Well as you can see from the photos I posted the crowd in Chester was made up of all ages and it certainly wasn't bussed in. The 25K crowd at the racecourse even paid to get in.

I reckon so far the majority are pretty happy to see the torch procession come through their locality.



They were handing out small bottles of coke from one of the floats when it went past. My son didn't get one. I think he has forgotten he just turned 18 and isn't a little kid any more!



People actually came to Chester to see it so as the city has a large tourist economy I think the council will have been pleased especially given the extended coverage it got on North West Tonight.

Millennia?
There were no Olympics during the time between the Ancient Greeks and Victorian times.
Hence, I think decades would be more appropriate.

Continue ...

I wonder when rlthis lotrl will start proceedings against the Olympic Organisation for nicking their original idea?

Do you think he'll sell more healthy fried breakfasts, pasties or fizzy pop if he can call his cafe Olympic as opposed to soemthing else? Do you think people will not walk in his door if it's not called Olympic Cafe?

How about they let this guy call his cafe "Olympic", and then in a fair world anyone can call whatever they like Olympic as well. Would you be complaining that every single shop, beverage, boiled sweet, toilet roll etc...etc...etc... was branded "Olympic"? Because I'm guessing that's what would happen. Then FatDonalds and co. would be branding everything they sell Olympic as well, only they wouldn't have to pay a penny for it.

Just out of curiosity, is Olympic no longer a generic geographical adjective? If not, how do you refer to something from or pertaining to the area of Mt Olympus?

Mt McDonald Olympus, its getting painted yellow soon

I once went to Mount Olive, but she was having none of it

No one seemed bothered that Little Chef had been calling one of their breakfasts "Olympic" for decades

I couldn't tell you without looking it up who won the football or the tennis in Beijing, but I can tell you where I was and who I was with when Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal in the pool.

1. Do you know they don't pay royalties?
2. As you say "decades". If the cafe in discussion had been named The Olypmic Cafe for decades there would be no issue, he'd be able to continue to use the name.

Well, they started in the old BC times.



You do realise that 'Olympic' is a very, very old word. And even the idea of the Games being 'Olympic' is very, very, very old? Yes?

You tell me – how the hell did anyone cope before MaccyD and Coke decided it was theirs.



I notice that DHM has posted on this thread since, but not answered your post.

rlNo panic folks, it's going to be £500m under budgetrl

so, the whole thing was a snip at a mere £9.8bn.

I am not against the event, but I do wonder just how much of that money has actually been "spent" and how much has lined people's pockets.

You also have to question just how much of that British taxpayers money has trickled back down into the British economy - I know of one Irish (as in Dublin, not Belfast) large sub-contractor who has has a workforce of between one and two hundred working on the Olympic Park almost since construction started, you may be able to guess where most of the workforce has come from and where all of the profits have gone - they were involved on the Wembley Stadium project too, European tendering rules mean that it would be illegal to deny non-UK companies the opportunity to work on these public projects.