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« on: July 09, 2012, 04:01:45 PM »
I'm a Londoner - I'm getting sick of it already and it hasn't even started.
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2012, 02:59:37 PM »
Olympic torch went through Havering today. Never seen so many people out on the streets...
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2012, 05:49:32 AM »
Opening ceremony was very good, IMO, if a tad overlong. Got to do something about the parade - it's gotten far too long now.
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2012, 03:45:56 PM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on July 29, 2012, 01:07:25 PM
Quote from: Hatman on July 29, 2012, 10:38:43 AM
Quote from: Tsiraki Midou on July 29, 2012, 09:53:55 AM
Before I opened this thread, I had never seen or heard anybody not working in the media claim that he has ever watched an Olympic opening ceremony. I swear that this is true. (And I know that quite a lot of people do, though less than the actual competitions. It's just that I would have idly wondered who these people are, would I actually care.)


Really? I know their claims of "2 billion people watched this" are grossly inflated, but it's still a lot of people that do.

I remember that the Austrian commentator said twice that 4 Bio. people would watch this.

I don't think that 4 Bio. people even have a TV ...

23 million watched it on average in the UK - highest thing of the year so far and one of the highest in British TV history.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2012, 05:00:16 AM »
« Edited: August 04, 2012, 05:02:16 AM by London Man »
Is just me, or are South Korea having a really good Games?
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2012, 03:50:26 AM »
Quote from: Senator Sbane on August 04, 2012, 08:10:24 AM

BTW, why isn't cricket an Olympic sport?

Cricket did feature in the 1900 Olympics (it was retroactively deemed to have been part of it), but not since then.

We are getting golf next time.
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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2012, 10:48:57 AM »
Andy Murray has won the men's singles tennis in straight sets. While Federer had a bad match, it's a deserved first major victory for him.
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« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2012, 10:14:32 AM »
Was wondering whether the US did better at the Olympics under Democrat or Republican Presidents, so I decided to work it out. I put in the US medal numbers for all the Games since the war, allocated 3 to a gold, 2 to a silver and 1 to a bronze. 1980 and 1984 got discounted due to the boycotts.

I found that the US got 202.6 "points" on average under Democrats and 192.33 under Republicans. I might update this once the current games have concluded.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2012, 01:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on August 12, 2012, 10:55:11 AM
Quote from: Ethelberth on August 12, 2012, 10:50:44 AM
85 medal countries, no new record. Austria, Nigeria, Vietnam, Israel ...

There are 195 or so countries at the moment.

So, we are on the side of the majority ... Wink

204 in these games actually - plus the independent competitors (South Sudan doesn't have a committee yet).
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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2012, 05:11:50 AM »
Quote from: I'm spinning a Platypus, get out of my way on August 12, 2012, 04:27:57 PM
Fashion? Seriously?  that. Give me Kylie on a high heel or The Seekers on a thong any day.

You do know, hughento, that "thong" means something different in the UK?
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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2012, 06:54:08 AM »
The gold medal winning shot putter from Belarus has failed a drugs test.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2012, 04:26:35 AM »
The newest internet meme - Mo Farah running away from things
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 03:05:36 PM »
Quote from: Minion of Midas on August 15, 2012, 12:08:14 PM
The meme here is "inserting photos of one-minute-celebrities into other photos". Anything else is an abuse of the term "meme".

The guy won two gold medals for us - he's going to be a celeb for a while.
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