Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I'm interested in the sport, no interest at all in the hype and bling that surrounds it.
It will also be 'interesting' to see the effect it has on London traffic, I won't be going to or through while it's on. And don't forget many of our high speed trains will be taken away for the games period and used as a shuttle service from St Pancras to Stratford station, which itself is a concrete monstrosity that makes the Turner Contemporary look like a piece of classic architecture by comparison.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
I cheered when we won the Olympic bid and hope we win a lot of medals but have very little interest in the event itself.
I also sincerely hope that the whole thing works out cost effective and permanently boosts the UK's tourism industry.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
And then there's the fact that BBC1 will be almost entirely taken over with the games. Why can't they dump CBeebies and BBC3 and make those an Olympics channel? Us oldies can then watch the daytime drivel in peace!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i will only take an interest when there is a g.b. medal hope involved, like jan i was delighted when it was announced that we were hosting the games.
Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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Ray, I agree with your view of Stratford station. I recently caught the high speed train to London. When we were close to Stratford I got my camera ready to take some shots of the olympic site. This is the only view I could see from the train windows.
Andy
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Gruesome
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
nice wall circa 1960s.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
courtesy of the independent.
Eastern European migrants are arriving in London in
"unprecedented" numbers, flooding the capital with beggars, pickpockets
and prostitutes before the Olympics, officials have warned.
Organised crime gangs are believed to be transporting coach loads of Romanians into the country with instructions to work a pre-allocated "pitch".
Some are understood to have come armed with Google Map print-outs of Marble Arch, which has drawn crowds of rough sleepers in recent weeks.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I understand (courtesy of Bob Goldfield) that Singapore Airlines are doing a good deal on trips to Fiji - it being about the furthest you can go to avoid the games. For those not at the last PCC, Bob has offered to by a pint for whomever joins him there, he will be in whichever bar does not have a television.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 750- Registered: 12 Apr 2012
- Posts: 72
As a former County Athlete, who had Olympic aspirations, my aspirations now lay with the new generation that I coach - Just for once please remember what the Olympics stand for - I know for a fact how hard these athlete work and for some this will be a once in a lifetime experience. I for one will be glued to the screen (any screen) and personally feel that this will be good for the Country . Can politics be left outside please for a few weeks!
I don't see any politics on this thread - maybe it's just me! It is fab that we have the Olympics but the only events I will watch will be the equestrian events because I love horses! Fair play and good luck to all the athletes though, and well done t them all just for being there. We can't all love sports, so be kind to those of us who are a little less enthused!
I should add that the Old Man will be watching most of it!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I shall only watch the final stages of events where Brits have a medal chance and ignore the rest.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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ditto, normally it is the rowing which must be the most boring spectator sport ever.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Lara. Remember the taxpayers that have worked hard to foot the bill
Ref to terrys post dump cbeebies? you will have some mum gunning for you as well as mr tumble also i think the olympics is a complete waste of money which could of been spent on better things like doctors, army kit , more police etc etc
Sorry to sound like a grump to those that like The Oylmpics , but I sort of have a sneaking suspicion that when Londons name was called the other applicants where mainly relieved .
I can tollerate watching the finals like Peter but if I was given a choice I would never have spent all that money on 4 weeks of people running / throwing/or leaping faster than someone else
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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you are such a cynic sarah, without the olympics or a visit from her majesty the promenade would be left to rot and the bogs would never get a coat of paint.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Agree Lara, it is about the youth of the World trying to achieve their ambitions through sport, far better than what we see on the news every night. Years of planning and ambition from sports people coming together and I hope our athletes do well and look forward to watching them every day and night.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
I've never understood people's hatred of the "elite" in our society and yet work themselves up into a complete tizzy waiting for the "elite" athletes to do their thing on the olympic stage.
So when successful business people and entrepreneurs make a go of things and make a pile and provide employment for perhaps hundreds of folk they are considered the evil elite and should be stripped of their wealth.
Funny old world eh?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Neo-Marxism under the guise of egalitarianism, Philip.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
