nicko31
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Opening ceremony such a moment of National pride.
What an amazing fortnight it was..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJDjg4ebNQ
What an amazing fortnight it was..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJDjg4ebNQ
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[Other Sport] London 2012, 10 years on...
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I remember watching it and thinking that at last the country had become comfortable with itself and its place in the world. Since then the Little Englanders decided we could pull up the drawbridge and didn't have to deal with the rest of the world despite overwhelming evidence it is a bad idea.
Sickens me.
Sickens me.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Aah, when the word Legacy was invented.
Love this though.
Absolutely fantastic
Love this though.
Absolutely fantastic
nicko31
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After 2012 I had a holiday in Germany and Austria, I remember having numerous conversations with people raving about London 2012 and an amazing job we'd done. Without sounding arrogant I think it was probably the best Olympics in the modern era.
These days as a Brit on holiday I keep my head down, its a very different vibe.
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Saddening to see this and what the UK has now become.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Halcyon days.
Followed by the Dark Decade.
How far we have fallen
Followed by the Dark Decade.
How far we have fallen
Nobby Cybergoat
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I always remember the opening ceremony of London 2012 as being a part of the early internet phenomena of "fake news" and "culture wars" as there was a big thing beforehand about how the Red Arrows were being "banned" from the opening ceremony. It spread like wildfire online and yet both the London 2012 organisers and the Red Arrows both said it was bollocks, and that because the ceremony was going to be taking place in the dark there wasn't much point them being there.
As for the ceremony and the games themselves, the last time we were truly great as a country. And given the current trajectory, probably the last time we will be for a long time, if ever.
As for the ceremony and the games themselves, the last time we were truly great as a country. And given the current trajectory, probably the last time we will be for a long time, if ever.
London now has a world class velodrome, aquatics centre and athletics stadium which it lacked beforehand, all of which have seen world championships in their relative sports. The regeneration of that part of London is also quite something, it was a total shithole before they started.
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Yes - brilliant series - as is the spin-off about the BBC ‘W1A’. Both superb
And to think, just 9 years later, the abiding images from the next tournament to be hosted in London is a bloke with a flare up his arse and a stadium being overun by chavs.
Similar. I think, like almost everybody else, I was amazed that we'd put on such a good show. We went to Barcelona in September 2012 and the amount of people walking around with versions of Union flags on their clothing was incredible; it was probably the first time since the Swinging Sixties that Britain had been really 'cool'. And yeah, once they'd heard our voices we had people saying how much they'd enjoyed it.
And we pissed the whole legacy up the wall.
EDIT: That last statement is probably a bit unfair. Compared to other countries infrastructure-wise we haven't been left with a collection of rotting, expensive white elephants.