Summer Olympics, London 2012

[Darth Penguin]

Olympicene molecules...




There's a chemistry geek squeeing here....

[Natalka]

Oy, the Shopping Channel has Olympic torches for $7,500!

http://www.theshoppingchannel.com/Li...s?nav=R:626215

[Natalka]

Oscar Pistorius will become the first amputee to compete in track and field at the Olympics, running for South Africa in the individual 400 and the 4x400 relay.



http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2...orius-run-400m

[Natalka]

Canadian Olympic Committee site - info on athletes, teams, etc.

http://olympic.ca/

CTV site for scheduling, athlete bios and info, etc.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/

[roseofblack25]

Jean jacket notwithstanding, I think we're looking bold, outdoorsy and friendly. I want to see the dress uniforms!

These guys are just too cute - check out South Korea's men's parade uniforms: white bucks, white floods and some gnarly argyle socks!

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This year expect to see the track and field competitors in long socks. And arm socks. Apparently these golf-ball-dimpled socks reduce air resistance and can shave 0.02 seconds off the time over 100m:

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Actually Canada is very on trend...The jean jacket was back in for spring. So I think ours are amazing and I would love an olympic jean jacket actually LOL!

I don't have a tv so I guess I won't be watching it But I will be reading the news on it and possible if it's online watching some of it if I am home.

[bluerose]

Like the jean jackets.....

[Darth Penguin]

This is sad

Mark Rylance withdraws form Olympic ceremony due to his step-daughter's death

Actor Mark Rylance has dropped out of the Olympics opening ceremony following the sudden death of his step-daughter.
Film-maker Nataasha van Kampen died of "unsuspected natural causes" on Sunday, aged 28, the actor said in a statement issued by Shakespeare's Globe.
She was the daughter of Claire and Chris van Kampen. Rylance married Claire in 1992.
Rylance had been due to recite a passage from The Tempest at the opening ceremony on 27 July.
His statement read: "Our beloved daughter and sister Nataasha passed away of unsuspected natural causes early on Sunday morning.

[Patty Smyth]

The MAN!

[Darth Penguin]

is he losing his banana hammack in that second piccie??

[Patty Smyth]

hmmmm

[Natalka]

Triathlete Simon Whitfield named "banner" (insert f-word) bearer!



The 37-year-old triathlete was named Thursday to lead the Canadian team into London's Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony on July 27.

Whitfield, who was born in Kingston, Ont., and now lives in Victoria, will compete in his fourth Olympics. In 2000, he won the first-ever men’s triathlon gold medal in Sydney, and in 2008 he staged a memorable finishing kick to take silver in Beijing.
He’s considered a contender for a third Olympic medal in London.

Great choice!

(tried to leave a link, but they all have the 'f-word' in them, gah!)

[DaveP]

^^Lol, you confused me with the f-word - had to look up the story to see what you were talking about. Doh.

[Natalka]

Ten days to go!

[Natalka]

Olympic flame arrived in London -

A member of the Royal Navy lowers himself to the ground from a Royal Navy helicopter with the Olympic Flame attached to his waist as it arrives.
Royal Marine Martyn Williams carried the Olympic torch as he rappelled down from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter into the Tower of London on the shore of the River Thames. The commando's grand entrance plunged the symbol of the games into the city's historic heart, bringing Olympic pageantry to the British capital that last held the event in 1948.



The torch run continues til the Games open

[Natalka]

The final torchbearer who will light the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremonies Friday is still a secret -
and, for now, it hasn't been revealed where it will happen, either.

Memorable openings -
An archer launched a flaming arrow at the cauldron in Barcelona in 1992. Muhammad Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, held the torch high and bent over to light a wire that led to the 1996 cauldron in Atlanta. Cathy Freeman lit a ring of fire in a pool of water four years later in Sydney.