The Olympics have me proud to be British

[Comrade Machel]

I am very proud of the way we handled the whole thing. The television coverage was top notch. Don't even get me started on the attendance Best of all we cheered for every winner and didn't discriminate and made all and sundry welcome The athletes did not disappoint either, we collected medal after medal and i am ashamed by my earlier thread where i jumped the gun and doubted our ability to deliver

Its with great sadness i am putting my Union Jack flag in the cupboard until the next opportunity to wave it around and hang it outside the window presents itself. As i am typing i am enjoying a nice hot cup of tea and biscuits to wind down such a glorious Olympics. I am teary eyed with pride but one does have to maintain a stiff upper lip in such moments you see

See you at Rio 2014 where the lads Terry, Cole, Rooney and others will pick up where the Olympians left off and bring football home

Forever the Queens humble subject


Samora


God save the queen

[Oba]

Man, I'm inspired! Great Job GB!

[realtrouble]

They did a brilliant job hope it reflects on the economy. Great country , great people. Everybody played their individual roles from volunteers to sport men and women to fans and finally to government. Great job

[The Notorious B!GGESTMAN]

Uncle toms!

[Super Eagle]

Proud to be kini ko??

The London Olympics is the most disorganized and/or worst organized (pick one) games since 1976!
Great Britain should be ashamed of themselves

[mke1010]

London tried. The expectations were low and they exceeded it. The closing ceremony was dis-jointed. The folks I was watching it with opined the director of the ceremony must suffer from adult ADD. He moved from one thing to another- no sense of continuity or transition. Too many themes. The whole Brazilian segment at the end was almost retarded. They should have just had Pele there to symbolize the transfer from London to Brazil. All that other stuff should have been left for the opening show in Brazil. We are still in London stick to London. And besides if you are going to highlight Brazilian culture do it in such a way that will not have folks canceling their tickets to Rio. They had the women in the craziest outfits ever. If you want to perform that dance celebrate the culture, bring authentic Brazilian babes in proper costume of near nakedness.
That is my little critique of tonight. All in all, a very good games. I will give London an A- for organization and a B+ for overall production. (Tonight's closing ceremony I will give C and that is a generous grade. Wonder why groups like Oasis with only Noel singing were highlighted while David Bowie, Sir Elton John and THE Rolling Stones were absent.)

[Dodo]

London tried. The expectations were low and they exceeded it. The closing ceremony was dis-jointed. The folks I was watching it with opined the director of the ceremony must suffer from adult ADD. He moved from one thing to another- no sense of continuity or transition. Too many themes. The whole Brazilian segment at the end was almost retarded. They should have just had Pele there to symbolize the transfer from London to Brazil. All that other stuff should have been left for the opening show in Brazil. We are still in London stick to London. And besides if you are going to highlight Brazilian culture do it in such a way that will not have folks canceling their tickets to Rio. They had the women in the craziest outfits ever. If you want to perform that dance celebrate the culture, bring authentic Brazilian babes in proper costume of near nakedness.
That is my little critique of tonight. All in all, a very good games. I will give London an A- for organization and a B+ for overall production. (Tonight's closing ceremony I will give C and that is a generous grade. Wonder why groups like Oasis with only Noel singing were highlighted while David Bowie, Sir Elton John and THE Rolling Stones were absent.)

the next host always does a presentation at the closing ceremony and that was all Brazilian,

[mke1010]

London tried. The expectations were low and they exceeded it. The closing ceremony was dis-jointed. The folks I was watching it with opined the director of the ceremony must suffer from adult ADD. He moved from one thing to another- no sense of continuity or transition. Too many themes. The whole Brazilian segment at the end was almost retarded. They should have just had Pele there to symbolize the transfer from London to Brazil. All that other stuff should have been left for the opening show in Brazil. We are still in London stick to London. And besides if you are going to highlight Brazilian culture do it in such a way that will not have folks canceling their tickets to Rio. They had the women in the craziest outfits ever. If you want to perform that dance celebrate the culture, bring authentic Brazilian babes in proper costume of near nakedness.
That is my little critique of tonight. All in all, a very good games. I will give London an A- for organization and a B+ for overall production. (Tonight's closing ceremony I will give C and that is a generous grade. Wonder why groups like Oasis with only Noel singing were highlighted while David Bowie, Sir Elton John and THE Rolling Stones were absent.)

the next host always does a presentation at the closing ceremony and that was all Brazilian,

Thanks. I was aware that each Olympics has a moment in the closing ceremony to symbolize the passing of the torch. My memory fails to recall a previous closing ceremony where the next country host had the time and depth of participation as we saw from brazil tonight. Are you sure it was Brazil from the planning to the clothing to the dancers to music. Are you 100% sure? The Brits had zero input? I am asking becos if I were the Brits I would not allow such a performance be part of the show for the period it was given.

[Oba]

mke, GB had no input in the Brazilian section. It was all about the next host giving us a flavour of what to expect. It was their show, 100%.

[Super Eagle]

LOL @two morons arguing blindly
Listen, the only thing the next host does at the closing is to perform the final exhibition - as a way of inviting the world to the next Olympics.

