London Olympics 2012
 

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Watching the opening ceremony now. Kinda wish that really was the Queen herself parachuting down into the stadium.

Literally the only thing I will be caring about/watching for...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...71861065_n.jpg

Suarez getting the yerba mate in as usual. He loves the stuff.

Paul Macartney can command a crowd like no other.

Have to admit - I like the idea behind the olympic cauldron, but it looks really underwhelming

:lol: Mr Bean being part of the performance.

Are you getting the whole 4 hour ceremony in the US or have they edited a lot? Bet they took out the NHS stuff ;)

I think its been edited a bit although only saw parts of it so its possible the NHS skit could have been shown.

The channel guide says the whole ceremony is 4 1/2 hours so it probably is the whole thing.

I wasn't really interested in the Olympics (except for the Men's USA Basketball Team), but after watching the opening ceremony, I now have "Olympic fever", as it's being called.

Cav is going to lose the Men's Road Race. That's all I have to contribute right now.

Fuck michael phelps

Time to get pumped for Women's Badminton

Why does Hyde Park look brown

Which event is DrA in

155 mile bike race. sounds fun

When dafuq is the basketball and boxing

Think there's been some basketball already, sure I saw it while flicking through the Olympic channels on Sky earlier.

Boxing is on now and more tonight.

Men's basketball is tomorrow (Sunday) at 9:30am.

<font color=goldenrod>Guy from Kazakhstan wins the 6 hour bike race. Pretty surprising.</font>

USA is guaranteed a medal now edging out N Korea in archery

<font color=goldenrod>Lochte.</font>

I fancy Joe Diaz Jr to upset Alvarez in the bantamweights (he looked real class today), Ogogo will prol go out to the Ukranian guy but Tom Stalker is our best chance of gold in teh boxing IMO

Good win for Anthony Joshua too though

Phelps looked like today wasn't his day for a medal and now looks a bit dumb for dropping the 200M in favor of the 400M race. On paper he's stronger in the 400M than the 200M although he barely trained for the event and his toughest competition was in the 400M in terms of American team mates.

NBC getting shit on for their tape delayed coverage

https://twitter.com/search/%23NBCfail

Am I too excited for soccer? I feel like people treat Olympic soccer with less importance than international friendlies.

Well, teams don't really send out their best squads for the Olympics.. But Olympic basketball is a huge deal.

Gotta love this

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1263144/wambach.gif

now according to NBC, Australia is in Europe now :nono:

http://uncrunched.com/2012/07/28/aus...ves-to-europe/

NBC is pathetic. Hope they lose coverage of the Olympics after this year.

Someone confused Austria and Australia, big deal

Australia is now in Europe! What's next? Guinea-Bissau is in Central America?

Well apparently it's fixed now.

That horn they use for the basketball games is annoying.

Was going to watch some of the basketball then but apparently I can't actually watch anything with a Freeview box, and the BBC stream is terrible, lags, freezes and then jumps back 15 minutes when I refresh it. Good work BBC.

Bout to get our second gold medal

Doc Rivers FTW.

I found the BBC stream terrible during the World Cup. The ITV one was far better.

I wonder how many of the plays we see Team USA make are actually drawn up by Coach K.