More Day 9.....
The Olympics in Image and Video
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and more Day 9.....
Day 9 the end:
My Day 9 Usain video:
Time to say goodbye to the the Olympic Stadium....
I hope you enjoyed my two visits as much as I did.
I hope you enjoyed my two visits as much as I did.
I left something behind:
Soldato
It's hard to follow simulatorman's impressive encyclopaedic tour of Olympic events (I am highly jealous! :-> ), but here's my trip to Hyde Park yesterday.
London was gloriously warm & sunny, with a cooling breeze at times. So the walk up towards Hyde Park was very pleasant indeed.
The half hour queue to get in was somewhat less glorious, as were the dire warnings about what you could and could not take in. In the end though you could take small items of food in, so I needn't have lobbed my orange and bag of peanuts & raisins in the bin. I just hope some tramp got them rather than landfill.
Inside was pretty well organised. Toilets (at 2pm) were clean, a bottle of water at £2 was only expensive rather than blatantly urine-extracting, and there are about six screens of various sizes scattered around the venue.
Here's us watching them watching us at the BMX semifinals.
And here's a couple of underdressed visitors. I'm going to stick my neck out and guess they're from the USA.
While this is the crowd at one screen celebrating another goal for the GB hockey team on their way to bronze.
Followed by a little blessed relief from the blazing sun.
On the main stage we were eventually treated to a couple of medalists. I celebrated by shaking my camera around, avoiding a sharp shot completely!
One boxer...
...and one random rower...
...followed by a random band. Ocean Colour Scene.
Not sure who the bloke inbetween is.
But I do know that's quite a big crowd.
London was still looking impressive as I escaped back towards Kent and work.
And in the evening sunshine the Victoria Memorial seemed like a very fitting and striking tribute to our golden games.
London was gloriously warm & sunny, with a cooling breeze at times. So the walk up towards Hyde Park was very pleasant indeed.
The half hour queue to get in was somewhat less glorious, as were the dire warnings about what you could and could not take in. In the end though you could take small items of food in, so I needn't have lobbed my orange and bag of peanuts & raisins in the bin. I just hope some tramp got them rather than landfill.
Inside was pretty well organised. Toilets (at 2pm) were clean, a bottle of water at £2 was only expensive rather than blatantly urine-extracting, and there are about six screens of various sizes scattered around the venue.
Here's us watching them watching us at the BMX semifinals.
And here's a couple of underdressed visitors. I'm going to stick my neck out and guess they're from the USA.
While this is the crowd at one screen celebrating another goal for the GB hockey team on their way to bronze.
Followed by a little blessed relief from the blazing sun.
On the main stage we were eventually treated to a couple of medalists. I celebrated by shaking my camera around, avoiding a sharp shot completely!
One boxer...
...and one random rower...
...followed by a random band. Ocean Colour Scene.
Not sure who the bloke inbetween is.
But I do know that's quite a big crowd.
London was still looking impressive as I escaped back towards Kent and work.
And in the evening sunshine the Victoria Memorial seemed like a very fitting and striking tribute to our golden games.
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Soldato
These photos are really good guys! 
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Great pics guys
simulatorman - you in for a third day today?
simulatorman - you in for a third day today?
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Taken from the gymnastics today (also posted in Photography & Video forum)
The BMX was really good. Some distance they jumped when you really get a good close up view.
My third and final day at the Olympics, the men's football final:
More from the final:
and finally:
Soldato
Great pics of the football, especially the open panoramas at the end!