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FF you missed out a performance of we are the champions form whichever bits of queen are still plodding along
and the inevitable final moment when the torch is put out... and a lone voice, geriatric but still harmonious, accompanied by himself on the grand joanna begins to sing
"when I find myself in times of trouble...."
you know the rest
I'm already welling up
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=67J_66hdN-I _________________ Cocktails may not be the answer.... but they help you forget the question Vodka... Cheaper than B otox and paralyses more muscles!
FF you missed out a performance of we are the champions form whichever bits of queen are still plodding along
and the inevitable final moment when the torch is put out... and a lone voice, geriatric but still harmonious, accompanied by himself on the grand joanna begins to sing
Me and that song will be 42 by the time the Olympics gets here I should concentrate on lasting that long rather than what we should sing when we hand over the torch! _________________ Cocktails may not be the answer.... but they help you forget the question Vodka... Cheaper than B otox and paralyses more muscles!
It's brilliant that we are hosting the games and it should be embraced by everyone. Rowan, your arguments are so misguided I don't know where to begin. Another time perhaps
Well, that's hardly going to change my mind!
Look, I've heard the arguments and noone's changed my mind. I don't want the Olympics here but that's completely irrelevant as they *are* coming. I'd rather spend the money elsewhere, but that won't happen either. I'd have been a little more supportive had they gone somewhere like Manchester but of course that's not allowed.
It's also, ironically, very likely that I will have to get involved with them in some form; I'll do that job to the best of my ability regardless of my personal feeling.
It's not as if London has staged a large event like this before.
They managed to stage the 1908 Games at the last minute after Italy had to pull out due to volcanic ativity. The 1951 Festival of Britain was staged only 6 years after the end of WWII even though rationing was still enforced on certain items.
The pop concert gave a taste of what we might see as the Nottinghill Carnival will be on around the same time & I can see some of the groups taking part in either the opening or closing of the Games. This would include the array of costumes & plenty of steel bands providing the music.
Why not make it a truely British thing & have mass pipe bands & may be Irish dancers (a hint of Riverdance there! ) or may be a Colliery Brass Band.
There's plenty of things for them to draw on.
What I hope is that we don't get the stiffness that Beijing had. Everything looked too controlled. _________________ SBH Comp 2008 - Runner Up
I heard Coe comment half way through Beijing that this would be the last games of that type (re opening ceremony razmadazzle). I don't think any country would be able to match that so hopefully it will signal a more moderate approach that lets the sport speak for itself (I mean you could have held Usain Bolt's races in a derelict warehouse in Basingstoke and it would still have been mesmerising).
I've been looking forward to 2012 since London got it and don't mind helping to foot the bill. As geordie says, what's the price of the chance of watching the world's greatest and being part of such an atmosphere? And increasing our potential for hosting other great world sporting events in future? And if it helps make East London less of a rancid shitpit, then that's good too.
I hope there's going to be no predictable whining about the rest of the country being ignored. I think Birmingham put in an early bid, but just couldn't cut it with the final contenders (London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York) in terms of infrastructure and facilities. The Olympics can only realistically be hosted by a capital or a country's flagship city (ie Sydney or Rio). Like it or not, London is the UK's economic pacemaker- a successful games WILL benefit the country overall.
I've already had family and friends bagging sleeping space at my flat for 2012, and I'm desperate to get to see some of the athletics, gymnastics and equestrian. Can't wait! _________________ Known as the catch of the camp.
That's what I'm looking forward to as well, the chance to go to the biggest sports event in the World.
I guess tickets for the final of the 100m will sell quickly. London will get two Marathons that year which will be fun.
I hope they make sure of the large parks in London & provide plenty of large screens for them not lucky enough to get tickets & but who want to soak up the general feeling of the Games. It seems Beijing badly let down people who couldn't get into the main staduim regarding still seeing the events while in the city.
Even if the Games had been held in Paris I'm sure many would of gone as it's now only a few hours away by train on the Euro Star, but it just wouldn't of been the same.
London will be buzzy that year with plenty of other things going on at the same time like the Proms & other sporting events. _________________ SBH Comp 2008 - Runner Up
London will be buzzy that year with plenty of other things going on at the same time like the Proms & other sporting events.
I hope the Proms do an Olympic tie-in (would be a great shame and unimaginative if they don't).
I also agree that the deal is done and that we have to make the best fist of it we can.
My concern was much more to do with wasting money on inessentials (like opening ceremonies) than on not supporting a London Games per se. I will be one of the many who probably won't be able actually to attend - but that's personal circumstances.
I hope they make sure of the large parks in London & provide plenty of large screens for them not lucky enough to get tickets & but who want to soak up the general feeling of the Games. It seems Beijing badly let down people who couldn't get into the main staduim regarding still seeing the events while in the city.
