Sport 2012 London Olympics

[Hello Goaty ♥]

He looks like he's riding a unicycle in the above picture

My Olympic tickets should be arriving in the post soon, have tickets for the Basketball, Handball, and Football at Wembley Stadium.

Thinking of purchasing a cheap-ass mountain bike of somebody on ebay in London closer to the time, and locking the thing up at Euston for a few days use.

[DirkCrisis]

Why was Will.i.am carrying the olympic torch through Taunton? Is he a worthy person from the Taunton community?

[Danster]

None of them seem to be local local, the girl who carried it through Ilchester was from Weston-Super-Mare. That bloke from the Fugees was there because of Coke.a.cola.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Why was Will.i.am carrying the olympic torch through Taunton? Is he a worthy person from the Taunton community?

Funny enough, its being discussed on the radio at the moment.

perhaps the event organisers preferred his look rather than one of the Tauntons?

[Calum]

He looks like he's riding a unicycle in the above picture

My Olympic tickets should be arriving in the post soon, have tickets for the Basketball, Handball, and Football at Wembley Stadium.

Thinking of purchasing a cheap-ass mountain bike of somebody on ebay in London closer to the time, and locking the thing up at Euston for a few days use.

Just sign-up to the Hire Bike system (£42 a year or so), or pay-as-you-go when you get here.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Ah, but there are useable bikes on there from as little as 30 quid.

we're talking proper I dont care if it gets robbed stuff here.

seeing as i'll be down from Tuesday to Saturday it'll pay for itself.

The underground will be too busy, and more importantly too bloody hot

[JohnC]

Bloody hell, Russell Watson goes off on one because he can't understand why he wasn't asked to sing at the Olympics opening. Bit of a sense of entitlement.

[88h88]

Who?

[JohnC]

The guy who sang the theme of Star Trek: Enterprise

[88h88]

...who? What a cunt.

[Ben]

Ah, but there are useable bikes on there from as little as 30 quid.

we're talking proper I dont care if it gets robbed stuff here.

seeing as i'll be down from Tuesday to Saturday it'll pay for itself.

The underground will be too busy, and more importantly too bloody hot

Eh? Just pay the quid a day for the Boris bike.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

I dont wish to derail the thread, so heres what i'll do Ben i'll check out the Boris bike conditions and if you have to lay out a deposit etc.. if not i may well go with it.

ta

EDIT: Just watched the video for it, and i see useage conditions are slightly different from the French version of the scheme!

so may just do some casual biking thanks Ben

[The Liberal Elite]

Nice - http://newsfeed.kosmograd.com/kosmograd/2012/05/olympics-brand-exclusion-zone.html

[88h88]

The most carefully policed Brand Exclusion Zone will be around the Olympic Park, and extend up to 1km beyond its perimeter, for up to 35 days. Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone, no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed. (Originally, as detailed here, only official sponsors were allowed to advertise, but leftover sites are now available). This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands, or from entering the exclusion zone with unofficial snack and beverage choices. Within the Zone, the world's biggest McDonald's will be the only branded food outlet, and Visa will be the only payment card accepted.

So there's a fucking DRESS CODE, you can only eat McDonald's and pay by Visa? Wow, that's quite a treat.

[Mr Do 71]

WTF.

[RubberJohnny]

The market has been told it can only sell Coca Cola when the torch comes through our town. I get the feeling these weren't the "local business oppurtunities the Olympics will bring" that they were expecting.

Still, the torch goes by my street :toot:

[Danster]

The only BRANDED eatery will be MAcdonalds....

Still it sucks nuff really. How did they ever manage to put on the Olympics back before commercial companies supported it eh?

[Harsin]

Yeah it's been in the news here a few times. Unlike a most of the venues, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium is slap bang in the middle of a city. So local shopkeepers/restauranters have been told that they're not allowed to have sandwich boards...etc out on display as normal.

Also watching the coverage, I'm enjoying the Beeb and the other channels studiously avoiding mentioning the history of the torch tour tradition as it was started by and pals.

[88h88]

So local shopkeepers/restauranters have been told that they're not allowed to have sandwich boards...etc out on display as normal.

How is that legal? Are these shops and restaurants getting paid for removing advertising?

[Harsin]

I'm not sure what the current status is as the last report I saw was a while ago. Local businesses were petitioning the Welsh Government for sanity to prevail, don't know if anything came of it.

[The Liberal Elite]

It's a bit sad that the olympic committee seem to think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the olympics becoming synonymous to fast food and fizzy drinks.

[JohnC]

They need to go the whole hog and brand the Olympics itself if they think this shit is so good. The McDonalds Olympics, in association with Coca-Cola.

[RubberJohnny]

The Torch should stop off at every McDonalds en route.

[Girth Certificate]

they should have all the athletes on Morgan Spurlock style maccies diets. I'd definitely watch more events where the competitors are shambling around chundering and hallucinating.

[PaB]

Dunno if this has been posted, but on Radio 4 the other night they were talking about how the Ricoh Arena, i.e. Coventry's ground, which will be holding some events (presumably football) will not be called the Ricoh arena during the olympics, as Ricoh have not paid to be a sponsor.

[RubberJohnny]

they should have all the athletes on Morgan Spurlock style maccies diets. I'd definitely watch more events where the competitors are shambling around chundering and hallucinating.

Any athletes that look to beat our finest by sneaking out and eating fruit and veg can be swiftly dealt with by the missiles arranged around the arena. Boom, that's a better script than that 2012 show.

[Girth Certificate]

yeah it was in that article duncan posted. St James Park will go back to it's old name aswell, but that actually makes me happy.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands

That does it!

I'm buying one of these:

OR.. I could just wear my old PWEI one

and upset every F**ker

[Mr Do 71]

Go for it!

[Hello Goaty ♥]

I bloody well will ( but only the day after my events finish )

Dont want to be up on some fashion terror charge...