On 07/06/2012 15:25, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 07/06/2012 15:11, Neill wrote:
On Jun 7, 11:57 am, (Jim Hague) wrote:
In
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wrote:
Judging by the fiasco of handling the cold, wet and bedraggled crowds
in London over the last four days of the Jubilee Shen. (= shenanigan
as in alt.shenanigan) I don't think that they have a chance.

Rail in Sydney in the weeks leading up the 2000 Olympics was rather a
shambles. Trains derailing right left and centre, large delays all
over the place. It was obvious transport during the Games were going
to be a disaster.

Then, for the duration of the Games, it ran like clockwork. Crowd
control was
mostly done by the Olympic volunteers, cheerfully and efficiently.
Coming out of the main stadium, for example, you were guided to the
station, and then admitted to the platform in batches via parallel
entrances and positioned. At which point a train would glide in,
load in
next to no time, and depart. No delays, very efficiently done.
--
Jim Hague - Never trust a computer
you can't lift.

If they use the same rude, foul-mouthed little Hitlers they were using
on Sunday as crowd control, I very much doubt it. I got my Olympic
tickets for the weightlifting at the Excel yesterday. No liquids,
airport style security, just to get in the venue. Does that mean take
your belt and shoes off just to get into a sporting event that costs
£95 for 2 hours? I wonder how much they're going to fleece you for a
bottle of water once you get in? I paid for the tickets just for the
Olympic experience, I have no interest in weightlifing. I'm now
wondering why I bothered


The Olympic experience is all about being bullied by jobsworths and
being ripped off for a mediocre product, enjoy!



The Olympics is all about...

"Amateur" sport undertaken by those paid very highly to do so - in
some cases they are actually called "professional" all the rest of the year.

Wondering how many medals have been won by those who haven't taken drugs.

Massive sponsorship deals which lead to the "bullied by
jobsworths..." situation above.

The pride of carrying an Olympic torch and then flogging it on e-bay.

Inconvenience, queues, then more inconvenience and more queues - and
that's for those *not* going to the Games.

The good Baron de Coubertin must be turning in his grave to see the
corrupt and money-grabbing depths to which his sporting vision has
descended. My sympathies are with the genuine athletes who have put in
a lifetime of training and dedication to be part of this spectacle which
has been cheapened as above. To a lesser extent, also to the citizens
of places such as Montreal, whose leaders duped them into signing up for
a lifetime of paying for it.

I sincerely hope to spend much of the Olympics in the more civilised
environment of a cruise ship in Norwegian waters...


The Paralympics I exempt from the above as these are being contested by
people doing their level best to overcome the disadvantages which life
has thrown at them. They deserve our respect.

--
- Yokel -

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