HA HA HA good one mate. made me proper laugh out loud.

Got to say really enjoyed popping down the village yesterday to see it come past and was fairly amazed at how many people turned out, lucky it passed around 2 miles from our front door

The torches are already appearing on eBay

i heard the torch bearers paid to keep them so they can technically do as they please, but personally im against them being sold.surely its something to treasure and pass down through your family??

I'd rather have the 90 grand that one is currently going for !

Gotta be a fake bid surely? What are they made from?

I was lucky enough to see the olympic torch when I was on holiday in Thassos just before the 2004 Athens games, there was a local athlete from the island competing in them so they let him carry it, was literally close enough to touch it.

EDIT: just read this "Olympic torchbearers can buy their torch for £215 (they cost London 2012 £495) and are free to sell"

Since the Olympics is, in a large part, about big business cashing in, then it seems entirely fitting.

Its not really an "investement" though is it ?

I can understand someone wanting one as a memento but I suspect that many of those bidding are doing so in the hope that they will be worth a lot more in a short number of years - they may need reminding that the Olympic torch that they are buying is potentially one of 8000 - hardly a limited edition.

Sssssshhhhhhh

I've spent half the night banging 'em out in me shed, I just need to nip down Halfords now for some gold spray paint.

There was a photo of the torch going for 10 grand when I looked last night, get your camera out aswell.

rlGet knittedrl

Olympics and various sports World Cups, are just a way of increasing Coca Cola, McDonalds, Burger King, Visa etc etc profiles, i'm sure elite athletes could just meet up on a park somewhere and save us billions to spend on hospitals and medicines

Everything that's wrong with the Games in one story.

"London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) told the project organisers the stall wasn’t going to be possible, with “commercial sponsors” cited as the reason."


That is the most sickening part of that story.

Some head of some corporate giant got wind of some locals making cushions and actually thought, no i'm not having that, put a stop to it.

This planet, us humans, i despair.