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beats1

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I wonder what the politics was like for the London games by foreign press. All these journos slagging off the hotels etc. do I care??
It was well received and we weren't involved in any major issues. The thing about us is we lowered the expectations as we all thought it was going to be shit!
 

Col_M

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It was well received and we weren't involved in any major issues. The thing about us is we lowered the expectations as we all thought it was going to be shit!
True that. I think we all tunes in to see a major cock up and ended up loving it.
 

beats1

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True that. I think we all tunes in to see a major cock up and ended up loving it.
Actually the only bad press the uk got was Team Sky, the french were claiming we had some special magic round wheels and there was a load of BS with that
 

LSUY

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yawa

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British participation in the Olympics looks like it might peak this morning with Nicholls and Morgan both in the slopestyle final.

No a huge fan of competitive snowboarding but it would be good for them and be nice for us to get a medal on snow in the Olympics.
 

hugrr

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The snowboarding was great this morning, first gold medal for the US.

However one of their bobsled team got trapped in his toilet, this is how he escaped.

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beats1

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watched the snowboarding and the speed skating, I would love a winter olympics here tbh!
 

hugrr

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watched the snowboarding and the speed skating, I would love a winter olympics here tbh!
I didn't see the speed skating, but heard the Dutch absolutely romped it!

I'd love to see a winter Olympics in the UK too, if they can have a world cup in Qatar then I don't see why we couldn't have the winter Olympics.
 

LSUY

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I'd love to see a winter Olympics in the UK too, if they can have a world cup in Qatar then I don't see why we couldn't have the winter Olympics.

We'd probably lose out in the bidding process to Qatar.
 

tototoner

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I didn't see the speed skating, but heard the Dutch absolutely romped it!

I'd love to see a winter Olympics in the UK too, if they can have a world cup in Qatar then I don't see why we couldn't have the winter Olympics.

Speed skating 2nd only to football for sport popularity in Holland
 

beats1

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In the Cairngorm's?

Only place with enough snow, where would u put a stadium though
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You don't need snow to host winter olympics, all you need is russians or Qatari air conditioned stadiums :rolleyes:
 
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beats1

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Sochi, has been using snow making machines and has been saving snow for years up a mountain for the snowboarding and shit
 
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