Olympics ....again

[subaqua]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18023411


the flame blowing out sort of sums it all up

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

IT'S A HARBINGER OF DOOM I TELL YOU, DOOOOM!!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I saw it more as a scene setter for the Greek tragedy €uropides.

 

[marinyork]

Well at least it wasn't lit using the sun in the UK. They'd be stood there till the summer waiting for it to light.

 

[ianrauk]

Well at least it wasn't lit using the sun in the UK. They'd be stood there till the summer waiting for it to light.

I think we had a 3 minute sun window in London they could have used today...

 

[Arch]

Well at least it wasn't lit using the sun in the UK. They'd be stood there till the summer waiting for it to light.

If they'd tried in York today, they could have run round the country carrying a beaker of water aloft...

 

[subaqua]

I think we had a 3 minute sun window in the last 7 weeks they could have used

thats more like it

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If they'd tried in York today, they could have run round the country carrying a beaker of water aloft...

Aha, not a sun window but a pitcher window!

 

[captain nemo1701]

The best thing about the Olympics is that I'll be about 100 miles away from them. Can't see the point in spending £9 billion so that some gangly-legged bloke can run 100m about 0.000001 nanoseconds faster than the other bloke. Who cares?. £9 billion would have built an awful lot of Dutch-style cyclepaths.

 

[Archie_tect]

But then Nemo, the whole population wouldn't have had the opportunity to band together as one promoting national pride in being British....

 

[asterix]

It's an ever-expanding task holding these games, innit? My sympathy is with Rio (no, not Ferdinand, de Janeiro..) they've got to do the next one. By which time we could be at war with parts of SA.

 

[Arch]

I think it's about time they simply chose a spot and built a specific park to hold the Olympics in. The gulf states seem to be good at creating landmasses out of sea and desert, maybe they could run something up somewhere. Something that can hold land and sea based events in one place. Ideally not too hot or cold. To be paid for and maintained by some international fund, rather than any single country footing the bill. Nothing flash, no frills, just all the basic necessary amentities and facilities for competitors and spectators.

 

[Archie_tect]

With the Winter Olympics in Dubai's Snowdome?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just have it at a James Bond style mountain top retreat somewhere in Switzerland instead



Until then however, I've been vaguely considering having a holiday in Sochi in 2014. Maybe.

 

[dellzeqq]

The best thing about the Olympics is that I'll be about 100 miles away from them. Can't see the point in spending £9 billion so that some gangly-legged bloke can run 100m about 0.000001 nanoseconds faster than the other bloke. Who cares?. £9 billion would have built an awful lot of Dutch-style cyclepaths.

thanks - but I'd rather have the Olympics