London 2012 Olympics

Stupid question really. Soz. MM feel free to PM us all with a rantathon if it makes you feel better.

^ Thank you. You're lovely :)

To be honest i saw the ad and wanted to post it somewhere on here.
Sorry if its the wrong place. I just thought I would post something pro.

I dont see that ad as depressing, i see it as inspiring, people overcoming tremendous obstacles, kicking butt despite having an arm or leg missing. Living life and saying "Bring it !"

Hells yeah, bring on the Paralympics ! London, Britain may change the face of disabilities in sport, in life, for adults, for children, for mothers.
Everyone is unique and i hope the events carry the message on that channel 4 have just started............
But, no please carry on moaning about congestion and how awful your lives are going to be for 2 weeks !

Will do.

To be honest i saw the ad and wanted to post it somewhere on here.
Sorry if its the wrong place. I just thought I would post something pro.

I dont see that ad as depressing, i see it as inspiring, people overcoming tremendous obstacles, kicking butt despite having an arm or leg missing. Living life and saying "Bring it !"

Hells yeah, bring on the Paralympics ! London, Britain may change the face of disabilities in sport, in life, for adults, for children, for mothers.
Everyone is unique and i hope the events carry the message on that channel 4 have just started............
But, no please carry on moaning about congestion and how awful your lives are going to be for 2 weeks !

Nick-Nack, why not start a Celebrate the Olympics & Paralympics thread?

I reckon there's enough room for both threads on this forum.

We're all-accepting here. Just as long as we all stay in segregated areas and don't poke the lions.

I dont start Threads.
I am looking forward to the games, after all the shambles, which i do part agree with (especially the tickets) all that matters is the sport and that world records are broken. Blood, tears and sweat are shed and all that training has been worthwhile for all the athletes and their families. I could only ever dream of standing where some of these may stand................just hope i can push my kids enough for the future ! ;)

Anyways, live and let live. Carry on.

:)

I never liked the idea of building all this stuff for a one off and hope for a 'legacy' but I was pleased to hear the arenas are temporary and will be recycled. For example, did you know that after the games, the main stadium will be dismantled and turned into lots of little gazebos for homebase, and the basketball arena will be melted down to make the highest quality sporks london has ever seen. There is even talk of a spork for life, the first since Lord Admiral Nelson's one which he made after his arm come off.

Legacy, what a joke.

The biggest piece of legacy will be a shopping centre.

Eastway cycle track was destroyed, and we get Westfield.

I'll only feel slightly positive if I see LFGSS track days at the velodrome several times a year. Without that, I'll believe deeply that legacy is just a lie to sell the debt in advance of the games.

I'll only feel slightly positive if I see LFGSS track days at the velodrome several times a year.

Yes please.

Six actors perform a piece of theatre protesting about corporate sponsorship. This ends with them pouring some custard on each other. They finish their piece, start cleaning up the custard, 25 stormtroopers come in and arrest them all for criminal damage.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/20/police-arrested-actors-olympic-custard

Fuck these Olympics so hard.

Apparently were 'aspiring to be 4th in the medal table'...

What a great way to go into a competition.

Six actors perform a piece of theatre protesting about corporate sponsorship. This ends with them pouring some custard on each other. They finish their piece, start cleaning up the custard, 25 stormtroopers come in and arrest them all for criminal damage.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/20/police-arrested-actors-olympic-custard

Fuck these Olympics so hard.

Originally the Olympics didn't bother me too much. I can deal with the Olympic Lanes and their being loads of traffic. I can deal with the tow paths and greenway being closed because I never use them.
The way LOGOC and the Police have and are acting has made me lose all faith in them.
Here's another piece of ridiculousness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18927228

I start seeing the first wave of olympic tourists now, southbank and westend. they are all children.
it all starts making sense, they will provide the naive cheerful audience, the required biomass to
cause congestions and chaos but unfortunately nobody will make much money from them.

brilliant

I met a kind-of-Amish looking family of Canadians on the tube, here for the olympics. I was going home from a 11am job interview, in a suit, having hardly slept. 3 girls and their mother in long dresses, sandals and little bonnet type things sat opposite and the father sat next to me. They stood out mostly because they were smiling. The father looked at my miserable face and asked "Had a long day at work?". It wasn't even midday yet.

I'd love one of those bags.

Church St N16 market for those bags

SHHHHHH! LOCOG's version of Echelon'll have the stormtroopers onto them.

I got more

Legacy, what a joke.

The biggest piece of legacy will be a shopping centre.

Eastway cycle track was destroyed, and we get Westfield.

I'll only feel slightly positive if I see LFGSS track days at the velodrome several times a year. Without that, I'll believe deeply that legacy is just a lie to sell the debt in advance of the games.

This is a bit ignorant coming from you David, I'm surprised.

I'm sick of people bemoaning the old Eastway circuit, yes it's gone. BUT we have the BEST velodrome in the WORLD in london now, along with a dedicated road circuit and World class BMX track. There's still hog hill too. Not to mention the multitude of regional class BMX tracks, and the Cyclepark in kent. Then there's the bigger picture of increased funding, increased interest, increased participation, which ultimately means even more facilities and the best chance we've ever had of real changes being made to make the roads safer.
But apparently none of this is good enough.

I was being purposefully gloomy, having been denied the ability to purchase tickets to sit in the best velodrome in the world and watch the games I reserve the right to ignore all reasonable debate and bear a grudge.

will they allow public access to the velodrome after the games?