London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

We need to add sme type of AH type bets on this olympic league

Pudsy33 wrote: »

What time is the opening ceremony tomorrow?

9pm.

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Is this Olympics the first of its kind?

In what respect?

Are you going to ring your bell?

Bell ringing

Live relatively near the Olympic stuff, didnt hear any bells Didnt know about it till a few minutes before actually until I checked Twitter.. oops!

Tis a bit busy alright here, lots of tourists and volunteers wanderng around looking lost..I''ll visit the Olympic Park on the 9th to see Katie Taylor ger her gold, but until then I'll probably watch most on the telly. Expecting a bit of noise and fireworks tonight so might get some photos from the bridge near me..

dreddredd wrote: »

Last night walking down my street I met Joseph Murphy from the equestrian team, really nice guy and very down to earth wish them well and have the flag flying in Greenwich for them.

Speaking of living next door to an Olympic venue, we have CCTV, security barriers, rapier missiles and a war ship parked beside us, they are taking security very strict.

Surface to air missiles on the tower block near us and orders to disperse groups of two or more yoovs.. security is everywhere, quite Big Brother-ish!

Sea Filly wrote: »

I love watching the teams parade.

Brings out the Lee Harvey Oswald in me

CNN guide to London


Weird hearing the bells this morning, do they still ring them on Sunday mornings as I can't recall hearing them

After living and working abroad you can see the investment other countries have made in sports as a vehicle for tourism, local infrastructure and business opportunities for their populations.

Not surprised the Brits are milking this for all it is worth and hope it really pays and provides a sustainable legacy for probably one of the poorer areas of Western Europe, that part of East London. That and the great entertainment we will all witness over the next 2 weeks.

If someone in Ireland at the advent of the Celtic Tiger had realised that the investment in sports other than the GAA, might have provided even only a small percentage of the legacy London hopes for, Ireland could have been well placed to benefit more from these games, never mind the positive health and social benefits of a more active, fitter society. No, we had the laughable comments from that FF idiot O'Donoghue who was Sports Minister at the time, expecting that teams would locate here in significant numbers because we were close to London, even though our Sports infrastructure was almost to third world levels.

All we are left with is a number of participants who for the most part have just reached the qualifying level. Move on 2 weeks and watch the media here debate why we are no good on the international sporting stage. This debates come up every four years.

Also, it has to be laughable, we can only have serious contenders in a sport where you have to knock the ****e out of somebody else.

I think we should revel in just witnessing the achievements to come but not really bother about all this nationalistic rubbish. The trouble is most will watch with that nationalistic perception only.