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| GOLD #5!! 10KM OPEN WATER MARATHON FOR MEN.
Unexpected, but very pleasant :D
Especially when you consider that Maarten van der Weijden was diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer in 2001, had to go through 4 chemo's and a bone marrow transplant, but he beat the cancer completely and now he's won olympic gold. He's our Lance Armstrong :) Nothing but respect.
Plus he'll go down in history of being the first man to win this new Olympic distance :)
ETA:
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| | Tags: | olympics | | Current Music: | Village People - In The Navy | | Subject: | O____o | | Time: | 10:55 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/happy.gif) surprised |
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| | Anyone watching the Olympics has seen these sort of what I guess is Kung Fu performances? I mean, they're being scored and all! The commentator here just said it's one of the exhibition sports that every Olympics has. Curious and all, but still very nice to watch. ;) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| yeah!!! 16 nov Theo Maassen in Peer (de stad in vlaams limburg hier, niet de vrucht)
w00t | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I don't really know what to say about tonight tbh.
Erm, the new strips looked good? ;) And the Northern Ireland fans were great?
No, I think we did ok. Whether or not ok is good enough to beat Macedonia, I don't know. In saying that though, we're notoriously bad at Hampden friendlies so it may be wise to discount this match! It's nothing new though, we always, always struggle to break down teams who come to defend against us. We just quite often lack that killer touch and we did during the last campaign too...despite the results. ;)
I would love to know why neither Boyd, Clarkson nor (Stevie) Fletcher came on for Miller. I think Miller does an outstanding job for Scotland, don't get me wrong, and i'd probably still play him away to Holland and games such as those. But I'm not convinced the McFadden/Miller partnership worked tonight, against teams who we're desperately trying to break down, and i think there were some balls into the box that Boyd would have thrived on. 20 mins wouldn't have done any harm, surely?!
Commons did well when he came on, and so did Barr. I thought Scott Brown did ok too tbh, though there seem to be a few who disagree on that one?! Great penalty save from Mcgregor though bit of a daft tackle from him in the first place! We're lucky to have 2 very very good keepers (though Gordon's still my first choice!). My Scotland man of the match was McFadden (totally unbiased!). Thought he did a lot of work, some great runs, great control - capable of something special. He could maybe learn to pass a wee bit quicker, but that's Faddy...and i think we need him badly. He was also unlucky not to score - great save from Taylor. Plus, I loved his interview afterwards, bless him. ;) ♥
Jonny Evans was great for Northern Ireland.
So...yes. Not great, but not...terrible. I've seen much, much worse. We do need to play better against Macedonia though - i'm absolutely terrified of playing them, i was before tonight and nothing has changed! I'm sure we'll be fine though. Right? South Africa here we come...;)
I seem to have rambled on quite a lot. Sorry! Scotland do that to me. ;) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Germany vs Belgium, friendly in Nürnberg, 0-0 at half-time.
It's times like these when I regret living in Germany. *sigh* Granted, I get to see Daniel van Awesome, and he's doing extremely well. Granted, Ballack and Frings aren't playing, which lessens my annoyance about the midfield. Still Germany so doesn't please me at the moment. The strikers are pretty much useless, the only good shot on goal was by Trochowski, and the best player on the pitch is probably Robert Enke. Good news sound differently. Also, I nearly started to puke at the sight of Tim Wiese on the bench. I'll never understand what got him there. *facepalm*
Why can't I live in Spain? Or Denmark? Then I'd get to see my Spaniards as well as Agger and Bendtner, which must be 100 times more exciting as the rather pathetic thing the Germans are doing at the moment. (Whatever it is, it's not good football.) Belgium actually managed to be entertaining a couple of times (and they have a striker who reminds me of Pavlyuchenko), but they're not the most filigrane team in the world, of course.
( Completely unrelated to this... )
Penalty for Germany, van Buyten against Gomez, 1-0 Schweinsteiger. Do I want to continue watching this? *sigh*
HAHA, there's a player called van Damme. XD
*flees*
ETA: Thank you, Marko Marin! Now that was a fine goal! :D
By the way, that new "no names on jerseys anymore" FIFA rule sucks. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | england, football | | Subject: | i'm feeling nothing | | Time: | 04:25 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/weird.gif) crazy |
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| I sit right here in my little pod at the office of my vendor and I absolutely feel nothing about the England game.
2111: The Czechs look good. England don't.
Hopeless. Tsk tsk tsk. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | daily whinge, england, jt, lol, olympics | | Current Music: | Tori Amos - Silent All These Years | | Current Location: | work | | Subject: | O Captain My Captain... | | Time: | 02:03 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) exhausted |
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| I still can't get over the shock of seeing sense and sanity prevailing re: the England armband. I can't actually remember the last time an England manager made an intelligent decision so I was fearing the worst. The hordes of mentally deficient people who apparently genuinely believe that Rio 'drugs cheat, innit' Ferdinand is worthy of inclusion in the human race, let alone the captaincy, frankly disturb me to the point of nausea and debilitating fear for the future of our planet. *shudder*
In other news, I'm having to record the Olympics because of stupid work and it's taking me ages to catch up on everything. And I really could do without the American commentators' continual arrogance and sour grapes, kthnx. As if I needed a reminder of why I started watching only foreign telly!
