Paralympics

This is on a delay the fireworks are going off right now and I can hear them in Lewisham

I want more 'lympics!
Can we do it all again?

Those fire bikes are why we got axed from the opening ceremony! At least they finally got **it **working.
1 from thirty or so firebikes that were planned in our bike stunt sequence missmouse, the rest ended up in burning man's face, when coldplay were howling their songs methinks x

This is on a delay the fireworks are going off right now and I can hear them in Lewisham

I've just looked out of the window and there ain't no fireworks.
I can hear thunder in the distance though.

1 from thirty or so firebikes that were planned in our bike stunt sequence missmouse, the rest ended up in burning man's face, when coldplay were howling their songs methinks x

What is burning man's face?

'howling' = LOL

did you not see the large fire portrait that was lifted out of the set.. torched by a couple of ghostbuster characters.. that looked suspiciously like a load of recycled fire bike gas piping

Jay Z has presumably been wheeled out to demonstrate the gaping chasm between the astonishing talent of the Paralympians and his total and utter lack of any.

Firework spotters - what you're hearing at the mo is a festival thing on the river. Not connected I don't think.

I can see it from my window in Bethnal Green.

very loud fireworks. i can hear them from hampstead

Massive! Sometimes I love living in this city. Turned Coldplay off and had a gawp out of the window at some mighty displays going down the length of the river a couple of miles away.

did you not see the large fire portrait that was lifted out of the set.. torched by a couple of ghostbuster characters.. that looked suspiciously like a load of recycled fire bike gas piping

I'm afraid I haven't been paying much attention. Bit numbed out by Coldplay.

I hope they chucked my crappy shopper bike in the pile too ;)

I can hear the fireworks in Beckenham!
I wish Coldplay would just fuck off now. Actually, I wished that within the first 2 seconds that they started their set.

I want more 'lympics!
Can we do it all again?

I reckon the Paralympics has out-shone the Olympics on so many levels. and it weren't about the GB medal haul, the venues, stunning locations or the celebrity athletes. For disability in all its forms to have a platform to showcase world class talent here in London makes for a better world for all of us. So many great memories, characters and the back stories were just incredible.

Some of the celebrations just for crossing the finishing line (forget podium places) is a reminder that we all have what it takes to get there, despite terrible odds, sometimes lack of funding, ignorance and prejudice.

And to know that some competitors were in the park displaying their medals and mixing with the public makes this a week full of wow.. so impressed

^^This. Is the qualification for having a whole gig at the Para - closing ceremony that you must be stomach turningly worthy in the extreme?

I'm afraid I haven't been paying much attention. Bit numbed out by Coldplay.

I hope they chucked my crappy shopper bike in the pile too ;)
and my dodgy dawes hybrid.. wished I got to keep my yellowed up costume though, and where the fuck were my trainers, eh :(
did you get a copy of the programme, I had a flick thro' whilst at the supermarket, apparently we were in the credits, i couldn't be arsed to shell out £15 to find out properly

Further firework news. The sequence they are showing on the box now of the river is the thing I described happening a while ago. Dunno why they did it out of sinc... to prep it and edit it in I guess?

That was quite a delay!

and my dodgy dawes hybrid.. wished I got to keep my yellowed up costume though, and where the fuck were my trainers, eh :(
did you get a copy of the programme, I had a flick thro' whilst at the supermarket, apparently we were in the credits, i couldn't be arsed to shell out £15 to find out properly

Happy to paint you yellow any time you like Al.

I heard they dropped us from the credits too.

Am I bovered?

Well, yes actually. More than I'd like to admit. :(

Happy to paint you yellow any time you like Al.

haha....

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Am I bovered?

Well, yes actually. More than I'd like to admit. :(
it was a choker indeed.. our bike stunt sequence was epic. I'm gonna ask andrew and katy if they have any footage from our rehearsals in the stadium. they can keep all the nonsense at 1:1 dagenham, though.

x

My helmet is somewhere in the stadium...........

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Did I miss a Rio thread for this?

Been catching up via Last Leg. Pretty cool stuff