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

[Swegulls]

Left arm now!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I couldn't get tickets for the Olympics. I went to the Paralympics and it was rammed. You're talking shit.

Me too, I think London 2012 Paralympics was the best attended ever - we went pool morning, main stadium afternoon. It was great to experience the park and the event.

 

[Swegulls]

He will talk till they turn off the lights

 

[Bold Seagull]

Blimey, that was as dry as old twigs next to the London Ceremony. They should have Danny Boyled it.

I assume there’s more hoopla to come? That can’t be it, surely. Feels like it’s yet to start.

Thought it was great. Very different having it outside a stadium. Shame it rained so hard but Paris always looks amazing.

 

[Algernon]

Nom d'un chien, arrêt.

 

[jimhigham]

Thought it was great. Very different having it outside a stadium. Shame it rained so hard but Paris always looks amazing.

All about opinions, I guess. Felt disjointed and messy to me. Glad you enjoyed it.

 

[Badger]

I must admit, it did get a bit better once the sun went down. Any ceremony is always going to look a bit shit on a grey, rainy day.

 

[TomandJerry]

He will talk till they turn off the lights

Won't someone think about the bloke holding the umbrella?!

 

[Han Solo]

That's weird. I've never watched an Olympics and then stopped because there weren't enough people in the crowd.

Ok, I frequently do it when it comes to sports. Just take football during covid.. thought it was shit to watch when there was no atmosphere etc. Watched maybe 15 minutes of the Tokyo Olympics, couldn't get any emotional bond to it because it was... dead.

We're all different.

 

[Eric the meek]

Ok, I frequently do it when it comes to sports. Just take football during covid.. thought it was shit to watch when there was no atmosphere etc. Watched maybe 15 minutes of the Tokyo Olympics, couldn't get any emotional bond to it because it was... dead.

We're all different.

How many of you are there?

 

[Weststander]

Thomas Bach was a foil gold medalist at Montreal 76. The IOC were cheapskates back then .

 

[Triggaaar]

Ok, I frequently do it when it comes to sports. Just take football during covid.. thought it was shit to watch when there was no atmosphere etc. Watched maybe 15 minutes of the Tokyo Olympics, couldn't get any emotional bond to it because it was... dead.

We're all different.

You certainly are. But if you want to criticise the London Olympics, you've picked the wrong thing in attendance. It was rammed.

Instead maybe go for the joke of what they did with the stadium.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Cool ceremony then half-empty stadiums and eerily quiet for three weeks of Olympics. Could always hope for the opposite here.

Hand solo.

 

[Silverhatch]

Me too, I think London 2012 Paralympics was the best attended ever - we went pool morning, main stadium afternoon. It was great to experience the park and the event.

It was. Olympic & Paralympics SOLD OUT. An absolutely wonderful world class event.

 

[Weststander]

The Olympic Oaf. Why pick on the Bulgarian woman shot-putter?

 

[A1X]

“I declare these twenty eight…twenty twenty eight games…open. They’re so open, probably the most open games ever, I don’t know. And you’re all going to be doing so much winning…”

 

[Swegulls]

Now it’s time for a dansk skalle!

 

[TomandJerry]

Nice suit but why the white trainers?!

 

[A1X]

I dunno I’d be pretty miffed if at London 2012 they’d rolled out Federer

 

[Weststander]

The Olympic spiirt.