The Official 2012 London Olympics Thread
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Wow Spain got screwed
karma for their evil history.
a win for the good people of Earth.
DoubleClutch
Superstar
What network is the ping pong on?
There's nothing still on. OH GOD WHAT DO I DO?!?!?!?
Oh wait, bbc's olympic round up, i'm saved
Carl Lewis joins who seems to be a regular pundit Ian Thorpe on the couch to round up the days action
I'm waiting for them to put up the Senegal v Uraguay match on da BBC Iplayer
that nbc opening where they have the music playing and show the aerial shots of the city and countryside always brings a tear to my eye. 
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
some of these divers got thick ass thighs
I told brehs not to panic but they werent hearing me. they went ahead and entered that stupid ticket ballot 18 months ago. the idea that you werent going to be able to get tickets on the day for a least something half-decent was
THE MACHINE
night owl
Just when I thought corporate Great Britain wasn't too high brow for the Olympics.
At the thought of HAVING to give away tickets.
The Olympics Have an Attendance Problem - Global - The Atlantic Wire
The Olympics are off to a great start. There's already been high profile match-ups, down-to-the-wire competition, and athletes taking things too personally. The only problem is the huge amount of empty seats left by the organizers and sponsors in the stadiums. They're kind of a bummer.*
The problem was on display on Saturday most notably during the big swimming match between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. There were hundreds of empty seats left behind. The empty seats are often in some of the best parts of the stadiums. They're for corporate sponsors, so they have the best eye-lines possible, but that also means they're the seats that show up on TV. If those are empty, then London looks terrible.*
At first, the organizers were in denial about the problem. The chairman of the London Olympics, Sebastien Coe, blew off the problem and said they were "stuffed to the gunnels" in every stadium, except when he said that he was surrounded by empty seats disproving his point.*
"It is a shame this happened but we are going to do everything we can to make sure we fill up those stadia," said Jeremy Hunt, the British Culture Secretary in charge of the games.*
Their solution? To fill the stadium up with members of the military, and local teachers and students. Some military members had their scheduled vacations cancelled so they could be assigned to go and watch the Olympics. Organizers also considered a 30-minute rule, where seats not filled in the first 30 minutes of an event starting would be released to the public, but that idea was eventually dismissed.*
Some press who tried to get crafty and take up some of the empty seats at Sunday's U.S.A.-France basketball game were foiled. Reuter's Justin Palmer tweeted about journalists getting kicked out of corporate seats after the proper owners actually decided to show up. They're lucky the 30-minute rule was never adopted.*
At the thought of HAVING to give away tickets.The Olympics Have an Attendance Problem - Global - The Atlantic Wire
The Olympics are off to a great start. There's already been high profile match-ups, down-to-the-wire competition, and athletes taking things too personally. The only problem is the huge amount of empty seats left by the organizers and sponsors in the stadiums. They're kind of a bummer.*
The problem was on display on Saturday most notably during the big swimming match between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. There were hundreds of empty seats left behind. The empty seats are often in some of the best parts of the stadiums. They're for corporate sponsors, so they have the best eye-lines possible, but that also means they're the seats that show up on TV. If those are empty, then London looks terrible.*
At first, the organizers were in denial about the problem. The chairman of the London Olympics, Sebastien Coe, blew off the problem and said they were "stuffed to the gunnels" in every stadium, except when he said that he was surrounded by empty seats disproving his point.*
"It is a shame this happened but we are going to do everything we can to make sure we fill up those stadia," said Jeremy Hunt, the British Culture Secretary in charge of the games.*
Their solution? To fill the stadium up with members of the military, and local teachers and students. Some military members had their scheduled vacations cancelled so they could be assigned to go and watch the Olympics. Organizers also considered a 30-minute rule, where seats not filled in the first 30 minutes of an event starting would be released to the public, but that idea was eventually dismissed.*
Some press who tried to get crafty and take up some of the empty seats at Sunday's U.S.A.-France basketball game were foiled. Reuter's Justin Palmer tweeted about journalists getting kicked out of corporate seats after the proper owners actually decided to show up. They're lucky the 30-minute rule was never adopted.*
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
That Canadian chick J. Abel is fine 
wise prophet
All Star
Id ravage that Canadian chick. 
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