The Olympics - Eric The Eel

[theshrew]

Eric the eel - One of my fav moments from Olympics.

Will we see anyone at this Olympics that is that bad ?

[BJG1]

[Vieste]

I take it you watched that programme last night Olympics' most amazing moments? some funny stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l22by/Olym...

[theshrew]

No i didnt see that. We were talking about him at work this morning. Will take a look tonight.

[OscarIndia]

That sort of thing will never happen again. The introduction of qualifying times/distances/standards has seen to that, which is a shame.

[anonymous-user]

OscarIndia said:

That sort of thing will never happen again. The introduction of qualifying times/distances/standards has seen to that, which is a shame.

I'm pretty sure countries can still send whoever they like irrespective of ability, the larger/competitive countries use qualifying standards to pick the best medal prospects but there is no "olympic standard" that an athlete must acheive before they are eligible to compete.

[London424]

I watched the programme last night and really enjoyed it (apart from the commentary links). Brought back some memories and also some things I wasn't aware of.

Well worth a watch if you're a fan of the Olympics.

[Man-At-Arms]

theshrew said:

Eric the eel - One of my fav moments from Olympics.

better than Eddie the eagle ?

[Raify]

Vieste said:

I take it you watched that programme last night Olympics' most amazing moments? some funny stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l22by/Olym...

Also one of my favourite moments, second only to the fat lass on the luge in a Winter Olympics.

If you want to jump straight to the action, FF to 20mins in on that iPlayer link.

[JuniorD]

Raify said:

Also one of my favourite moments, second only to the fat lass on the luge in a Winter Olympics.

If you want to jump straight to the action, FF to 20mins in on that iPlayer link.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen is a big fat woman who lost it in the luge and came sliding into the stop area like a big 'ole blubbery elephant seal. I wonder if it's the same thing as you mean? Is it shown on any of the links here?

[Raify]

JuniorD said:

Raify said:

Also one of my favourite moments, second only to the fat lass on the luge in a Winter Olympics.

If you want to jump straight to the action, FF to 20mins in on that iPlayer link.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen is a big fat woman who lost it in the luge and came sliding into the stop area like a big 'ole blubbery elephant seal. I wonder if it's the same thing as you mean? Is it shown on any of the links here?

That's the one, she ended up on her face on the toboggan run, with a flap of torn lycra exposing her gigantic butt cheek. I've searched a few times on youtube to no avail. Think it happened before widespread internet video, it's not in that link of the BBC3 program.

[JuniorD]

Raify said:

That's the one, she ended up on her face on the toboggan run, with a flap of torn lycra exposing her gigantic butt cheek. I've searched a few times on youtube to no avail. Think it happened before widespread internet video, it's not in that link of the BBC3 program.

I've also searched high and low also but to no avail. Even though really blubbery and clad in lycra there was a kind of rigid quality about her, as if rigor mortis had set in just after she stacked it

[theshrew]

Man-At-Arms said:

better than Eddie the eagle ?

Oh yes Eric was terrible looked like he wasnt going to finnish lol

[Vieste]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHmC3CAHhs

0.52

[Raify]

Vieste said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHmC3CAHhs

0.52

Thank you, thank you, thank you! That is brilliant, can't believe it's been 10 years since I saw that!

[theshrew]

Lol I've never seen that before thanks