Olympics Cont

The Olympics has become quite lame, not sure if its the coverage, the gymnastics every 5 minutes, Australia getting beaten by Great Britain everywhere I look or the fact that really after the swimming and the fact there are no Aussies in any finals its just bloody boring. But what about Sally Mclellan I hear you ask? yeah what about her? If it was the 110 metre run from the cops she would be a monty, her one and only goal apparently was to make the final. Thats the spirit, aim for mediocrity, well congrats Sally you managed that, I guess you will be happy with 8th.

I am holding out high hopes for Anna Meares though and its got nothing to do with medals the fact that she is alive is the major achievement her. After suffering a horrific accident last year, breaking a vertabrae millimetres from being dead or paralysized she is assured of at least a silver. What an inspiration to all athletes the world over. But sadly I think the Brits will be walking away with another gold and taking a virtually unbeatable medal tally lead over the Aussies.
Heres some classic commentary for you: Two Brits in the mens sprint final, the commentator says they know each other inside and out these two....................Ill bet they do!

Barstool
Its never a pleasurable exercise to award the barstool to an Aussie athlete (id much rather give it to Phelps everyday) but for comical reasons todays winners are worthy. As much as Phelps deserves it again for ripping off his shirt and posing for some photos with Stephanie Rice and as much as she deserves it for letting him and not flattening him todays award goes to...........

Nathan Outteridge & Ben Austin

The boys sail in the Laser 49er division. They were 5th going into the medal race but still a fighting chance at a medal. They found themselves a minute behind the leader at the 4th marker and were in 3rd but as the leaders fell around them they roared into the lead and effectively into the gold medal place, they took the last marker in front but then laid the boat over twice before reaching the finish line finishing the competition in 5th overall. A valiant effort yes but Geeva thinks a barstool would harden them up for 4 years time.

Great (all of a sudden) Britain

I have just noted that Anna Meares was no match for Victoria Pendleton from Great Britain and finished a respectable second.
I have also noticed that Great Britain whilst kicking everyones butt have quite possibly the shittiest helmets ever seen.

Steroids will shrink your balls. Doesnt it fellas?

What retard came up with the idea of a darkened visor? the bloody velodrome is indoors. So I guess it just proves that if you take steroids you either develop an intolerance to light or some sort of x-men night vision. How does a nation go from obscurity to dominance? Thats the question everyone should be asking of Great Britain and hell throw China in to that mix as well.

Geeva has enjoyed watching Sopranos more than the olympics

OLYMPICS Cont

Well now the swimming is over its hard to see how Australia can win another medal lettleown another gold. I do however already count the gold that we have in our pocket in sailing when I say this.

It appears that the Australian people must start demanding that our government keep up with the sport spending of other nations. Great Britain won a total of 9 gold medals last olympics and they already have 11 with a week to go this time around. Countries like Italy, Germany, Japan and Korea have come along in leaps and bounds, not to mention China with the drugs they take they can only imrpove. Australia seem to have began there decline back to and below the pack.
I think rather than Kevin Rudd trying to lead us out of the recession we are plummeting into he and his government should do his utmost to pull us out of the depression we are destined to face in the next 10 years due to poor sports results. If we want to arrive in London and put up even half a decent showing then now is the time to crack the whips.


BARSTOOL

The barstool award goes to Networks SBS, 7 and Southern Cross in Tasmania.
The Olympics coverage has been nothing short of pathetic. The conflict between AFL and the Olympics has not been handled very well at all, especially here in Tasmania where Southern Cross is an amalgamation of channels 7 and 10. In Melbourne and every other capital city they have recieved footy on channel 10 and have been free to watch uninterupted coverage of the olympics except for 2 games over the weekend which were friday night and sunday afternoon. However here in Tasmania we have lost the Olympics coverage (except SBS) during 4 games, 1 of those being the snorefest Melbourne v West Coast.
Funnily enough all 4 games were shown in Hobart on TDT delayed within an hour or so of Southern Cross's telecast so what was the point?

SBS had generally done a great job, picking through the bones tossed to them by Channel 7. Why SBS couldnt show team sports involving Australia I dont know, Channel 7 show us bits and pieces and thats it.
This afternoon though SBS made thier first mistake, I was watching a handball contest between Norway and Romania, with 8 seconds to play and 1 point between the teams a time out was called, SBS stayed with the coverage through the time out and as the players were walking back onto the court they cut to an add and returned 4 minutes later going straight to Water polo which was a replay from an hour before anyway. Who knows who won the handball?
Channel 7 everytime they leave for news they advise they are now going for Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne Viewers.....................Stuff Tassie then? Up yours Channel 7!
Congratulations all 3 networks, you have truly made the Olympics a frustrating and shitful experience.

