Well, this is the closest I'll ever get to participating in an Olympics event:



Was doing a tour round Tokyo by bicycle (80km in 32 deg heat  ) and decided to pop by to take a gander at the entry checkpoint, which is cleverly designed to funnel the peoples of the world together in close contact .

Anyway it's not even Friday and already Team Covid has a score of 58  .

No fans though, are there? So only a handful of people will probably ever go through there. The whole thing is pretty farcical.

Ironically, Australia has sent it's biggest team ever

Errr.... with the Queensland Premier in Tokyo, errr... Brisbane has secured the 2032 Olympics. 

Actually, I think it's great if I live to see it... I'll be bloody 80!!

Quote from: Bealman on July 20, 2021, 07:24:30 AM
Ironically, Australia has sent it's biggest team ever

Looks like one of them may be given his marching powder orders.

In other news, Team Covid has increased its score to 75, up from 58 on Monday. The eloped Ugandan team member has been detained and is heading to the airport. Traffic chaos in Tokyo due to the introduction of special "Olympics-only" lanes on major roads. Also Tokyo Is Insanely Deploying an Army of Half-Vaxxed Staffers to the Olympics. And today's cases in Tokyo are up 50% from a week ago. 

Yeah, I had one eye on the telly tonight while I was making dinner and saw the cocaine guy. 

Quote from: Bealman on July 21, 2021, 12:11:28 PM
Yeah, I had one eye on the telly tonight while I was making dinner

Was it next to the aerial?

Well today's opening ceremony is probably the most disappointing moment of 2021 so far. I'm sorry but one silk kimono, a tambourine and two sparklers doesn't cut it these days. Danny Boyle must be laughing his head off

I'm still watching it, as I like to see the athletes come out. The Olympics have punctuated my life, so I just stuck with tradition.

To be fair, this is a different situation, and I think the ceremony was not at all bad given the circumstances.

The three dimensional globe made up from drones above the stadium was certainly impressive!

Just remember that the Torch ceremony ( and it's passage from Greece to the Olympics) was  invented by Leni Riefenstahl & Goebbels for the  the 1936 Berlin olympics!)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160810-how-leni-riefenstahl-shaped-the-way-we-see-the-olympics

Yes, that was mentioned last night, and....?

Hope you're watching the cycling, @Newportnobby Mick! They're close to Mount Fuji as I type this.

Quote from: Bealman on July 21, 2021, 10:19:02 AM
Errr.... with the Queensland Premier in Tokyo, errr... Brisbane has secured the 2032 Olympics. 

Actually, I think it's great if I live to see it... I'll be bloody 80!!

It'll be my round the world retirement holiday, like my mum and I's visit to the Sydney Olympics in 2000, assuming international travel returns back to nomal by then!

Quote from: Bealman on July 24, 2021, 06:08:42 AM
Hope you're watching the cycling, @Newportnobby Mick! They're close to Mount Fuji as I type this.

@Bealman I've been up since 03.30 local time to watch an awesome race in pretty grim conditions (33 degC and 80% humidity). I'll not say much more as many won't have seen it. It was, however, interrupted by some rather poor rowing by the British means and ladies 8s

Do we have an etiquette on results discussion? Personally I say it's up for discussion as soon as it's happened. Don't come onto an Olympic thread if you don't want to know results of things that have ended. Otherwise when is it ok to discuss? Given the global nature of the audience...