The 2012 Summer (XXX) Olympics have been awarded to...

[The Dopefish]

...someone. (7:30 AM EDT, 7:30 PM local Singapore, 12:30 PM GMT).

It'd be interesting to see NYC get it but it's unlikely due to a recent American Olympiad, as well as Madrid for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Moscow, who would be using 32 year old venues instead of new stuff which Paris and London would be offering, seems another unlikely candidate. So it comes down to Paris and London, and my understanding is that London's local businesses don't want new construction. However, Jacques Chirac dissed Britain's cuisine, so they probably don't deserve it.

 

[DeeperShade]

Your understanding is wrong, London's really quite hopeful for the bid.

 

[Israphel]

I'm not that interested in it, but anything that wipes that smug ****ing smile off Chirac's face has got to be good...so please, anywhere except Paris (although, apparently they are clear favourite...bugger)

 

[DeeperShade]

Well, Moscow went out first, then New York, then Madrid..
it's down to London and Paris.

 

[PsychoMoggieBagpuss]

Go on London. Can't be dealing with Chirac and his inability to move with the times

 

[Dus]

Paris has the better facilities I think, just a few more seconds till we know
Besides, Blair is just as big an ass as Chirac....

 

[Dus]

Ok, it's London


That's gonna be chaos with transportation and such I think........

 

[PsychoMoggieBagpuss]

How do you like dem apples.

And speaking of transport..

I'm sure that Princess Tony will not at all be secretly ROTFL at the G8 summit when he shakes Mr Chirac's hand.

Good job Seb Coe, if he's now got any sense he should go jump Jade Johnson, she's a fittie

 

[DeeperShade]

Paris has the better facilities I think, just a few more seconds till we know
Besides, Blair is just as big an ass as Chirac....

Actually the Paris bid included building the Olympic village right NEXT to an active freight train line.. It's current facilities will be coming onto 30 years old come 2012.

So yeah, the best country/city won Chirac, we did, unlucky

 

[PsychoMoggieBagpuss]

Anyone want to buy a cheap t-shirt?

 

[Cap'n Beeb]

Thank god New York didn't get it.

 

[Jackal]

London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday

 

[Bean 3:16]

I don't know about the other cities, but I don't even know how NYC got so far. The damn city couldn't even deal with it. Those Manhattan sallies wouldn't have a stadium ruin their Sex and the City illusion. I doubt they'll get the next bid either (it will most likely be over on the Americas or Asia because Europe got this one). I'd like to see some West Coast city make a push...maybe...SF?!?!?! (Pipe dreams, I know). But please...not NY. Nobody cares about them.

 

[Balton]

I don't know about the other cities, but I don't even know how NYC got so far. The damn city couldn't even deal with it. Those Manhattan sallies wouldn't have a stadium ruin their Sex and the City illusion. I doubt they'll get the next bid either (it will most likely be over on the Americas or Asia because Europe got this one). I'd like to see some West Coast city make a push...maybe...SF?!?!?! (Pipe dreams, I know). But please...not NY. Nobody cares about them.

THEN STOP BLOWING UP NYC IN BADLY MADE DYSTOPIAN MOVIES!

 

[Bean 3:16]

THEN STOP BLOWING UP NYC IN BADLY MADE DYSTOPIAN MOVIES!

It's really an American pastime.

 

[Balton]

It's really an American pastime.

actually it's Roland Emmerichs personal Jihad against hollywood... see Independance day, godzilla or that godawful movie where emmerich tries to grasp environmental problems... add to that the many american movies depicting a collapsed NYC( Pliskin!)


btw. you can read this post as part of my personal Jihad against Roland Emmerrich and his crappy movies.

 

[Cap'n Beeb]

Escape from New York was awesome though, that's the key difference between it and ID4, Godzilla, and that other movie.

OH MY GOD WE'VE REACHED A CRITICAL DESALINAZTION POINT!1!1!!

 

[Bean 3:16]

Yeah, make fun of those movies as much as you want, but Escape from NY was AWESOME. It was beyond awesome. It was AWE...ALL!

 

[Freon]

Anyone want to buy a cheap t-shirt?
funny pic

lol that really made my day

It's a bit sad for Paris though because they had already lost for the 2008 games. They'll try again in 2016 and lose again I guess

 

[Balton]

Yeah, make fun of those movies as much as you want, but Escape from NY was AWESOME. It was beyond awesome. It was AWE...ALL!

I didnt diss EfNY. T'was just the first movie set in new york that I could think of after those crappy movies. and didnt you see that exclamation mark behind pliskin? In my case that means alot