2012 Olympics

[The Nal]

some people have unnatural advantages over others anyway, just by their physique. Maybe letting them take what they want could level the playing field?

[windy_miller]

Nothing. Thats how he always sings live.

In surprising news, that female shot putter from Belarus has been stripped of her gold for failing a drugs test. Who would've thought?!

[Steve P]

Make drug taking mandatory in the olympics, it's the future

[dingbat2]

Eric Idle was brilliant.

Should have had Bowie there playing you know what song over and over again

Lennon and Mercury couldn't even be bothered to turn up in person, and performed through a live video link up.

At least Elton John wasn't there

[fred quimby]

Playing Lennon's Imagine - meant to be some sort of cruel joke?

[dingbat2]

Then the people who have unnatural advantages over others anyway, just by their physique would also take drugs so no gap would be bridged. It would just come down to who can take the most drugs.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Why bring sport into it at all, we could just have the "who can take most drugs" Olympics. We would excel at that. Each drug can have its own event, plus there can be a medley with a combination of drugs

[The Nal]

I wasn't being entirely serious

[Ed209]

well it turns out we're pretty bloody good at hosting the olympics

[The Nal]

well it turns out we're pretty bloody good at hosting the olympics

[eFestivals]

yeah, well done Britain for not fucking it up. I never knew you had it in you.

[rug568]

This is a woman. I kind of hope she is on steroids.

[rug568]

I think the Olympics is quite hard to fuck up personally.

Even the Greeks managed to pull it off.

[The Nal]

This is a woman.

Edited August 13, 2012 by The Nal

[lost]

dunno if ive imagined it but doesn't the Ioc guy normally say this has been the best Olympics ever during his closing speech, can't remember him saying it last night

[Ed209]

London took it all in its stride and I thought there was a great atmosphere in the city. All the transport worked fine, it was easy to get around, the pubs were full with flags and tourists, people were smiling and even the weather wasn't *that* shit.

I thought these olympics were fun, friendly, enthusiastic, ambitious, inclusive, entertaining, and exciting.

Mo winning the 10 and 5 thousand meters was an iconic moment of the games and in the history of British sport. a symbol of modern British multiculturalism and an embodiment of what these games had at their heart.

emotional stuff

Edited August 13, 2012 by Ed209

[Ed209]

sports personality of the year is going to quite a contest. There will be double gold winners who wont even make it in the top 3

I think it should be

Wiggo, Mo, Ainslee

But imagine it will be

Mo, Wiggo, Ennis

[The Nal]

No Jess Ennis? "The face of the Olympic Games"?

[dingbat2]

Murray and Chris Hoy should be in with a shout as well.

Murray finalist at Wimbledon, and Olympic gold and silver

Hoy won two golds, 6 in his career

I would go for:

Wiggo (nailed on I reckon, at least should be, to win the TDF alone should guarantee him the award)

Hoy

Murray or Mo or Ainslee

[dingbat2]

I prefer the female hammer throwers myself

[dingbat2]

yeah, well done Britain for not fucking it up. I never knew you had it in you.

[TheGayTent]

dunno if ive imagined it but doesn't the Ioc guy normally say this has been the best Olympics ever during his closing speech, can't remember him saying it last night

Edited August 13, 2012 by TheGayTent

[The Nal]

Olympic Sex Face

[dingbat2]

I think they used the phrase "best games ever" at every Olympics, which made saying it totally pointless. Then they got to Atlanta which clearly was not the best games ever, so they couldn't really say it. And I believe since then they never say "best games ever" which seems sensible to me!

[Ed209]

Barcelona and Sydney are generally considered to be the best two post war games, I now think you can easily add London in there too