Congratulations UK!
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Topic: Congratulations UK!
Posted By: dfrancis
Subject: Congratulations UK!
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 10:15am
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London Awarded 2012 Olympic Games SINGAPORE (AP) - London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, upsetting European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948. After Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds, London overcame its cross-Channel opponent 54-50 on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote - capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history. Paris had been the front-runner throughout the campaign, but London picked up momentum in the late stages with strong support from Prime Minister Tony Blair. Full story: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050706/D8B5U11O0.html - http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050706/D8B5U11O0.html |
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 2:38pm
| It's great, I will be 25-26 then, I will go an see everything! |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 4:09pm
It is great that we have won  But I still think paris should have won!  |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 4:13pm
I might be going to paris soon, i'll rub it in
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 5:09pm
Bring extra teeth - just in case yours get knocked out - 
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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 09 July 2005 at 1:41pm
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I live in London, however I think other cities like Paris are better prepared or should I say have a better Mayor/policy towards city/street managent.
What I mean, is that street management in London is the worse I've seen, I can enumerate a few things: 1. Streets full of holes, bumps, grooves, very low/high manholes. What an unconfortable ride is to drive in London, I even thought to buy a 4x4 with adjustable suspention to compensate the poor state of the asfalt. 2. Some pavements are wider than the road itself. This I never understood, you drive for years on some roads, next thing you know there's roads works, and what are they doing? Widening the pavement, even thou it was more than enough for the pedestrians that use it, so you end up with a pavement twice as large and a road with half it's width, generating more queues, maybe that's the idea to say there's too many cars lets charge them :| 3. Un-managed trafic lights. This is most annoying, you stop at a traffic light, it opens, and you stop immediatly at the next one. Why not do like most cities in Europe where in the main road, when one traffic light opens the ones ahead open accordingly so you go the whole avenue non-stop? Also in Europe (specially in Portugal) they have what they call smart lights, this are normal lights installed at minor streets that cross with major streets, the main street is always green, as long the minor streets have no cars waiting, this smart lights have sensors that can detect 3/4 cars in a queue waiting to go, what a nice idea. 4. Anti-car approach from the top. Mr. Ken don't drive, so what better man to dictate about traffic issues in London, tottaly anti-car, thiner roads, full of holes and we even pay for fuel more than any one else, not to mention all the taxes that come with a car. 5. Too many buses. Some streets are just simply red, they even block them- selves up, and every one else, they also have priority when pulling out of bus stoppes, and most in London, just indicate and acelerate, totally negleting whose next to it, this law, just makes me wonder if it is to facilitate the passengers in the bus, or is it to make us car drivers to stop again next time the bus stops at a bus stop (if not in the middle of the road), or to make us bread their smoke when they pull out? 6. No lane markings. In many places there's no lane markings, so you have to apply the jungle rule, specially on curves where 2/3 lanes suddently have no marks, everyone cuts the curve going on top of the car next lane, what a mess. This is mainly about the streets in London, but I could equally comment on public transport (high prices = bad, smelly, full, not on time, and trains have a nasty tendacy to crash), not to mention that we Londoners pay more for everything, and they nominated London for the Olympics? ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 09 July 2005 at 3:36pm
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Other than complaints about London... So, after offering the Olympics to a regime (China) that tortures and murders its own people, it's coming back to a civilized country. Sick. I'm appauled at the Olympic comittee. They are serioulsy depraved. A victory for the UK means nothing. They will award the Olympics to anyone. So what that the UK won. If the Chinese can get it - it's meaningless. Disgusted and appauled, Ryan ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 09 July 2005 at 5:35pm
I'm sure the Athenians felt the same about the Spartans when they gor the games 
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 7:18pm
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And with good reason. The games are supposed to be about peace and unity, not "do what your told or visit a re-education camp" or "come home with your shield, or on it"
nb. the last was a reference to spartan 'honour'
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 10:35pm
In most US cities we have what you call "smart lights". They are very nice for large traffic days and slow traffic. If your driving around 3am when no one is on the road you hit almost every light at green because it knows your coming. And when its heavy traffic at rush hours the timing for each lane changes to the traffic. I find it weird that London has bad roads... i would have thought they would have been nice since its such a world known city and its pretty big. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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3. Un-managed trafic lights.
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 11:48pm
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It's also *very* old, and as a result the streets are stupidly narrow, esp. in central london, because cars didn't exist centuries ago when london was founded, and so weren't planned for.
It's also probably very hard to have even well-timed lights in london because the road is hardly what would be called a uniform grid.
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 2:28am
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Yeah, but surely most people visiting won't be in cars? Also, did you know the Olympic symbol (4 rings) is a Nazi invention, which is a slight contradiction on the whole peace meaning. They faked an archiolloigical dig that discovered the Greek logo. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 10:18am
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Actually... No The rings were designed by Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first used in the 1920 0r 1924 games. Well before any Nazi ideaology was developed. Also, there's 5 rings. -------------
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 10:47am
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http://forums.armageddononline.org/archive/index.php/t-2917.html Post @ 08-30-2004, 12:28 AM Got my facts slightly wrong but there are Nazi assosciations. "Leni Riefenstahl, the Olympia filmmaker who also chronicled Hitler's rise to power, had the rings carved into a stone altar at the ancient Greek city of Delphi, spawning the myth that they were a symbol dating more than two millennia." |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 17 July 2005 at 7:08pm
| No, they wont be in cars, but there'll be an added load on the cab and buses, both of which need to use roads... |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 5:21am
atleast they are not having in saudi arabia other wise the female atheletics would be runnin in abayas!!  ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:53pm
Womens swimming and diving would be interesting though -------------
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 3:04pm
| Did I hear somewhere that there will be no baseball? WHAT? No baseball??? |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 6:52pm
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joining together to celebrate the act of running around in a circle... what could be better than baseball? except of course for everything...
as for the abaya thing: a lot of athletes now tend to use those full-body suit things... not much uncovered there...
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 6:55pm
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Just about every sport involves running around in circles there Mr. Smarty Pants. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 6:58pm
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basketball doesnt...
neither does cricket... that simplifies it further by running between two lines...
swimming is back and forth
100m sprints are just forth
archers don't even move
hammer-throwers spin an a circle, but don't strictly *run*
cycling tends te be in circles, but its not running...
you were saying...
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 7:25pm
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Most of those sports (besides cricket) are way more borring than baseball. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 8:04pm
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basketball is more interesting than baseball... though i tend to play more than i watch...
and did i hear correctly? someone from the US saying cricket is more interesting that baseball? egad!
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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 7:26am
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I think a new competition should be entered like..... The computer shot put throwing competition I will win ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 7:57am
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Running around in circles is the criteria?
Eh... no track and field this time either?
 I realize that people outside of the USA may not have an appreciation for baseball, it is a popular sport here in the states.
Hey... if circles is the limitation, does that mean they will be offering the real version of football? I mean the US version of (real man) Football! Now that could be interesting.
(Me thinks me hits a hornets nest.)
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 11:25am
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I think the Computer Olympics thing that BoLt started is a good idea. We could have things like the memory stick relay race. zaBoss would be a good candidate for the disk toss.  -------------
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 24 July 2005 at 6:59pm
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Gridiron is not real football. Gridiron players are pussies, what with all their padding... Rugby, now that's gutsy. Soccer is still by far the mast skillful of all 'football' sports...
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