GYMNASTICS

Hilarious! I think Mens Gymnastics is for nancys who spent way too much time playing dollys with the girls at school. I dont understand why Channel 7 feel the need to make me watch the mens floor routine considering there is no Autralians in it? ..........but there was 2 minutes of brilliance.
The 2 minutes of brilliance was when the 2 top ranked gold medal chances both landed on their arses during thier routines. ha ha im still laughing thinking about it now. But then reality, the Chinese homo came out, stumbled his way through a routine for some massive score and no doubt another bloody Chinese gold. Whats the point in turning up for an event involving being judged if your not Chinese?


Geeva would rather watch the live Australian Softball event than some girlyman prance out his floor routine.

BARSTOOL 14 AUGUST

Todays post is all about the prestigous Barstool.

As tempting as it was to give the barstool today to a non olympic I decided to keep the daily award specific to The Games but I will give special mention to the 6528 Retards who voted NO on ninemsn's latest poll, (45000+ voted yes) big deal you might say however when the question is "Should banks follow official interest rate changes" you can understand my eagerness to take to every single one of them with a stool. Whats the point in having a reserve bank if the other banks the greedy bastards do there own thing? The government should get tougher on the banks and start handing out some nasty fines, its not like profits of billions per year is a lot now is it?
Another special mention goes to Jessicah Schipper. Jessicah was the world record holder for the past 2 years and odds on favourite for the gold only to finish behind a Chinese quinella, YES thats right a CHINESE QUINELLA. Schipper should be imprisoned and tortured when she returns to Australia for the heinous crime of treason.

But todays winner!

Who Me? A Barstool? umm....... Thanks?

Eamon Sullivan quite possibly the olympics biggest ever Australian flop. This lad smashed the 100 metre world record twice over the last two days, went into the final at just about unbackable odds but was all out of petrol tickets. How can this be? "The Great Aussie Choke" I tell you its bigger than you think. But more importantly wether it be non permanent or not he split up with Stephanie Rice. Clearly Eamon needs help and that is why he is todays worthy winner.

Geeva hates feeling let down by "superstars" who over promise and under deliver.

OLYMPICS Cont.

A quieter day on the olympic front. A few things ive noticed are starting to become apparent.
1. The Aussie Boomers are crap!
2. Geevas Aussie Choker idea isnt as bad as you first thought!
3. If your not Chinese forget winning anything that involves officials decisions.
4. Australia cant win a gold that isnt a womens swimming event.
5. The barstool award has plenty of daily contenders.


THE DAILY BARSTOOL
The Barstool always seems to put forward a few candidates.
Up for consideration today are;
Russell Mark for bagging a referee after getting a sound beating,
Michael Phelps for being Michael Phelps
The Chinese Gymnastics team for clearly having underage competitors (see pic below)
The whole of Denmark for being sooks - Mary is Australian afterall.


16 or 14? you decide. Geeva thinks 9 is more likely than 16.

But Todays Barstool goes to somebody who commited a far more disgraceful act, This person told a 9 year old that they were too ugly to perform during the opening ceremony. This is a pathetic act, if not for the fact it goes against everything the olympics stands for (or used to) then on a human rights basis. If I was the little girl who was booted and had my voice used I would move to the Land of the Lawsuit, hire a kick butt Yankee lawyer and take the Communist Party for a nice little payout.
So Todays Barstool is awarded to the whole of the Chinese Communist Party, paticularly the "high up official" who ordered the switch and the lip synch take place.
You Suck!

The Better looking child chosen to be on display for China in the opening ceremony, her father says she is a singing superstar - Geeva says "yeah sure, and so is Ashley Simpson."

The 9 year old told she is too ugly?? to appear in the opening ceremony. She is 9, and good on you for China for being so pathetic. I hope this young lady sues.
CHANNEL 7

Is it just me or has the Olympic telecast set a new world record in being the shittiest ever?
SBS is to be commended for their efforts, they have been left the dregs by channel 7 and they have done well with it. Channel 7 though has provided nothing as yet. Delayed footage well into the evening because they have to catch up from the News and Today Tonight, god forbid the timing of these was moved to a more suitable timeframe for a few weeks. 6 to 7 represents 4 to 5 in China and a time when there is usually a fair bit of activity. Why have Today Tonight still on anyway? So we can listen to Stephanie Rices grandfather money grab? what a stupid old man. Today Tonight has always been a shit program and will continue to be into the forseable future.

