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COMMENTS:
Voted : We remember the lessons of Montreal 76....
If GB tries to emulate the Chinese, it will end up bankrupting itself, Canadians were paying off the 1976 games for almost two decades after the fact.
A more British games, would be much like our character, unassuming, sporting and an emphasis on fair play.
Razzamatazz isn't everything
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
I admit that I didn't watch more than four seconds of these Games at any one time (beauty of the boycott at work), but I frankly didn't hear about *anything* that made these Olympics stellar in any way, save for the individual performances of Phelps and Bolt, and it's been placed in a shadow by the allegations against the Chinese. London, you're a beautiful city. Just throw your souls into your Games, and I think the world will love you as much as I did the first time I stood before Nelson's Column.
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
What is this we remember the lessons of Montreal? Totally irrelevant. The London games are 4 years away. There is absolutely no reason to speak such weak words publicly when the Beijing games are just ending. I mean it didn't bankrupt China, now did it? Did it bankrupt Greece? No mate it didn't. And the UK can certainly afford more. You're as bad as the defeatists Steelhamster If we can't do it right, we shouldn't have been chosen as the host nation in my opinion.
Whats the point in spending billions trying to outdo Beijing? London will host a good games, but it doesn't have to throw bucket loads of money to achieve it.
China managed it because they have a huge pool of cheap labour.
Now stop being a crass twit, and go read your Daily Mail
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
England may not have as much to spend as the Chinese government because England wont be stealing money from its citizens by shutting industry down and other wrongful things. England does not see its citizens as so much expendable garbage used to make their celebrations appear falsely "grand". China is a spiritually ugly country that made itself look like a gigantic asshole with cheap tricks for all the world to laugh at.
England, you have NOTHNING to be ashamed at. China spent blood money on their olympics. I say olympics with a small "o" because China has tarnished it. For the Olympics in 2012, I use a capital "O".
Don't adopt a defeatist attitude. You are a far better nation than China will ever be. A defeatist attitude is just the kind of negative self abuse China wants every other nation to adopt. DON'T DO IT.
Economic extravagance is not necessarily synonymous with holding a successful Olympics. The reason London was chosen to host the 2012 Olympics in the first place was because its bid focused more on the lasting effects holding the Games would have on the city, principally the regeneration of the East End and the creation of thousands of new jobs in a poverty stricken area. I’m confident that London will succeed in holding a fantastic Olympic Games in 2012. The IOC chose London because it wasn’t trying to emulate past Games, but because it’s attempting to revolutionise the way the Olympics are held.
Pardon, but you are calling me a crass twit? I've taken the time to read some of your comments Steelhamster and I believe you're the crass twit. Someone does not agree with you and they are a crass twit? It's absolutely abundantly clear that you are a very negative person and a very egotistical one at that. A dangerous combination. Stop spreading your vitriol and negativity. Rude bugger.
Winston you make an excellent and polite point. I agree. What galls me is the fact that the Beijing games were not even over when these twatters were speaking as if London could never do as good a job as was done in Beijing. There's being rational and humble and then there's being a defeatist. Why set the tone that we can't compete on the same level?
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
If memory serves, they put on a jolly good show at the millenium celebration.
I think this is partly typical British self-effacement coming through. I'm sure their Olympics will be spectacular when the time comes.
by mojo on Mon Aug 25, 08 6:28am
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I caught footage of the hand-off ceremony from the closing this morn, and it left me not wanting. A double-decker bus, Jimmy Page, Leona Lewis and Becks Himself. I may be in touch with my friend Taryn, to see if I can bum the use of the house she still has there in a few years.
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
Yuck. That is kind of sad. When did he games start being all about the opening and closing ceremony? So long as a good showing of nations is there to compete, it's going to be a good show, and nobody is going to complain that it didn't live up to Beijing.
Typical of certain posters, who attack your point, then get mock offended when you reply in kind.
Time for the grown ups to talk, and ignore the whiny babies
Time for grown ups to talk mate? Well I guess that excludes you. Tough dose of reality for you. You're nasty and hostile and negative and obviously, a miserable human being. Take your nastiness and downer self some place else. I note with glee you keep coming back. That is also typical of people like you. Move along, since I can't be arsed associating with such a downer. Miserable fool.
Someone throw him a teddy bear.... its getting kinda sad
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Pathetic dolt. Keep coming back having to have the last word. Typical of deranged people like you.
Voted : That is a defeatist attitude
I don't know if I can wait another four years to see the UK ehxibit it's rich native culture to the world.
By that, I mean the ghetto street dancing show they put on in Beijing.
China... You got served!
Voted : Free Tibet
Maybe if the British government took away the rest of our freedoms, and our right to vote, then became a country filled with factories that knocked out cheap crap for no money to sell back in the first world for a massive profit we'd be able to afford to put on a great show just like the happy and willing Chinese slaves did.
And who cares about a poxy opening ceremony apart from shallow imbeciles anyway?
Here's my idea for an opening ceremony:
The Queen: "I declare these London Olympics open. Good luck everyone."
The End
Sounds like a plan, except the queen bit..... not a monarchist, but I take your point
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