I say Pendleton's the hottest. Those thighs... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
This is quickly descending into who the hottest olympian is... So we don't get accused of sexism, I should probably just say that Kristian Thomas is a vewy attwactive young man. (and I though Gemma Gibbons scrubbed up very well yesterday...)
I suppose I should qualify my appreciation by saying that part of me is shouting CRADLE VIEWING..! And that's not a nice feeling. Trouble is, she's clearly catered for. You've no chance. Don't waste the passion. Can't deny the thighs though.
Legend. Also Laura Trott, the little one on the pursuit team. And Chris Froome makes me hot and confused.
Sir Wig is the man for me. I really want to be him. Trouble with Pendleton's thighs are, they'd probably kill you.
Yeah, I was slightly taken aback myself. Just a thought in the direction of the Olympics itself [just so that my post isn't entirely devoted to female appreciation], I'm actually very impressed with the organisation and facilities of London 2012. OK, it's great when us, as the home nation, are doing well [not the plucky Brits anymore], but it all looks great, and the Country - GB can be justifiably proud of itself. Yes, we shouldn't forget the weak and the poor, as they don't stop being so for the time being, but sometimes we have to celebrate the best of what this country is capable of, because it inspires. And this is a brilliant show.
I think one of the better things (and i'm mindful that i'm probably going to sound all twenty-twelve here) but all the venues were built with legacy and sustainability in mind, and have a post games life lined up (with the exception of the athletics stadium), so were not going to be left with a load of pigeon **** accumulators like Beijing and Athens have.
And that Athletics stadium is a cracker too. I understand it has been designed to be very adaptable, and whoever gets it is going to be a very lucky club. At present, in the pictures, it looks superb. Of course, Leyton Orient and West Ham could ground share. Or there's an opportunity for other sports.
The park looks great on telly, but when you're there, oh man. It's something else. It would be so wasted on West Ham
The atmosphere also sounds pretty good, and that was one of the concerns for football club tenants I believe. Still not sure i'd want Saints playing the other side of an athletics track though. Also, how lonely are Leyton Orient fans gonna be in an 80,000 seater stadium (even though I think I read somewhere that when the stadium is reconfigured post games it'll only be 60,000 capacity)?
Dibaba of Ethiopia wins the Women's 10,000m in 30:20, at a speed that would leave most of us crying after about 150m. Last lap 62 seconds.
Gives them a support to aim for..! OK, I'm being a little light there, but why not..? The likes of Barry Hearn might be looking at the Olympic stadium and thinking... with this stadium, I can take this club to unprecedented heights. All it needs is plastic or uncommitted fans, and there are plenty of those around. With apologies to Pompey posters on here [no connection to the previous plastic connection], just watch how the St Marys attendances swell unaccountably if Portsmouth FC don't sort themselves out within a week.
Personally, having been to the games, it's all shiny and impressive, but there have been some major oversights. The biggest one was the fact that, having exited the basketball arena and left the park, there is no signs (anywhere) for 7 miles to the tube station we wanted, which was fecking superb with our travel cards running out at 12 pm and us needing to get to a hotel about an hour and a half away on a tube system (which hasn't been able to cope, even though there's been feck all visitors compared with what they were expecting)... Whenever we went to ask someone working for the games where this station was, they either didn't speak English well enough to comprehend the situation, or said "yeah I know where it is", before pointing us in the wrong direction, which we walked down for fecking ages before asking someone who wasn't a ****, who told us that the first lot were idiots and it was in the exact opposite direction. London, as a city, was very poorly signposted as it was... Contrast this to Newcastle, where there are massive directional banners directing you to the stadium every 100 yards.
What day did you go? I was there on Weds and found the total opposite. Working on the games does make me biaised though!
Want to say how pleased I am that Murray is getting a medal. Loved the difference between the crowd and the usual one at Wimbledon. Normally you get tennis afficionados who support Nadal, Federer etc, but this time there was no such ambivalence and Murray loved it. Every time the crowd was told off for not being totally fair, Murray had a little secret smile. The crowd carried him to victory.