Right now it is 845 pm and im watching another replay of wanker phelps winning another event, surely there is something live on, dont care if its brazil v tunisia in table tennis (doubtful but funny to see) get over Michael {helps and swimming replays its not the only bloody event.

The fact they have not utilised HD and SD as seperate channels is also baffling, why not run them seperately that way they wouldnt have to cut their olympic programming for AFL commitments, either that or allow 10 to handle the footy for awhile, either way they are not doing themselves any favours and I can only hope that SBS beat them for the sports broadcasting logie.

Geeva misses the 2000 broadcast by Austar, Plenty of choice and plenty of team sports!

OLYMPICS Cont.

Another day another rant, it seems to me that no matter where you look at the Olympics there seems to be some rubbish going on, someone getting ripped off.

Yesterday I announced a "Tool of the week", being as though the Olympics are only for a few weeks ive stepped it up. There has also been a name change due to legal threats from channel 10's Before The Game. Dave Hughes is a....... more on that another time.
The award will now be daily for the period of the Olympics and known as the "Barstool." As most of my mates know the Barstool has been an award ive given out for sometime now, it goes to the person/s id most like to hit at a bar with a stool. It has been reserved for AFL talent previously. Past Winners include Chris Tarrant, Jeff Farmer the multiple winner and of course Nathan Buckley.

BARSTOOL OF THE DAY!

Todays award is a multi effort. I watched a boxing stoush today between Cherif Walid of Tunisia and Stephen Sutherland of Australia.
Now I may not know a lot about boxing but I knew how this was going to go down before they even entered the ring. After 4 rounds of evenly contested boxing, (something the commentators themselves menioned more than once)the final score was 14:2 you guessed it in favour of the Tunisian champion. Whats funny is that with 10 seconds to go in the bout it was 12:0. Nice effort at a square up by the judges, worse than the AFL umpires im afraid. In 4 rounds supposedly the Aussie never landed a punch? I bet if you watch it yourself and score the bout just like you would watching Jeff Fenech Fight Night on a Friday youd score it a little more closely.

So todays deserved winners of the Barstool are the judges from that bout.

James Mcnally USA
Pierre Chiasson Canada
Siarhei Parshyn Belarus
Jiabo Wang China
Juan Ponce Cuba

Congratulations Clowns! Keep scoring fights based on reputation, favourtism and racist biased. You are all a joke and so is your sport!

AUSSIE CHOKERS

Warwick Draper Qualified in 2nd for the final but had a shocker in the last run to finish 5th.

Gut Wrenching yes, but nothing a tablespoon of concrete wont fix.

Okay so im going to get bagged over this and probably deservedly so, but im just putting it out there.
Why does it appear that every Aussie who has half a chance of doing something decent in the Olympics chokes and settles for having been there? Dont get me wrong im a lazy couch potato and my respect is earnt by every single person representing this proud country of ours, Im just saying that it feels like a few more could take a tablespoon of concrete, listen to the song True Blue before competing and harden the fuck up. Come on Aussies were a country of just 21 million which equates to 1 60th of what China have to choose from, we stick it up lots of bigger countries already but lets stick it up them that little bit farther.

OLYMPICS Cont.

Halfway through another Olympic day and the frustrations are adding up. Not about who is winning what, but about how and the way certain individuals are portraying themselves after doing so.

MICHAEL "Barstool" PHELPS

Youd be happy to if you just won "Geeva's Barstool Of The Week"

Michael Phelps must be the most arrogant self righteous twat to ever pull on a pair of speedos. His conduct after todays 4 x100m victory was pathetic. Rather than winning with the grin and grace of Ian Thorpe he puts on a Lleyton Hewitt type performance. Michael Phelps you may win 8 gold medals but you will never win my respect. Good luck sleeping at night knowing a whole world of people hate you.

OLYMPIC JUDO

What is this shit? some sort of love fest? yeah its not Greco Roman but seriously grabbing each others sleeves for 5 minutes trying to throw each other is boring and pointless, my brother and I used to do this for hours on the Trampoline. Spectator sport? I think not. A Hungarian imported sleeve tugger fought on bravely for Australia right up until the point she choked on a couple of medal matches and finished 4th, out of the medals no surprises there.

