It's just been announced that London will host the 2012 Olympics games. Has anyone been to an Olympic game? I've never been. Won't be able to goto Beijing for 2008, so I have my sights on 2012 - Far Far Away!!!

YEH YEH I heard while I was in a coach, I live right next to where they are gonna host it so I can just take a bus and get there.

err im not a real sports fan so i dont know but does the olympics start every year or once every few years?

Every four years keitaro, its the biggest sporting event in the world.
It was held in athens last time in 2008 it will be held in Beijing i think and in 2012 it will be held in LODNON

oo i c thanks gramps

Yer i heared while i was in business studies today, ma teacher couldent resist standing on the chair and shouting at us to turn off our computer screens so he could tell us (he's a olypics maniac freak O.o)

^^ yeay!

My head teacher aranged it to be shown on our cinimatic screen at lunch, over half the school (700- 1000 people) were all in this room biult for a max of 400 (seating capacity)

lol yer exactly blaze.....we watched it the announcement on tv and when they said london...hell let loose.
And whos to blame why. The olympics has been this national event thats been happening for years, mostly in America, France and Russia. London however haven't had the olympics hosts since the 1940s so this is good news.
Also i dont live far from the stratford stadium and the one near hackney...woohooo~!! :D

It seems like everyone is close by to the event....I'm all the way in Australia! But the Commonwealth Games is in Melbourne next year and that's close by my place. But not as exciting as the Olympics though :(

I am hoping to go to the Beijing 2008.
And maybe London 2012...lol

Since we are on this, do you know that the committee actually instructed China to slow down their construction progress...They are just building it too fast. If it does, it will let the china participants more time and venue to train. ;)

Cool! I'm going to the one in 2008! ^^

Im not too happy about it -,-' we have to pay more tax in the next 7 years -_-' ah well... it has been a long time..but i probably wont go..even though its in stratford -,-

Its a bus away (sakura where do you live??)
I think that todays bombing are going to have a strong effect on the building of the whole thing.

hmm, i live in chigwell..
well, yeh, there's gonna be a few delays in building the olympics stuff but there's still 7 years *sigh*..I'm sure they're going through with it all though -,-

cool ya dont live far from me then ^^
yer i feel sorry for those injured in the bombing today....plus theres gonna be a hell of delay in the construction like ya said....oh yer and more tax.....yesh -.-'

yep, i went to the one at Lake Placid, but it was a while ago, and the im going in 2012 I get to go back to Europe with my school and our first stop is London so I hope to be able to watch the Olympics there
I know, I feel sorry for all those people, our school was on our trip through Europe and we stayed four days in London, we had a great time. and it was so scary that as soon as we got out of London and into Paris they bombed it, I was happy that our school got out just in time but I know that another school was right behind us but our cordinators told us that they got out of there saftly and they got to home to Kyoto. ^_^