Olympics closing ceremony

Absolutely amazing-what a party,Im totally blown away!!!
The best closing ceremony ever,the mother of all closing ceremonies!!
These Olympic games have without a doubt been London's finest moment
Im so proud to be a Londoner and have had the chance to witness our great city hosting the games

Loving every (well, almost ) minute of it

Awful is not the word for it. The worst ceremony I have ever watched, what a time waste. After such a brilliant games this anti-climax.

My highlight so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rt52nsjiH0


aaaahhh.............

Im really sad now,such a long wait for the games and now its over already

pet shop boys-hilarious,what were those outfits and the ride they came in on all about?

Veejay wrote:Im really sad now,such a long wait for the games and now its over already

pet shop boys-hilarious,what were those outfits and the ride they came in on all about?

I know

good OUR show goes on all year round, bring on Cincy

still, the ball I caught in Wimbledon is on my desk and lovely memories in my heart, been funny Olympics these, I've tried so hard not to get sucked in, yet managed to have some deep and lovely memories watching again the nice side of life and people giving their all, sweat and tears, pushing themselves against themselves. Just awesome.

noleisthebest wrote:

Veejay wrote:Im really sad now,such a long wait for the games and now its over already

pet shop boys-hilarious,what were those outfits and the ride they came in on all about?

I know

good OUR show goes on all year round, bring on Cincy

still, the ball I caught in Wimbledon is on my desk and lovely memories in my heart, been funny Olympics these, I've tried so hard not to get sucked in, yet managed to have some deep and lovely memories watching again the nice side of life and people giving their all, sweat and tears, pushing themselves against themselves. Just awesome.

Well at least the spirit of the games dont leave us just yet cause there will still be the para olympic games in 2 weeks
But still its a very emotional moment,its like where do we go from here...
Oh well looking forward to the U.S Open

Great performance by the Royal Ballet,nice to see Darcy Bussel back in action

Im already having an Olympics come down....

I'm already in Toronto....really weird, it's daylight there...life truly goes on :shock:

Youre right NITB
Arent we lucky that we have tennis to look forward to for most of the year,those poor olympians only have their "grand slam" once every 4 years..we have 4 every year!
Still suffering from withdrawal symptoms though

Im really going to miss singing our national anthem so often,but I guess if theres any consolation its that we can always get into the spirit of the Spanish Federation by singing along to their ethos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbEyaE_lPk&feature=related

VAMOS ESPANA A POR ELLOS !!

Spectacular opening for the Para Olympics!!
That was hands down the best Para Olympics opening ceremony I have ever seen!

Met bronze medal winner gymnast Max Whitlock at the gym today...what an inspiration!!
Would post a pic but I dont know how to do it from my phone ggrr...

Veejay wrote:Met bronze medal winner gymnast Max Whitlock at the gym today...what an inspiration!!
Would post a pic but I dont know how to do it from my phone ggrr...

nice! Did he show you a trick or two?

noleisthebest wrote:

Veejay wrote:Met bronze medal winner gymnast Max Whitlock at the gym today...what an inspiration!!
Would post a pic but I dont know how to do it from my phone ggrr...

nice! Did he show you a trick or two?

Yeah he was there to promote gymnastics...the guy is only 19 I think...he was doing some incredible stuff,I was really impressed
Unfortunately I couldnt get him to take a pic of me wearing his bronze medal.... but he did have it with him so I could see it from a distance

We had some disabled woman gold medalist a few weeks ago, didn't go.
Did you get the chance to ask any questions?
PEDS and stuff, you know....

noleisthebest wrote:We had some disabled woman gold medalist a few weeks ago, didn't go.
Did you get the chance to ask any questions?
PEDS and stuff, you know....

Nah I didnt bug him with that...everyone was just thrilled to meet an olympian,plus he was being bombarded with people who wanted to have their picture taken with him
I doubt he would have known much anyway just by looking at him

I dunno, gymnastics (women) has changed so much I stopped following it long ago.
Veejay, what sort of things do you look for when you want to see if someone's doped?
Is it physically visible if someone is using EPO?

noleisthebest wrote:I dunno, gymnastics (women) has changed so much I stopped following it long ago.
Veejay, what sort of things do you look for when you want to see if someone's doped?
Is it physically visible if someone is using EPO?

Yeah you would see signs of it,its very hard to explain in words..its the shape your muscles takes,its all very subtle and slight differences.EPO is a lot like Clenbuterol,in terms of the visual look of your muscles
This Max guy looks like he has never even seen a gym in his life before..but when he started doing somersaults it was pretty impressive
He doesnt look anything like those roided-up gymnasts who do the rings etc
He was part of the team who won bronze

My niece (from Spain) came to London 2 month ago and started to work for a bar called the Tabernacle. 2 weeks ago she was doing a shift there where all the British Olympian medallist met to celebrate. There were over 50 of them. She took some pictures....but guess what I coudl not recognise any of them,....cause I don;t them..bar Murray I guess.

If Max didnt wear his team GB track suit and bronze medal I would have easily mistaken him for someone who was looking to join the gym and was waiting for an induction!
The only team Gb medalist I would recognise would be Mo Farrah,so Im will you Tenez