Join the Party for the Olympic Games

• Guest 640

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  24 July 2012     15:41184381
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  JOIN THE PARTY FOR THE OPENING OF THE
  LONDON 2012 GAMES
  
  
  
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  Following the success of the Olympic Torch Relay events in Dover District last week, everyone is invited to join in with the celebrations for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Games, which will be showing on the Big Screen in Dover Market Square on Friday 27 July.
  
  The spectacular ceremony will be broadcast live on the Big Screen in Dover from 9pm and promises to showcase the best of the nation. To get the party started there will be a 'Zumbathon' in the Market Square between 7pm and 8pm, led by Vista Leisure Instructor Karen Palmer.
  
  On Saturday 28 July, to support Team GB, the Amateur Swimming Association, Vista Leisure and local sports clubs will be promoting aquatic sports in the Market Square, where a limited number of Free Swim vouchers will be available, and there will be a chance to have your photo taken on an Olympic Podium.
  
  For more information on how to get involved visit www.dover.gov.uk/bigscreen
  
  
  
  
  
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• Guest 640

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  25 July 2012     07:50184464
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  I can see this has created a buzz of unparalled excitement.. lol!
  
  perhaps Olympic fatigue has set in..even though the whole shooting match hasnt even started yet. But make a note in your diary if you want to attend Market Sq because as per usual schedule, must unlock this thread now..
  
  
  
  
  Gulp! wots a zumbathon ???
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• Brian Dixon

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  25 July 2012     14:41184547
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  never mind paul,i think every one is partyed out by now.might have a small party when its all over.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  25 July 2012     15:42184554
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  market square and cannon street will be closed to traffic from 4 p.m. seems a bit early.
• Keith Sansum1

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  25 July 2012     15:59184560
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  cant say its for me
  but hope it goes well
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• Guest 640

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  25 July 2012     17:43184605
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  Womens football is on at the moment. The first event of the Olympics and sadly the Cardiff stadium is rather empty...and its Team GB playing !! As I seem to remember the top layer of the stadium is closed off too. Some events though will always be more popular than others.
  
  ..but on a positive note the Olympics is just warming up...we havent had the Opening ceremony yet. They have probably put the cart before the horse putting this football on before the opening ceremony.
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• Guest 700

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  25 July 2012     17:56184607
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  I wondered about that too, PaulB - football before the opening ceremony !
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• Guest 656

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  25 July 2012     18:13184612
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  That's a shame, that the stadium is rather empty and in such a great city as Cardiff too. Womens football is apparently very popular these days, well so the media keep telling us. Can't help but feel sorry for them though, after all it is team GB. Pity it was scheduled before the Opening Ceremony
  
  Well PaulB, a Zumba is a dance/exercise thing so I guess a Zumbathon is a long version of the Zumba to see who can last the longest
  
  Sounds like a great entertaining weekend at Market Square, with this weather and the Fountain in full flow, it should be a blast!
• Keith Sansum1

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  25 July 2012     18:36184617
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  gb women footy won 1-0 a good start
  brazil vs cameroon in gb group kick off 7 45 live on bbc 3
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  26 July 2012     18:52184778
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  the football event has so many matches and rounds they could not fit in without starting beforehand.
  
  anyway to those who bemoan the inconvenience of the games please read this.
  
  
  http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/impressed-investors/story-16596819-detail/story.html
• Guest 640

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  27 July 2012     08:55184872
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  Great re link...hope Dover gets some lasting benefit out of it all.
  
  Thanks for the scintillating info as to what a Zumba is ColetteB.
  Never heard of Zumba...Ive heard of rumba, cha cha, the twist, and even the chatanooga cho-cho but alas not the Zumba, so it must be a new one. The event sounds like a kind of 'They shoot horses dont they' for the zumba....last man standing n all that...
  
  But whatever it is anyway its all happening tonight in Market Sq...weather may pick up before then.
  
  
  
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• Guest 698

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  27 July 2012     09:18184878
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  Taken by my son outside his office in London the other day.
  
  

  
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• Guest 640

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  27 July 2012     10:15184888
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  oh wow!! thats a good one. Totally ab fab!!
  Anyone see their programme on the Olympics the other night. Very good as ever. Even they've got into the spirit of it all..excellent.
  
  Just a further whimsy on the zumba..when i first looked at the press release at the top I thought it was one of those things they blew nonstop at the World Cup in Sth Africa..
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  27 July 2012     10:19184890
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  zumba is an offshoot of another dance and fitness regime, forget what it was though.
• Guest 720

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  27 July 2012     10:43184900
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  Have just been reading the two local papers' coverage of the Olympic torch relay through Dover. Certainly some interesting facts among them. Have to say there was more detail (and more photos) in the Mercury - including the fact that one of the torchbearers in Dover was the wife of the President of Estonia! But Jamie Clark's brave run was given excellent coverage in both. What a very special young man.