London Olympics 2012

[Stavros]

Perhaps what is happening is that all the supporting infrastucture appears to be run by amateurs, but when the games actually begin, the people it is supposed to be about -the competitors- will prove they are miles ahead of the organisation, assuming they can get to their venues in time to compete. It looks like there may even be some sunshine by the time the games begin. I read somewhere the Sydney games got off to a sloppy start with delayed events, people getting lost etc. I am surprised a coach bearing a team of athletes and coaches from hasn't been found on the side of the road near the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre while the driver tries to work out where the Olympic Village is...

[rodinuk]

Rumbled! how we need that foreign currency....

[Stavros]

So it is Thursday 26th July, and the LONDON Olympics begins today at 4pm when the Women's Soccer tournament begins...in CARDIFF...(Great Britain -vs- New Zealand)...

[Prospero]

Yesterday - hottest day in Britain so far this year - trains could not stop at the main station serving the Olympics because of malfunction to power supply caused by the heat.

Out at Heathrow this morning mobs of people arriving for the event.

Oh boy... let's watch the fun materialise.

[Stavros]

So it is Thursday 26th July, and the LONDON Olympics begins today at 4pm when the Women's Soccer tournament begins...in CARDIFF...(Great Britain -vs- New Zealand)...

oops! Its actually Wednesday the 25th...but anyway the footie is on and its not too bad.

[Prospero]

You got the racing results for tomorrow Stavros....

[rodinuk]

Yay we won something, 1-0 !!

The power cables for the trains sag in the heat so there's a speed restriction plus there'll be the usual plethora of signalling problems and overnight cable thefts.

26th ? - this thread is going to feel like deja vu tomorrow

[gslang]

classic: mixup Korean flags ahead of womens football.

im excited about the festival of sport, and do think its a great chance for London and UK to promote itself..and know a lotta people worked hard on this (and a lotta people paid for this)....... and while we're a kinda democracy and cannot setup games, or airports etc at the point of a gun and have a spiteful media who hate any success... i sincerely hope it doesnt degenerate into "Carry On.....Olympics"

[rodinuk]

.. and have a spiteful media who hate any success..

Yup.

[Prospero]

Spiteful media... yeah... aided and abetted by the twits who used the South Korean flag yesterday for North Korea's female football players. Now of all the political insensitivities that is about the worst.....

Oh yes and the brand police who prevent local businesses benefiitting from the event by putting Olympic symbols up because they're not one of the mutlinational coprorations who spent millions to rand the event.