I know what you mean, but I suppose for me it's because I've always wanted to go since Moscow 1980.

It's an absolute rip off if you look at it in purely monetary terms as the ticket prices I think are outrageous (although I think that's because, relatively speaking, RL is quite cheap when compared to say, the Premiership) and no doubt accommodation will be as well, but it's a real "I was there" moment.

A real "i was there" moment - when the Aussies and yanks ran backwards and still beat us?

All good choices. We've gone for diving (no chance) and tae kwondo. As a statto, I'd like to know my chances. Weightlifting makes me cringe though, how mad is it when the bar is bending? It's all so macho. One of the trainers at my gym was telling me in a show-off way about how they'd done some sort of competitive lifting marathon thing, he'd "pressed a tonne" then blacked out. Came round and then continued. Now, I know I'm a bit lazy, but really?

Millets is rubbish, but needs must for the waterproofs, unfortunately. At least it's not as pretentious as those posh outdoor sport shops, where you pay 300 notes for a ski jacket. Pi$$ing contest about who's got the most nobbish brand of extreme arctic-proofing. To rail against this, me and the daughter have gone for wafer thin "festival" style cagoules with nice little patterns on that won't withstand any rain whatsoever, just to, you know, make a statement.

Just added a bit of swimming to my Olympic application, Becky Addlington for gold in the 800m!

Just put im my last minute application, on a tight budget so only had a couple of hundred quid to spend.

Tennis at Wimbledon
Heavy Weight & Super Heavy Weight Boxing
Athelitics - Taken a punt on the Mens & Womans 100m but don't hold out much hope
Will also be in London for some of the 'free' events
Might also take a trip up to Old Trafford for a couple of football games.

tiddlywinks for me

I re-read it and it says that you should make sure that you have the funds available in your account for any events you have chosen and it gives a date, 6th June or something like that, It then says that these funds may be taken for your account for events chosen but this does not mean that you have been successful and that you will find out by 28th June if you have been successful and if you have already had funds taken from your account and have failed to be lucky enough to get tickets, you will be refunded. Don't quote me on the dates as the leaflet is not to hand at the moment, If I can get a hold of it again I will post it.

Good luck, I applied for quite a bit of athletics when the Commonwealth's were in Manchester. Didn't get any! I did get across for a few of the other events, boxing semi finals (David Haye was unfortunately injured, but was sat about ten rows in front of me) and

don't tell anyone

Rugby 7's at the City of Manchester, which was actually very good.



That's pretty much my understanding of it which seems a bit of a swizz to be honest. How much money are they going to make by having everyone's money stashed away for a good few weeks given that we're probably talking about a couple of billion?

How was "Game Of Thrones", been considering downloading it, gets a good review on IMDB.

Always good to a review of proper Hull folk though.

Visually it's brilliant and they got the casting bang on IMO. The problem with all fantasy is that the dialogue can be a bit stilted and pompous/silly. Because it doesn't have the depth of the book, the characters come across as a bit 2d - though as the plot develops and you find out more, it should get better. Also, if you haven't read the book I can imagine it being a bit hard to follow, possibly.

So then, what's everyone's knot?

Mine's probably a bow line, mainly because it's about the most complicated one I can do. Not very good at knots me. No I'm not.



There's some right salty sea dog's that frequent this board, I be they know some crackers. Who can do a monkeys paw?

Apparently there have been 20M applications for the 5.5M tickets including 800,000 for the Opening Ceremony alone!.