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Title: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:39:14
So will there be one?
What will it be?
Or will we all forget it and just go back to football?

I know it's obvious but I reckon it all depends on what happens next, especially the next few months while Olympic fever is still being felt. There has to be more investment in sports at the grass root level, upgrading facilities and making sports easier to access. It's no good if a kid wants to be an athlete or swimmer if they don't have a decent running track or swimming pool and the coaching to go with it. Think there has been a bit too much focus on the winning rather than taking part - if we get more people participating in sport the success will follow automatically.

Another big part of it for me is access to watch world class athletes in action. I'd like to see Mo Farah, the cycling team and others in action in the future but the events they compete in don't get much publicity. Maybe we need more sports coverage on the BBC. Better promotion and marketing for the events as well for sure. Maybe keep the Team GB label going as well for other events as it's easier for people to associate with it.

There's been some talk of if there will be a breakout sport, with the likely candidate being handball. I could see it taking off but again it needs massive investment to get kids playing it in schools and then a club structure outside of schools.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Arriba on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:41:23
I'm interested to know what is going to be left of the olympic site. What will be preserved etc?


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: yeo on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:44:51
I'm off to the Olympic site tomorrow armed with my Spray Can to try and get the 1st graffiti laid down.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:45:29
I was reading up on that on Wikipedia the other night. Can't remember exactly what it said stays now; the stadium (obviously), the velodrome (99.99% certain) and bmx track (I think), the swimming pool (definitely, opens as a public pool in 2014), the riverbank arena and the copper box. Basketball goes (definitely). Polo goes (pretty certain). I think.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:46:45
I'm off to the Olympic site tomorrow armed with my Spray Can to try and get the 1st graffiti laid down.

You'll have to wait until the Paralympics are over and they've tidied it up. Probably next year.

Why not have a go at a post box instead?


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: sonicyouth on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:50:12
The incumbent government will take credit for the success.

The interest in cycling, athletics, track and field, swimming and diving will return back to how it was previously within the next few months once the SPOTY awards are out the way.

The medallists will appear on every single TV programme for the next month before doing the usual absurd adverts for things like air fresheners, washing machines and cereal.

The Olympic site will become another Millennium Dome.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: yeo on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:50:21
Good plan,if i get caught i'm blaming you.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: reeves4england on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:51:14
A lot of people have called for the return of Grandstand as a way to improve coverage of minority sports, which sounds good to me. I'd certainly be tempted to watch, as long as there was British interest!

In terms of investment in young people, it'll be interesting to see what happens with school sports etc. Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Ed Miliband have all had a say in recent weeks, and all seem to agree that things need to be done. Ideally, we should see sport being taken mroe seriously in schools, and there should be more of an intention to develop sportsmen and women rather than simply provide a service and meet quotas. I had good PE teachers at school, but never felt anybody gave me a great opportunity to develop my skills in any of the sports I was good at.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: reeves4england on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:52:39
The incumbent government will take credit for the success.

The interest in cycling, athletics, track and field, swimming and diving will return back to how it was previously within the next few months once the SPOTY awards are out the way.

The medallists will appear on every single TV programme for the next month before doing the usual absurd adverts for things like air fresheners, washing machines and cereal.

The Olympic site will become another Millennium Dome.

The Millennium Dome is a leading entertainments venue, and just hosted Olympic events. Not bad.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Batch on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:54:12
it'll be interesting to see what happens with school sports t.

A clear plan should already have been in place to follow up on the feel good factor straight away. If its left too long the country will return to type.

I did see there would be a return to competitive sports in primary schools, about bloody time.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: reeves4england on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:56:05
A clear plan should already have been in place to follow up on the feel good factor straight away. If its left too long the country will return to type.

I did see there would be a return to competitive sports in primary schools, about bloody time.

