Poll: Olympics - your opinion (Poll please!)

What was your opinion of the London 2012 Olympic Games?

  • I thought it would be rubbish, it was rubbish

    Votes: 43 6.2%

  • I thought it would be rubbish, it was average

    Votes: 24 3.5%

  • I thought it would be rubbish, it was good

    Votes: 150 21.7%

  • I thought it would be average, it was rubbish

    Votes: 4 0.6%

  • I thought it would be average, it was average

    Votes: 27 3.9%

  • I thought it would be average, it was good

    Votes: 312 45.1%

  • I thought it would be good, it was rubbish

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I thought it would be good, it was average

    Votes: 4 0.6%

  • I thought it would be good, it was good

    Votes: 128 18.5%
  • Total voters
    692
Thought it would be average - turned out excellent :)

Must admit like a lot of people I was expecting a bit of a shambles, however I've been pleasantly surprised.

The athletes from all countries have done themselves proud. Team GB did brilliantly and I think everyone got behind them. There are some real stars out there - and I particularly liked the low key ones, like Laura Trott and Jade Jones.

Mo Farah - what can you say - the man is a real gentleman and a first rate runner - I really do hope he gets some sort of recognition from H.M The Queen.

It was particularly nice to see Sir Chris Hoy and Ben Ainsley bowing out on a high in what is likely to be their last Olympics.

I really do think there is a feel good factor eminating from these games - the people of the UK are by and large nice decent people and this was a time for them to show the world what we can do. A time to take back the National Flag and use it as it was intended - to celebrate what makes Britain quirky and unique, its diverse cultural and regional heritage and its ability to assimilate everything that is good from around the World. Take away the Politicians trying to capitialise on the spirit of the games and you're left with what makes Britain Great - ordinary people (in name but extraordinary in abilities).
 
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I thought it would be rubbish, it was average.

Was it better than most? no, was it worse than most? no, pretty much the definition of average. still average is a good improvement on what myself and a large amount of people were expecting :)
 
I thought it was going to be good with some typical British ****-ups (can I say ****-ups on here?). Turns out it was awesome. Before the Olympics I was literally the only person I knew who was excited about the games. My Facebook feed was full of people moaning how much the games were costing, how they were sick of hearing about them etc. After Danny Boyle's fantastic opening ceremony though everyone was suddenly behind the games and acting like they'd always been in favour of them!

As for inspiring a generation, I really hope it does. Hopefully the facilities built for the games can be used as well as the ones in Manchester were and in 12 years time we can still be celebrating huge medal hauls. Third place in the medal table for such a small nation is phenomonal.
 
i wasn't quite sure what i thought it would be like. i did wonder how we'd cope and we coped well. really enjoyed it, sorry it's over tbh.
 
Kenai said:
'Throw enough money at something and you'll probably win'.
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While they spent a lot of money on the facilities and during the games, a lot of the events that GB took part in had their funding cut and required the athletes to come up with alternative funding if they wanted to continue in order to compete.
 
Great to see all the **** wits are coming out and making mountains out of the most miniscule things. :D
 
bsoltan said:
While they spent a lot of money on the facilities and during the games, a lot of the events that GB took part in had their funding cut and required the athletes to come up with alternative funding if they wanted to continue in order to compete.
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I suspect they wouldn't have been the successful events but at any rate, i'd be surprised if many had significant cuts, give our 'investment' has increased from £60m to £264m over the course of the last 4 Olympics, with a noticeable increase in medal hauls to go with it.

You need only look at where we spent the most money: Athletics (£25m), Cycling (£26m), Rowing (£27m), Swimming (£25m), to see that with the clear exception of swimming, we garnered most success where we spent the most money.

All of the above is a relative drop in the ocean compared to what was spent of the logistics of the actual games themselves but I feel the point still stands that we seem to have spent our way to success just as much as anything.
 
I thought it was fantastic and going by what I have seen in the news it could be one of the best games yet.
 
Thought it would be good, turned out to be great!

Team GB for the win!........well third!:p But still awesome, I just hope GB's success inspires British kids to get out there and commit to a sport/event, so that we can be strong for many Olympics to come!

Third overall medal winners is a phenomenal feat and can't be overestimated imo! Congrats team GB! and congrats to the organisers, helpers, broadcasters, spectators etc who made it such a great event.
 
Kenai said:
Thought it would be average, was average.

It hasn't really created any great excitement amongst most people I know and work with, all the supposed tourism benefits seem to have been a complete flop with a great many businesses having their worst two weeks of trading in years, with even things like the dedicated Olympic festival in Weymouth shutting down early due to a complete lack of interest from the public.

It was a reasonably entertaining two weeks of TV but didn't really 'inspire' me or anyone I know beyond 'Yeah did you see the 100m last night? Pretty good wasn't it?' "Yeah, not bad". There's usually more excitement when there is a big Premier League game on midweek.

As for 'Inspire a generation' maybe it will, maybe it won't but from the sheer amount of money we piled into these people to win medals, I think a better motto would be 'Throw enough money at something and you'll probably win'.

Give it a year and I think overall opinion will be a lot lower, once people come off the high and realise we have to pay for all this and the 'legacy' is nothing more than some increasingly disused sports facilities.
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Even if we have a Triple Dip Always Look On The Bright Side of Life :p
 
I thought it would be average. It was good.

Im usually not into sports, but I found myself watching a lot more of the games than I expected I would. Was also fantastic to see Andy Murray pick up the gold in tennis.
 
I didn't think it would be average per se; I just didn't think it would be as good as it was. Our hosting and television coverage of these Olympic games has been phenomenal and it will be sorely missed.
 
Feek said:
You have a poll.

I expected it to be good, I thought it was excellent.

For the last seven years we've had to put up with a bunch of idiots going on and on about how bad the Olympics would be, how we'd mess it up and how we'd end up being the laughing stock of the world.

All this time I've been saying the opposite. We know how to put on a good show, I think the last two weeks have been utterly fantastic and mesmerising and as far as my household is concerned, every other broadcaster except the BBC may as well have shut down for the last fortnight.

I hope the people who were saying how bad it would be are eating humble pie now.
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100% this... well said
 
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