I'm hoping that too- there's regularly big screens in Trafalgar Square, and concerts in Hyde Park, so it shouldn't be a problem organisation-wise. I imagine public gatherings like that don't happen very often in Beijing so weren't really catered for. A friend of mine worked in Sydney during 2000 and said all the big companies allowed flexitime during that fortnight to account for disruption to commuting, and got tellies into offices especially so workers could watch and cheer.
I remember during the 2002 World Cup hearing people cheering in offices as I walked to the station, and then the platform announcer came on to say "the next Victoria train is delayed.....but Michael Owen has just scored!" Makes your normal dreary working life much more exciting when a great sporting event is on that everyone's talking about. _________________ Known as the catch of the camp.
London will be buzzy that year with plenty of other things going on at the same time like the Proms & other sporting events.
I hope the Proms do an Olympic tie-in (would be a great shame and unimaginative if they don't).
I also agree that the deal is done and that we have to make the best fist of it we can.
My concern was much more to do with wasting money on inessentials (like opening ceremonies) than on not supporting a London Games per se. I will be one of the many who probably won't be able actually to attend - but that's personal circumstances.
An Olympic Proms in the Park would go down very well I'm sure.
If by any chance Team GB have done really well it would give new ferver to all the flag waving on 'Last Night' night! _________________ SBH Comp 2008 - Runner Up
The non-London synchronised carping team swung into action, complaining about their lack of representation during the Beijing parades, in the London segment of the closing ceremony, or in London 2012 itself.
I thought the eight-minute slot filled by Beckham et al was toe-curling – not because it didn’t have anyone in a kilt, flat cap, or any whippets; it was just naff.
It doesn’t matter that no other city in Britain could have won the bid to host the Games; these bitter people would rather no one had them than they go to what they think is an already over-mighty monstrosity.
Although, for example, research undertaken by both the Yorkshire and Humberside and East of England Development Agencies estimates they each could benefit by £600 milllion from London 2012, this still hasn’t stopped the claim that London alone will benefit economically. As a net contributor to GDP, London already subsidises the rest of Britain. No matter, the rest want their piece of the pie.
That is, they want the pie, but don’t want to pay for it. A direct quote from one caller typified the thrust of these whingers – “It’s London’s Games; let Londoners pay for it”.
As a London resident, I and fellow Londoners, on top of the above, will pay a large premium in council tax for London 2012. I’m happy to do so, but not if all I get from elsewhere is bleating. I presume the said caller would agree that seeing as London residents will, as he wishes, pay for the Games, tickets should be restricted to those with London postcodes.
One youth worker could not wait to play the race card; what is it going to do for the average youth? Nothing, if they sit on their backsides, determined not to be involved.
Anyone who strives may reach the sky, like Christine Ohuruogu and Phillips Idowu; then again that would mean taking responsibility for your own advancement and lots of hard work.
Obviously, gold medals cannot be won by everybody, but the discipline involved in trying would lift any youth, of any race, at least away from a life of torpor and leave a belief that they can achieve elsewhere.
As for the Celtic fringe of the carping team, could it get any sillier?
Stewart Maxwell, the Scottish Minister for Sport, wants Scotland to have its own Olympic team. Well, we wouldn’t have been competing under the GB banner had it not been thought up by a Scotsman and had the Scots not accepted just short of £400,000, plus £20,000 in bribes, to sign the Treaty of Union.
While attempting to make his isolationist fantasy real, he might speak to Chris Hoy, Scotland’s fantastic Olympian, who identified the flaw in his argument. There is no national infrastructure capable of supporting Scottish athletes. That is why they have relocated to England.
One Welsh windbag complained that Welsh athletes were not allowed to wave the Welsh flag, nor was there anything Welsh in the eight-minute slot. Could I point out that London isn’t in Wales and the English members of Team GB, who won the vast majority of medals, didn’t get to parade the flag of St George, but didn’t complain and were happy to share the stage with their Celtic team-mates.
Look, if you don’t want to be involved – fine; but just shut up and leave those of us who are proud to host the world’s athletes to get on with it in peace. _________________ Geordie_R
"A should of known there mum was buying banana's"
Look, if you don’t want to be involved – fine; but just shut up and leave those of us who are proud to host the world’s athletes to get on with it in peace.
I like this bit.
_________________ Does killing time damage eternity?
but I don't care, we'll show 'em how an Olympics should be done!
Sue
thats right
we can get girls aloud to do the music and then there can be no suggestion of lip-synching to pre-recorded stuff.... _________________ Geordie_R
"A should of known there mum was buying banana's"
Great article geordie- cheers. Particularly liked "The non-London synchronised carping team". Come on parochial carpers, got anything to say while you waggle your legs?
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I should concentrate on lasting that long rather than what we should sing when we hand over the torch!
) or may be a Colliery Brass Band.