Agree with all of that. Was chatting just a few minutes ago with somebody who studied sports development at uni. They said all the Olympics that had a true legacy were in countries where a plan was put in place well before the Olympics took place. Not so here. It'll take a lot to pull it off.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: kerry red on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 18:57:29
My favourite moment was probably Usain Bolt chatting up the lane steward(ess) before his 200m final - gold in itself.

May be wrong here, but I would reckon, despite heading the medal table, the USA must be disappointed with their overall games performance - along with the Aussies.

Only one, personally annoying, aspect - the gold medal winners 'biting' their medals. Akin to the twatty FA Cup winners putting the trophy lid on their head and every new signing either holding a scarf above their head or a shirt with their name on it.

But after not really looking forward to it I can't imagine my day without it.

Splendid stuff!


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:00:56
A lot of people have called for the return of Grandstand as a way to improve coverage of minority sports, which sounds good to me. I'd certainly be tempted to watch, as long as there was British interest!

The BBC should bring back Superstars (or whatever it was called). They could actually have competitors we've all heard of now and will help with keeping others sports in the public eye. Would be good if they got some big UK names involved.

Like the Grandstand idea. One problem at present is that whilst the BBC do cover some minority sports it's often only via their website, the red button or BBC3 or BBC4 and they don't really promote it much. Putting minority sports under the Grandstand banner would help with the publicity and maybe get more watching it - reckon coverage of track cycling would be very popular.

Whilst I pretty much always watch it, I feel the £60m a year the BBC pay for the Match of the Day rights is a shocking waste of the TV license. Reckon they could have got it a lot cheaper as well as no one else really wants it or would pay anywhere near that much. They should have scrapped it and used it for other sports instead.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:04:45
My favourite moment was probably Usain Bolt chatting up the lane steward(ess) before his 100m final - gold in itself.

Our PL footballers should take a long hard look at Bolt for a perfect example of the model sports professional and an ideal role model for them. Probably the highest profile sports person in the world at present yet completely down to earth, friendly, plenty of time for fans, a pleasure to see being interviewed and so on. Him doing the mo-bot and not wanting to stop hugging a bloke in the crowd with a Bolt t-shirt on were my Bolt highlights.

Think the way the Team GB athletes acted throughout the games will have a long lasting effect on people, especially kids.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Arriba on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:09:30
Although the lottery funding is great and has made a massive difference,i still think the opportunities are not there for working class kids apart from at football clubs. Alot of the olympic sports will either be for the reasonably wealthy kids and parents with time on their hands.
That needs to change and sports need to be made more available for all


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: janaage on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:13:01
What a cracking idea to bring back Grandstand.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: kerry red on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:24:29
Although the lottery funding is great and has made a massive difference,i still think the opportunities are not there for working class kids apart from at football clubs. Alot of the olympic sports will either be for the reasonably wealthy kids and parents with time on their hands.
That needs to change and sports need to be made more available for all

Yes. Very difficult for the UK government to reconcile the selling off of skool playing fields with their new-found PR opportunities with GB athletes


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Ardiles on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:24:50
Is Frank Bough still alive?

Either way (& I hope he is, by the way) Grandstand followed by the classified check...unmissable on a Saturday.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: kerry red on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:26:33
Jeff Stelling and the boys have that coffin well and truly nailed down


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Benzel on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:40:18
There will be a rise in viewing figures for Eurosport for about 3 months.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 19:42:03
Our PL footballers should take a long hard look at Bolt for a perfect example of the model sports professional and an ideal role model for them. Probably the highest profile sports person in the world at present yet completely down to earth, friendly, plenty of time for fans, a pleasure to see being interviewed and so on. Him doing the mo-bot and not wanting to stop hugging a bloke in the crowd with a Bolt t-shirt on were my Bolt highlights.

Think the way the Team GB athletes acted throughout the games will have a long lasting effect on people, especially kids.

