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Apparently there are 200 days to go untill London 2012. That warrant's yet another media event, this time a junket for the Cabinet to visit the Olympic Park.

Is there anyone else already so bored with the incessant hype behind this event that they'll be glad when it's all over?

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Nope. I am very excited. I have two tickets thus far, one of them obtained via the resale on Friday (before they took it down again). The second of these tickets is for the final canoeing session in Lee Valley Park which is a 10 minute walk from my front door. I used to ride my bike around there as a teenager and in a few months I will be there watching a Gold Medal ceremony for the Olympics.

More Importantly London is hosting a massive party for a few weeks and we get to advertise ourselves to the world. The opening ceremony in China was watched by 2 billion people, imagine a similar number watching our opening ceremony in London. When do we ever get opportunity like that? Will we ever have another one in our lifetimes? It will be a day to feel proud, to celebrate and show a huge amount of the world's population what we can do.

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Nope. The Olympic Games coming to your home country is pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime event and when everything else in the news is so utterly gloomy we are blessed as a nation to have such an important global event coming to us now of all times.

If we could just drop our national propensity to moan about evrything for a few months, we might actually enjoy both the attention and the massive influx of foreign tourist cash the event will bring.

... and as far as I'm concerned, anything that gets Cabinet meetings out of the Westminster bubble is a good thing. Plus, a ride across town is hardly a 'junket' ...

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Yes true there is a lot of hype Rob but remember this is a once in a lifetime event that most of us will never have in our lifetime again so l think we should just accept that there will be these media events leading up to it and basically my advice is to just ignore these media events and just savour the event when it comes around.

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Not here. I want the games to be a massive success and believe that the prophets of doom who predicted a shambles in building the various venues etc. have already been proved wrong. Given that we are where we are, we should be proud of what's been achieved and all be hoping that the event will prove a massive success with a significant boost to the UK 's profile and economy. If anything more media attention is what's required. Portions of our media in particular are excellent at running ourselves down and making their predictions of failure almost a self fulfilling prophecy. We need to break that habit and shout about the success story which, so far, is London 2012.

Whilst it may bring pleasure to some to see the Olympics turn into another Millennium Dome project they can whine about, they should reflect on how successful that's become, albeit in foreign ownership which is regretful. I'm confident the Olympic games will be looked back upon as a massive success and I'm hoping that its legacy will be of lasting benefit to the UK in one way or another.

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Another vote for the games :clap: It's great to have seen the progression in preparations from being awarded the games through the present day and hopefully to a successful conclusion and legacy. The more publicity the better

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Yip agreed m8..... a lot of people seam to be getting their tights tickled :erm: :erm: over this nonsense .. :rolleyes:

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Yup! I couldn't give a monkey's to tell you the truth :shrug:

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Can't wait for the Olympics myself. :Yes:

2012 will be a difficult year in many ways,not least economically.To have the opportunity to host such a Mega-Event bringing in loads of cash,people and advertising around the world is just very fortunate for us. :)

Bring on LONDON 2012 :cleader::cleader::woot::woot:

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What Will said, and I don't live in London - I think this will be a great boost to the UK's image, and bring more tourists in.

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It's a great opportunity for UK PLC to promote itself to the rest of the world and I hope the media don't embark upon a campaign of talking it down. The fact is the moeny's been spent now and we all have a vested intrerest in making sure it's a huge success. The inquest should happen when it's all over not before it's started.

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I'm the opposite, I never watch or care for sport, so can't say I care one way or the other, hehe.

I'm sure it'll be a great spectacle though and lots will be entertained by it, so no doubt it's a good thing.

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<--- States my view, with the Olympic Logo, (which in my option still looks like Lisa Simpson doing something dodgy, well on a family forum thats as far as I dare go:D)

Wherever I am on the 27th July, home or holiday I will watch the opening/closing ceromony.

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It took me ages to read the '2012' logo as 2012 - I don't know if that says more about the logo or me. My involvement will be limited to my dad recording for me the only event I'm interested in, viz. the archery...if they even show it, that is. :erm:

It is overhyped, and the only part of Britain that'll benefit - if indeed it does - will be London...as usual. Ye gods, you'd think the UK was nothing but London with the rest just tacked-on, wouldn't you? :mad:

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Where else would Britain host the Olympics? London had the hotels, the airports, the trains and so on already there. All that was needed was the Olympic park itself and Stratford International (the latter not really needed either). We were up against New York and Paris, London was our best chance at competing with them.

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It is though London 2012 and not UK 2012.. The city is awarded the Olympics and the rest of the world is invited..

