Paris Olympics 2024

[heatmeiser]

Claire Balding gets her own statue?

Controversial

 

[Rita_Poon]

Where are they mooring all these boats up btw?

Dunkirk did it better, in both 1940 for real and then 2017 for hollywood.

 

[Runub]

I wonder if this would have been better if it was sunny

 

[Rita_Poon]

Get Tim Spall out there involved somehow. And how come we couldn't half inch that thatcher statue off to these here?

 

[Bungle]

We're celebrating a woman who came up with a film called the cabbage fairy?

 

[Jamiednm]

I wonder if this would have been better if it was sunny

Nah, everything post-Covid has been shabite.

 

[heatmeiser]

This is the Blackadder theme right??

 

[Vintage]

We're celebrating a woman who came up with a film called the cabbage fairy?

They have really had to go scrape the barrell for that section

 

[dublinbluenose]

Nah, everything post-Covid has been shabite.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Light is drawing in, and it's very grey there already.

They knocked the TdF out of Paris for this. A tour that showed off everything France has. 1000% better. What a damp squib. Who let adam ant out?

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Riveted by how crap this is

 

[Rita_Poon]

Them fountains, Barcelona did em better!

 

[Vintage]

The Japanese team with all their cameras out taking snaps. No surprises there

 

[Rita_Poon]

here's the Kenyan dopers. Golds all round kids.

 

[Bedfordblue]

The French aren't going to take this lightly, and I wonder which foreign power will be suspected first.

France's rail network disrupted by 'malicious acts' ahead of Olympics opening ceremony

The national train operator SNCF says fires were set overnight to damage their facilities.

www.bbc.co.uk

Opening scenes with Zizou getting on a train that subsequently breaks down was rather prescient