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[yialousa1971]

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[kimon07]

The Olympic Flame Dies, Gets Unceremoniously Relit By Old Guy On a Cherry Picker
Jesus Diaz

This is not a metaphor: the Olympic Flame has died for real, as technicians were moving the cauldron to a new location in the stadium. Now, they have to sacrifice 12 virgin ping-pong players and start a war with the Persians.

Actually, they just sent some old guy named Austin Playfoot on a cherry picker to re-light it. It looked more ridiculous than majestic, but it did the trick..........

According to millenary tradition, the flame has to burn inside its cauldron for the duration of the game. It went out this Sunday, 11:14pm London time.

............. It had to be extinguished for security reasons before the cauldron was moved to a new location. Before unceremoniously turning off the gas, they lit up the torch that was used by Mr. Playfoot to relight the cauldron this morning.

The move follows strong criticism by British media, which has been hammering the games' organizers' decision to place the cauldron in a place where it can't be seen from anyone outside of the stadium—something that apparently has never happened in Olympic history. Their strong criticism included words like bloody, git, knobhead, cabbage and how dare they. They also wrote organizers in the traditional British way: organisers. [Telegraph]
http://gizmodo.com/5930058/the-olympic- ... +literally

[GreekIslandGirl]

Great Britain will never see the Olympics again.

[supporttheunderdog]

Great Britain will never see the Olympics again.

I would not bet on that, but then if they do come back, I suspect you and I will be long long gone....

[yialousa1971]

Great Britain will never see the Olympics again.

I would not bet on that, but then if they do come back, I suspect you and I will be long long gone....

You will be but me and GIG will still be here as Greeks live longer.

[Get Real!]

London Olympics 2012: Mess or Success?

Either way I’m sure the Brits have used their own money to fund it.

Now tell us about the one held in Greece…

[kimon07]

Has anyone posted anything about Paghdatis? He advanced to the third round and dedicated his success to Cyprus and Greece.

Baghdatis upsets Gasquet to advance in London

Marcos Baghdatis blew past No. 16 seed Richard Gasquet to advance to the third round at the London Olympics on Tuesday.
Marcos Baghdatis had a particularly good serving day in his second-round match against Frenchman
Baghdatis struck 14 aces in the match and won all but seven points on his own serve. The Cypriot played a clean match, securing a single break of serve in both sets to post the straight-set victory.
http://www.tennistalk.com/en/news/20120 ... _in_London

Markos Paghdatis advances and dedicates success to Cyprus and Greece.

http://www.sport.gr/Article/%CE%95%CE%B ... 38165.html

[Me Ed]

In your face Greek wannabies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19079529

[supporttheunderdog]

In your face Greek wannabies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19079529

and here

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/sport/murray-survives-tough-baghdatis-test/20120801

[kimon07]

In your face Greek wannabies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19079529

and here

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/sport/murray-survives-tough-baghdatis-test/20120801

What do you mean by these two posts Stud and Ed? That the Brits are winning medals? Whop doubted they would? But how relevant are these two posts to the subject of the thread?

P.S. And yes, Paghdatis lost and rightly so. He was very disappointing. And congratulations to his opponent. He played much better.
Now. Any news about how the games in general are going?