The Olympic Trivial Thing Thread.

[Saluki]

If Yorkshire was a separate country, in its own right, it would be 5th in the Olympic medals table.
My husband (post as Packrat) is well chuffed.

 

[Bollo]

We know the Aussies aren't having the best olympics, so this re-imagining of the 2012 logo made me chuckle. I just hope it's for real.

 

[Maz]

The unsung heroes of London 2012:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19130366

My sister is a volunteer at the Olympics. She really loves it. Hard work but equally rewarding.

 

[User482]

If Yorkshire was a separate country, in its own right, it would be 5th in the Olympic medals table.
My husband (post as Packrat) is well chuffed.

Yorkshire hubris, I'm afraid.

If we consider the traditional counties (seeing as Yorkshire is now several counties):

Andrew Triggs Hodge - born in Buckinghamshire
Katherine Copeland - born in Northumberland

That leaves Yorkshire with three gold medalists: Jess Ennis, Ed Clancy and Brownlee

Lancashire has four gold medalists - Peter Charles (Liverpool) Etienne Stott (Manchester) Jason Burke (Colne) & Jason Kenny (Bolton).

My case reclines upon the divan, smoking a cheroot.

 

[Maz]

I went to the same school as Jess Ennis.

 

[perplexed]

I notice that the BBC have sent someone up a ladder with a rag to wipe that bloody dead fly in the spider web away from the camera with the bird's eye view of the stadium.

 

[Night Train]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/07/henrik-rummel-bulging-shorts-picture_n_1751178.html

 

[siadwell]

Also check out the pic of the Chinese ladies water-polo team (18/31). No hugs there I'm afraid.

Don't fancy yours much.

10/31 Has he just tried to swallow a lightsabre?

 

[Speicher]

A special award should be given to the commentator at the canoe sprint doubles this morning. Most of the competitors were from Slovakia, Russia, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Most of the names were very difficult to pronounce, and some of them were double-barrelled, making them doubly difficult to pronounce.

 

[Maz]

A special award should be given to the commentator at the canoe sprint doubles this morning. Most of the competitors were from Slovakia, Russia, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Most of the names were very difficult to pronounce, and some of them were double-barrelled, making them doubly difficult to pronounce.

+1
Let's give it up for the BBC's Alexej Štefánik Husák-Jones!

 

[Speicher]

+1
Let's give it up for Alexej Štefánik Husák-Jones!

 

[Davidc]

Why are all the commentators using the old-fashioned "nn years of age" instead of the normal "nn years old"?

 

[Maz]

Yorkshire hubris, I'm afraid.

If we consider the traditional counties (seeing as Yorkshire is now several counties):

Andrew Triggs Hodge - born in Buckinghamshire
Katherine Copeland - born in Northumberland

That leaves Yorkshire with three gold medalists: Jess Ennis, Ed Clancy and Brownlee

Lancashire has four gold medalists - Peter Charles (Liverpool) Etienne Stott (Manchester) Jason Burke (Colne) & Jason Kenny (Bolton).

My case reclines upon the divan, smoking a cheroot.

Isn't Liverpool in Merseyside, so not technically Lancashire?

 

[lejogger]

Isn't Liverpool in Merseyside, so not technically Lancashire?

Most definitely!!
Lots of Merseyside is a lot closer to Cheshire even than to Lancashire.

 

[MrJamie]

Map of where the medal winners are from..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/aug/07/team-gb-born-map?newsfeed=true

Looks like Northern Ireland have none