today... but... the handball and the water polo team played really good matches.
HUN-SRB 26-23 -> 4th place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Iceland in the quarter final
HUN-USA 11-6 -> 3rd place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Italy in the quarter final
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 12:40:09 AM
HUN-SRB 26-23 -> 4th place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Iceland in the quarter final
HUN-USA 11-6 -> 3rd place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Italy in the quarter final
Both will fall in quarter finals.
Péter Lörincz will wrestle tonight for Olympic Gold after winning all his matches so far!!! So minimum a silver medal for him and Team Hungary.
Another highlight of the night: Spain-Hungary female water polo semi final in the pool.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 06:00:06 PM
Péter Lörincz will wrestle tonight for Olympic Gold after winning all his matches so far!!! So minimum a silver medal for him and Team Hungary.
will be a silver
4-2-3, silver for Lörincz. Let's focus now on the water polo (and on Debreceni VSC, football).
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2012, 06:08:56 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 06:00:06 PM
Péter Lörincz will wrestle tonight for Olympic Gold after winning all his matches so far!!! So minimum a silver medal for him and Team Hungary.
will be a silver
Just as predicted. Sucker.
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2012, 08:17:49 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2012, 06:08:56 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 06:00:06 PM
Péter Lörincz will wrestle tonight for Olympic Gold after winning all his matches so far!!! So minimum a silver medal for him and Team Hungary.
will be a silver
Just as predicted. Sucker.
Your all time negative comments are not 'predictions'...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 10:07:34 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2012, 08:17:49 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2012, 06:08:56 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 07, 2012, 06:00:06 PM
Péter Lörincz will wrestle tonight for Olympic Gold after winning all his matches so far!!! So minimum a silver medal for him and Team Hungary.
will be a silver
Just as predicted. Sucker.
Your all time negative comments are not 'predictions'...
Yes, they are. I said silver because I saw he was already celebrating so much after the semi. I think he was way too self-confident. Ungvári's silver was also predictable as his team said the opponent is weak, has no stamina, etc. right before the final. When a Hungarian sportsman is sure in his victory, it rarely ends with a real success. I prefer the modest talents.
Male K-2, 1000 m: Dombi and Kökény won, 5th golden medal
The female K-4 is racing at the moment, they will disappoint me.
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 11:47:37 AM
The female K-4 is racing at the moment, they will disappoint me.
OR NOT!!! 6th gold! ;D
Predictions for male handball and water polo:
Hungary - Iceland 25-27
Hungary - Italy 7-9
I just read the time results: our K-2 won by 0.05 seconds (that's about 20 cm, less than the fluctuation between the boats coming from the different rythm of paddling).
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 11:51:32 AM
Hungary - Iceland 25-27
14-12 at the moment, there will be more goals than expected.
27-27 and overtime... :-X
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 01:30:51 PM
27-27 and overtime... :-X
If we lose after 16-12 in half time, it will be typical. And we will...
30-30, 2nd overtime to follow...
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Hungary - Iceland 34-33 (after ET2)
Psycho-octopus mode off.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMHUN-SRB 26-23 -> 4th place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Iceland in the quarter final
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMBoth will fall in quarter finals.
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMThe female K-4 is racing at the moment, they will disappoint me.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMYour all time negative comments are not 'predictions'...
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMYes, they are. I said silver because I saw he was already celebrating so much after the semi. I think he was way too self-confident. Ungvári's silver was also predictable as his team said the opponent is weak, has no stamina, etc. right before the final. When a Hungarian sportsman is sure in his victory, it rarely ends with a real success. I prefer the modest talents.
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMIf we lose after 16-12 in half time, it will be typical. And we will...
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMi c e l a n d w i l l w i n
Results: K4 gold medal, Hungary handball team won. Without a comment...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 02:45:38 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMHUN-SRB 26-23 -> 4th place in the (harder) group -> will play vs. Iceland in the quarter final
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMBoth will fall in quarter finals.
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMThe female K-4 is racing at the moment, they will disappoint me.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMYour all time negative comments are not 'predictions'...
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMYes, they are. I said silver because I saw he was already celebrating so much after the semi. I think he was way too self-confident. Ungvári's silver was also predictable as his team said the opponent is weak, has no stamina, etc. right before the final. When a Hungarian sportsman is sure in his victory, it rarely ends with a real success. I prefer the modest talents.
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMIf we lose after 16-12 in half time, it will be typical. And we will...