Think they already have....Bolt doesn't run in Britain as he doesn't like the tax he has to pay.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Baggins on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 21:30:12
I'm fully behind the return of Grandstand.  This argument is a bit chicken and egg.  Do we not watch sports because they are not on free to air TV, or are they not on free to air TV because we don't watch them?  I certainly think the total dominance of football - and clearly we are all huge football fans - plays a part in the lack of other sports on mainstream TV. 

Hopefully there will be a couple of breakout sports - obviously it'll never happen but I'd love it to be canoe slalom - its brilliant!  I'd really like to see more athletics coverage though, some of the athletes we have seen are inspirational - we really do (most of us) only see them once every four years.



Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: BenTheRed on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 21:38:31
'Legacy' should be focusing on primary and secondary schools, compulsory sports every day with teachers or coaches that can catch the imagination of the kids. There should be one sport for everyone out there to get passionate about, to fall in love with and the ones that find one that they're quite good at, they can take it further.
The kids that enjoy sport in school are more likely to keep going.

there should be competition between schools too


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: leefer on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 21:55:22
Think they already have....Bolt doesn't run in Britain as he doesn't like the tax he has to pay.

Surely the tax man couldn't catch him :D


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 21:56:19
I'm fully behind the return of Grandstand.  This argument is a bit chicken and egg.  Do we not watch sports because they are not on free to air TV, or are they not on free to air TV because we don't watch them?  I certainly think the total dominance of football - and clearly we are all huge football fans - plays a part in the lack of other sports on mainstream TV.  

Have we maybe just lost our way a bit? Football has become more and more dominant since the formation of the PL, so much so that we've almost forgotten about all the other sports out there. You have to ask why we're suddenly all interested in these other sports though and how we carry that on, I'm convinced we need the Team GB angle as it gives a team to support which we are all so familiar with through football.

Surely the tax man couldn't catch him :D

Maybe he's not as fast as we think - he couldn't out run the steward who took the baton off him after the relay.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: dave_bambers_right_sock on Sunday, August 12, 2012, 23:56:27
'Legacy' should be focusing on primary and secondary schools, compulsory sports every day with teachers or coaches that can catch the imagination of the kids. There should be one sport for everyone out there to get passionate about, to fall in love with and the ones that find one that they're quite good at, they can take it further.
The kids that enjoy sport in school are more likely to keep going.

there should be competition between schools too


Bring back that kids TV programme 'We are the Champions'


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Coca Fola on Monday, August 13, 2012, 00:00:14
The BBC and Sky need to think about giving the lesser sports more coverage, as someone said the only sports channel that really covers them is Eurosport.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: cheltred69 on Monday, August 13, 2012, 07:33:24
Although the lottery funding is great and has made a massive difference,i still think the opportunities are not there for working class kids apart from at football clubs. Alot of the olympic sports will either be for the reasonably wealthy kids and parents with time on their hands.
That needs to change and sports need to be made more available for all

Probably true for a number of the sports that we have excelled at such as rowing, track cycling and horses - I'd say it's a major contributor to why we've been so successful - poorer countries don't have the resources to compete.

But athletics, the blue riband event of the Olympics, which will inevitably fade back into obscurity for the next 4 years, is not that way.
It doesn't involve a lot of equipment (just a pair of spikes really - any other equipment will be provided by clubs) and volunteer coaches work hard at clubs up and down the country to develop kids.  My local club charges £2 a session to train which covers the cost of hiring the track for club nights - when my son played football he paid at least that to train and play each week.  The biggest problem we have in some parts of the country is local councils not wanting to provide and keep up the facilities in light of budget cuts from the same government that wants to take credit from the successes that ultimately emerge.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: fatbasher on Monday, August 13, 2012, 07:42:02
Bring back that kids TV programme 'We are the Champions'

Now that is a good shout mate!


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Bewster on Monday, August 13, 2012, 07:58:02
Bring back Superstars - want to see Joey Barton fall off his bike like Keegan did.