WORLD WIDE MEDIA DURING THE OLYMPICS

Apparently the world has gone completely mad, Russia declares War on Georgia (who?) and no one seems to mind just as long as they arent taking steroids in the mens 105+ Weightlifting. The Georgia Russia thing was article number 5 for about 8 minutes on ninemsn.com, think it was about page 36 in the newspaper today. I thought it would be front page worthy? but when you think about it Stephanie Rice is going to sell plenty more papers.

The last few days have also seen the passing of a couple of big name celebrities Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes but neither of these tragic events could beat the report on Italys chances in Fencing for the medias attention.

RIP Isaac Hayes & Bernie Mac

OLYMPICS

So late nights, temper tantrums and countless cups of coffee are upon us again, hard to believe it was 4 years ago since we last did this.
The IOC in all there wisdom have handed China the reigns as we strap ourselves in for 24 days of action packed sports. The games are a day old and already a number of things have began to annoy me, So I thought why not break my vow of silence and throw up a blog post, my first in quite some time. So here is my rant of an olympic flavour

OLYMPIC's IN CHINA

To start with why the fuck are the games in Beijing China? Its a smog filled, hot hell hole. The athletes would be better off staying home and smoking 2 packs of winnie blues per day, i get the feeling it would be heathier, least you could guarantee that your ham sandwich was actually containing something that went close to resembling a pig prior to becoming your lunch.
Now im not going to get into the political stoush about freeing Tibet but its another log on the fire surely?
Seems to me that all we are doing by staging the games in China is encouraging the Chinese atheletes to ramp up their steroid abuse programmes. 6 Gold medals on day 2 and half of those from athletes that not even Hu Jintao hasever heard of.

OLYMPIC BOXING

Olympic boxing would have to be the most frustrating annoying 8 minutes of crap ever televised. Im considering approaching Russia myself to see if i can borrow a couple of well directed missles to take out a couple of satellites so i dont have to endure it for a second longer, and plus Georgia could do with a break but more on that later.
I watched a couple of bouts and it appears to me that the judges must be either all brain dead or asleep. I counted at least 18 body shots thrown by a paticular boxer and not 1 scored despite the fact they clearly hit an unprotected midriff. Then the same boxer set up a couple of jabs to the head, 3 in quick succession landed, no movement in scorem his opponent however threw a big haymaker whilst holding his opponent down making contact with the back of the head, and you guessed it for a score. Later on in the same bout the guy who was actually boxing hit his opponent flush, so well the guy stumbled back a little unsteady on his feet, clearly a punch must have landed for this to happen, nope no score.
Olympic boxing sucks, its clearly rigged (and no it wasnt an australian boxer so what would i care?) its to be avoided at all costs from here on in.

OLYMPIC DIVING

Olympic diving or any diving for that matter is a joke. How anybody can happily put the result of a lifetime of training into somebody elses opinion is beyond me. Take the example from the 3 metre synchronised springboard today. The Australian pairing who have never finished outside the top 3 in any event finish 5th. When interviewed after the event the comments made were that they couldnt understand why their dives scored so lowely? They had reviewed the tapes and that they couldnt understand why their dives scored so lowely? They had reviewed the tapes and they couldnt work out how their dives were different from the other teams? well there are 2 possible scenarios here.
1. They were shit on the day, they should stop bitching about it and move on
2. and the most likely that they were ripped off because of who they were. the favourites going into the event in a country far far from home in more ways than just the geographical location. Put bluntly the judges the event in a country far far from home in more ways than just the geographical location. Put bluntly the judges were biased cheats.

I know what i think, but you can make up your own minds!


Well 22 days of the Olympics to go and im sure much more ranting from me.

I WAS WRONG!

Well what can I say...................I was wrong.

I will never be a football analyst because after about round 6 last year I made the rather short sighted comment of the cats are crap........what would ever make me think that?

Anyway heres a tribute to the MIGHTY MIGHTY CATS!!

THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL!

Try and find pictures on the AFL website of the game or for that matter anywhere. after 30 minutes of searching i did only to find that the AFL webpage refuses to let you save anything. Even getty images let you save them they just plaster a logo over the picture so it looks crap. However as getty has no images of the game at all it would appear obvious that ...........

The AFL commision are a pack of Arseholes led by a greedy greedy wog bastard!

Thanks to the Geelong Advertiser, I pinched your wallpaper and posted it, I know you wont mind cause you love the cats as much as me.