Gaffes of the Games
2. RTÉ commentator blew the whistle on women’s hockey scandal: “The Dutch are down to 10 men.”
3. Mick Dowling KO’d by diction: “John Joe Nevin is a good thinker, with a ‘t-h’…”
4. Bill O’Herlihy was being a bit of a shuttlecock: “In my day, badminton was a mainly Protestant sport.”
5. It worked every which way for Jimmy Magee: “Roger Milla was double the age of these two guys, probably the same age as the two of them put together.”
6. Denise Lewis lifted the siege of Ennis: “Jess was absolutely under pressure. She doesn’t tend to wear her shirt on her sleeve.”
7. Tony O’Donoghue worried about Derval: “She’s weakening a bit strongly.”
8. Colin Jackson decried controversial relay tactics: “Jamaica have relied on their athletes being faster than anyone else in that race.”
9. Billo: “Why have the Kenyan men won the steeplechase nine times and the women never have?”
Jerry Kiernan: “It was only introduced four years ago.”
10. Tim Henman’s backhand compliment: “Murray’s play from the baseline has forced Federer into the unforced errors.”
