Olympics

[TonyP]

We managed to get tickets to the Olympics Kayak event that took place today, and even though I was a bit of a sceptic about it all, it really did turn out to be a great day out. Kids loved it, easy to get there (ok we were not at the main sight), everyone was really friendly and helpful, and the military folk were especially excellent.

Pity it was just heats today, so no medals ceremony, but all in all a good day.

The venue

Current Olympic champs (Slovakian twins)

Irish Lass

Flags

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Only down side, was the cost of the food. Fish and chips was £8.50 and a coke was £2.30, bottle of water was £1.60 (I think).

 

[mike hatton]

Where do they get all that water from? Must be some mahoosive pumps to shift that.

 

[Rob]

That's what I thought, engineers think alike...

 

[TonyP]

Its built on the Lee Valley so next to quite a big river feeding London, so heaps of water....
Http://goo.gle/maps/ZXb6J

More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Valley ... ter_Centre

 

[Gav Peter]

Gold & silver in the twos-up tonight - must be good water

 

[Gav Peter]

Gold & silver in the twos-up tonight - must be good water

 

[Chas]

B*gg*r, taped four hours of Olympics coverage today to see some archery, and what do I get, NO bl**dy archery.

 

[Andrew Prince]

Difficult to see your chosen sport on tv cos the BBC constantly jumps from one thing to the next.
And seeing the old codgers like Steve Redgrave and that botoxed up piece of leather Sharron Davies droning on for hours after an event has finished is painful - and wasting the opportunity to see the other live events. BBC is about 20% live events and 80% "expert" analysis after the fact.

[/Rant]

 

[Chas]

Archery was in the Radio Times for 9am and 1.45pm yesterday and this morning for 9am I'm taking the Cruiser to have a Flaslube system installed so I'm recording again, so let's see if the BBC are lying again

 

[TonyP]

Difficult to see your chosen sport on tv cos the BBC constantly jumps from one thing to the next.
And seeing the old codgers like Steve Redgrave and that botoxed up piece of leather Sharron Davies droning on for hours after an event has finished is painful - and wasting the opportunity to see the other live events. BBC is about 20% live events and 80% "expert" analysis after the fact.

[/Rant]

Do you actually watch it live(i.e. on BBC1/2)? I use the i-player option in the V+ box to switch between events that are being shown on the 24 chanels, so don't spend much time listining to "experts" drone on. (Well that is when I can get the remote our of the kids/wifs hands)

 

[Andrew Prince]

The BBC online coverage is very good - if only their tv coverage was half as good...

 

[Richard Jackaman]

If you have freesat the BBC show every sport live on one of the 24 channels between 151 and 173, some of them in HD. Channel 150 is the red button index for the whole lot.

The same is available on the sky platform, I think from 451 - 473.

Cheers

Richard

 

[Gary Stockton]

Richard - welcome back - where've you been???

Channel 551 on Virgin Tevo