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Guy Hurst

22/05/2012 at 20:44

I'm quite looking forward to watching the Olympics myself, and I'm sure I'll get a bit of a surge of pride when a Brit gets a medal. But all this stuff meant to show we all have a stake and are in it together (where have we heard that before?) is a bit of a joke imo, and risks putting a lot of people off.

GOF

22/05/2012 at 20:46

TBS...not sure what is more amusing..

the the flame is going up on the train

or

you thought it wouldnt so could poke some fun by making out it would.

Matt C

29/05/2012 at 20:52

So today was the day - Bonington surmounted all obstacles to carry the torch from the top train station up the steps to the summit. And some other bloke got to take it up Great Orme on the chairlift. And that many roads were closed in Chester for a jockey and some pretend Romans to take it to the racecourse... great!

Meanwhile....

Man with Olympic tattoo publicly flayed

Chewie

29/05/2012 at 21:04

So a big event like that, and from what I saw on TV there were fewer bods on the summit than on a wet and windy day.

Was that due to elf and safety and crowd control or something else

Paddy Dillon

29/05/2012 at 21:12

I was on top of Monte Ritondu in Corsica when a guy from Cameroon told me that London had won its Olympic bid. To my shame, I hadn't even realised the city had made a bid!

In less than two months I will have to figure out my Olympic avoidance strategy.

That bastard Skip

29/05/2012 at 21:34

Paddy Dillon wrote (see)

.. have to figure out my Olympic avoidance strategy.

Well, according to the Mash (see Matt's link above) you can self-exile '... to the unpopulated wastes of mid-Wales.'

Matt C wrote (see)

...Bonington surmounted all obstacles to carry the torch from the top train station up the steps to the summit. ..

That it should come to this for him! A far cry from Everest or the north face of the Eiger

Metric Kate

29/05/2012 at 21:37

That bastard Skip wrote (see)

Paddy Dillon wrote (see)
.. have to figure out my Olympic avoidance strategy.
Well, according to the Mash (see Matt's link above) you can self-exile '... to the unpopulated wastes of mid-Wales.'

That's precisely what I'm doing to avoid much of the Jubilee this weekend. Though I will be part of a beacon-lighting party on Pen y Fan on monday night