07-06-2005, 08:52 AM | #21 |
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Oh good. Now they'll stop playing those silly "Bring me your tired... blah blah blah" NYC 2012 commercials on TV.
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07-06-2005, 09:35 AM | #22 |
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I'm sorry for those here who were hoping for other cities (Paris would have been great), but I'm also happy to see London win! Wow. The plans for the new aquatic center look wonderful. San Francisco (which included the whole SF Bay area) bid, but it didn't even make the final round. Oh well. Maybe 2012 will be the year I finally make it to the Olympics, though in the only sport I really like to watch is swimming, and sometimes diving. I always try to watch a bit of the swimming - a sport I can actually understand and follow. |
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I wonder if Cricket is an olympic discipline...
I guess India would be very pleased about that. *runs and hides* -
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07-06-2005, 09:48 AM | #24 |
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I still remember how excited we were when Korea got the 1988 Olympics. It was such a big deal for the entire country. I was all set to enjoy the games and then my family immigrated to the US in 1987 so I had to watch it from afar. I wished hard that NY would get it but knew that the chance was very slim.
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07-06-2005, 10:53 AM | #25 |
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NOOOO! Spain lost!
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From the UK to our Olympic event competitors -
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Big surprise, NY didn't win. Oh well, nobody watches the olympics anyway...at least, nobody with a life.
When I was watching it on the news this morning, they were talking about how Londoners really didn't want the olmypics and were complaining about the traffic it would cause and one guy was like "Well, it'll certainly give them more things to complain about, and when they run out of things to complain about, they just complain about the French, which is what they've been doing a lot of lately." |
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From what I read, the chances for NYC weren't bad to start with, though they got eliminated pretty early. I think the chances for NYC will be a lot better in 2016.
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Yeah, the problems with the Atlanta Summer Olympics (1996) didn't help the US chances. The summer Olympics also aren't always in Europe - so that's not the way to look at it.
For all that, by 2016, enough time may have passed - if not then, then the 2020 summer Olympics. Good to take the long view! Speaking of Olympics, I'm thrilled that the recent summer Olympics, in Greece, went so well. They were way behind schedule on the construction, and they pulled it off! Still, it must have been blazing hot at the swimming events - there wasn't time to complete the roof, so it was open air. I don't follow the locations for the winter Olympics, as much as I follow the locations for the summer ones. |
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Sorry, Moscow.
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Well, there's always 2016.
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