Title: Re: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: herthab on Monday, August 13, 2012, 08:04:44
The biggest 'problem' we have in this country regarding the more obscure sports and to a degree athletics, is that not many of us are really interested in them. This is also the reason why World of Sport and Grandstand are no more.
The Olympics are the cream of these sports, can't see too many people being that interested in everything that comes before a major event.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 09:56:55
'Legacy' should be focusing on primary and secondary schools, compulsory sports every day with teachers or coaches that can catch the imagination of the kids. There should be one sport for everyone out there to get passionate about, to fall in love with and the ones that find one that they're quite good at, they can take it further.
The kids that enjoy sport in school are more likely to keep going.

there should be competition between schools too

Any more compulsory sports, is the last thing required. These days sport at secondary school comes under the title "healthy lifestyles", the majority of kids having no particular talent, but are encouraged to get some execrcise, for the health benefits.

There's a lot of good work goes on for kids who are a bit more sporty, which is hung together in a sort of informal network between clubs, schools and official bodies, who'll send the odd Olympian round for some coaching etc.

This system works in a British sort of way....up to a point.

There are however many competing sports out there, some of them not even Olympic...undoubtedly access to better facilities has to be an issue that could be addressed by the decision makers.

Swindon doesn't have much of a record of producing Olympians, is that because the facilities are poor? I don't know the answer just throwing it out as a question.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Flashheart on Monday, August 13, 2012, 10:02:15
A lot of kids simply just are not sporty.

While there's nothing wrong in encouraging them to live healthily, they shouldn't be pushed into doing something they don;t want to do and just aren't any good at. By all means do something to enhance the facilities and programs for the kids that are sporty, but not at the expense of academic facilities for kids that are better at using their brains.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 10:14:38
A lot of kids simply just are not sporty.

While there's nothing wrong in encouraging them to live healthily, they shouldn't be pushed into doing something they don;t want to do and just aren't any good at. By all means do something to enhance the facilities and programs for the kids that are sporty, but not at the expense of academic facilities for kids that are better at using their brains.

I'm not sure that academic facilities, are going to be that important for the majority of kids in the future as IT increasingly grows, but I would like to see, some sort of program, whereby nippers, are given greater opportunities to sample a wider range of sports. As previously pointed out a lot of this, was already happening until Mr Gove and chums, decided to axe the scheme.

This was the School Sports Partnership, and a public outcry did manage to salvage some reduced funding, but it's the sort of thing that should be increased if the Government are serious about a legacy.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Flashheart on Monday, August 13, 2012, 10:21:56
Academic facilities will always be needed.

The calculator didn't stop maths being taught, it just changed how maths was taught. If computers can solve ever more complicated problems for us, people will need to learn how to tell the computers what problems they want solved. Whereas physics in schools is now about chemical reactions and gravity and stuff, computers may one day take it to quantum mechanics and beyond.

It all seems a bit off a knee-jerk reaction to me. There's plenty of people out their that are quite happy and successful in their academic pursuits, leave them be. Don't make kids run around when they would be better off learning stuff in a classroom instead.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 10:37:40
Academic facilities will always be needed.

The calculator didn't stop maths being taught, it just changed how maths was taught. If computers can solve ever more complicated problems for us, people will need to learn how to tell the computers what problems they want solved. Whereas physics in schools is now about chemical reactions and gravity and stuff, computers may one day take it to quantum mechanics and beyond.

It all seems a bit off a knee-jerk reaction to me. There's plenty of people out their that are quite happy and successful in their academic pursuits, leave them be. Don't make kids run around when they would be better off learning stuff in a classroom instead.

We'll see.  Increasingly though, schools as institutions are about social work, rather than much academic work, that couldn't happen away from the institution by use of IT. 

All, the calculator did , was take away the use of log tables and the slide rule, which I grew up with, the basic tenets of maths, and how they are taught are little changed.


Title: Re: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: london_red on Monday, August 13, 2012, 13:22:05
The biggest 'problem' we have in this country regarding the more obscure sports and to a degree athletics, is that not many of us are really interested in them. This is also the reason why World of Sport and Grandstand are no more.
The Olympics are the cream of these sports, can't see too many people being that interested in everything that comes before a major event.

