2012 Olympics

[Griffin NoName]

You will probably enjoy it.

I don't know why I have gone insane and watched endlessly. I never normally watch sports. Even Olympic sport. I think it is possible the whole UK has been drugged through the drinking water. Except Roland.

[Roland Deschain]

I only drink gin. This is probably why.

[Griffin NoName]

22  22  22  22  22  22  22  22  22  22  22 !!!

[Griffin NoName]

Double Posting

There's a curious gold medal winner habit of mouthing the words to their national anthem - you can tell they are not actually making sounds, like singing, it's just a mime.

Also, I wonder what happens if a gold medalist comes from a country without a national anthem?

[Swatopluk]

There are states, most prominently Spain, that have an anthem but no text for it.
A curious case was the late GDR, where singing the national anthem could get you arrested. On official occasions when it had to be played the citizens present had to hum it. That is not a joke. The reason was that the text, by the later minister of culture no less, had become a liability because it spoke of a united Germany (at the time the text was written that was still official policy, later it became anathema). Unlike the Russians who destalinized their own anthem text even in Soviet times, the GDR leadership was obviously afraid to change the text or to simply get a new anthem likely because that would have been an admission.

[Griffin NoName]

That should have been in Easy Questions shouldn't it !

[Bluenose]

Double Posting

There's a curious gold medal winner habit of mouthing the words to their national anthem - you can tell they are not actually making sounds, like singing, it's just a mime.

Also, I wonder what happens if a gold medalist comes from a country without a national anthem?

I've always thought that was because the athletes actually don't know all the words very well, so they end up pretending to sing so that they are not accused of being unpatriotic, yet they then also don't end up singing the wrong thing which might be a tad embarrassing.

[Griffin NoName]

I guess you are right Blue, but it's more romantic to imagine it's some sort of strange ritual.

[Griffin NoName]

Re the finger pointing thing, I've seen loads of gold medallists do it now. I think the reason it seems odd when Andy Murray does it, is that he doesn't do it properly.

Ha!! Nicola Adams (GB) first womens gold medal boxer ever. (actually I hate boxing)

Ok.... Ireland too.....

Also, I don't understand Dressage, the horses end up with white froth pouring out their mouths.