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The 2012 Olympics
Lines:
Oh wow, that sounds amazing.
jwhouk:
Of course, they COULD have done a hologram version, like they did with Tupac...
Omega Entity:
Or Hatsune Miku? :-D
Lupercal:
The tributes to Lennon and Freddie Mercury were great!
Could have done without George Michael, but I'm pretty glad Brian May turned up, along with Daltry and Townsend. I would've been seething if those two had been missed out!
Skewbrow:
Sad news, but not unexpected, if you watched women's shot put final. Valerie Adams (n. Wili) of New Zealand now promoted to a gold medalist.
Highlights of the London OG for me:
* 4) Allyson Felix winning 200 m sprint for the US. Subdued elegance in motion. She has won several world championships titles (and relay gold medals in US teams), but no individual gold, so I was delighted to see her win this one. I also triumphed over my son in our guessing games on this one occasion :-)
* 3) Our ladies in sailpowered vessels (accounting for 2 out of our 3 medals).
* 2) Exciting finals on the field: men's throwing events, both pole vault competitions,...
* 1) The stadium. A phenomenally fast track. Both 4x100 meter relay world records were smashed. Delighted to see one of the unbeatable (chemically enhanced?) East German records go. But also the arrangement. The athletes in the field events had a chance to walk to the stands and talk with their coaches. Usually they aren't able to nor allowed to cross over (for security reasons and what not). Yet there was never a feeling that the crowd would storm the field. Yet they managed to get Moe Farah's daughter and wife to join the party after men's 10000 meter final. Cheers to the ushers!!!
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