London 2012 - Chat Thread

hello, lets chat about running and shit

I will be returning home from London exactly 2 weeks from now after a wonderful day at the games.

Pico wrote:I will be returning home from London exactly 2 weeks from now after a wonderful day at the games.

What event(s) are you going to see and how much did you spend?

I myself am making three trips to London for mens Boxing (round 32), Table Tennis (1/8 final doubles) and the football Final. Also got some more football at old trafford and the Millennium stadium. Spent around £300 in total.

Should be a great few weeks.

RubyArmyCTFC wrote:

Pico wrote:I will be returning home from London exactly 2 weeks from now after a wonderful day at the games.

What event(s) are you going to see and how much did you spend?

I myself am making three trips to London for mens Boxing (round 32), Table Tennis (1/8 final doubles) and the football Final. Also got some more football at old trafford and the Millennium stadium. Spent around £300 in total.

Should be a great few weeks.

Going to 2 sessions of tennis - one 2 weeks today and one the following Saturday. The Saturday tickets were £125 each but it's the 2nd best price category avaiable for a medal session so it's worth it. The other session was part of a games break thing, I bought it through Thomas Cook (because I failed in the original ballot so thought it was the only way to get tickets ) so it includes accommodation as well as the tickets, roughly £250 per person.

Haven't got any tickets for London but I am heading to the football at Old Trafford. I am heading to London though on 4th August to watch Salford so it will be packed around the place.

Really looking forward to it starting.

I wish squash was in the Olympics.

ShakerMatty wrote:I wish squash was in the Olympics.

I'm surprised it isn't, just about everything else is

Its one of the most popular sports to play in the world apparently. Hopefully one day it will be put in.

hopefully one day we only will associate squash with a dilute juice drink

Ed wrote:hopefully one day we only will associate squash with a dilute juice drink

What do you mean? Squash is a good sport.

Squash is a fantastic sport, I'd like to see you try play an hour straight of it.

Poor Weather, overlooked again.

http://www.the-playmaker.com/t12852-2012-london-olympic-games-thread

He did make the thread a few months back.

Just watched a fantastic documentary on Victoria Pendleton on BBC iPlayer. Fantastic insight into her over the last 4 years, and heart wrenching in places too.

I was meant to watch that as I have seen the two documentaries on Usain Bolt and his competition in recent days.

Yeah, I'd really recommend it.

Gonna have a look at one of the Bolt ones just now.

I will give it a watch in the morning and as for the Bolt ones they were pretty good and showed an insight in to the lead up and aftermath of the races.

Ed wrote:hello, lets chat about running and shit

That's the spirit!

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Also, I was unaware that there is another London 2012 thread. Oh well.

Nadal has pulled out.

If any of you get a chance, go watch our basketball team. We're missing several key players, but Kobe, Lebron and a few other stars are there. We should win gold and kill most teams, including Team GB today in an exhibition.

Viva Ronaldo 7 wrote:Nadal has pulled out.

Why? Lukas Rosol didn't even qualify

Pico wrote:

Viva Ronaldo 7 wrote:Nadal has pulled out.

Why? Lukas Rosol didn't even qualify

Said he's in no condition to compete

Chris Hoy will only be defending two of his Olympic titles, Jason Kenny is doing the individual sprint ahead of him.

USA - GB are playing a friendly right now.

Oh my god Lebron just absolutely PENETRATED some British phaggot.

Yeah GB never had a chance against us.

Well we only have two players who earn a lot of dollar..

Forgot Luol Deng plays for GB. But yeah that was a stomping.

Handball tickets are quite cheap. £50 for the best available seats. I'm tempted.