The London Olympics.

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PostThe London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:26 pm

This is how the site looks now.

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I think it's going to be fantastic and the venues look great :D . I'm signed up for tickets and I hope to be able to get tickets to the cycling or the swimming.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Chocolate Jim » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:27 pm

Sydney Games > All

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by abcd » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:28 pm

Lots of sand.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Qikz » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:29 pm

How much are tickets and where do I sign up?

I can see this being something that'll be a once in a lifetime oppurtunity so don't want to miss out.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:31 pm

The Olympic Park itself is massive and will make this a completely different games to the games in China where the Olympic stadium was in the middle of a car park. The landscaping is going to really make the venues look amazing.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Fatal Exception » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:31 pm

Its going to be a bit gooseberry fool.

I'm still going to go :D Not too many chances to see something like this.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by abcd » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:32 pm

StayDead wrote:How much are tickets and where do I sign up?

I can see this being something that'll be a once in a lifetime oppurtunity so don't want to miss out.



Go nuts

http://www.london2012.com/visiting/tickets/index.php

Yeah it's gonna be gooseberry fool, cause it's in England init

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:33 pm

StayDead wrote:How much are tickets and where do I sign up?

I can see this being something that'll be a once in a lifetime oppurtunity so don't want to miss out.


They have not decided on price yet but you can sign up for tickets here

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/

At the moment you are just registering an interest and they will let you know if you can order tickets nearer the time as it depends on demand and they may need to do a random ballot.

This will indeed be once in a lifetime as London has held the Olympics twice already so holding it a 4th time after 2012 would be amazingly greedy :lol: .

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by abcd » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:34 pm

Everyone that wants tickets will get tickets....

But it might be for the slightly smaller events.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Dowbocop » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:35 pm

I want to go and see the Judo and field athletics, as well as one of the opening/closing ceremonies. I might try and get tickets to the football at the Emirates as well, not decided yet...

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:36 pm

Stu wrote:Everyone that wants tickets will get tickets....

But it might be for the slightly smaller events.


Yep, that's what I'm thinking. I'm signed up for the opening and closing ceremonies but the chances of getting tickets are virtually nil as I imagine everyone has signed up to those.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:38 pm

Fatal Exception wrote:Its going to be a bit gooseberry fool.

I'm still going to go :D Not too many chances to see something like this.


To be fair I think any country would have struggled to follow China and especially the opening ceremony which they spent a fortune on the likes of which our organisers can only dream off.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by President Evil » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:44 pm

Will look very good if they finish it in time. :roll:

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:48 pm

They are miles ahead of time and all the venues should be finished with about a year to spare. The build stage has been going really great and they have learned a few things since the shambles of Wembley.

http://www.london2012.com/news/2010/07/ ... t-year.php

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Fishfingers » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:49 pm

How much is this costing the taxpayer?

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Peter Crisp » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:52 pm

It's a snip at £9.3 Billion :shifty: .

Erm, we will get to sell all the houses being built for the Olympic Village which had to be bailed out due to private funding not working out and we get a new school and some nice shiny new venues.

So, yeah think of it like investing in our children. You wouldn't want to scrimp on the children would you? You're a beastly beast if you do :x .

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by SEP » Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:26 am

Fishfingers wrote:How much is this costing the taxpayer?


An extremely British question. strawberry float the spectacle, strawberry float the development, strawberry float the investment in athletics. How much is it costing me?

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by Xeno » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:23 am

It's not a very British question, it's world wide, the only reason China spent so much is because they just don't care what the people want.

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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by mas22 » Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:41 am

Xeno wrote:It's not a very British question, it's world wide, the only reason China spent so much is because they just don't care what the people want.


True, and their main olympic stadium is simply jaw droppingly amaze, but haven't they got the fastest growing population of Middle Class, Millionaires and Billionaires in the world?

Anyway, the 80s-power-station-silo-with-scaffolding design of our actual Stadium is gooseberry fool compared to other Olympic Stadia let alone Beijing. Our beautiful original crystal-muscle Stadium concept (that actually looks like it actually belongs in the 21st century) probably deceived a lot of voters to make us win the bid in part.

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Are we still gonna see the water feature?
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PostRe: The London Olympics.
by BID0 » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:09 am

mas22 wrote:Are we still gonna see the water feature?

It's in the pictures in the OP.


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