Oblomov Boblomov's Commonwealth Sports Extravaganza

Run! Swim! Throw! Brum!

I've really enjoyed what I've been able to watch and the atmosphere around Birmingham has been brilliant.

Eilish McColgan's victory in the 10k last night was stunning. Try watching the last 200m and not feeling her pain in your own body.

Hoping to catch the heavyweight powerlifting events tonight :datass:

IT'S A BRUM TING :datass:

That match point just now for England to make it through to the volleyball semi-final :datass:

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Extreme hype on GRcade for these games. Not sure phpBB can handle it :shock:

another reason to move to nerdland.

I'm posting in this thread.

Only managed to catch the women's 10k so far in this

The volleyball game was rough

And watching the diving as the commentators said it was gooseberry fool and me sweating like wtf bro

I've really enjoyed watching 3X3 Basketball, been a little hard to keep up with the Commonwealth Games though as I've been quite busy with childcare over the summer holidays.

I've caught a lot of this, currently watching the Women's T20 semi-final. England are receiving a thumping from India at the moment!

Watching the cycling stream, because it’s being staged in my neck of the woods. Fun to see them on the same roads I cycled to school on (among other, less sporting activities).

~~Oof, dat women's 4x400~~
Well strawberry float that noise

Scottish bronze in the 4x400m off the back of that, but I can honestly say that I'd much rather England kept their gold. That's an awful way to lose it. :dread:

RetroCora wrote:Scottish bronze in the 4x400m off the back of that, but I can honestly say that I'd much rather England kept their gold. That's an awful way to lose it.

It is awful that that great moment means nothing, but then it's also totally stonewall and absolutely basic stuff. With Zharnel Hughes earlier that's two English medals lost because our athletes can't stay between two frigging obvious white lines. Hughes has a bit of form after getting DQed in Tokyo. He's obviously a quality sprinter because he was in the Olympic 100m final (they all are), but it's a discipline thing - nobody forced these athletes to commit an infringement in the same way a striker can force a defender into a foul or a fighter can trick an opponent into dropping guard or giving a limb. Gun goes, you run in line, if in relay don't drop baton. That's basically it. It's totally up to you.

I've had a bit of a rant about this, sorry!

Can't believe it's over already :cry:

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Looking forward to the closing ceremony (starting now).

In awe of the sheer depth of musical talent from Birmingham.

Sadly let down by lousy acoustics. Been a horrible echo on a lot of the singers.

If they were encompassing Coventry, wasn't there the budget to stretch to The Specials?

Didn’t look like UB40 to me.

KK wrote:Didn’t look like UB40 to me.

Wasn't there a big falling out and Ali Campbell took his ball home and set up his own UB40? Not sure which one we got.

This Ozzy performance is hilarious.

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