London Olympics 2012

[Parkey]

We fucking got it! We never ever win stuff like that and given the last fraught week with the French, it makes it all the more sweet...

[boys_beastie]

i know...yay! take that jaques

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I honestly didn't think we had a prayer - nice one!! (y)

[Parkey]

London got 54 votes, Paris 50 (y)

[enree erzweglle]

I thought it was almost a no-brainer for London to get the Olympics.

[Parkey]

I thought it was almost a no-brainer for London to get the Olympics.
No way. Paris has been favourite for the past 18 months. We really only came into the running when Madrid self-detinated with an international football match that had awful racist chants throughout.

[Beckalina]

yaaaaaaaaaay

i'll have to attend some of that shit

man i'll be 27 when it happens, bloody hell :eek:

[Parkey]

Enjoy your £200 rise in council tax down there ;)

[enree erzweglle]

No way. Paris has been favourite for the past 18 months. We really only came into the running when Madrid self-detinated with an international football match that had awful racist chants throughout.
For me, it was a no brainer. That's more of what I was thinking. I would rather have had London get the games than Paris.

It was a heated bid...and there was little chance that NY would get it. I thought it came down to Paris/London and I just thought it was a slam-dunk for London (as far as my preference goes).

[Beckalina]

Enjoy your £200 rise in council tax down there ;)
waaaa fluuuuuuuuujhhhhhhh
oh well i don't pay it yet :eek:

[Parkey]

waaaa fluuuuuuuuujhhhhhhh
oh well i don't pay it yet :eek:
Surely you could string Uni out for 7 years...

[Beckalina]

Surely you could string Uni out for 7 years...
at the rate i am going i'll have to do that just to get through to the third year

yay, for failing

[WillMac]

thats 3 L's in a row for the frogs

[Rancid_Beasties]

Man I knew I should have put money on London. They were at 5/1 to get the olympics, whereas paris was 3/2. I was so close to putting 10 bucks on it just for the hell of it. Dammit :(

[Loppfessor]

Congrats to all the Brits, better you than the French, now maybe they'll take that damn banner off the tower

[g-mile7]

london is just as good as if NYC got it. Congratz indeed

[monkey]

i worked for NYC2012. this makes me sad. like this :(

[ms.peachy]

I really didn't think we were gonna get it.

On the platform at Liverpool St station this evening the meesage board said "The 2012 Olympic's has benn awarded to London." :rolleyes:

[marsdaddy]

I thought Paris did a great job with the World Cup in 98.

I'm sure London'll do well, too. But, didn't the Brits cause the problems in Madrid? Or was that a different football tournament?

[mp-seventythree]

No, the Spanish caused the problems in Madrid with their racist chanting. It was all their own doing.