2012 London Summer Olympics

**Moss** · 2012-07-25 10:55

wow what a fucking idiot

**AoE** · 2012-07-25 11:51

What's the word on vuvuzelas?

**Dimmauk** · 2012-07-25 12:01

I hope they don't allow them. Like we need another thing that Londoners can complain about.

**Lucavi** · 2012-07-25 12:04

Man, Greece is having a rough go of it lately. She's an idiot, though. You can say whatever you want until you're placed in a position of responsibility and the public eye, sweetheart.

Keep your racism offline, like the rest of the world stars and starlets do.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-07-25 12:13

Originally Posted by Dimmauk

I hope they don't allow them. Like we need another thing that Londoners can complain about.

**Aksannyi** · 2012-07-25 12:24

That pic never gets old.

**Cail** · 2012-07-25 12:25

never saw that before...hilarious

**Squah** · 2012-07-25 12:41

lol how stupid can you be

Edit: wtf didnt quote, stupid phone. @ west nile comment

**Andalusian girls** · 2012-07-25 13:54

i lol'd

keep it classy Greece

**lamp** · 2012-07-25 13:56

Just saw on the news over here they're Banned! whoop!

Vuvuzelas that is.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-07-25 13:58

**Cail** · 2012-07-25 17:42

North Korea's women's soccer team refused to take the field for its first Olympics match after an enormous diplomatic faux pax saw the flag of South Korea displayed alongside the players' names on the scoreboard at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.

North Korea eventually played its match against Colombia, winning 2-0, but only after receiving permission from the office of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.

The diplomatic row began after team officials ordered the players back to their locker room, delaying the start of the game for more than an hour. They informed Olympic staff that no further action would be taken until guidance had been sought from North Korea's national soccer federation.

That federation is officially headed by Kim Jong-un, the son of recently deceased leader Kim Jong-il. The level of control exerted by the North Korean government over every aspect of life in the country means that all major sporting decisions must be approved by the leadership.

During the men's World Cup in 2010, Kim Jong-il sanctioned the recruitment of a group of fans – taken from select dignitaries and their families – who were permitted to travel to South Africa to cheer on the team. Kim also demanded to be allowed to inspect the composition of the team before it was submitted.

Officials from the London 2012 organizing committee were deeply embarrassed by the error and swiftly issued an apology.

"Today ahead of the women's football match at Hampden Park the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korea flag," LOCOG officials said in a statement. "Clearly that is a mistake. We will apologize to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again."

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**deshende** · 2012-07-25 20:48

So found out today that watching the streaming content (NBC) requires an active paid tv service (cable/satellite/etc) (Lame!). I'm going to try to track down someone's account to use for this, but on the chance I fail, anyone have leads for alternative sites (probably non-American) for catching streams of the events?

**Outlaw** · 2012-07-26 13:56

Really excited. I'm a big fan of the Olympics. I like to watch track and field, swimming, marital arts, wrestling, etc. I'm also excited about the new extensive coverage. I hope it will actually be good and their not just hyping it. In the past they have always shown just 10 minutes of events and cut to commercial. >< Or show a montage of something (god I hate that!!) and act like that's good enough. So maybe this will be better and not just more commercials on more channels kind of thing.

To the above poster. I haven't heard of anything. Sense NBC owns the rights to this I'm sure they are keeping a pretty tight lid on it. There mite be some though so keep a lookout once the games begin or follow this thread.

**Moss** · 2012-07-26 14:15

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Really excited. I'm a big fan of the Olympics. I like to watch track and field, swimming, marital arts, wrestling, etc.

http://www.lovingit.co.uk/images/200...rital-arts.jpg

**Outlaw** · 2012-07-26 14:27

lol you got me. mis-typed >< I always forget how close those two words are.

**Moss** · 2012-07-26 14:30

Yeah I know lol, I couldn't help it

**Rhyis.** · 2012-07-26 14:30

I'm a black belt in mopping.

**Cantih** · 2012-07-27 00:24

Fuck this cable provider access control shit
I'm not going to get to see anything I want >:C

**The Stig** · 2012-07-27 03:49

haha, saw this ad on the paper on the train today, I burst out in laughter for real:

http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/O...saversbig1.jpg

Specsavers comes up with 100s of lame ads about why people should go there ... recent ones on TV includes a guy's girlfriend getting off a train, running directly to another guy next to the guy, giving him a full on snog, then realising it wasn't him ...

But this ad... not too lame at all! Very clever.

This was another one recently:

http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/O...asavers086.jpg

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