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Jimboka
2,676 posts
73 months
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harry010 said: Jimboka said: Blake 9.69 - second fastest ever!! Man I presume not time - Bolt won the Olympics in 9.63 and holds the world record at 9.58 as far as I remember. Impressive stuff though  I stand corrected. They did say 2nd fastest ever time, when actually he is the 2nd fastest ever man! (equal). Still a good day at the office!
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FiF
18,404 posts
120 months
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Cheib said: I don't know if anyone else remember but during the 80's these Grand Prix events used to get proper TV coverage especially in the Coe and Ovett era.....I also remember seeing many races of the likes of Ed Moses, Yifter the Shifter et al being televised. The Bilsett Games with the Golden Mile got a lot of coverage IIRC and the Zurich Grad Prix. I was actually at the Bislett Games in Oslo for the 1500m in the early 80s, 1981? In the race the assigned pacemaker Tom Byers set off like a hare, and the rest of the field beggared around and let him go knowing he would fade after a couple of laps. It wasn't helped by them being told a wrong 800m time, they were given Byers time as their time, so thought they were doing well, when in fact they were at least 70m off the pace. Anyway they were still messing around watching each other at the point the pacemaker usually pulled out, but he looked back and decided to keep going for it. Of course Ovett and the rest realised they had left it too late, and they were hunting him down in the last 100m, the poor guy was dead on his feet staggering all over the place, but he made it. Byers beat a few good names in that race, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Steve Scott, Thomas Wessinghage, John Walker and others I forget. Absolutely crazy night that was.
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Tiggsy
7,180 posts
121 months
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FiF
18,404 posts
120 months
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Thanks for that link Tiggsy, crumbs that takes me back, and shows my memory isn't so bad after all. DVD always reckoned I could give Leslie Welch a run for his money.
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Nom de ploom
2,395 posts
43 months
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I wonder if "mo-vember" will take a different slant this year... do we shave our heads and run around with our hands on our bonces instead of growing a mo? 
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rover 623gsi
1,947 posts
30 months
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London 2012 was incredible and I didn't think I'd ever see the Olympics in this country again in my lifetime... but maybe I was wrong International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said London could stage the Olympics again in the next 20 years.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19941470
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Lost_BMW
10,648 posts
45 months
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rover 623gsi said: London 2012 was incredible and I didn't think I'd ever see the Olympics in this country again in my lifetime... but maybe I was wrong International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said London could stage the Olympics again in the next 20 years.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19941470Wow - he must have been impressed. Really hope so, I'll be retired by then and able to go and watch live. Even as it was, just through TV, two of the most favourite weeks of my whole life. Do we have a "should get out more" smiley?
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JonnyFive
26,734 posts
58 months
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I agree with that ^ - It was one of the best few weeks I've had in ages, really good time.. I don't know of anyone that didn't enjoy it, everyone was talking about it, everyone was watching it.. Just a real good mood during those few weeks.
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OpulentBob
3,084 posts
49 months
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I "worked" it, in a semi-professional guise, heading up a team of ambassadors for the last mile of the MTB approach. As soon as I put on the t-shirt, I had kids high-5ing me, everyone said hello (and I mean everyone!), smiles and good times all round. I've never experienced anything like it. I hate getting involved with the public normally, but the good vibe was so infectious. Everyone from the car park attendants to the (bored and unused) riot police (or whatever the term is), bus drivers, everyone was having a good time. I've got a spare room full of souvenirs (ahem) and about 1000 photos, of everything from the empty circuit to being accosted by a bus load of face-painted Norwegians, to a van load of bobbies doing a Mexican wave. I'm a feel-good convertee. This country ain't that bad.
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AstonZagato
3,231 posts
79 months
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rover 623gsi said: London 2012 was incredible and I didn't think I'd ever see the Olympics in this country again in my lifetime... but maybe I was wrong International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said London could stage the Olympics again in the next 20 years.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19941470Yeah but would he really say "No, London can't apply"? He only really said "There's nothing to stop London applying". I realise that deserves a: 
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Otispunkmeyer
2,806 posts
24 months
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OpulentBob said: I "worked" it, in a semi-professional guise, heading up a team of ambassadors for the last mile of the MTB approach. As soon as I put on the t-shirt, I had kids high-5ing me, everyone said hello (and I mean everyone!), smiles and good times all round. I've never experienced anything like it. I hate getting involved with the public normally, but the good vibe was so infectious. Everyone from the car park attendants to the (bored and unused) riot police (or whatever the term is), bus drivers, everyone was having a good time. I've got a spare room full of souvenirs (ahem) and about 1000 photos, of everything from the empty circuit to being accosted by a bus load of face-painted Norwegians, to a van load of bobbies doing a Mexican wave. I'm a feel-good convertee. This country ain't that bad. This plus, aside from the actual sport, the opening ceremony has to be just about the best thing I have watched on TV. I have watched it a few times since and to be honest it just gets better every time you see it. Especially if you stop it before McCartney comes to f  k up the day. The pandemonium section with the smoke stacks, that epic 17 minute track by underworld and the Olympic Rings being "forged" in the centre was absolutely spectacular. I thought we wouldn't be patch on the robotic exactness of the Chinese, but we absolutely destroyed them. Boyle needs a medal of his own.
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pablo
10,285 posts
142 months
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i think it might be a case of "can any other country throw the required amount of money at this in the coming twenty years or do we start to look at the people who have already got the infrastructure in place...."
I cant imagine there is a long queue of European countries wanting to throw £10Bn+ away just to hold the games in the next twenty years....
I'm still intrigued as to where the 2017 World Athletics championships are going to be held...
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ninja-lewis
1,895 posts
59 months
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pablo said: i think it might be a case of "can any other country throw the required amount of money at this in the coming twenty years or do we start to look at the people who have already got the infrastructure in place...."
I cant imagine there is a long queue of European countries wanting to throw £10Bn+ away just to hold the games in the next twenty years....
I'm still intrigued as to where the 2017 World Athletics championships are going to be held... London won't have the infrastructure in 20 years. A huge part of the Games is all the open space around the various venues for crowds and back of house facilities, not to mention the Olympic Village itself. All of which will be redeveloped over the next 10-20 years into parkland, housing and business units. The main venues will still exist but will be reduced to legacy mode - i.e. set up for the public to use them rather than just as spectators in temporary stands.
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rover 623gsi
1,947 posts
30 months
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I appreciate that Rogge’s comment had an air of diplomacy about them, however I think there was also a genuine hint that another London bid in 20 years or so would be welcome. Certainly if London did bid for, say, 2032 or 2036 then it would start from a fairly decent point and a quite a bit (though not all) of the infrastructure would still be in place.
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