Quote from: CTG on August 08, 2012, 02:09:25 PMi c e l a n d w i l l w i n
Results: K4 gold medal, Hungary handball team won. Without a comment...
Shut up and FORZA ITALIA!!! ;D
It happened in Atlanta, 1996 the last time... Hungary men's water polo team has been eliminated from the tournament. We lost 9-11 to Italy in the quarter final... No fourth gold medal in the row, marring this fantastic Olympic day for us to a big extent.
The end of something great: our water polo team won't win the 4th gold in a row.
We really didn't play well in the tournament...
A good day for Hungary!
6-2-3 vs 2-4-3 and you have about twice the population we have, so
3-1-1.5 vs 2-4-3 -> 11.5 - 13. Still leading ;D. But probably no more medals, as the handball team kept sucking in the quarter final :-(
Hungary vs. SWEDEN in the semi final! A never returning chance for our team to win the first ever men's handball team Olympic medal!!! An opponent which is not stronger than us... they couldn't even beat Montenegro in the WCH qualifiers, so they will miss next WC (unlike us, who beat Norway).
Btw as your country comparison battle is quite close, you should use a more exact population ratio, which is around 1.8 in real (9.96 vs. 5.55 million).
Edit: corrected, but then Danish data should also be updated (my data were from Wikipedia).
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 10:34:29 PM
round 1.8 in real (10.01 vs. 5.55 million).
Hungary is already under 10 million. (9.96)
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xstadat/xstadat_hosszu/h_wdsd001a.html
Argentina's day ended up being a good one though it started badly.
Male volley lost to Brazil 3-0, no chances there. A really young team looking forward to be a serious threat in Rio 2014, hopefully.
Male basketball team beat Brazil and are playing in Semifinals for the third straight Olympic game. Rival in USA, so we're pretty fucked up. Maybe we can do it again like we did in 2004, but chances are really low.
Female hockey team beat Great Britain 2-1 and once again secured a medal for Argentina. Since '96 we are always in top 4 at every big event (Champions Trophy, World Cup, Olympic Games). Rival will we the almighty Netherlands, always a tough team to beat. Should be a pretty tight match.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2012, 08:52:33 PM
We really didn't play well in the tournament...
To tell the truth, we sucked against all the relevant opponents (USA wasn't that strong). The oldies - Kásás, Biros, Kis, Szécsi, etc. - have to retire now, their time seems to be over. Too bad, we don't have any young talents in the pocket. Expect at least 5 poor years in water polo.
Today:
Female K-1: Danuta Kozák is good, but I don't see the power in her to become an olympic champion. Prediction: bronze medal.
Female K-2: Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics are two time title holders, but they are getting older and older. Probably they are still good for a silver or bronze.
Male K-4: as for me it's our weakest unit for today, 5th or 6th place is realistic, bronze medal would be a good result.
Male running, 200 m: the semis were funny, both Jamaican fooled with the opponents. Blake pushed hard in the first 120 m, then slowed down extremely and almost payed for it (20.01, followed by 20.02 and 20.03 contestants) - I think at least ~0.8 is still in his feet and he'll be able to run WR. Bolt is a different case, his first 150 m was weak mediorce (no suffering, but not so lazy), then he slowed down a bit and finished with 20.18. Fast, really fast, but not so impressive. However, it also can be a trick to mislead Blake. Prediction:1 Blake 19.15 WR; 2 Bolt 19.29; 3 Spearmon 19.65
Male running, 800 m: I want to see another WR tonight. Rudisha is in form this year, can be good enough for 1:40.50 (haven't seen the qualifications, is he there anyway? :D )
BJ: what happened to the Danish wonder runner, Wilson Kipketer? (I know he's old but is he still in athletics as a trainer or something?)
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 08, 2012, 10:22:45 PM
3-1-1.5 vs 2-4-3 -> 11.5 - 13
11.5 - 13?
What kind of point system do you use? :D
Gold 3, silver 2, bronze 1: 12.5 - 17
Gold 2, silver 1.5, bronze 1: 9 - 13
Number of medals: 5.5 - 9
Oh, you used 3-1-1. But why?
News, not from the best: Yohan Blake is under investigation because of wearing a wrist watch during the semis (different brand than the official timing sponsor of Olympic Games) and in worst case he'll be disqualified for that "horrible crime". Nonsense...
Another bad one for Jamaica: Asafa Powell can't participate in 4x100 relay because of his injury. It means they won't be able to break their own WR.
