As another poster has said, we in Britain put on a great games with some fantastic athletics/sports. We performed incredibly as a nation winning almost 30 golds and coming 3rd in the medal table (depending on how you measure it).
The security was successful. No terrorist attack, not trouble at all.
Yet people here STILL bitch and moan and tell me Britain’s ‘circling the drain’. Crap. London 2012 is proof of the opposite, that Britain is STILL a great Britain and can lead the world. Britain has just out on a great Olympic Games that has enthralled the world.
London 2012 was a great Olympics, the best in years. As great as 1984. Better than 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
So sit down, put your feet up, STFU and stop bitchin’.
Because people like you, Americans like you, who said Romney would be right, that the UK couldnt run a great Olympics, that the British people wouldnt get behind the Olympics, that the Games wouldnt be great, were WRONG.
WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
We did it.
And then some.
Don’t take the comments personally, scotsman.
I remember the Brits poking fun at Olympics ceremonies in the U.S. They would laugh about the U.S. being so flashy. So my family was curious to see what London would do. It was interesting to see just as much flash and bling, if not more of it, in the London ceremony.
With that said, the ceremony might have been better than what American viewers were permitted to see because NBC cut out so much of it: For the closing ceremony, the network cut out the performances by Muse and the Who, for example. More importantly, for the opening ceremony, NBC cut the tribute to the victims of the 7/7 bombing. In fact, some people were wondering why the ceremony did not include a tribute to victims of terrorist attacks... It turns out, the ceremony most certainly did include one, but the network cut it.