Anyway, the friendlies are about to start and I need to get some work done if I'm going to watch the live commentary, so I'll leave you all with this comedy moment and quote of the month:
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) left_sider, while redecorating her room, in a tone of deep woe after discovering her new furniture arrangement didn't work: My dream just died.
Naturally, being the sympathetic and supportive person that I am, I laughed in her emo little face. *g*
ETA: Same old, same old. I suppose more than one intelligent decision in a week was too much to hope for from Capello. Well done, Joey, at least.
ETA2: Good riddance to bad rubbish. One down, only 27520 to go... | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | hp, lemming | | Subject: | zen breathing, ur doin it rong | | Time: | 01:08 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x140/aoibhe/spn/cranky.gif) cranky |
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| Via emiime [♥] Oh, what a shocker, surprise surprise, stuff, whatever, and yes, it rather does sound like me, etc.
( Read more... )
Space.com's image of the day says "cat's eye — ur doin it rong" and I had to boggle a little. LOLSPEAK, IT'S EVERYWHERE.
To Do:
store
bank
gas station
pick up brother from work
insurance paperwork
homework
dinner
laundry - started, woo
try not to murder mother
call Emily | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | news, pics | | Subject: | 152 - 08 jamaica olympics | | Time: | 06:11 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/aglaiya/mood%20El%20Loco/busy.png) busy |
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| I really hope the athlets are 'clean'!
I love Jamaica's athlets since I have seen Merlene Ottey long ago...
Shelly-Ann Fraser
( Jamaica's athlets )
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| | Tags: | team: oranje | | Current Music: | commercials | | Subject: | *sighs* | | Time: | 07:00 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/leetje/haydenmood/morose.jpg) morose |
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| Line up: Stekelenburg; Heitinga, Ooijer, Mathijsen, Van Bronckhorst; Van Bommel, De Jong; Van Persie, Van der Vaart, Robben; Huntelaar
I miss my Ruud and Edwin :'( | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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*dies laughing*
OMG, I missed him so much. :D Him and all the others, of course. I guess this season is going to be... (Do it! Say it!) fantastic. XDDD
If you STILL haven't seen the first series, go here. I guarantee you, it's worth it. :D
By the way, completely unrelated to this, is anyone interested in yesterday's Argentina vs Brazil game? *winkwink* :D | | comments: 11 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | faddy, scotland08 | | Current Music: | sunshine on leith - the proclaimers | | Subject: | u21s | | Time: | 05:15 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/kts04/moodtheme/anxious.jpg) anxious |
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| Our U21s won 3-0 in Lithuania, bless them. :)
P.S.
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| I HATE the SFA/SSC. With a capital H. And a capital A, T and E too, evidently. ;) Seriously, they're just...useless. And this isn't even about the youth row, it's about their lack of ability to read a form which they themselves created. Argh.
As you can tell, i'm in a terrible mood yet again today. Want to go to Hampden! Plus i've just discovered that there's someone else out there who i can't trust, which is kind of upsetting.
I also imagine God Save the Queen is going to be booed at Hampden tonight and I don't even know if i have any N.I fans on my flist but if I do, i apologise to them.
And I'm also slightly worried by the fact that Alan Hutton is rated at less than 50-50 to make Macedonia and Iceland. I'm not sure we really have any natural replacements...hopefully someone will stand out tonight...!
On a lighter note (well, not really lighter since it's all about the silly Italy game), I ♥ Faddy.
And McManus talks sense.
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| Pieter van den Hoogenband beseft nu pas dat hij veel mensen de afgelopen jaren van zijn zwemprestaties heeft laten genieten. "Ik kreeg na mijn 100 meter allemaal smsjes van mensen die in hun pyjama voor de televisie hadden meegeleefd. Zelfs Ruud van Nistelrooij was voor mij opgestaan."
GJALDGJALFJAFAL!!!!!1111
WHEN FANDOMS SPORTS COLLIDE. MY RUUD GOT OUT OF BED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO WATCH MY PIETER'S FINAL RACE AND THEN SENT HIM A TEXT MESSAGE AFTERWARDS. I DIE. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | ian thorpe | | Current Music: | Atomic Kitten - Love Doesn't Have To Hurt | | Subject: | you're still number one | | Time: | 05:49 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/blah.gif) pensive |
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I'm stubborn. I know. I can't help it. I worship you too much.
The weather makes me want to stay in. I'm too lazy to get up. I want to sleep/surf/lounge the whole day. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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