London 2012 - What was the best bit?

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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Guys guys.

    Don't need to call it the 'double sculls'.

    The 'double' shall suffice.

    If it's 2 sweep-oars in a boat, it's a "pair".

    So Quad - 4 man scull.

    Four - Sweep-oar.

    or

    2x Double

    2 pair

    4x Quad

    4+ Coxed 4

    4- Coxless 4
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    For sure, but when you're speaking that sounds a bit werid ;).
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For sure, but when you're speaking that sounds a bit werid ;).

    I am not speaking...I am typing..... :roll:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For sure, but when you're speaking that sounds a bit werid ;).

    I am not speaking...I am typing..... :roll:

    So what are the voices in my head then? ;)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,316
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    THE JAMAICANS


    +1

    Usain Bolt

    I can't think of anyone else who manages to dominate their sport by being far and away the best but retains such universal popularity.
    TWH jr wrote:
    Is he faster than God?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For sure, but when you're speaking that sounds a bit werid ;).

    I am not speaking...I am typing..... :roll:

    So what are the voices in my head then? ;)

    **disembodied voice from Twelve Monkeys:

    Must buy more bikes.....must buy more bikes...... :shock:
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Living close to the Road and TT routes, I did enjoy watching them whoosh past. even the womens race in the rain!
    And did watch some of the veldrome and such.

    But best was going to the Men's Mountain Bike Race. lots of facial hair on show I'm assuming for Wiggo (at least one rode the TDF so this is lycra rather than baggies MTBing)
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    The Hugh Porter & Chirs Boardman double act, an exasperated younger bloke constantly correcting his senior partner but doing it properly without needle or being sarcy about it. Porter's best bit was the men beating Oz on the track, when they won it with ease and then HP spotted the new WR. Superb commentary.

    Honourable mention to the rowing commentator, who [acc to The Telegraph] had a volume button that started at 10 and only went higher. He was good.

    And whoever it was at the BBC who sat in a meeting some months ago and said "yer know what? We've got 24 video feeds coming in from the OBS. Let's just bung em all out for the viewers to choose what they want to watch. And do em in HD. All 24."

    Top bloke, him.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,316
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    What was the song (intro) played over the countdown to the closing ceremony?

    I don't know.


    I do know however, that the tune they played at the beginning of the opening ceremony with the spark that flew across London was F*ck Buttons (without the asterix) - surf solar.


    [/useful post]

    It was a remix of Baba O Riley - The Who

    ......it's been troubling me :roll:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!

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