Reply to: Olympics - anyone else...

[NickFitz]

Lisa?
I see Sideshow Bob giving Bart a blow job.

No, Sideshow Bob's hair is wavy:

Lisa's is straight:

[Mich the Tester]

Presumably there was something worth running away from or chasing at high speed in that neck of the woods.

Yep, but interestingly Lemaitre is, at 21, quicker than Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay and many others at 21, which suggests he has potential to run quite a bit faster than 9.92 if his career is managed well.

[TimberWolf]

Also, I think it's really important to find out which country has the fastest black person.

Nearly all the sprinters who have beaten the 10-second barrier are of West African descent. Namibian (formerly South-West Africa) Frankie Fredericks became the first man of non-West African heritage to achieve the feat in 1991 and in 2003 Australia's Patrick Johnson (who has Irish and Indigenous Australian heritage) became the first sub-10-second runner without an African background.[5][6][7][8] Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre became the first white European under ten seconds in 2010 (although Poland's Marian Woronin had unofficially surpassed the barrier with a time of 9.992 seconds in 1984).[9] In 2011, Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha became the 76th man to break the barrier, yet only the fourth man not of West African descent.[10] No sprinter of predominantly Asian or East African descent has officially achieved this feat.[11][12][13]
10-second barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Presumably there was something worth running away from or chasing at high speed in that neck of the woods.

[Mich the Tester]

sasguru's getting £20K out of it (£10K after tax) so it's all worthwhile.

Also, I think it's really important to find out which country has the fastest black person.

Probably Jamaica.

Christophe Lemaitre could shake things up though, and he's white.

[DimPrawn]

sasguru's getting £20K out of it (£10K after tax) so it's all worthwhile.

Also, I think it's really important to find out which country has the fastest black person.

[Mich the Tester]

There is a certain element of risk given the climate we live in today, that make it an ideal target if someone decided that they wanted to make a statement.

I guess that applies to every big event in London though, or any major western city for that matter.

[pacharan]

I just concerned how safe London will be from terrorists during the olympics particulally the tube. I don't feel safe on it now and last week on the jubilee line some nutter got up and started shouting in my carriage 'There is only 1 god I'm kill you all and take you to bliss', thought my time was up

I shouldn't worry about it my lovely.

London will be bristling with surface to air missiles during August.

[The Spartan]

There is a certain element of risk given the climate we live in today, that make it an ideal target if someone decided that they wanted to make a statement.

[Bumfluff]

I just concerned how safe London will be from terrorists during the olympics particulally the tube. I don't feel safe on it now and last week on the jubilee line some nutter got up and started shouting in my carriage 'There is only 1 god I'm kill you all and take you to bliss', thought my time was up

[Arturo Bassick]

I'm still amazed that someone somewhere got a fat cheque for designing that logo.

I'll never see Lisa Simpson in the same light again.

Lisa?
I see Sideshow Bob giving Bart a blow job.

[Doggy Styles]

I used to love the Olympics as a kid. But it was just sport then. Trouble was, they always used to make a loss so not many wanted to host them.

I cannot believe having rugby, tennis and golf in the Olympics. It will be F1 next.

[SantaClaus]

The Olympics is just an excuse for diplomats to be wined and dined whilst London is put to huge inconvenience.

[BrilloPad]

...sick and tired of it already?

Me. I would be in favour - but not after the ticketing fiasco. There should have been one global ticket site - and people only allowed to apply for one ticket each.

[wobbegong]

I'm still amazed that someone somewhere got a fat cheque for designing that logo.

I'll never see Lisa Simpson in the same light again.

[Mich the Tester]

Do they still do the Rosslyn Park Sevens?

Yep, it's the London Floodlit Sevens these days and well worth visiting.

Played in that, donkey's years ago back in the 90s when 7s was still an end of season piss-up and not so developed as it is now.

Nice club too; a real rugby 'club' and not a bloated business.