Agree with this.

Whilst its a nice thought to call for Grandstand's return - and I do hope the interest in these sports doesn't trail off straight after the end of the Olympics - there is already decent coverage of quite a bit of it just people don't watch it. The BBC show all the Diamond League Athletics meetings throughout the season, and had extensive red button coverage and a daily highlights show on BBC2 from the Track Cycling World Championships earlier this year.


Title: Re: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 13:48:15
Whilst its a nice thought to call for Grandstand's return 

Bring back scrambling in black and white for the Grandstand Trophy with commentary by Murray Walker....Dave Bickers, Jeff Smith, Vic Eastwood, Arthur Lamkin et al, riding Greeves, Matchless, Husqvarna, BSA, CZ....not a Honda, Suzuki or Kawazaki in sight. Throw in course side ads for Swarfega and the world is a good place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuZk5q0qCs&feature=related


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: reeves4england on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:06:21
Agree with this.

Whilst its a nice thought to call for Grandstand's return - and I do hope the interest in these sports doesn't trail off straight after the end of the Olympics - there is already decent coverage of quite a bit of it just people don't watch it. The BBC show all the Diamond League Athletics meetings throughout the season, and had extensive red button coverage and a daily highlights show on BBC2 from the Track Cycling World Championships earlier this year.

See, I know athletics, cycling etc is on the BBC sometimes... but I never know when, or who is competing. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe they could do a bit more to advertise it and build up interest - would do their viewing figures some good I'm sure.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: walcot red on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:17:32
See, I know athletics, cycling etc is on the BBC sometimes... but I never know when, or who is competing. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe they could do a bit more to advertise it and build up interest - would do their viewing figures some good I'm sure.

Agreed, I don't see many/if any promos for any sport on the bbc other then motd or the f/l show.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:27:44
See, I know athletics, cycling etc is on the BBC sometimes... but I never know when, or who is competing. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe they could do a bit more to advertise it and build up interest - would do their viewing figures some good I'm sure.

Can you get Eurosport? Today for example, you can see road race cycling, mountain biking or triathlon on Eurosport 2.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: london_red on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:27:52
See, I know athletics, cycling etc is on the BBC sometimes... but I never know when, or who is competing. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe they could do a bit more to advertise it and build up interest - would do their viewing figures some good I'm sure.

This is a fair point, granted. I guess they have an approach of 'It's there if you know where to look' meaning the die-hards will tune in but lose people like yourself who have a passing interest and might well watch if they made people more aware of it. Quite surprising really, given all you get between shows on the BBC is adverts for other BBC programming, no excuse not to promote these things better.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Ardiles on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:32:36
Where Grandstand wins over Eurosport is shared experience.  Stick it on BBC1 (or even BBC2) for 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon, and millions will tune in.  Book end it with Football Focus at one end and Final Score at the other.  It would cream off a lot of the viewers watching score updates on Sky Sports News (which is really just a modern day replacement for Ceefax, isn't it?)


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: nevillew on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:42:25
Bring back scrambling in black and white for the Grandstand Trophy with commentary by Murray Walker....Dave Bickers, Jeff Smith, Vic Eastwood, Arthur Lamkin et al, riding Greeves, Matchless, Husqvarna, BSA, CZ....not a Honda, Suzuki or Kawazaki in sight. Throw in course side ads for Swarfega and the world is a good place.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuZk5q0qCs&feature=related

Good shout Reg,

Went to a televised meeting at Naish/Nash  hill (Melksham way) when I was about 6(I think). My dad has a cine film of me getting Murray Walker's autograph.  All the above mentioned were there plus John Banks.

Mind you, I always used to like the rallycross from Lydden Hill .


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: LucienSanchez on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:52:49
My own personal legacy is that I'm going to have a bash at fencing (until i can go back to gridiron). I think I'm the wrong generation they were hoping to inspire, but hey ho!