False start by K-4... Does it mean DQF?
Edit #1: no, they could start again. 2nd place at 250 m, will they fall back at the end?
Edit #2: 500 m, 2nd place, but... I will be satisfied even with a bronze.
Edit #3: SILVER MEDAL! WELL-DONE!
K-1, Danuta Kozák, GOLD MEDAL!!! :D
And from now: go Kovács and Janics! I'm afraid of the latter one (after having a baby she didn't really win back her top shape)
I expected 1 gold medal plus 1 silver/bronze medal for the day, so I'm satisfied, since there is still a kayak event left (plus the female water polo bronze match, though I think we won't like the physical polo of the Aussies).
I think the Hungarian men, not only in kayak, are generally performing slightly above expectations in the Olympic Games.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2012, 11:21:22 AM
I think the Hungarian men, not only in kayak, are generally performing slightly above expectations in the Olympic Games.
Or: the chicks suck. ;D
K-2, silver... damn!
7-4-3 so far. Denmark? :D
Verdammt! >:(
Unbelievable: gold medal for Éva Risztov in 10 km swimming!!! Has anybody expected that?
8-4-3. 8)
8-4-3 with a surprise gold medal from Éva Risztov!!! That is amazing, what is happening?! She was a great talent, then a decent 400m freestyle/800m freestyle/200 butterfly/400m medley swimmer, 4 times WCH silver medallist in 2003. She retired then due to her disappointedness, but took up competitive swimming a few years ago again. She started to focus on long distance swimming, also including open water swimming. Today, she is the Olympic Champion of 10 km open water swimming! That is a fabulous story!
Quote from: Usrin on August 09, 2012, 03:08:23 PM
Unbelievable: gold medal for Éva Risztov in 10 km swimming!!! Has anybody expected that?
8-4-3. 8)
:o
Poo: please forget the "eternal loser" thing about Risztov. Now only the ugly is right. :D
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2012, 03:10:21 PM
8-4-3 with a surprise gold medal from Éva Risztov!!! That is amazing, what is happening?! She was a great talent, then a decent 400m freestyle/800m freestyle/200 butterfly/400m medley swimmer, 4 times WCH silver medallist in 2003. She retired then due to her disappointedness, but took up competitive swimming a few years ago again. She started to focus on long distance swimming, also including open water swimming. Today, she is the Olympic Champion of 10 km open water swimming! That is a fabulous story!
a real underdog's excellent surprise.
Btw it seems Beijing fiasco is balanced now with these lucky games.
Risztov was a real 'dark horse', nobody knew her skills, since was is her first long distance swimming on a world event. Hungarian sports sites mentioned her name today as a 'who knows' category competitor, whispered a possible medal chance, but I think they also wasn't aware of her real chances. Bwin held odds for her at 31.00. I didn't expect a medal from her. Due to her results in the pool, and considering that she just didn't have the power to swim the fastest at finish, it is not that surprising to call her a victorious underdog I think on his first 10 km big event. Thus, she is the Hungarian Paula Radcliffe in my opinion.
Silly idea or not, but I would be glad to see a formula car race in Olympic Games (with equal cars). The other thing I miss from the program is chess.
First I would call the missing fencing and modern pentathlon (team) events back! :)
Well, I would take some disciplines out and include some new ones. We know changes in Olympics only happen to help the USA win (like adding BMX, what the hell is that shit? Leave it at the X-games and out of the Olympics) so I don't expect any of these to happen. But I would add a couple more martial arts, take out tennis mixed double (it's just like male singles with obstacles), sync swimming seems more a dance than a sport, I would go back to the old amateur rule for team sports, and maybe some kind of "Race of the champions" kind event. Don't really consider chess a sport but I wouldn't mind. Maybe add some indoor football
Overtime on the HUN-AUS female water polo bronze match... we are not leading there again... 11-12...
Rudisha: WR
Bolt: almost OR, he was too lazy at the end (would be 19.23-19.25 without that)
Blake: ran out of power after 150 m
At least we saw a new record.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2012, 09:02:34 PM
Overtime on the HUN-AUS female water polo bronze match... we are not leading there again... 11-12...
Bronze went to kangoo pussies.
Today: Hungary - Sweden male handball semi-final, qualifications for kayak/canoe sprint finals (200 m), playing for 5th place vs Australia in male water polo (...). If we don't count the handball event, this one can be a very boring day for us.
