The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[mongers]

Time for a thread to carry the preparations and results from the 2012 Olympics ?

Oh, and what sports if any are you intending to see/follow ?


I shall endeavour to follow some of the cycling events, the women's vole vault, bits of the marathon and probably out of a perverse sense of 'end of empire' I shall follow the progress of Team GB in the football with patriotic fever. 

Who's going to occupy the top 10 places in the meddle table ? 

[Liep]

I'll probably follow most of it. USA will get most 'meddles'. Mostly looking forward to the track cycling events.

[Ed Anger]

I saw on the news this morning that trampoline is an Olympic sport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZ624wBVA

WTF

[Neil]

The Olympics have finally reached London.  Because the IOC and terribly boring pseudo-sports are the enemies of civilized people, this is probably a bad thing.

The London Olympics need to be sterilized.  If that means we have to lose The Princess Royal, so be it.

[FunkMonk]

The Olympics have finally reached London.  Because the IOC and terribly boring pseudo-sports are the enemies of civilized people, this is probably a bad thing.

The London Olympics need to be sterilized.  If that means we have to lose The Princess Royal, so be it.

[Josephus]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

[mongers]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

Normally, Yes, ..... but iirc the 'beaches' for the competition are on Horseguards, Whitehall, so that'll be a bit odd.

Plus someone like Neil will be permanently distracted by the splendour of the admiralty buildings.   

edit:
It'll look like this:



http://www.london2012.com/venue/horse-guards-parade/

[Josephus]

I won't be distracted.

[Tonitrus]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

I dunno...in the contest between indoor volleyball shorts and beach volleyball bikinis, I favor the shorts.

[Admiral Yi]

Those shorts do look pretty damn good.

[Josephus]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

I dunno...in the contest between indoor volleyball shorts and beach volleyball bikinis, I favor the shorts.

Oh, yeah, that's pretty hot too. As long as its women.

[Liep]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

I dunno...in the contest between indoor volleyball shorts and beach volleyball bikinis, I favor the shorts.

Indoor volleyball is also the more interesting sport. If that matters.

[Warspite]

That beach volleyball arena is disrupting the shit out of the road my office is on.

I have tickets for the women's water polo quarters, and the men's fours rowing final.

[Octavian]

Beach volleyball.

[do I need to say women's beach volleyball or is that obvious?]

I dunno...in the contest between indoor volleyball shorts and beach volleyball bikinis, I favor the shorts.

Indoor volleyball is also the more interesting sport. If that matters.

LOL

[mongers]

I'm considering going to see the men's road race, but it means either standing in the outer reaches of London, say Kew to see them pass once or paying £150-£200 for a ticket just to line the route closer into the finish at Hyde Park, Constitution Hill, to see them pass once, possibly catching a bit of the finish.

The other alternative is to drag my arse out to the wilds of Surrey at some ungodly hour, like the day before and hope to occupy a nice roadside sport somewhere to the East of Guilford to catch them 5-6 times climb the approach to a non-PDH approved hill.