OFFICIAL OLYMPICS Thread

[Seanl]

did anybody spot the nazi saluting the germans....look at boris and camilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-em8PfEFZoI

Yeah it did make me chuckle too! 

[bobotheclown]

Why the hell is it in french first.   someone remind them we in britain!

It might something to do with the official languages of the Olympic Committee are French, English and then the native language of the host city.

I must say that compared to 2008 the London opening ceremony was a bit of a disappointment. Remember the 2008 drummers and their glowing drumsticks?

might be something to do with the budget?? what exactly were you expecting?

i thought it was excellent, much more impressed than I though it would be!

For the Olympics, something more spectacular than that. Compare it to the Beijing 2008 (which is a natural thing to do) and you can see how poorly executed the London one was. We have so much culture and history to draw upon that it could have been amazing and on a much grander scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOijH0xinTE

It seems like we put on a panto and Beijing put on a Cirque du Soleil show.

It's the Olympics and we have spent so many billions already on it that we could have put on a better show than that.

[stu646]

I thought it was very good actually. We could never compete with Beijing, no one could to be honest, but of course people in this country just love to moan and have been ready for months to moan about how the opening ceremony was poor.

The only person that let us down imo was The Queen. She did not raise one smile all night, could not even be bothered to clap or smile when Great Britain entered the stadium and when she spoke to open the games she could of not sounded less bothered about it all.

As for the sport itself, I am loving it. Really good stuff. The online coverage is amazing too, but the only moan I will have is the very very poor coverage freeview viewers get. We only have BBC One , BBC Three and 301, but last night for over 2 hours both BBC Three and 301 had the same basketball match on while there was 5 other events going on!!

Hoping for some medals coming our way this week in the pool and rowing

[bored_Welsh_lad]

I thought it was very good actually. We could never compete with Beijing, no one could to be honest, but of course people in this country just love to moan and have been ready for months to moan about how the opening ceremony was poor.

The only person that let us down imo was The Queen. She did not raise one smile all night, could not even be bothered to clap or smile when Great Britain entered the stadium and when she spoke to open the games she could of not sounded less bothered about it all.

As for the sport itself, I am loving it. Really good stuff. The online coverage is amazing too, but the only moan I will have is the very very poor coverage freeview viewers get. We only have BBC One , BBC Three and 301, but last night for over 2 hours both BBC Three and 301 had the same basketball match on while there was 5 other events going on!!

Hoping for some medals coming our way this week in the pool and rowing

Red Button?

London 2012: BBC launches 'Digital Olympics' coverage

The BBC has announced details of the digital services that will offer viewers the most comprehensive coverage ever of an Olympic Games.
The broadcaster will provide live coverage of every London 2012 sport from every venue throughout the day.

[stu646]

I thought it was very good actually. We could never compete with Beijing, no one could to be honest, but of course people in this country just love to moan and have been ready for months to moan about how the opening ceremony was poor.

The only person that let us down imo was The Queen. She did not raise one smile all night, could not even be bothered to clap or smile when Great Britain entered the stadium and when she spoke to open the games she could of not sounded less bothered about it all.

As for the sport itself, I am loving it. Really good stuff. The online coverage is amazing too, but the only moan I will have is the very very poor coverage freeview viewers get. We only have BBC One , BBC Three and 301, but last night for over 2 hours both BBC Three and 301 had the same basketball match on while there was 5 other events going on!!

Hoping for some medals coming our way this week in the pool and rowing

Red Button?

London 2012: BBC launches 'Digital Olympics' coverage

The BBC has announced details of the digital services that will offer viewers the most comprehensive coverage ever of an Olympic Games.
The broadcaster will provide live coverage of every London 2012 sport from every venue throughout the day.

Aye, for people who have Sky/Virgin ect. People with just normal freeview like me, only get BBC One, Three and 301 so when they show the same event for 2 hours when there was 6 events in total going on, it was pretty sh!te coverage from the BBC

[R32UK]

watch it online

[Jay]

What about the sports version of iPlayer DubFan mentioned earlier?

Beijing cheated with CGI effects for the fireworks going off over the city, that's an instant fail and disqualification for best Olympic opening ceremony imo

[stu646]

I watch it online during the day, just at night when I am in bed watching it on the TV, be nice to have more choice then one event to watch! Hopefully the BBC will improve the coverage for freeview as it goes on though.

Going back to Beijing, lets not forget they used that young girl to sing, although she was not the real singer, it was another girl, but the Chinese thought she did not look cute enough , so brought in another girl!

[jockgti]

Going back to Beijing, lets not forget they used that young girl to sing, although she was not the real singer, it was another girl, but the Chinese thought she did not look cute enough , so brought in another girl!

quite right can't ruin it with a minger singing at the start,been loving the coverage so far,been watching loads of table tennis and badminton got free tickets to go watch ladies quarter final footie at hampden on friday from my daughters school,nice day out                                                                                                                                                                                                 

[stu646]

I spent 6 hours watching the cycling road race yesterday.

Never watched cycling before, but seemed strange to me that Team GB just sat around 1 minute behind the leaders for the last 2 hours of the race and had no urge to go for it. Then only to blame the other riders for riding negative.