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I am going to go to Hyde Park (presuming I get tickets!). There is going to be a special concert and then, hopefully, the opening ceremony on the screen. I hope they use Hyde Park and the other locations that will be streaming the ceremonies as part of the show itself. One of the impressive things about the Royal Wedding was the cuts to places outside the Westminster Abbey and the people singing and waving flags. We may not be able to compete with Beijing on budget but I think we could on passion and style.

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Was that deliberate? :D

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Boris is renaming it for the duration of the Olympics, or so I heard. :D:dunce:

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I am not a sports person & i think I will be bored to death if it is on the TV all the time. I wish they would keep it to the one channel, but I suppose that is not possible. If it helps the economy good & well. But sometimes they run at a loss.

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I thought it was all BBC, do ITV have it as well? Don't worry, you can watch Euro 2012 just before :)

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No ITV pulled out of sharing the Olympic TV rights a few years ago so it is exclusive to the BBC now.

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I don,t mind if it is BBC then. I can watch other channels.

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Good, no adverts to interrupt the action.

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It'll be Hyper Park then.... lol

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What's going to happen when it's all over and the reality of paying for it set's in ....the biggest case of buyers remorse ever :D

seriously though i think it's good ,a bit of summer sport to look forward to

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The 'good' news is the money's already been spent or committed so there's no point crying over spilt milk - the only sensible thing to do is make sure the whole thing's as successful as possible. It'd be churlish and self defeating to do anything else. Of course all the relevant decisions were made well before the the financial muck hit the fan so it'd be unfair to blame Red Ken, Boris or indeed HMG for having to make the best of it. ;)

Anyway, it's about time I got some real value out of the Beeb in return for my licence fee so I'm delighted. :)

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Damn right :)

and in good news according to this it is all being done on time and within budget :)

http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/news_stories/7851.aspx

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Yeah, what will the prophets of doom think of to spoil the show now I wonder?

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oh i daresay there will be all manner of stories from the red tops about figures being manipulated ,dodgy deals done under the table and other such nonsense.I said in another thread that it is a chance for patrotism and support for our athletes ,a chance for Great Britain to be proud of itself and i stand by that

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Agree, if mistakes have been made we can deal with them afterwards so let's hope the media are responsible in the way they report the lead up to the games and put UK PLC's interests before their own.

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I got fed up with it ages ago.

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I quite liked this post about the legacy of the Olympics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/davidbond...legacy_pr.html

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I've just found out that the Glastonbury festival has been cancelled this due to the lack of portaloos :shrug: so for those looking for alternatives to the Olympics ...bad luck

Apparently it was announced back in 2010 so this may be old news for some

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/g...nd-police.html

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It is amazing how much regular stuff has been cancelled due to the olympics. For something that has often been promoted as a boost to the economy, I wonder whether that has taken into account the money lost from such cancellations.

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Glastonbury always takes a year off - they are actually over due one going on their previous breaks (91/96/01/06).

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Yup ,i would have thought that it would make sense to move some of the bigger events to make the most of the Olympic visitors

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Yeah i did notice that in my link ,but i still think to have Glastonbury on either just before or just after the Olympics would have been better given the amount of new visitors that will be coming to the UK for the first time

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Doubt many vistors would get in. It tends to sell out really fast to people who have long planned to go and are ready to get tickets. It would be an afterthought at best for tourists.

Arsenal's Pre-season Friendly tournament has been cancelled due to the Olympics as well. Makes sense that, where we can, we focus on the Olympics.

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The money could have been better spent elsewhere.

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Yes. And so could any money spent on anything we (as individuals) don't like. But that's not the point :)

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Personally i have no interest at all in the olympics and yes i am very bored of all the hype. But that said there are far more people that are looking forward to it and i hope for them it turns out to be a great games.

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The worlds greatest sporting events are coming to this country, bringing with it thousands of tourists who will come from over the planet, waiting to spend, spend, spend. May be come back.

Many will just watch the games, other will explore this great country.

I think we have underhyped it.

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I too am bored with all this hype. It's a bit of sport that is going to cripple us financially. Money we can find better uses for.

For those saying it's a once a life time event, so was the bombing of London in WW2 and that wasn't something to celebrate either.

Still it keeps Lord Cole in a job.

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Ah, well" the pessimists will always moan about something and the Olympics just seem to be next in the firing line.

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Worst excuse ever for not having the Olympics :mad:

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Your right Den, personally i think its a fantastic event that will bring in visitors from around the world who will spend money and enjoy themselves, and afterwards the site will provide housing and a new football stadium for a team,and leave a legacy that part of East London has been redeveloped and re-invigorated perosnally i think it has been undersold mate.

One of the greatest sporting events here in my lifetime.:)