The Olympics

[iain_herts]

wont it be streamed on the bbc iplayer in hd

[peanut]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

That's this one.. It's not upside-down all the time but yes even when they do the flag bearer it's upside-down..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRaQRbAxXaA

It's a personal gripe of mine and even recently on the torch route the picture I took has many upside-down which I most hastily cropped out!!!

Here's the uncropped picture

Why ruin a good shot, geez you need to get out more.

[Hom3r]

TVcatchup should stream it in HD.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

wont it be streamed on the bbc iplayer in hd

Hope so but I can't find a link

[Russ]

So now there's controversy because the Welsh players in Team GB didn't sing God Save The Queen.

Would the English players have sung along with The Land Of My Fathers? Not a chance.

The FA has hijacked GSTQ as the English anthem, they much now live with the consequences.

[chris9991]

First world record at London 2012 - in archery. Apprently the guy is blind in one eye

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19013793

[danielf]

Originally Posted by chris9991

First world record at London 2012 - in archery. Apprently the guy is blind in one eye

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19013793

I thought most archers shut their non-dominant eye anyway? It certainly seems the natural way to do things. So, if you're blind in your non-dominant eye it won't make any difference.

[dilli-theclaw]

Also, just because you are legally blind on one (or both) eyes doesn't mean you can't see anything out of them.

Still an impressive achievement for sure.

[danielf]

Reading up on this blindness, his eyesight is 10/200 and 20/200 for the two eyes, so very poor eyesight allround. He's just very good at aiming at a poorly defined yellow blob. I suppose it makes sense. If the yellow blob is consistently poorly defined it doesn't make much of a difference in terms of aiming at it. It just makes it difficult to determine where the arrow has landed, and that's where his team mates help out.

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by Russ

So now there's controversy because the Welsh players in Team GB didn't sing God Save The Queen.

Would the English players have sung along with The Land Of My Fathers? Not a chance.

The FA has hijacked GSTQ as the English anthem, they much now live with the consequences.

Plus the love for Ryan giggs the commentator had. going on about him.

---------- Post added at 12:37 ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 ----------

Originally Posted by danielf

I thought most archers shut their non-dominant eye anyway? It certainly seems the natural way to do things. So, if you're blind in your non-dominant eye it won't make any difference.

No they have a "blimker type thing in front of the eye as IIRC closing one eye can effect the other.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

No they have a "blimker type thing in front of the eye as IIRC closing one eye can effect the other.

Yeah, but the point was that many of them effectively use only one eye. How they achieve that isn't that relevant.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by danielf

Reading up on this blindness, his eyesight is 10/200 and 20/200 for the two eyes, so very poor eyesight allround. He's just very good at aiming at a poorly defined yellow blob. I suppose it makes sense. If the yellow blob is consistently poorly defined it doesn't make much of a difference in terms of aiming at it. It just makes it difficult to determine where the arrow has landed, and that's where his team mates help out.

If there is a war, I think i prefer to be on the side that can see where they are aiming. Friendly fire is scary enough as it is

Albeit a nuke doesn't seem very friendly, and bows and arrows aren't often used, but my point stands

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