A warning to anyone attending "The Games"

[Dev One]

"This might help, if it's not geoblocked:"

Or palped even?
Keith

[VEGAS]

I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

[JohnWillimas]

I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

Yepp, Boris's expression is priceless too.

Still at least it was his left arm!

[Vancouver]

I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

Boris seems amused, but then isn't he always. No I think you are being dragged along by Daily Mail hysteria, it was palpably a wave.

[VEGAS]

No I think you are being dragged along by Daily Mail hysterial

I've not seen any papers today.

I watched this last night on the BBC.

[DaveB]

I don't think our Boris would know his @rse from his elbow We're that chap doing a 'salute'.. he'd have used the right arm, not the left. One never salutes with the left arm

Up to this morning.. I'd successfully navigated around any Olympic coverage but when I got downstairs, the wife had come off nights and had it on the box She's gone to bed now thank goodness
ATB
DaveB

[VEGAS]

Hi Dave.

Obviously correct about the arm/salutes.

I've done enough of them in my time. Long way up short way down.

It was more the motion of his arm.

Slice to the chest then out to the final position as you see in the pic.

There are many ways to wave.

I'd have thought this chap would have used a more traditional means.

[airboatr]

I heard a lot of French being spoken over the PA system.

I'm curious of y'alls feelings on that.



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[DarrenL]

I heard a lot of French being spoken over the PA system.

I'm curious of y'alls feelings on that.



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Because they won't le it lie. I myself was expecting some nice historical recreations during the opening, Crecy, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo. Instead we got one bit celebrating an enormous failure, the NHS. Apart from that and Paul McCartney singing out of tune it was actually very good. Although I'm not sure how the Japanese took the playing of Enola Gay.

Seriously though, as I understand it French and English are the two languages of the IOC, French for Baron de Coubertin who started the modern Olympic movement and English because of the English Much Wenlock Olympian games from which the modern games are based.

[DaveB]

Slice to the chest then out to the final position as you see in the pic.

I didn't see that mate. Perhaps it really was a case of old habits die hard

ATB
DaveB