07-06-2005, 08:56 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| 2012 Olympics in London!
Just watched the announcement. 2012 will be in London!! | 
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07-06-2005, 09:04 AM
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| and let me tell you we are chuffed to bits. the site is only a train ride for my house. i am going to start booking my tickets for the fencing right now!
woo hoo. | |
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07-06-2005, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by the doc and let me tell you we are chuffed to bits... | I have no idea what "chuffed to bits" means, but I assume it must be something good!
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Feltan | |
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07-06-2005, 09:43 AM
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| London is cool. I hope to be able to go watch. In my dreams, though.  Tickets must be really expensive. | 
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07-06-2005, 10:11 AM
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| After 9/11, it should have been NY. London organizers should send a thank you card to George Bush. | |
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07-06-2005, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by heretic After 9/11, it should have been NY. London organizers should send a thank you card to George Bush. | I think everyone in NY is happy it's not in NY. | |
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07-06-2005, 10:34 AM
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#7 | | Din Älskling
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| The French will probably vote the EU Constitution down for the next 7 years, just out of spite. 
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07-06-2005, 10:49 AM
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#8 | | moose rules!
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Originally Posted by esskreemr The French will probably vote the EU Constitution down for the next 7 years, just out of spite. | Hahahaha.
You think the premier will be replaced every year until then as well? While Chirac keeps his warm chair? 
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07-06-2005, 11:08 AM
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| Well, if it's in London instead of NY, I'm going to boycott by refusing to fence in the 2012 games! :-)
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07-06-2005, 11:13 AM
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| A NYC view
As someone who is in NYC more often than not....I must admit being torn.... We would have loved to have the fencing here close to home....but the city is insane enough without any help so I must admit a sigh of relief and a huzzah offered when London landed it.
Congrats to London!
and good luck....you'll need it 
Rick Shellhouse
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07-06-2005, 11:19 AM
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| We wanted it in NY, stadium controversy not withstanding. Wait 'til 2016. The western hemisphere will most likely get the summer games by then. | |
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07-06-2005, 12:52 PM
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| PUH-LEASE! NY can't hold the olympics. That's a fact. There are no big facilities and the city is chaotic enough without adding millions of more people. | |
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07-06-2005, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by lefty_monster PUH-LEASE! NY can't hold the olympics. That's a fact. There are no big facilities and the city is chaotic enough without adding millions of more people. | and you think EVERY sport was held IN Athens last olympics ?
they would probably hold it in counties near ny. | |
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07-06-2005, 01:29 PM
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| And yet the masses would still probably be HOUSED in NY and EATING in NY and SHOPPING in NY, therefore still jamming up the city.
EDIT: sorry if that sounded argumentitive. I'm busy arguing with Cheeky in the mean people thread. | |
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07-06-2005, 01:52 PM
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| Would really suck for Barry if Leon Paul didn't get to provide all teh gear for the fencing venue... | |
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07-06-2005, 04:32 PM
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| NYC is one of the few places that has an infrastructure developed enough to host the Olympics. We have the best mass transit system in the US, thousands of hotel rooms, the financial recourses (nearly all private sectors) in addition to being the media capital of the world.
Bloomberg will put in a bid for 2016, and we have an excellent chance - as long as there isn't another Bush in the White House.
Anyway, the USOC needs to redeem itself after the Atlanta and Salt Lake City. | |
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07-06-2005, 04:43 PM
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| "Chuffed to bits" is a British slang expression meaning roughly the same as "tickled pink" (i.e., really really glad).
So the Westerbrook fencers are going to have to go across the Pond instead of just down the street.
Doesn't matter--NBC will butcher the Games no matter where they're held. Let me be the first to say . . .
"Shut UP, Bob Costas!!!!"
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07-06-2005, 05:35 PM
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| Right. We have two threads covering the same thing. I am merging the two of them together and leaving this in the Water Cooler. | |
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07-06-2005, 06:47 PM
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| Having visited Atlanta for the first half of the 1996 games, I felt I actually missed the Olympics until I got home as the US TV coverage was so appalling.
I felt that it was an entirely commercial venture without the "spirit of the games".
New York I think had far more heart to its bid, but was not fully pulling together.
I am sure that London will host a fantastic games, but I am worried that fencing may not be in the games by then. Probably replaced by Ballroom dancing or competition aerobics. | |
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07-06-2005, 07:12 PM
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| We'll find out about that tomorrow (the IOC congress takes place tomorrow, IIRC)
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