WCH bronze medallist Csaba Gercsák will swim in open water. It would be less surprise to see him winning than Risztov yesterday. Gábor Hatos will wrestle for a medal, according to the main Hungarian sports site. These might improve the interestingness of the day.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 10, 2012, 09:04:58 AM
WCH bronze medallist Csaba Gercsák will swim in open water. It would be less surprise to see him winning than Risztov yesterday. Gábor Hatos will wrestle for a medal, according to the main Hungarian sports site. These might improve the interestingness of the day.
Still far from yesterday. :D
Bronze medal for Calabrese & De la Fuente: Yatchting, 470.
Silver for female hockey team "Las Leonas": Match against Netherlands was tight, only decided by a huge mistake by the refs on Netherlands first goal that ended up messing up the rest of the game for us.
Defeat against USA in male basketball. Expected loss. Bronze match will be against Russia.
Gold medal for Crismanich: Taekwondo, -80kg.
Tomorrow Miguel Correa & Ruben Rézola will take part on K2, 200m final. They got there with the 6th best time from semis. Chances are not that high but who knows...
Glorious victory by Brazilian women at volleyball! Brazil 3-1 USA (11-25; 25-17; 25-20; 25-17). In a few minutes Esquiva Falcão will be in our third final of the day, at 75kg boxing.
Too bad you lost to Mexico in football. I hate Mexicans so much I almost wanted you to win instead of just wanting Mexico to lose.
I like the idea of Bazil loosing the gold :)
Silent finish...
Weaker finish than it was expected.
Janics only took a bronze in kayak sprint, I counted on a ninth gold (we had more than eight gold medals in Barcelona, 1992 for the last time).
I thought about a team sport medal. One, no matter what colour it is. (That was my expectation before the whole games, too). Well, two 4th places and a 5th place. That's sad. Really sad for the handball team, against Sweden in the SF, we just lost, 26-27... we had several chances to equalize in the end, but we just couldn't (post, turnover, referees, goalie saved etc.)... I had the thought that if we could have equalized, and could have taken the lead, we would have won the game. After the water polo team lost in the QF (which caused the mourn of a legend, and heartbreak for many Hungarian girls), we clinched 5th place after beating Australia and Spain. The girls lost in overtime to Australia in the water polo bronze match.
Csaba Gercsák and the wrestlers got no medals, but that would have been a surprise.
In modern pentathlon, one bronze medal ended in Hungarian neck. That is not bad, realistic, this event is rather luck... but Hungarians are good at it.
In the medal table, HUNGARY finished in 9th place (8-4-5). That is excellent, the best since Barcelona, 1992 (7th or 8th place, 11-12-7, as far as I remember, there). The number of gold medals is simply amazing. The amount of medals (17) is also a bit above expectations. It seems Hungary is still a sports nation, Beijing was only a misfortunate fail. Dániel Gyurta said that since unlike in preceding Olympics, Hungary had won the first gold medal early... and that determined everything, the others just kept on coming, as the good basic mood had been already set. Overall, I am satisfied with the Olympics.
After a long time, the Hungarian female handball championship seems to be exciting. Ferencváros got a lot stronger in the summer, while Györi ETO sold some key players (for example Vérten went to the rival), so they must be almost equal in strength now. ETO has to face a damned tight championship. Go, Görbicz, go!!! ;D
Good performance from MKB Veszprém in handball Champions League!
Today:
MKB Veszprém - THW Kiel 31-30 (14-15) ;)
In the previous round:
Atlético Madrid - MKB Veszprém 26-27 (13-15)
Quote from: CTG on September 04, 2012, 03:38:40 PM
After a long time, the Hungarian female handball championship seems to be exciting. Ferencváros got a lot stronger in the summer, while Györi ETO sold some key players (for example Vérten went to the rival), so they must be almost equal in strength now. ETO has to face a damned tight championship. Go, Görbicz, go!!! ;D
First battle in the championship:
Györi Audi ETO - Ferencváros 36–28 (19–14)
Way too easy...
Hahahaha, Görbicz humiliated them... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cHzGbk53AE&
Manny Pacquiao's time is over, he should retire after his second loss in a row.
But at least we could finally see a brutal knockout - the thing I miss from the higher weight classes.
DICKSUCKER ROMANIAN FEMALE HANDBALL TEAM!!!
HUNGARY-romania 25-19 yesterday! -> with this, Hungary reached semi final, while the gypsies are out!!! BÖFF!!! ;D ;D ;D