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It's all a bit silly. Should've just had the Queen declare it open, a brief cheer, and then the athletes move straight to the starting blocks.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Birmingham
- Thread starter Lord Camomile
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
With triangle sandwiches and squash for lunch.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
At least our Home Secretary is getting into the spirit of things:
inews.co.uk
Patel to meet Commonwealth ministers during Games to ‘discuss Rwanda-style deportation deals'
The Home Secretary will use Commonwealth Games to try to strike new Rwanda-style deportation agreements, i learns
inews.co.uk
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
The Triathlon is pretty exciting, Alex Yee catching up the New Zealand athlete Haydn Wilde
baldrick
hmmmmm
Really great finish wasn't it. Looking forward to the women's race at 2:30.
added to which, I was born in Perry Barr, in a house just over the road to the park where the Alexander Stadium now is 
Saints Alive
Well-Known Member
This is also my workplace. I was there yesterday to meet students and getting past the sports centre was a right pain in the arse.For - every tech I know has huge amounts of work from it, a welcome change after the shit show of the last few years
Against - as my workplace is a venue for two sports, and is also the main athletes village, it’s a bloody nightmare getting around and I’ve lost access to my loading bay for a month
Saints Alive
Well-Known Member
We're going to see some women's cricket tomorrow evening (Eng v Sri Lanka, I think) and then have tickets for the Rugby 7s finals day on Sunday. Very much looking forward to the rugby.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
The Triathlon course, hardly Copacabana waterfront is it:
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I’n enjoying the womens rugby 7s today. Looking like England may not go through automatically as Canada beat them yesterday and they play New Zealand next game up
My friends cousin was a Womens All Blacks 7s team squad member last time round but I think she’s retired now due to a heart issue
My friends cousin was a Womens All Blacks 7s team squad member last time round but I think she’s retired now due to a heart issue
baldrick
hmmmmm
Got up early and managed to catch both the men's and women's wheelchair marathon and the men's race before we headed to Edgbaston for a day of cricket.
NZ have set a pretty decent score for SA to beat. Staying for the England match later. Feels much colder than the forecast. Wish I'd brought a jumper
NZ have set a pretty decent score for SA to beat. Staying for the England match later. Feels much colder than the forecast. Wish I'd brought a jumper
If anyone is thinking of using the park and ride service for the commonwealth games, I strongly advise you not to. I left the house at 6.30 am, the park and ride buses from Solihull were late which meant we were an hour late for gymnastics. Arrived at the gymnastics and saw less than an hour of action before there was a 90 minute break with absolutely nothing to do. Then they changed the pickup place from the arena to a 30min walk away (not great for my daughter who has a broken foot) so we got a shuttle bus to New Street and then had a 20 min walk to the pick up point where we were told there are no buses. Finally three buses came, one went to great Barr instead of Solihull and one broke down so our bus had to stop and pick up half the people who then had to stand for the half an hour journey. Absolute shambles.
I’ll keep everything crossed for you! You should be alright if you’re not using their transport. We didn’t have much choice today because of the train strike but never again!
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
They mentioned shuttle buses to and from the arena to the station. I can see that being a choke point, if all else fails I’m sleeping on my friends sofa in Kings Heath!
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I'm enjoying the swimming!
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Spent about seven hours on Friday watching the men's gymnastics team final. Tremendous showing from team England, especially from Joe Fraser who is an absolute star. Bit of a mess on the organisational front though, as the team final also served as qualification for the individual all-round AND apparatus finals. No need to condense it down so much, organisers. Stick the qualifications on in the morning/early afternoon, with the finals in the evening. Footage was all over the place too - why were we seemingly watching the Canadian and Australian guys live, and the Brits on recap during changeovers? Who was in charge of the editing?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
And the Samoa guys just did a topless Hakka in front of where we are to celebrate!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Jake Jarman, oh what a fucking star (I've said that already of Joe Fraser, but this time I mean it). I look forward to the Paris 2024 men's gymnastics knowing who'll be in the team.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
He's been amazing. British gymnastics is singing atm, it's been so brilliant seeing all the different nations at work. The Welsh women gymnasts were really impressive in the all-around.
