Lighting the Olympic Flame
Discussion
There have been lots of suggestions about who should do this, it has to be someone who reflects the olympic ideals, some have suggested David Beckham (why?) Or Steve Redgrave (Good one) but why not our own Sir Stirling Moss, here is a man whose ideals meant that he would only drive for British teams, who up intil a couple of weeks ago still raced for the fun and the joy of it, surely the true olympic ideals.
I think that he has always shown the olympic ideals and should be the best ambassador of british sportsmanship but that's just me, what do you think, should we start a campaign?
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I think that he has always shown the olympic ideals and should be the best ambassador of british sportsmanship but that's just me, what do you think, should we start a campaign?
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I don't give a s
t to be honest, I'll be glad when the whole fiasco is done with. The hype over the last three years has put me right off, the only two events I'll probably go out of my way to watch will be the men's 100m and 200m. bks to the thing and its cost to me, I want no part in London's little vanity project.
t to be honest, I'll be glad when the whole fiasco is done with. The hype over the last three years has put me right off, the only two events I'll probably go out of my way to watch will be the men's 100m and 200m. bks to the thing and its cost to me, I want no part in London's little vanity project. Papa Hotel said:
I don't give a st to be honest, I'll be glad when the whole fiasco is done with. The hype over the last three years has put me right off, the only two events I'll probably go out of my way to watch will be the men's 100m and 200m. bks to the thing and its cost to me, I want no part in London's little vanity project.
I agree in many respects I think the ticket lottery is a fiasco and Seb Coe is little better, but to rise above the personal, it will go ahead so who is the best British icon whe best reflectss the olympic ideals surely someone of his stature reflects this.t to be honest, I'll be glad when the whole fiasco is done with. The hype over the last three years has put me right off, the only two events I'll probably go out of my way to watch will be the men's 100m and 200m. bks to the thing and its cost to me, I want no part in London's little vanity project. G
VetteG said:
I agree in many respects I think the ticket lottery is a fiasco and Seb Coe is little better, but to rise above the personal, it will go ahead so who is the best British icon whe best reflectss the olympic ideals surely someone of his stature reflects this.
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Yeah, fair enough. For me it has to be James Cracknell. G
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
wiki said:
Despite suffering from a heart attack and undergoing a double heart bypass operation just four months before, Fiennes joined Stroud again in 2003 to carry out the extraordinary feat of completing seven marathons in seven days on seven continents in the Land Rover 7x7x7 Challenge for the British Heart Foundation... Their routes were as follows:
26 October - Race 1: Patagonia, South America
27 October - Race 2: Falkland Islands, "Antarctica"
28 October - Race 3: Sydney, Australia
29 October - Race 4: Singapore, Asia
30 October - Race 5: London, England
31 October - Race 6: Cairo, Egypt
1 November - Race 7: New York, USA
Speaking after the event, Fiennes said ... his cardiac surgeon had approved the marathons, providing his heart-rate did not exceed 130 beats per minute. Fiennes later said that he forgot to pack his heart-rate monitor, and as such did not know how fast his heart was beating.
26 October - Race 1: Patagonia, South America
27 October - Race 2: Falkland Islands, "Antarctica"
28 October - Race 3: Sydney, Australia
29 October - Race 4: Singapore, Asia
30 October - Race 5: London, England
31 October - Race 6: Cairo, Egypt
1 November - Race 7: New York, USA
Speaking after the event, Fiennes said ... his cardiac surgeon had approved the marathons, providing his heart-rate did not exceed 130 beats per minute. Fiennes later said that he forgot to pack his heart-rate monitor, and as such did not know how fast his heart was beating.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 19th June 22:49
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 19th June 22:49
And? I live in Edinburgh, you can say what you want about the fking place, it has its own little vanity project with the trams, something that's going to cost a failing economy billions just so we can boast about having frigging trams...
It's the same with London, who is picking up the tab for these games? We all are, and for what? It is vanity at a time when the money could be better spent. We can't afford all this nonsense but hey, at least we can put on a shiny veneer to show the rest of the world.
king place, it has its own little vanity project with the trams, something that's going to cost a failing economy billions just so we can boast about having frigging trams... It's the same with London, who is picking up the tab for these games? We all are, and for what? It is vanity at a time when the money could be better spent. We can't afford all this nonsense but hey, at least we can put on a shiny veneer to show the rest of the world.
Papa Hotel said:
And? I live in Edinburgh, you can say what you want about the fking place, it has its own little vanity project with the trams, something that's going to cost a failing economy billions just so we can boast about having frigging trams...
It's the same with London, who is picking up the tab for these games? We all are, and for what? It is vanity at a time when the money could be better spent. We can't afford all this nonsense but hey, at least we can put on a shiny veneer to show the rest of the world.
I'd say the trams are a fairly epic vanity project TBH. Is it actually going to go anywhere, or have they decided to only build the middle half of the line so it connects nowhere with nowhere?king place, it has its own little vanity project with the trams, something that's going to cost a failing economy billions just so we can boast about having frigging trams... It's the same with London, who is picking up the tab for these games? We all are, and for what? It is vanity at a time when the money could be better spent. We can't afford all this nonsense but hey, at least we can put on a shiny veneer to show the rest of the world.
davepoth said:
I'd say the trams are a fairly epic vanity project TBH. Is it actually going to go anywhere, or have they decided to only build the middle half of the line so it connects nowhere with nowhere?
No-one knows! I've given up on it, the whole thing is disgusting, it was conceived by the council in a fit of vanity, planned by the terminally stupid and built by the criminally greedy who jumped on every hole in the contract to squeeze every last penny from real people. 
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