fuck the olympics 2012 edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatXXnjz5EI

this is so stupidly hyperbolic one can only assume it's put on for the benefit of the kleptocrats in the royal boxes who might fancy a eurofighter or two to take home

rest if thread you can just c&p whatever ian sinclair wrote this week

jesus christ vip lanes for 'the olympic family'

this is such a load of fetid aids cum

if u care about the olympics u are a wasteman

olympic ownage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uo3u6s4MLU

click play to see what risible cunts the ioc are

they can't silence us all

fetid risible waste bawheid bawheid bawheid

the olympics are an excuse to make some horrible cunts some money. yes/no?

there's that, then there's being a project for every autocratic regime ever, and a hideous drain on public finances, and probably a load of other things

the chutzpah of the cunts is something else, if u thought fifa's behaviour in south africa was transparently venal then the way the ioc parasites treats ever unfortunate host city as extraterritorial possessions for the duration is another level

The 2004 Athens Olympics cost nearly $11 billion by current exchange rates, double the initial budget. And that figure that does not include major infrastructure projects rushed to completion at inflated costs. In the months before the games, construction crews worked around the clock, using floodlights to keep the work going at night.

In addition, the tab for security alone was more than $1.2 billion.

Six years later, more than half of Athens' Olympic sites are barely used or empty. The long list of mothballed facilities includes a baseball diamond, a massive man-made canoe and kayak course, and arenas built for unglamorous sports such as table tennis, field hockey and judo.

hopefully we can use the shooting range at some point in the future to take some cunts out.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02200/shooting_ap_2200841b.jpg

they don't want anyone going near their bloody stalag on wanstead flats

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/9780326.LEYTONSTONE___WANSTEAD__Police_to_remove__anti_social__groups_during_Olympics/

Oh, just calm yourselves and take in the beach volleyball.

this US-unis-made-in-China farce sums up every good reason to torch the Games.

if you don't care about Mary Kom you're dead inside imo

I don't know who anybody is, even the cover boy swimmer who has a non-Phelps face.

looking @ her wikipedia she appears to be an indian woman who punches people in the face

she might win a medal for best face-puncher

well, I support that.

esp if she face-punches some Yanks.

SportsPro has rated Mary Kom as the 38th most remarkable athlete in the world.[15]

she's a mother of two from debilitating poverty in India who's now going to box in the Olympics

that's a bit more of a story than katie taylor, i guess

really really want her to get the gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCc-2JuEkQ

London!:

By the end of the day, organizers were struggling to explain how three buses carrying dozens of athletes, officials and journalists to the Olympic Village from Heathrow Airport lost their way in the maze of London’s streets, causing one American medal hopeful, the 400-meter hurdler Kerron Clement, to post a Twitter message in desperation after four hours aboard a bus that should have made the distance in 45 minutes.

As The Independent noted, the 24-mile journey took about twice as long as the men’s Olympic marathon winner was expected to take for the 26.2-mile course on foot.

“Athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee. Could we get to the Olympic Village please,” he wrote as the driver, struggling to understand the route given by the bus’s GPS device, finally abandoned repeated forays up dead-end streets and pulled out a map. “Um, so we’ve been lost on the road for 4hrs. “Not a good first impression London,” Mr. Clement added.

...

Similar dire accounts came from Australian athletes and officials, fresh from a 20-hour flight.

Damian Kelly, a spokesman for the Australian delegation, described their bus driver as desperate in his apologies when their journey to the village also ran on, for about four hours. “The driver just said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m lost. It’s my first day on the job and I’m lost,’ ” Mr. Kelly said. “We were moving, we were in the Olympic lane, and we were going places, we just weren’t going where we were supposed to go.”

None of this seemed to perturb London’s mayor, Boris Johnson. “I understand that some of our visitors took the scenic route,” he told the BBC. “They saw more of our fantastic city than they would otherwise have done. And that’s no bad thing.”

The mayor added, “What thing of beauty does not have its imperfections?”

Also, Nick Buckles, supergenius:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/07/17/sports/olympics/17reuters-oly-4gs.html

I don't make it out to any of the Olympic boroughs much (apart from Hackney). Is there a feeling that the "regeneration" project will bring much of lasting benefit?

I've encountered quite a lot of negativity when speaking to small business owners and people living near to the Olympic site but I really don't know if that is straight forward NIMBYism or if there are wider problems. I know that traffic restrictions into the area will cause some problems. Some local tenants I've met have told me that they had their contracts have been terminated so that the landlords will be able to make some £s on rent. This obviously doesn't address the "regeneration". Looking at the Olympic site there doesn't appear to be any way that the structures can be put in to use, maybe somebody knows about this? Locally to me there have been some smaller architectural changes and shop facades put in that look decent. They have appeared along Mile End / Whitechapel Road but tbh they make the rest of the area worse. There doesn't seem any point in doing a quarter of the street really well and leaving the rest to rot.

I don't know who anybody is, even the cover boy swimmer who has a non-Phelps face.

Tom Daley is 18 years old in my opinion.

We thought we were hosts like the queen is at a posh garden party, when actually we're hosts in the way that John Hurt is in Alien.

must read

http://deadspin.com/5928972/the-haters-guide-to-the-2012-london-summer-olympics

Anyone who can't appreciate the delights of table tennis and handball an die for all I care.

otm xyzzzz

god, this deadspin piece is vile

comedy xenophobia. great.

drew magary should get hit by a car

i remember when i wrote hatchet pieces of that caliber when i was like, 14

guys, get this - there are sports that people care about less than other sports

he's right about Wrestling though

Not the least bit interested in any of it.

Well, as long as you don't write articles like that its ok.

prefer the anger to the humor

I hope Obama will be watching this instead of doing stuff tho

We thought we were hosts like the queen is at a posh garden party, when actually we're hosts in the way that John Hurt is in Alien.

― Roz, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:07 PM (2 weeks ago)

haha that enigmatic graun commenter was my brother! awesome