The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[Gups]

Good to see Liverpool's new mayor getting squarely behind the games...

[garbon]

What's "Come 'ed"?

[Gups]

It's a Scouse phrase - come ahead - come on

[CountDeMoney]

I wish Mittens would stick around for the Synchronized Insults.

[Gups]

He's got shit to do. Like get Mrs Mittens horse over from Beijing.

[garbon]

It's a Scouse phrase - come ahead - come on

Gotcha, thanks.

[derspiess]

I guess I'll be watching the opening ceremony, or at least watching it late evening (it's taped delay over here anyway) so I can forward through the pageantry BS and go straight to the parade of nations, which is one of the coolest things about the Olympics.

[Admiral Yi]

10 fake internet quatloos says at least one protestor tries to fuck with the opening ceremony.

[Admiral Yi]

It's a Scouse phrase - come ahead - come on

Is that friendly encouragement or a challenge?

[mongers]

It's a Scouse phrase - come ahead - come on

Is that friendly encouragement or a challenge?

Coming from a Scouser that's one and the same thing.

[Josephus]

I liked that the Olympics went all proggy there for a while with Mike Oldfield. Rest was kinda boring.

[DGuller]

Did they light the torch yet?  I'm still stuck at work.

[dps]

I guess I'll be watching the opening ceremony, or at least watching it late evening (it's taped delay over here anyway) so I can forward through the pageantry BS and go straight to the parade of nations, which is one of the coolest things about the Olympics.

Yeah, parade of nations is the only thing I'm hugely interested in watching.  Though I've already seen parts of a couple of soccer matches.

[Admiral Yi]

Surfed UAE vs. Uruguay last night but I just couldn't get into it.

[Agelastus]

Did they light the torch yet?  I'm still stuck at work.

I think they've finally got to it now; not that I can see it - my store of patience for how long they could stretch the damn "lighting ceremony" out finally expired about eight minutes ago.

I'm sure everyone will say that the ceremony was "brilliant"; personally I found it crass in places, generally boring and the less said about the whole palaver around bringing the torch into the stadium and up to the cauldron the better.

On the other hand, my TV will be on as soon as the events start tomorrow; I may have been dreading the opening ceremony for the last few years but my anticipatory pleasure concerning the sport has more than balanced that...