Let's talk Olympics

[MissAlice]

I thought the opening ceremony was quite clever. Bond is known worldwide, the same can be said of Rowan Atkinson and Sir Paul McCartney. As for the Queen, well she too is entitled to a bit of light humour, and you might even think of her as a good sport

I read somewhere that ‘Hey Jude’ was the most played Beatles song.

The petals and the lighting of the cauldron was excellent, and was worth waiting for!

Lizzie Armitstead was awesome today, I was willing her to take the gold, and it was so close.
Rebecca Adlington should be proud, after the heats I didn’t think she was going to get a medal.
Good on the girls today

[Foregetfuhl]

Paul McCartney doesn't even deserve to have closed the opening of the olympics. Dreadful performer. The Queen showed the world just how snobby she was and stuck up she was by putting on that ridiculous face the whole show and then just picking at her nails when Great Britain finally made there way out into the venue? I mean really. It just shows how up herself she is.

[Fifty-Six]

I thought the Opening Ceremonies were actually amazing. I guess this is in part because I'm from a different nationality looking into British culture and heritage, and learning things about it. Had I been British my response to the ceremony might have been different. For example, I didn't think the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Vancouver was too great, but that's probably because I'm constantly bombarded with Canadian culture. I wasn't a huge fan of the neon dancing people and the house scene with the family and the kids on their phones. Mr Bean was pretty funny on the keyboard, and the Queen/James Bond clip was good (would've been better if she'd actually parachuted in herself). Cauldron lighting was actually a very interesting approach and a refreshing change from the usual celebrity faces.

One thing I was wondering, though, was why they chose to have some non-Brits carried in the Olympic flag? Thinking back to the Vancouver ceremony, all of the people who carried in the Olympic flag were Canadians. Just wondering why they chose to include people such as Ban Ki-moon.

[sex]

Woo mens diving today. can't wait for tom daley in the synco

[wiktoria]

same i can't wait for mens diving!!!!!!

[garriet]

Paul McCartney doesn't even deserve to have closed the opening of the olympics. Dreadful performer. The Queen showed the world just how snobby she was and stuck up she was by putting on that ridiculous face the whole show and then just picking at her nails when Great Britain finally made there way out into the venue? I mean really. It just shows how up herself she is.

i agree with you about paul mccartney but not the queen.

i think its a bit harsh to say that she is up herself and snobby, she may be but not to the extent of what you are portraying it as. the queen probably doesn't smile much because she is the queen and she is respected and deserves respect, when she does smile people take it as an important thing due to the fact she doesn't smile much. if she smiled every time something happened then respect could be lost for her as it could show she doesn't really care she is just smiling to make other people happy. but when she does actually smile (on the few occasions) it can really have a good impact on the people that respect her. that's probably why she doesn't smile much, but we can't really judge her as we're not the queen, and we don't know what its like to be in her shoes.

i'm really enjoying the olympics so far, its great to see team gb have got some medals already!!

[edible]

tom daley soon

[dirrty]

i agree with you about paul mccartney but not the queen.

i think its a bit harsh to say that she is up herself and snobby, she may be but not to the extent of what you are portraying it as. the queen probably doesn't smile much because she is the queen and she is respected and deserves respect, when she does smile people take it as an important thing due to the fact she doesn't smile much. if she smiled every time something happened then respect could be lost for her as it could show she doesn't really care she is just smiling to make other people happy. but when she does actually smile (on the few occasions) it can really have a good impact on the people that respect her. that's probably why she doesn't smile much, but we can't really judge her as we're not the queen, and we don't know what its like to be in her shoes.

i'm really enjoying the olympics so far, its great to see team gb have got some medals already!!

the queen looked bored as **** and like she'd rather be elsewhere. she doesn't have to crack a smile, but she atleast could show that she had some levels of interest in the ceremony.

[xxMATTGxx]

Very unlucky! Hope we do better at the individual diving. We was doing so good at the start and then those small mistakes

[=Lizzy]

fantastic effort by tom and pete but china are amazing at diving. well done to them both!