General Chat

Looks like those who were prepared pay top price for tickets, will now be able to get them cheaper then Lesley? Like it :-D

Well done to your niece, Spruce, will be cheering her on :-) Can you tell us her name, or would you prefer not to, understand if you don't want to :-)

Well done Elizabeth, pleasure to see someone coming 2nd who didn't whinge that they should of come 1st :-D

What a race !!! Well done Elizabeth !!! x

WelI done on your silver Elizabeth! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Me too :-D

Can you hear me cheering her on :-D

watching her too Muffy come on Elizabeth. :-D

Elizabeth Armistead is close to winning a medal in the cycling if she can keep it going...i can hardly bear to watch...have nipped out for a calming ciggie lol

COME ON ELIZABETH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello all

Just to let you know my niece made the final, she will be swimming tonight around 8pm. Dame shelly Hannah is not my niece, just a lovely girl, who i happened to mention was swimming the other day. Thankyou to you all for your support.

Spruce

Corporate seats are sold off at Wimbledon if they aren't taken by a said.

Maybe a similar system could be introduced at the Olympics.

Go Team GB :-D

How did your Niece do Spruce?

Det, I'm hoping that something will be done asap about the empty seats, apparently it's either corporates that aren't turning up, shame on them, or tickets allocated to other athletes/coaches to come and go, whatever it is they need to sort it . I'll see if I can find out any more re the park tickets, if I do I'll let you know :-)

Scozz, pleased you enjoyed it, you did the right thing turning Macca off, he was awful, with all the British talent there is , no idea why they chose him, or the song, I'd of done better, and I can't sing, bit like Macca really :-)

Rita, last year when I went to training, I was told that there would probably be seats available on the day, looks like that may happen, hope so, I don't think tickets need to be got rid of, there are thousands of us who'd buy them, it's seems like it's a blunder, that I HOPE gets un-blundered very quickly.

Muffy, don't be ashamed, you could become a sports addict, not a bad thing :-) I watched t.v form 9 a.m - midnight ! I now have other sports to add to my ever growing "quite like that, will watch some more" list., enjoyed the archery, basketball, even the volleyball, loved the men's gymnastics. looks like there could be a gold there, said crossing fingers :-)

We were trying to get out today, but swimming is on, and I love swimming, I swam for London a few times, and had a private coach, who was an Olympic medallist, but all those years ago, I didn't have the commitment to work as hard as you need to, to take it further, silly girl I was :-)

I really cannot believe that all the sports on, are on the t.v live, it's fantastic, great for the minority sports, and it's followers :-)

Good luck to Spruce's niece, I think it's this morning she swims :-D

Off to watch........... everything :-D

I am not surprised there were tickets over. lets be honest it was a bit of a shambles when they went on sale.. many of the Radio programes have been having competiitions to win some. I suppose that is one way of getting rid of the tickets.?

shame they could not have given the spare tickets left over to some of the lads who were injured in Afganistan instead of seeing many empty seats.

Ashamed to admit I spent about 4 hrs watching the cycling lol. OH told me it was a near guaranteed gold so I sat there waiting......no gold but hey ho......lol.

Enjoyed it though much to my surprise...May even watch the women's race later now x

I missed the opening ceremony live, because it began at about 5am

So I stayed up half the night to watch the replay. Started at midnight, and I watched it until Paul McCartney came on. Went to bed some time after 3am, so I'm a Zombie today.

Loved the music bit, with the house in the middle.

I think they did a great job, everyone looked like they were enjoying it.

Who got the job of picking up the squillions of bits of confetti? :-D

Spruce i made the kids turn over to the swimming we was all cheering Hannah on she done well xxx

Thank you Lynda - we'd tried the link earlier, but even showing all events inc those full, it only went up to next Friday.

The report on tonight's news said that Loci or what ever they are called, thought the empty seats were those assigned to sponsors and were going to find out quickly why they weren't used. A real shame if there were sports fans who would have liked to have purchased them.

That's the best thing to do when you don't like something Ronald, I'm with you on that :-)
I've just read something on the internet, where someone moaned about everything they saw at the opening, then moaned about all the sports that they've watched which were useless, they must of wasted 10 hours watching things they dislike, and I expect they'll do that for a fortnight, how daft , when all they have to do s turn the tv off:-D

Thought the kids were great too George, what a lovely memory for them too. Imagine having that on film to show your children & grandchildren. I went for two auditions, for the opening ceremony, but didn't get through can't dance :-) If you got in you had to be really committed. They should all be very proud of themselves :-)

Yep, watched it, didn't the kids have a cracking time :-D :-D :-D
I thought it was really well put together, a little slow at times, but good.
Not bothered about the Olympics, but thought the opening show was good.
A lot of hard work for all the people who were acting in it :-D :-D :-D

George :-) :-)

Didn't watch. No appeal to me

Det I'm am pleased to hear that :-D This is where to get tickets, if there are any left......

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/

But if you can't get ny while the Olympics are on you'll be able to go after to have a look I'm sure:-D

Rita, don't worry about it :-)

Hope you enjoy the athletics Von, I've just been asked if I can do any more Ambassador-ing the week after next, if they need it, I've said I can, and aked if they did need me, I'd like the Park, athletics will be on then too :-)

It's a shame there are seats empty Brian, no idea why that is, I thought that the army were having any empty seats, maybe they don't want them? I'll ask why when I can :-)

Just happened to look at the tennis, A GB palyer is on court and half the seats seem to be empty.

What on Earth went wrong with the ticket sales and allocations?

Seems to have been a shambles right from the beginning !