2012 London Olympics

I’m shocked! My journey to and from work taking in two Olympic venues, Woolwich and Greenwich have both been fine!

In fact from what I’ve seen of London, it’s rather empty!

@panda12 wrote:

I’m shocked! My journey to and from work taking in two Olympic venues, Woolwich and Greenwich have both been fine!

In fact from what I’ve seen of London, it’s rather empty!

I guess that’s because anyone who could take time off work or work from home has done, and others have changed their working hours where possible.

As for the empty seats…other than allocate them to someone else after a certain amount of time, I don’t really see what they can do. People buy tickets but you can’t force them to attend. Even with the corporate hospitality seats, they have been paid for either directly or via sponsorship, again you can’t force people to use them.

I have to say that I lost interest in the Olympics when participants stopped being amateurs…do you remember the days not so long ago when the Olympics was for people who did it for the love of it rather than for the money, were proud to represent their country and only went professional once they had made a name for themselves and the well-deserved offers came in? For me some of the passion was lost when professionals were allowed to enter, even if it did raise the bar performance-wise.

@panda12 wrote:

I’m sure the small print says, “No oiks!” :lol:

Nah can’t do, some of my friends have tickets… :lol:

@mrs_teapot wrote:

Men’s gymnastics team got silver…. now that is seriously impressive

GO TEAM GB

It’s been downgarded to Bronze after an appeal by the Japanese.

@jen_jen wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

I’m shocked! My journey to and from work taking in two Olympic venues, Woolwich and Greenwich have both been fine!

In fact from what I’ve seen of London, it’s rather empty!

I guess that’s because anyone who could take time off work or work from home has done, and others have changed their working hours where possible.

As for the empty seats…other than allocate them to someone else after a certain amount of time, I don’t really see what they can do. People buy tickets but you can’t force them to attend. Even with the corporate hospitality seats, they have been paid for either directly or via sponsorship, again you can’t force people to use them.

I have to say that I lost interest in the Olympics when participants stopped being amateurs…do you remember the days not so long ago when the Olympics was for people who did it for the love of it rather than for the money, were proud to represent their country and only went professional once they had made a name for themselves and the well-deserved offers came in? For me some of the passion was lost when professionals were allowed to enter, even if it did raise the bar performance-wise.

I whole-heartedly agree, so I don’t watch the obvious sports with participants obviously getting a load of dosh for advertising etc, when they have ‘retired’. Having said that, I cannot, not, watch the swimming/diving, or the athletics – being in the water/field as it were in my youth!