Originally Posted by
Hanna 
Just a thread to do with everything about the Olympics!
Did anyone see the Opening Ceremony? What did you think of it?
I missed it and now I am irritated that it is not available anywhere, to stream.... Looks like they have been incredibly fast with the takedown requests... I suspect Youtube has a team of people doing nothing but removing "illegal" Olympics stuff. If anyone has a valid links to the opening ceremony, please post it!
I read that Russia has been tipped to get the most medals in these games, followede by China and the US, obviously. Not sure why Russia is the favourite this year, but apparently the rating is based on the performance of the Olympic athletes in other sporting events. My money would be on China though!
Meanwhile most of the people I know in London left town a few days before it all started. Unless you live on the other side of town, it is quite crazy, apparently. I too wanted to travel there this month - but it will have to be well after the Olympics are over, rather inconvenient but there is no way I am paying the hotel prices they are charging at the moment.
One sad thing is that many Londoners were unable to afford tickets to the event, yet there are thousands of empty seats at each event because employees of corporate sponsors who got the tickets for free, did not bother to turn up. Many Londoners are quite negative and it is true that the event seems to be more about money, image and networking than about sport... Nevertheless for me who has lived in London for many years and plan to return there I really hope everything goes well and that visitors get a good impression of London which has many nice sides to it despite all the things one could find to complain about.
Does anyone know anyone who travelled to the games?
