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[DarJoLe]

Indeed.

[eddyk]

Blue and white with red accents, pretty much how it's always been. However I knew people would moan about the lack of red when these were released.

And they are...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8EN2UY20120323

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nion-Jack.html



Beijing 08


Athens 04


Sydney 00


Atlanta 98


Barcelona 92

And so on...



Typical Britain, anything for a moan.

[.Adam]

Excatly, if anything these designs are more patriotic.. they actually have the union flag splashed across them!

[.Adam]

The problem is.. so much of the organising of the games is going well that people are scrapping the barrel to find something to moan about.

[bertyboy]

I didn't really like the designs for Barcelona - I could never understand what the "floral-y" bits down the sides were supposed to be...

[brit1955]

Originally Posted by jerseyboi

British team kit.

Never mind the Olympics and the British team kit, who do you think is going to win the Muratti final in May eh?

Les ânes ou les crapauds, mon vieux?

[brit1955]

Originally Posted by pagey17

All English names i see.....

British passport holders I think you'll find.

There is a difference...

[brit1955]

Originally Posted by Shmunkey

@Brit1955: TL;DR.

WTF does that mean?

[Lailax]

I don't care that much about the uniforms. Many of them are going to get embarrassed athletically regardless of what they wear.

Would not have killed her to use more red tho.

[bertyboy]

Originally Posted by brit1955

WTF does that mean?

Normally "Too Long; Didn't Read". Not sure what the context is here.

[pagey17]

Originally Posted by brit1955

British passport holders I think you'll find.

There is a difference...

Dole them out to anyone these days....

[woodgnome]

Senna director takes to the sky for new Olympics film

-- Link to London Evening Standard article --

The award-winning director of Senna is to make a film exploring the relationship between Londoners and the Olympic Games since the city was chosen to host them. As a child, Asif Kapadia played football on Hackney Marshes and attended school close to where the Games will take place, before going on to direct films such as The Warrior.

Much of The Odyssey will be shot from the sky and the images will be combined with archive footage and the voices of dozens of Londoners, from cab drivers to economists. The film will receive its London premiere on June 25 at the Hackney Picturehouse, along with works by Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay, who made We Need To Talk About Kevin, and Streetdance duo Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini.

“It was too good to turn down,” said the 39-year-old director, who won both a Bafta and an Evening Standard British Film Award for Senna. We are shooting from helicopters to give a God’s eye view of London, so we will have images on an epic scale with the intimate voices of lots of different people.”

The film covers the period from the day London won the Games on July 6, 2005, through the horror of the terrorist bombs the next day and “all the highs and lows”, even including complaints over what the logo looked like. “My intention is to be humorous as well as serious,” said Kapadia.

The director, who now lives near Finsbury Park, is proud to be joining a line-up of top British directors making half-hour films for the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. After being premiered, they will be shown on television.

Kapadia said: “I’m such a fan of sports and I went to school [Homerton House School] where the Olympics are taking place. My family still live five minutes from the Olympic stadium. I have seen that part of London changing hugely. But I’ve got even more excited about the Olympics making the film. It’s amazing they’re coming here.”

The film programme, which is backed by BBC Films, Film4, the BFI and Panasonic, includes the re-release of a remastered Chariots of Fire, restored versions of Alfred Hitchcock classics, and dozens of films by young people.

[jerseyboi]

Originally Posted by brit1955

Never mind the Olympics and the British team kit, who do you think is going to win the Muratti final in May eh?

Les ânes ou les crapauds, mon vieux?

Jersey va gagner!
êtes-vous des îles de la Manche?

[jerseyboi]

Weymouth seafront tower takes shape ahead of Olympics
Video > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17525359

[diddlefiddle1]

Originally Posted by Lailax

I don't care that much about the uniforms. Many of them are going to get embarrassed athletically regardless of what they wear.

Would not have killed her to use more red tho.

Well, that wasn't the case during the last Olympic games was it. Team GB got more medals than Australia.

[spindrift]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympi...e-7594460.html

St Paul's tent city protesters forced work to stop at a major Olympics site by setting up camp and threatened today: “This is just the beginning.”

Anti-capitalists opponents to the multi-million-pound development sealed locks to a construction site on Leyton Marsh with glue and tape.

A basket ball practice hall for some of the world’s highest paid sports stars is being built there. America’s team is due to train in the hall behind Lea Valley Ice Rink.

