Olympics 2016

[Cripps]

Michael Johnson, worlds greatest sportsman?

Amazing pundit. Love seeing him on the BBC.

Yup. Fully agree. If he wasn't part of the punditry, I wouldn't watch.

[Callum]

Pretty cool so far.

[Cripps]

Cost 20 times less than the London one did yet equally as impressive.

London humiliated.

[Callum]

Cost 20 times less than the London one did yet equally as impressive.

London humiliated.

Not even close. London was incredible.

[Cripps]

Tbf the red arrows flew over my house that day so I'll always love that ceremony.

[BexleyGooner]

Cost 20 times less than the London one did yet equally as impressive.

London humiliated.

Stupidest post you've ever written, and that's up against some strong competition.

[Marsbar100]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/schedule

The men's cycle road race is the main event tomorrow, the course is supposedly brutal which could give froome a chance of a medal.

[Cripps]

Cost 20 times less than the London one did yet equally as impressive.

London humiliated.

Stupidest post you've ever written, and that's up against some strong competition.

Who are you?

[Cripps]

Rafa Nadal carried Spain's flag. Legend.

Didn't see Bolt when Jamaica came out. Shelly Ann Fraser carried their flag

[Zedie]

Should be every four years in Greece no need to waste huge amounts of money and space to build infrastructure that mostly won't be used after some weeks in several cities all over the world .. feed the really poor, buy your Civil service better equipment and (re)build schools instead of wasting billions for some f***ing stadiums ..

Although the London Olympics was a very positive thing overall I do agree with this.

Stratford got badly needed regeneration, and we got a nice new public park out of it, but why does the government need a special reason to do that? And to make it worse they lost an untold amount of money on that bloody stadium.

A lot of the money pumped in was private via residential and commercial investment. Sometimes, it takes a mammoth event like the Olympics to get the big companies in to an area to kick-start it.

They wont go if they think there's a chance they're the only ones there. The Olympics and government investment in the area pushed up land prices enough to make the sale values / commercial rents worth it.

In the long run, it's only been a good thing for East London and Stratford in particular. It created loads of jobs, revamped a whole area (I remember Stratford in the early 90s, Stratford Rex, a few taverns I can't remember the name of) before all the investment. It's completely unrecognisable now. Still blows my mind coming off the A12 past the old porche garage and down the one way system.

Re the stadium, it was as much the government's fault they put boys in to negotiate with men that the publics been ripped off. I'm so gutted that for once, the tories didn't divert that huge consultancy budget they spunk away every year to pay for a proper agent to thrash out terms with sullivan, gold and Brady.

Fecking inept.

[BexleyGooner]

Cost 20 times less than the London one did yet equally as impressive.

London humiliated.

Stupidest post you've ever written, and that's up against some strong competition.

Who are you?

Terribly sorry. It seems nearly 600 posts and over 2 years on the forum is not enough to offer an opinion.

I bow to you Lord Cripps.

[Cripps]

You weird dude/girl.

Anyway main event is still over a week away.

Bolt v Gatlin

[BexleyGooner]

You weird dude/girl.

Dude in the week, girl at weekends.

[Va-Va-Voom]

You weird dude/girl.

Anyway main event is still over a week away.

Bolt v Gatlin

Bolt and Blake will take 1st and 2nd in both 100 and 200. Book it.

[Va-Va-Voom]

You weird dude/girl.

Anyway main event is still over a week away.

Bolt v Gatlin

Bolt and Blake will take 1st and 2nd in both 100 and 200. Book it.