Goodbye Team GB and Gold Medal Cyclist Victoria Pendleton

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Goodbye Team GB and Gold Medal Cyclist Victoria Pendleton

By Stephen Douglas August 13, 2012 11:13 am ET

By: Stephen Douglas | August 13, 2012 11:13 am ET

The 30th Olympiad is officially over. To celebrate London’s fairly fantastic stint as Olympic host coming to an end, adidas released this video featuring Team GB gold medalists singing Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. As we noted this weekend, it was a worthy tribute to a country that won 65 total medals. Great song, great concept and even some great looking people, including chubby, slacker gold medalist Jessica Ennis. Oh, and cyclist Victoria Pendleton who we somehow missed over the last month.

Pendleton was on the August cover of England’s Esquire. (She’s also been in FHM and nude in GQ.) She won gold in the Women’s Keirin and silver in Women’s Sprint. Having won three medals in her Olympic career, Pendleton is hanging up her bicycle and hopes to land on a reality dancing competition. Fair enough.

[Getty, VictoriaPendleton.co.uk]

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Comments

https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

Pendleton and Ennis are working hard to disprove my theory that 95% of British women are butt ugly. Have seen some pretty faces in the crowd and the GB team this Olympics.
http://hordman.blogspot.com/ Caribou

Pic 1 yes, Pic 2 no, Pic 3 yes

She’s got legs that could squeeze ya

/Onatopp’d
https://twitter.com/#!/BrianByrdman QueeferSutherland

It really was a fantastic Olympics. Can’t believe it’s over already. Such an incredible sporting event.
https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

Kudos to London for hosting such a great game. Rio is only 1 hour ahead of Eastern Time Zone. I wonder if NBC will continue to tape delay in order to provide “context” to the games.
ms621

And we destroyed China in medals. That’s always a plus.
MP III

It really was a fantastic Olympics. Can’t believe it’s over already. Such an incredible sporting event.

agreed. i am always sad when its over.
ATribeCalledPoop

Seems like a great post for Breaking Bad discussion!!

/mind was blown last night
ms621

Kudos to London for hosting such a great game. Rio is only 1 hour ahead of Eastern Time Zone. I wonder if NBC will continue to tape delay in order to provide “context” to the games.

I started to wonder this myself yesterday. There does not seem to be any logical reason why they would continue to tape delay most events, but I wouldn’t put it past them.
https://twitter.com/#!/GloriousMullet GloriousMullet

What’s wrong with her face?
http://twitter.com/adamstbear St. Bear

Rio is only 1 hour ahead of Eastern Time Zone.

Is it still 1 hour with DST, or would it be even during the summer months. Or does it become 2 hours? I can never keep it straight with the rest of the world.
https://twitter.com/#!/BrianByrdman QueeferSutherland

What’s wrong with her face?

It’s not in my lap?
http://twitter.com/mmeadeny Lorenzo Von Matterhorn

Seems like a great post for Breaking Bad discussion!!

/mind was blown last night

Fantastic episode. I totally forgot about the kid from the opening as the heist was going on.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

And we destroyed China in medals. That’s always a plus

We’ve won the medal count in every Summer Games since the Soviet Union broke up…there are fewer locks in sports than this happening, China didn’t have the home country boost this time
http://twitter.com/adamstbear St. Bear

And we destroyed China in medals. That’s always a plus

We’ve won the medal count in every Summer Games since the Soviet Union broke up…there are fewer locks in sports than this happening, China didn’t have the home country boost this time

The US won more golds than Germany did overal medals. And Germany came in 4th place in the medal count.
ms621

We’ve won the medal count in every Summer Games since the Soviet Union broke up…there are fewer locks in sports than this happening, China didn’t have the home country boost this time

I’m continuously fascinated to see different parts of the world dominate different sports. The U.S., parts of Europe, and Asia seem to dominate swimming. The U.S. parts of Africa and the Caribbean won most of the track medals. China dominated again in diving.
https://twitter.com/#!/BrianByrdman QueeferSutherland

Its incredible that Germany doesn’t do better at the summer games.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

I’m continuously fascinated to see different parts of the world dominate different sports

If wars are ever fought with bows and arrows again we’ll all be speaking Korean
https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10 Der Kaiser

Its incredible that Germany doesn’t do better at the summer games.

We won 19 silvers this time around. Just need to convert these near-misses. 11 gold for a rich nation of 82 million people is just pathetic.
The Joaquin Dead

Hi, I’m here to fill in for vez while he’s busy milking cows and riding ATVs around the sex barn.

/ One tough proxy Dominican’d
PeerLessPrices

Fantastic episode. I totally forgot about the kid from the opening as the heist was going on.

Do a great job of this usually, last night’s was great. The wave he gave the kid before was just perfectly weird. It seems a little odd that not one authority figure looks to Pinkman for any possible connection.
https://twitter.com/#!/BrianByrdman QueeferSutherland

We won 19 silvers this time around. Just need to convert these near-misses.

Or just take the ones that belong to Poland and France, amirite?

/I keed
johndewar

Seems like a great post for Breaking Bad discussion!!

/mind was blown last night

Fantastic episode. I totally forgot about the kid from the opening as the heist was going on.

Agreed. Amazing episode. That train scene was probably the best thing I’ve seen in a scripted TV show in a long, long time.
Ben80123

Agreed. Amazing episode. That train scene was probably the best thing I’ve seen in a scripted TV show in a long, long time.

That was fucking awesome. I kind of thought the twist would be the guy on top dying under the tracks as the train took off. Oops.

Also, Walter will kill Skyler (ricin cigarette?), Junior will die either accidentally or by Walter’s hand, and Holly goes to the Schrader’s permanently, right?
Patrick Division

There does not seem to be any logical reason why they would continue to tape delay most events, but I wouldn’t put it past them.

Need some time to provide “narrative” and human-interest stories for our female viewers.

/”And now for the synchronized arm-flailing competition, brought to you by Tampax and Dyson.”
//Damn right NBC’s gonna maximize that ad revenue.
PeerLessPrices

Walter will kill Skyler

She trippin

Junior will die either accidentally or by Walter’s hand

This can’t happen, right?