More than 200 protesters, including the Occupy London movement who camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral and in Finsbury Square, have been demonstrating at the site over several days.

It is the first time the Games have been targeted in this way and raises fears that the Olympic park itself could become a focal point for protest. Security was being stepped up at other venues.

Today diggers and concrete mixers stood idle as the protesters slept in their tents outside the temporary basketball site. Lorries delivering construction supplies were prevented from entering the site.

Olympics officials are in London for a three-day inspection. At a No 10 summit, David Cameron predicted Britain will be changed for ever by the Olympics.

An Olympic source told the Standard the Met’s anti-terrorist branch had been briefed about the Leyton Marsh occupation. Police have held talks with the Olympic Delivery Authority on reinforcing patrols. Work at Leyton Marsh had been going on for several weeks on a basket ball training facility for US athletes before they compete for medals at the new basketball arena at the Olympic park and the O2 Arena a few miles away.

Protesters said they did not rule out attempting to enter the main Olympic Park at Stratford or “any other green site ruined by developers”.

A group calling itself “Save Leyton Marsh”, made up primarily of local residents, had been opposing the development with an internet campaign and marches. But a march from the Occupy London site at Finsbury Square to Leyton Marsh ended with another illegal camp springing up.

Around 20 protesters put up tents, lit fires and erected banners on the development’s steel fencing and managed to bring work to a halt.

One banner had the Olympic Rings made up of barbed wire, while another said: “Don’t be harsh — save Leyton Marsh.” A third banner read: “This is just the beginning.”

Occupy member Kris O’Donnell, a City IT consultant who camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral until protesters were evicted, said other Olympic action was not being ruled out.

He said: “We have put a call out all over Britain to do something we refer to as Occupy Everywhere. Other ones (occupations) might already be happening.”

Last month the Standard revealed plans were being drawn up by Occupy protesters to ramp up protests during the Games with the group admitting it was “looking at more provocative spaces” to highlight the “blatant social divides in your face at the Olympics”.

Leyton Marsh protester Les Weiss, a retired school technician, said: “I suppose we have achieved our objective in bringing the work to a stop.

“We welcome the support of Occupy London. This is a peaceful protest, but I am aware that it is against the by-laws to camp here as our supporters are doing. But I hope very much that the work is delayed so long while the authorities apply for their legal papers, that the basketball venue is never actually built.

“Time is vital to them and maybe they will have second thoughts and use one of the already available venues to practice in.” The facility is needed to meet International Olympic Committee standards that dictate that all practice venues must be within 30 minutes of the stadia where the teams are to play. A spokesman for the Olympic Delivery Authority said the temporary site was needed as there were no venues suitable for paralympic basketball athletes within the required distance of the Olympic park.

He said: “The basketball training venue is a temporary structure that will be removed within a month of the end of the Games, and the land restored to its previous state. The vast majority of Leyton Marsh is completely unaffected. The ODA is committed to building a basketball training facility for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and we regret that action has been taken which has delayed work on the site.”

At the No 10 summit, Mr Cameron said: “We can tear up any notion of the Olympics leaving behind white elephants.” London’s optimism was buoyed by a report detailing the long term benefits that the Games are hoped to leave behind, prompting IOC president Jacques Rogge to dub 2012, “a legacy blueprint” for other Games to follow. The Prime Minister said: “The legacy of this Games goes far wider than the venues.”

It would leave 6,000 new community sports clubs and 1,000 venues upgraded, as well as affordable housing and new facilities in East London. He added: “Seventy thousand volunteers will not only help to make the Games happen but shape a new culture of volunteering across the country. Great Sport. Great Culture. Great Business. A Great Legacy for Great Britain. “

Home Secretary Theresa May and Transport Secretary Justine Greening briefed the IOC members on preparations and security.

Additional reporting Jack Rivlin

[bertyboy]

"Occupy member Kris O’Donnell, a City IT consultant..."

Those bloody anti-capitalist, erm, City IT consultants.

[pagey17]

This just demonstrates how few people in Britain are economically inactive and have so much free time.

[Cabman]

I think it's a wise move by the Ocupy protesters. While the weather is nice during the summer why not move on to a bit of greenery?

[annamaria4711]

Middle classes with trust funds.....cause the rest of us are either busy keeping our jobs or busy looking for one.......