The official London Olympic Games 2012 thread !!!!!

Yew well its that time again, that 4 yr Olympic cycle. The time 2012 its in London.

One thing I'm really curious about is what the UK members think of this ? Are you in london and has this impacted on your life. Has it changed. Traffic conditions, extra people riding the Tube (Mind the Gap)?? Are you over the Olympic fever ??
I am curious, because in 2000 Sydney Olympics i had had enough of it and moved to Brisbane because of the hype, the amount of extra people in town and the hassles of driving around and all.
Im not a big people person lol Well really i hate lots of peoples and crowds.
So yea what do you think?

This thread is also for anyone to post Olympic material, links, or anything.
Tell us what your looking forward to watching. Is it just the medal rounds or do u=you get into all the events.
Post anything Olympic that you want.

Me personally, look for to watching Aust James Magnusson in the swimming. The best thing Ian Thorpe has seen swim in a decade.
The Cycling and the Brad Wiggins/Cadel Evans battle.
The Womens Beach VolleyBall too.

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Cheers

Go Marshall Islands!

I'm glad I can watch this online. However, it doesn't help my productivity.

I watched it, and liked it, more than the previous one.
However, I do think it's kind of pathetic to have an orchestra mime through pre-recorded music. It's the Olympics for crying out loud, have the cojones to do it live!

I felt embarrassed for Rowan Atkinson. The weird musical number with the music through the past decades was a bit odd in that they had to narrate what it was suppose to be about. The music was good though, and I had fun on Wikipedia looking up the names of nations I had never heard of.

This is the most direct effect it's had on me; I didn't know him personally, but I'd met him once or twice, and we had several mutual friends who's RIP statuses have flooded my Facebook news feed for the past couple of days...

Tributes to cyclist Dan Harris killed by an Olympics bus