London 2012 - Chat Thread

I'm still keeping a look out for any lower category boxing, track cycling, table tennis and basketball finals on the ticketing website.

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Still some womens beach volley ball final tickets for only £450 if anyone is interested

Just got some athletics tickets for £20 that includes:

Men's 100m Preliminary Round
Women's Heptathlon Long Jump - Groups A & B
Women's Pole Vault Qualifying Rounds - Groups A & B
Men's 400m Round 1
Women's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1
Women's Heptathlon Javelin Throw - Group A
Men's 100m Round 1
Women's Heptathlon Javelin Throw - Group B

And after that i'll be getting a train from paddington to Cardiff arriving at 17;45 and meeting my Dad there for the mens football quarter final .

Not too shabby, have a good time mate.

So, the Olympics technically start today.

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What's all this crap about Phillips Idowu?

The British Olympic dudes want records of his recent injury. He's pissed off that they asked publicly for them though, making a bit of a scene of it.

Unless you're on bout something else to do with him?

It's probably that. BBC just shown an interview with that Dutch bloke (head of UK athletics), and he's on about not having spoken to him within a week, and he's not at the training camp.

Gareth Bale is a cunt, he apparently can't play for Team GB, but he's playing for Spurs.

If the FA complained to FIFA he'd be banned until the Olympics is over.

They're not going to though.

I would do that

BBC TV will provide the most comprehensive coverage of an Olympic games in broadcasting history, with up to 2,500 hours of live coverage.

London 2012: How to watch the Olympics on BBC TV

Jess Ennis would get it so hard.

GB vs Senegal tonight

When do the actual Olympics start? ie. not the football.

tomorrow, I think. The opening Ceremony is, anyway

Only thing going on tomorrow is archery and the opening ceremony.

Everything starts on Saturday, pretty much. There's a guide on the red button somewhere.

What's everyone's favorite event to watch? I like the 100m's (obviously) But I also enjoy the Javelin and shotput and the ones like that, and the high jump, that's always quite exciting

In athletics, the sprint events are good to watch. To be honest I'll watch near enough anything in the Olympics apart from team sports like football and hockey etc, I don't think they should be in the Olympics.

I still feel a bit weird that football is in the olympics, I mean, they've got the world cup and stuff, for most other sports, the Olympics is the main competition.

how many medals y'all think gb will win?

Apparently we're trying to beat what we got in Beijing, which was 47

Think we're going to try and nick 3rd from Australia in the medal table. Don't think we'll do it though.

I'll watch anything really in the Olympics. Wish I was going to watch some events in London though.

the home nation always gets a.boost so i could see gb getting 50 or 60

Hope so, would be amazing

China got 100 last time.

How do the host country suddenly go from nothing to finishing top of the medals table?

Didn't they literally have thousands of athletes, I remember them coming into the flag ceremony and it took ahes cos they just kept coming

China put in a ton of money into their sports when they got the bid and really went all out, doubt GB did the same but like i said the home nation always gets a boost.

China had about 650 athletes iirc, most of any nation. but host nations get some qualifying.perks too

China will probably get a good medal haul this year too.