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 14:59:51
Good shout Reg,

Went to a televised meeting at Naish/Nash  hill (Melksham way) when I was about 6(I think). My dad has a cine film of me getting Murray Walker's autograph.  All the above mentioned were there plus John Banks.

Mind you, I always used to like the rallycross from Lydden Hill .

Good stuff, you should put it on YouTube, I'm sure we'd all like to see the young Neville collecting autographs.

Something from that time I remember, was to me a seemingly wonderfully pointless sport, whereby chaps in long open style cars used to climb very steep hils by reversing moves and handbrake turns....don't think it became too popular.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: jonny72 on Monday, August 13, 2012, 15:14:08
The calculator didn't stop maths being taught, it just changed how maths was taught. If computers can solve ever more complicated problems for us, people will need to learn how to tell the computers what problems they want solved. Whereas physics in schools is now about chemical reactions and gravity and stuff, computers may one day take it to quantum mechanics and beyond. :beers:

There is a great video on TED of Stephen Wolfram basically saying the way we teach maths is fucked up - too much time performing calculations by hand when it should be all about using computers to do the grunt work and focussing on more important things. Worth a watch.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: mexico red on Monday, August 13, 2012, 15:33:04
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/olympics-inspires-uk-to-watch-television-2012081037801

end of thread ;D


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: nevillew on Monday, August 13, 2012, 15:51:39
Good stuff, you should put it on YouTube, I'm sure we'd all like to see the young Neville collecting autographs.

Something from that time I remember, was to me a seemingly wonderfully pointless sport, whereby chaps in long open style cars used to climb very steep hils by reversing moves and handbrake turns....don't think it became too popular.

I think it was called 'hill climbing' Reg. :D  The passenger used to go crazy bouncing around to keep the car moving.
 There was also cyclo cross - I suppose mountain bikes put paid to that.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, August 13, 2012, 15:57:14
I think it was called 'hill climbing' Reg. :D  The passenger used to go crazy bouncing around to keep the car moving.
 There was also cyclo cross - I suppose mountain bikes put paid to that.

That was it...proper strange the drivers and passengers always looked to me like they may have been Spitfire pilots.

Think cyclo-cross is still undertaken.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: reeves4england on Monday, August 13, 2012, 16:00:23
That was it...proper strange the drivers and passengers always looked to me like they may have been Spitfire pilots.

Think cyclo-cross is still undertaken.

There's a free cyclo-cross taster session at Lydiard on Thursday

https://www.joininuk.org/clubs/swindon-road-club/events/swindon-rc-come-and-try-cyclo-cross


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Simon Pieman on Monday, August 13, 2012, 22:00:21
That was it...proper strange the drivers and passengers always looked to me like they may have been Spitfire pilots.

Think cyclo-cross is still undertaken.

Think you're on about 'Trials'


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 08:03:44
Think you're on about 'Trials'

I looked that up and found this.

http://www.gomotorsport.net/en-GB/godrive/trials.html

 Thanks for that. It is pretty much what Grandstand used to show, but in the script it does mention hill climbing, which I think was the actual stuff.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Batch on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 10:17:12
Didn't realise they were putting housing over the Olympic park. Bit of a shame as I wanted a tour, but nope - closes after the Paralympics until 2013.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Coca Fola on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 11:14:55
Didn't realise they were putting housing over the Olympic park. Bit of a shame as I wanted a tour, but nope - closes after the Paralympics until 2013.
They may as well keep it for the 2024 games..


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: sonicyouth on Saturday, August 18, 2012, 11:43:14
so who else knew that athletics has resumed with the diamond league in Stockholm?


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Samdy Gray on Saturday, August 18, 2012, 11:47:38
Me.


Title: Re: Olympics Legacy
Post by: Swindon Please Win on Saturday, August 18, 2012, 11:49:03
Me too. I watched Ohuruogu get bronze yesterday.