For some reason I am unreasonably apathetic about this year's games. Maybe it's
like birthdays: I've had so many they just don't excite me anymore. <g> But I
must give Her Majesty credit for a smashing performance as the latest Bond
Girl. And double points to her Corgis, which I understand refused to allow
stunt doubles to stand in for them.
But so far, that's the limit of my Olympic enthusiasm.
Oh, and seeing the parade ground at Horse Guards transformed into a beach
volleyball pit. I wonder what Nelson and Wellington would have had to say about
that had their shades met once again in passing . . .
--Bob
On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> I agree. The Olympics brand has had some pretty bad press in the UK. And it
> has recently been made worse by the rumour that the sponsors came up with a
> very small proportion of the cost of the Olympics (e.g. less than £1Bn). And
> the enforcement of the brand protection has been over-zealously enforced, it
> would seem (although these are stories in newspapers which, even in the UK,
> can be based on little fact).
>
> [I have watched James West present a couple of times, at the annual briefing
> in London; he seems like a good chap.]
>
> The Olympics Games might be a disaster for the UK, given the gross cost (that
> is still not clearly laid out), but I have to say that the opening ceremony
> on Friday night was enough to restore some of my enthusiasm -- for the sports
> and the people making it all happen, at least. The strange structure of the
> IOC, which is probably riddled with corruption, and the "Olympic Contract"
> with the host nation, still threaten to cause apathy.
>
> And it does irritate me that there were 4 BBC channels devoted to the
> blimmin' Games last night! So we watched a DVD: Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts
> in Larry Crowne :-)
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