Summer Olympics 2012 London

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Second Olympic Torch bearer, Alex Loukos from Great Britain, right, receives the Olympic torch from Spyros Gianniotis, left, inside the tomb of Pierre de Coubertin, following an Olympic flame ceremony on Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Ancient Olympia, Greece. The flame will be carried from the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics to London, where the 2012 Summer Games will take place from July 27-Aug. 12.

 

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The Olympic flame blew out at the start of Thursday's torch lighting ceremony in Greece's ancient Olympic stadium but was soon relit to start its 78-day journey to the 2012 London Games.

A gust of wind snuffed the flame at the beginning of the ceremony in Olympia, forcing a priestess in the ceremony to re-light it with a backup. The flame was being held in a bowl from the temple of Hera.

 

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Tks Bro, as usual anticipating your work with the Games.

yes, thank you super mod, more to come over the next few months, i hope more people will contribute to this thread.

 

[erection2015]

you're doing a good job bro....thanks.

yes, thank you super mod, more to come over the next few months, i hope more people will contribute to this thread.

 

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you're doing a good job bro....thanks.

you are welcome. Pls contribute to the thread if you see something interesting about Olympic.

 

[Swordsman]

Can UK top the olympic charts ?

 

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Can UK top the olympic charts ?

No way, brits fav food is curry, fish and chips and full british breakfast.

did you see the full british breakfast, they are too fat to top the olympic charts.
also they have PE in schools, but nothing like sport is larger than life mentality of USA or Australia.

But they might top the paralympic. not that it mean much.

 

[Swordsman]

what is full british breakfast ? never ate them before.

they are passoniate for football and rugby.

 

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Olympic flame tours Greece

Torchbearer Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, a Greek high jumper, lit a cauldron with the Olympic flame at the Acropolis in Athens ahead a special ceremony in which the torch was "laid to rest".

Giota Iconomou, spokeswoman of the Association of Women with Breast Cancer, carried the torch through Thessaloniki.



Olympic flame handover ceremony 17 May 2012

Young people from schools in Greece and Britain, who are part of London 2012's Get Set programme, carried flags in the stadium. Crowds celebrated the moment as both national anthems of the UK and Greece were sung by a British school choir and a Greek tenor.

 

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Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson, footballer David Beckham and Mayor of London Boris Johnson attended the ceremony which started in heavy rain but ended with a rainbow in the sky over the stadium.

 

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Greek veteran weighlifter Piros Dimas and Chinese gymnast Li Ning lit the cauldron with the Olympic flame. It was carried around Greece after being lit on 10 May in Olympia. It was taken into the stadium by torchbearer Christina Giazitzidou, Greece's world champion in rowing, who also held aloft an olive branch of peace.

 

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Actresses, in the role of ancient priestesses, dance during an Olympic Flame handover ceremony in Athens

Actress Ino Menegaki performed the role of the high priestess and lit London's Olympic torch with the flame.

Actress Ino Menegaki, dressed as a high priestess, lights the torch at a ceremony in Panathinean stadium in Athens, Greece, on May 17, 2012. The torch began its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile trip through England to start the games.

 

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The flame was passed by the President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Spyros Capralos to Princess Anne who represented the UK in her role as president of the British Olympic Association. At this moment the flame became London 2012's official responsibility.

 

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The flame was then transferred to a lantern and carried out of the stadium by the Princess, followed by Spyros Capralos, Boris Johnson, David Beckham, London 2012 chairman Lord Coe and Hugh Robertson. It will travel around the UK on a 70-day torch relay before arriving in the Olympic Stadium in London on 27 July.

 

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Olympic rings mounted on a barge are maneuvered to pass under Tower Bridge during a promotional event for the London 2012 Olympic Games, on the River Thames in London, on February 28, 2012.

The Olympic Stadium and Orbit tower, at sunset in Stratford in east London.

Nicknamed "The Firefly" this specially painted British Airways Airbus A319 G-EUPC is at Athens to collect the Olympic Torch.

 

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Carrying precious Olympic cargo, British Airways flight 2012 took off from Athens on Friday afternoon en route to a naval station in Culdrose. Resting in seats 1A and 1B were four lanterns containing the Olympic flame, which was lit by the sun on the grounds of the ancient Olympics last week. (There's only three in this picture from Paul Kelso of the Daily Telegraph.)

The plane is set to land in Britain at 7:30 PM local time. David Beckham, who is on board with the the Olympic flame, will be the first torchbearer in the UK. Seventy days from now, the cauldron at Olympic Stadium will be lit with the same fire.

Kelso reports that the captain of the specially-designed Airbus made an announcement to the passengers as the plane taxied for takeoff. "Unless you are an Olympic flame there is no smoking on board," he said.

 

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First class: Inspector Andy Marriner from the Metropolitan police secures the Olympic Flame into seat 1a and 1b for the flight from Greece to Britain

 

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Arriving on board a special golden liveried British Airways flight from Athens, the Airbus plane 'Firefly' Flight 2012 touched down at RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall at 7.25pm. 18 May 2012.

 

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Princess Anne carries the Olympic flame across the tarmac at RNAS Culdrose, flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Games chairman Sebastian Coe, and David Beckham.