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Boris tells us 2012 will be an 'underbudget games'...

Sounds like they've started economising already... ;)

The details of London's role in the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony have been revealed, with the eight-minute slot hailed as "London loud and proud."

Musicians Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis will perform on Sunday as London unveil their blueprint for 2012.

The £2.5m set also features footballer David Beckham and cyclists Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Shanaze Reade.

Bill Morris, London 2012 director of ceremonies, insists London will not compete with China in terms of scale.

The closing ceremony is expected to be as spectacular as the four-hour ceremony which launched the Games just over two weeks ago.

But while the opening ceremony focused on 1,000 years of Chinese history, the closing event will be much more about showcasing "the diversity and colour of modern China".

Morris said London's part in the spectacle, which would start after London mayor Boris Johnson received the Olympic flag, would be "simple and creative".

London's set will start with a red London double-decker bus driving around the Bird's Nest stadium.

The bus will be backed by a musical sequence which combines elements of the shipping forecast, Jersualem, Greensleeves and harmonies based on the chimes of Big Ben.

Hoy, Pendleton and Reade, dressed as everyday Londoners, will then follow on their bikes.

Three dance groups will also be involved - the Royal Ballet, street dance theatre group ZooNation and CandoCo, a company which specialises in mixing performers with and without disabilities.

The dancers will surround the double-decker when it comes to a halt at a bus stop, and a 10-year-old girl from east London, Tayyiba Dudhwala, will emerge to receive a football from another girl, Erika Tham.

The bus will then transform itself, with the top half folding down in segments to show a privet hedge cut into shapes of the London skyline: Tower Bridge, Battersea Power Station, the Houses of Parliament, while a phalanx of black umbrellas will be unfurled alongside.

Then X-Factor winner Lewis will emerge from the roof on a rising column to sing an RnB aria before guitarist Page emerges for the duo to perform a new version of Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love'.

As the song nears its conclusion, former England captain Beckham will appear on another lift, accompanied by Tayyiba, and will kick a football into the crowd of athletes, sparking a live link-up to the handover party outside Buckingham Palace.
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And this bit's gotta be a worry...

He said the segment was neither a short version of the likely 2012 opening, nor an attempt to encapsulate Britain in eight minutes, but it was a small "fun" taster of what is to come in four years time.
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ellal said:
...The bus will then transform itself, with the top half folding down in segments to show a privet hedge cut into shapes of the London skyline: Tower Bridge, Battersea Power Station, the Houses of Parliament, while a phalanx of black umbrellas will be unfurled alongside...
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hee hee hee!
 
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trouble is most of our history is based on who weve had wars with, or who weve ruled over, so wed end up insulting everyone! :LOL: (dont mention the war)
 
I suppose the british have always had this unique sense of humour with self humility playing a big part and this style that only britain could achieve is probably the best thing to do if outlandish and expensive spectaculars are out of the question. Just hope the chinese and others understand the humour :oops:
 
Most people rate the Sydney games as the best ever. We have three times the Oz population so surely we can match that?
 
joe-90 said:
Most people rate the Sydney games as the best ever. We have three times the Oz population so surely we can match that?
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But they have 30 times the amount of land that we do. But on the positive side, even though we have very poor sports facilities, we are better at sport than they are. We may not, as pointed out by the convicts, have very many swimming pools, but at least we've got some water to put in them.
 
im just thinking how there going to upstage the Chinese with the opening of the Olympics,someone playing the spoons???.

or will it be along the lines of trooping the colour with the forces bands etc?
 
gregers said:
im just thinking how there going to upstage the Chinese with the opening of the Olympics,someone playing the spoons???.

or will it be along the lines of trooping the colour with the forces bands etc?
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2012 morris dancers in a line with massed bands of drums pipers, spoon players and pearly kings and queens on podiums, as the battle of britain fly past goes over (sorry germany) followd by the red arrows. (well you know they will definetly be in it whatever happens!)
 
as the battle of britain fly past goes over (sorry germany) followd by the red arrows.
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:confused: :confused: over what and where?

Cast your mind back to Wembely stadium, they f**Ked up that .

How the hell are they going to build an olympic stadium and an olympic village.

All this ££££ spending and we are on a route to recession.

This could be Britains most embarrassing moment. :oops: :oops:

£9.3 billion could be put to better use, especially the way Britain is going, downwards.
 
What annoys me is the tax payers are going to be forking out £24m on a purpose built shooting facility at Woolwich barracks, the stupid thing is there is not enough room to hold the shooting there safely with out having to close roads and protect property. A 300m fall out zone for a start and that is just for clay shooting, god knows how they propose to hold rifle shooting there.
All they need to do is spend a fraction of the £24m on Bisley and its job done. I am a clay shooter and regional committee member for the CPSA (Clay Pigeon Shooting Association) We want there to be a lasting legacy for shooters in this contry, not an arena in a built up area that will have to be heavily secured because of all the guns being there, not only that the £24m will be flushed down the bog after and it all pulled down. Bisley or even Dartford are the obvious choices and the people making the decisions are not listening.
Also since the hand gun ban including sporting guns, legally held and kept by legitamate shooters, the crime rate involving guns doesnt seem to have dropped a lot.
We the host nation have to send our pistol shooters abroad (mostly France) to practice. How can they then let other nations in to the uk just because of the Olympics?
People think shooting is an elitist sport, it isnt but will be soon if normal people like me and my wife who is tripple county champion cant afford to practice.

Sorry rant over, need to have my Ovaltine and hit the pit :oops:

Tony
 
I thought there was already a great big stadium, in Wales?
 
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