Tony writes:
RTE live online feed to London 2012 cut 1 minute before the Olympic flame is lit. Stay classy RTE, idiots!
Oh.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bIBWUnRXNo
“Just let me out there. I intend to prove a point.”
Inspirational.
Anthony McG writes:
I took this shot with my camera phone of the winding Thames in Central London on the way back from a trip to the UK this week
Kieran Behan.
5ft 4ins of pluck.
“Doctors told me, stop thinking about your crazy dreams because you’ll never walk again and you must accept that it’s over for you,” Behan said. “But I just kept saying: ‘No, no, no — this is not the rest of my life. This is not how it’s going to play out.’ And look at me now, an Olympian. They said it was impossible, but I did it.”
Behan, 23, barely clinched an Olympic berth in January, qualifying second to last at the Olympic test event to become the first Irish gymnast to make it to the Games by his own talent, not by wild card.
Once Told He’d Never Walk Again, Irish Gymnast Is Now Olympian (Juliet Macur, New York Times)
Thanks ellybabes
(Getty)
Bring It Nom
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I’ve decided that even though I may have grounds to win the appeal I’m not going to take it to CAS! I wish the 4×4 success at #london2012
— Joanna Mills (@JoBerg400) July 25, 2012
Previously: An Olympic Conundrum
The 27-year-old [Spain’s canoe gold medalist] Saúl Craviotto resembled a miserable mid-90s fast-food restaurant employee in a polo shirt and Espana cap, clutching a red and yellow backpack in his hands.
All Dressed up … In A uniform He Doesn’t Like: Olympian’s opening Ceremony Outfit Misery ((The Age)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw&feature=youtu.be
Jill Guest writes:
Londoners’ attitude towards the games eloquently summarised by our affable, “fluff-headed” mayor
#OlympicVillage >> Check us out, the lads did good. Only team with a beer garden! twitter.com/IrishOlympians…
— COME ON IRELAND (@IrishOlympians) July 23, 2012