Anyway, the real story here is that comparing the opening and the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics with the Beijing Olympics is like comparing a kindergarten party to the Oscars.
That's just the bottom line.

[EMIR KONGI JAFFI JOFFA]

why is it neccessary to post your pride on a Nigerian site?? we dont give a good god damn if you're proud of Britain. do us a favor and go sing it to the queen,maybe u might get a job as the town crier of london!

[MI5]

Great stuff and they did very well both in the opening ceremony and in the closing one...

[Field Marshall Ogolo]

I am very proud of the way we handled the whole thing. The television coverage was top notch. Don't even get me started on the attendance Best of all we cheered for every winner and didn't discriminate and made all and sundry welcome The athletes did not disappoint either, we collected medal after medal and i am ashamed by my earlier thread where i jumped the gun and doubted our ability to deliver

Its with great sadness i am putting my Union Jack flag in the cupboard until the next opportunity to wave it around and hang it outside the window presents itself. As i am typing i am enjoying a nice hot cup of tea and biscuits to wind down such a glorious Olympics. I am teary eyed with pride but one does have to maintain a stiff upper lip in such moments you see

See you at Rio 2014 where the lads Terry, Cole, Rooney and others will pick up where the Olympians left off and bring football home

Forever the Queens humble subject


Samora


God save the queen

Shame on you, Samora!
Comrade Bob should disown you for openly praising the slave master

[Damunk]

Unfortunately una don miss Samora's sarcasm.
But then, he could've done a better job of it.

[Dodo]

At Beijing, London had it's thing with guys on bicycles with umbrellas, the double decker bus, Chris Hoy riding a bike and David Beckham kicking a football

London tried. The expectations were low and they exceeded it. The closing ceremony was dis-jointed. The folks I was watching it with opined the director of the ceremony must suffer from adult ADD. He moved from one thing to another- no sense of continuity or transition. Too many themes. The whole Brazilian segment at the end was almost retarded. They should have just had Pele there to symbolize the transfer from London to Brazil. All that other stuff should have been left for the opening show in Brazil. We are still in London stick to London. And besides if you are going to highlight Brazilian culture do it in such a way that will not have folks canceling their tickets to Rio. They had the women in the craziest outfits ever. If you want to perform that dance celebrate the culture, bring authentic Brazilian babes in proper costume of near nakedness.
That is my little critique of tonight. All in all, a very good games. I will give London an A- for organization and a B+ for overall production. (Tonight's closing ceremony I will give C and that is a generous grade. Wonder why groups like Oasis with only Noel singing were highlighted while David Bowie, Sir Elton John and THE Rolling Stones were absent.)

Thanks. I was aware that each Olympics has a moment in the closing ceremony to symbolize the passing of the torch. My memory fails to recall a previous closing ceremony where the next country host had the time and depth of participation as we saw from brazil tonight. Are you sure it was Brazil from the planning to the clothing to the dancers to music. Are you 100% sure? The Brits had zero input? I am asking becos if I were the Brits I would not allow such a performance be part of the show for the period it was given.

the next host always does a presentation at the closing ceremony and that was all Brazilian,

[Cristao II]

The closing ceremony was a disappointment sha!

[soothsayer]

Unfortunately una don miss Samora's sarcasm.
But then, he could've done a better job of it.

Harsh sarcasm... trait of a true brit!

[soothsayer]

The closing ceremony was a disappointment sha!

I tuned off after 5minutes..

[tfco]

I am very proud of the way we handled the whole thing.

See you at Rio 2014 where the lads Terry, Cole, Rooney and others will pick up where the Olympians left off and bring football home

Forever the Queens humble subject

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this is where I knew you were fos....lol

nice try though, matey

[folem]

I am very proud of the way we handled the whole thing.

See you at Rio 2014 where the lads Terry, Cole, Rooney and others will pick up where the Olympians left off and bring football home

Forever the Queens humble subject

]

this is where I knew you were fos....lol

nice try though, matey

Samora is Scot (Honorary).

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As an honourary Scot i am rather miffed Arsenal had to kill the game in a dubious way like that. Eduardo dove

[JuJuMan]

closing ceremony was terrible
but its was a great games, a lot of people were gleefully expecting it to fail
i can just imagine the eagerness in which they logged on each morning in the hope of a disaster
even the famous british weather decided to behave itself and most events were basked in sunshine and the marathon even got a brisk breeze and gentle shower to cool them down

[Comrade Machel]

Unfortunately una don miss Samora's sarcasm.
But then, he could've done a better job of it.

The only man who picked up on it. Well done sir


It was a sarcastic piece by me. Surely the bit about Terry, Cole, Rooney bringing football home should havegave it away. I will never support those guys

It was papered with stereotypes of being British, drinking tea and biscuits, waving my Union Jack and so on

Anyway, well done to the Brits, they put on a good show regardless. They did well

[mastermind]

I was only interested in the games anyway, the games were great, I enjoyed it, but both opening and closing ceremonies were terrible.