[Other Sport] London 2012, 10 years on...

[Herr Tubthumper]

Similar. I think, like almost everybody else, I was amazed that we'd put on such a good show. We went to Barcelona in September 2012 and the amount of people walking around with versions of Union flags on their clothing was incredible; it was probably the first time since the Swinging Sixties that Britain had been really 'cool'. And yeah, once they'd heard our voices we had people saying how much they'd enjoyed it.

And we pissed the whole legacy up the wall.

EDIT: That last statement is probably a bit unfair. Compared to other countries infrastructure-wise we haven't been left with a collection of rotting, expensive white elephants.

I'd have preferred to have kept the 'cool' and have 'a collection of rotting, expensive white elephants' to be fair.

 

[nicko31]

Lots of cinemas tonight showing a re-run on that Dan Boyle masterpiece. Proceeds to the Tessa Jowell Foundation.

https://www.tessajowellfoundation.org.uk/turnupfortessa

 

[GT49er]

That brilliant open ceremony contained themes and visions that made me proud to be British and proud of my country.

I still am.

 

[BrianB]

When did we have our Sliding Doors moment ?
sad , really sad .

 

[A1X]

When did we have our Sliding Doors moment ?
sad , really sad .

23rd June 2016

 

[AstroSloth]

What was the legacy?

ISO2012-1 is an international standard for events sustainability that was created for the London Olympics.

Since then it has gone on to become a symbol of sustainability in events.

 

[clapham_gull]

I watched this in a Greek Hotel and an elderly "considerably richer than you" couple walked out because of the left wing bias and lack of the Red Arrows.

 

[nicko31]

I watched this in a Greek Hotel and an elderly "considerably richer than you" couple walked out because of the left wing bias and lack of the Red Arrows.

Boris Johnson on London 2012

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19029510

Quite funny....

 

[A1X]

I watched this in a Greek Hotel and an elderly "considerably richer than you" couple walked out because of the left wing bias and lack of the Red Arrows.

Love the Red Arrows. Bit shit at night though TBH.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Boris Johnson on London 2012

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19029510

Quite funny....

Not the first (or last) time Johnson has had to swap sides quickly in the name of personal advancement

 

[BN41Albion]

Christ so much misery on here. Life really isn't that bad here despite our issues (many of which are replicated in so many countries around the world - especially at the moment)

 

[clapham_gull]

Boris Johnson on London 2012

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19029510

Quite funny....

Boris was hanging around like a bad smell, desperate to get involved. They ended up him allowing to build a non wanted helter-skelter on the Olympic Park just adding to the 1 Billion pounds he shat into the Thames Sewer on vanity projects.

And then they elected him Prime Minister. How we laughed in London.

 

[Poojah]

I've never seen the opening ceremony (nor much of the Olympics themselves) as it was the night before my wedding and I instead found myself nervously drinking in the pub, getting far more píssed than I would liked to have been when I awoke, much later than planned, the following day. Lord knows how we've managed to hold it together 10 years, 2 kids and several near-divorces later.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Christ so much misery on here. Life really isn't that bad here despite our issues (many of which are replicated in so many countries around the world - especially at the moment)

I've come to the conclusion that for some people political hand-wringinging is a full time hobby!

Before brexit it was Thatcher on every thread. The Iraq war and Blair made a brief appearance. To suggest the 2012 was some sort of utopian high point is just a figment of the imagination.

 

[Happy Exile]

What would we have if we did the opening ceremony now, just on events of the last 10 years? I'd like to think that England fan from the Euros with the flare up his ar*e would light the Olympic flame.

Perhaps beforehand we could feature Prince Andrew eating pizza, Boris having a massive party with a drunk Farage while the Queen mourns on her own in the corner, Priti Patel and Katie Hopkins sinking boats full of refugees, some kind of symbolic representation of foodbanks, maybe Britannia shooting herself in both feet and trying to pretend everything is ok...

 

[birthofanorange]

Christ so much misery on here. Life really isn't that bad here despite our issues (many of which are replicated in so many countries around the world - especially at the moment)

Life may not be 'really that bad' for some, but for others it really is, and it's going to get a lot worse, too. It's not a case of 'misery', but a genuine sadness at the downward spiral we're in. I accept it's not necessarily great in some other countries, too, but a hell of a lot of our shit is of our own making.

 

[nicko31]

I've come to the conclusion that for some people political hand-wringinging is a full time hobby!

Before brexit it was Thatcher on every thread. The Iraq war and Blair made a brief appearance. To suggest the 2012 was some sort of utopian high point is just a figment of the imagination.

29 gold versus 1 in Atlanta and 3rd in the medal table, pretty close to sporting utopia if you ask me

 

[vegster]

What would we have if we did the opening ceremony now, just on events of the last 10 years? I'd like to think that England fan from the Euros with the flare up his ar*e would light the Olympic flame.

Perhaps beforehand we could feature Prince Andrew eating pizza, Boris having a massive party with a drunk Farage while the Queen mourns on her own in the corner, Priti Patel and Katie Hopkins sinking boats full of refugees, some kind of symbolic representation of foodbanks, maybe Britannia shooting herself in both feet and trying to pretend everything is ok...

Saw somewhere that there is in fact a Negative Legacy " of sport due to the selling off of playing fields and reduction of sport curricular in schools over the last 10 years.