2012 Olympic Games Discussion Thread

Don't hold back! World, the time has come to...

Fireworks time!

Who the hell's idea was it for the Arctic Monkeys to play live?

@JerichoBlyth: ...I like the Arctic Monkeys.

Inappropriate lyrics for a family event.

Olympi-gate.

I love how the announcer speaks almost perfect French but names come out in his English accent.

@JerichoBlyth: Definitely a let down after everything else. At least they're playing a decent song now.

I'm pretty surprised it wasn't Coldplay...

Any guesses on who is lighting the cauldron?

@FrankCanada97: I just hope it isn't a small child or Boris Johnson.

C'mon Boris

The Duke looks asleep. No surprise there.

Cheer for volunteers and gender equality!

It has been an amazing ceremony (with exception to the Arctic Monkeys dulling everything a bit...surely the visuals and an instrumental version of their songs would have done the piece justice) and I have to say that, personally, I feel that it was much better than Beijing....and lets face it, that was a mighty high measuring stick as far as coordinated ceremonies go. But this was the most entertaining piece of television that I have witnessed in years.

I'm pretty sure the dead guy speaking right now needs to be put to rest.

Well past Lizzy's bed time

"What's your job again?"

"...Champion of the Earth..."

Champion of the Earth... That title belongs to Capt Planet.

CHAMPION, OF THE EARTH!!!

What a title.

Muhammed Ali?!

@Dixavd said:

Muhammed Ali?!

The greatest.

should of been the song to end with

When I see the torch runner. I always think of the suicide orc running kamikaze to blow up the fortress walls in LOTR...

@Funkydupe: YES

C'mon Steve Redgrave!

HUGGY!

This overrun is now cutting into my "Weatherview" show. Get it together Olympic Games.

Wish the Commentators had only spoken through the introduction of the countries.

I feel like I"m going to miss anything I'd want to watch because of how much of a pain it is to figure out what channel and what time something is going to be on TV, or, if it's going to be on TV at all. Since time blocks for the Olympics pretty much just say "hey, this starts at 6am and goes until 4pm, and these are maybe the events that this channel are covering but we're not going to say in what order or at what time during that 10 hour time block."

That was a really cool way of doing the Olympic flame!

PINK FLOYD!!!

Uh Oh Paul McCartney fuck up...

Bastardisation of Hey Jude by Mr McCartney lol

Shut the fuck up.

The budget for choreography ran out at the end.

Ever since reading The Dark Tower by Stephen King every.time I hear Hey Jude I think about a post apocolyptic saloon full of mutant inbreds.

@doobie:

Oh typical Zippy... Did you steal the money from Bungle?

@JerichoBlyth said:

Bastardisation of Hey Jude by Mr McCartney lol

Shut the fuck up.

how can someone who wrote a song bastardize it

Good bye everyone. I am pleasantly surprised by this. Hopefully you all feel welcomed to London. Love this city!

Good job Danny, good job all those involved in putting that show on.

#goodjob2012

I was expecting us to put on a crappy show but to be honest it was really great.

The cauldron coming together at the end was cool as fuck.

@FourWude said:

@doobie:

Oh typical Zippy... Did you steal the money from Bungle?

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

@Prismatic: I was worried that our opening ceremony would just be a real life version of "twenty twelve" (if you watched that show) but i loved it. Thought it was amazing, especially the beginning with the story of the industrial revolution and childrens lit.

In the morning, the competition begins! With one of the first medal bearing events being the cycling Men's 260km Road Race. An early chance for British gold as Great Britain has a 5 man team working to get the race to end in a mass sprint. Mark Cavendish is the favourite in this scenario, but other big names could and probably will attempt a breakaway during one of the Box Hill circuit climbs. Any non-sprinter in the peloton will try to break and stay away for any hope of a medal. But with a 50km flat section after the last climb of Box Hill, Team Sky, oops I mean Team Great Britain, will try to reel in the leaders.

I'm really bummed that Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are not on the USA Women's Gymanstics team. They were killing it in Beijing in 2008.

@Voxel said:

I'm really bummed that Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are not on the USA Women's Gymanstics team. They were killing it in Beijing in 2008.

Yeah, unfortunate for both of them. Nastia didn't do very well in the qualifying event, and Johnson retired because of constant knee problems. Another gymnast I was rooting for was Alicia Sacramone. She qualified just fine, she just wasn't named in the team.

As for the opening ceremony, well...the intro and Mr. Bean were my personal highlights (I guess the Queen and James Bond as well).

I've said this before, but fuck NBC.

I was surprised at how well the opening ceremony turned out, I figured it was just going to be compared to Beijing over and over again but im actually quite proud of GB now.

My only complaints would be that the Queen could have at least tried to muster up a bit of enthusiasm, especially when the cameras cut to her as Team GB came out and she was messing with her nails or something. The other complaint would be that I was still hoping they would get David Tennant to light the torch :P

I'll probably watche Judo, Karate, Swimming, Skeet, Football and of course Tennis...Team USA ALL THE WAY

Due to my nationality I would be shot if I weren't pumped for the swimming. Don't mind to watch some athletics either.

NBC cut the memorial for 7/7 terrorist attack victims, that's pretty crazy. Imagine it the other way around.

It's come to my attention that people were not watching this on the BBC.

What.

Actually what in the actual fucking what.

TV is on with CHN versus RUS, volleyball. What happens if it starts to rain?