[Other Sport] Paris 2024 Olympics & Paralympics ***Official Match Thread***

[Beach Hut]

Where are all the athletes?

On boats on the Seine

 

[Sussax]

Where are all the athletes?

START THE BOATS

 

[herecomesaregular]

Gawd, is it because it is the french that you are so damn anti?

Love Paris and I'm enjoying it for the laughs.

 

[studio150]

correct but wifey is glued to it...

I feel your pain

 

[Dave the OAP]

Hang on…a russian high jumper is competing for Cyprus, because her FATHER a has business interests in Cyprus.


that has to be the most tenuous reason for a competitor.

 

[Eric the meek]

It's pissing it down in Paris and there's more to come:

Rain Alarm

This weather app alerts you when rain is approaching.

www.rain-alarm.com

 

[Beach Hut]

Hang on…a russian high jumper is competing for Cyprus, because her FATHER a has business interests in Cyprus.


that has to be the most tenuous reason for a competitor.

Don’t forget the IOC are very flexible

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

Bit of French heavy metal to cheer things up.

That would be Gojira. In mine (and many people's book) the best live heavy metal band in the world. Have seen them five times and they've never been anything less than amazing!

Was absolutely made up for them when I read that they were going to be part of the opening ceremony. Absolutely nailed that.

(Also random fun local fact, their first ever UK show in 2006 was at Brighton's Concorde 2)

 

[Badger]

Did they say at which end of the scale?

One of them said Beijing 2008 was the best. So, I can't be sure what they're talking about.

 

[timbha]

F***ing hell, we’ve only just reached “D”

 

[timbha]

Hang on…a russian high jumper is competing for Cyprus, because her FATHER a has business interests in Cyprus.


that has to be the most tenuous reason for a competitor.

Should be the most compelling reason for her not to participate

 

[Nitram]

Well I think Bez’s & Shaun Ryder’s vision of an outdoor Eurovision deserves some credit!

 

[Arkwright]

How bad is this, I'm going up the pub.

 

[ozzygull]

I went on holiday in France last month and have nothing but positive things to say, visiting Brittany and Normandy on my motorbike with my husband on his.


I can’t make my mind up if it’s me and I don’t understand what is going on, or if it just piss poor.

just seen how bad the rain is there and really feel sorry for them, talk about pissing on your parade.

 

[Simster]

Gawd, is it because it is the french that you are so damn anti?

Nope although I can understand why you might expect that.

To be clear, most British people were very cynical about 2012 before it started and then absolutely stunned at just how good London 2012 was; and the bar was set at the opening ceremony which was unexpectedly breathtaking.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Monty Pythonesq heads in the river?

 

[Beach Hut]

One of them said Beijing 2008 was the best. So, I can't be sure what they're talking about.

That was the one where the little girl had to sing from outside the stadium and another mimed her as she wasn’t pretty enough

 

[dazzer6666]

Those athletes in the boats as it pounds up and down in the waves must be all hanging off the sides throwing up whilst this artyfarty twattery is going on

It’s a river

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Monty Pythonesq heads in the river?

I quite liked the head of the post-guillotine Marie Antoinette that burst into song halfway up a building

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Brits have arrived.