Who should light the flame?

[belboid]

There are only two choices really, aren't there? It's 5 time sit on your arse going backwards guy, or the two time Jack of All (Atheltic) Trades, King of None bloke. With a token mention for guy who ran fast fifty years ago and wheelchair woman.

5 times guy doesn't cut it for me - a) its sitting on your arse; b)it was never just him; and c) if anyone can do it for 16 years, then there's obviously something too simple about it. Then he rounded off his lack of worth by saying that Daley Thompson isn't even in the top 5 Brit Olympians at all. Silly boy.

All-rounder chap is merely let down by being good mates with Coe.

 

[quimcunx]

Alan Wells.

I'd go for Daley Thompson as I lurved him when I was little. and that comment from Redgrave has annoyed me so he deserves to have to pass it to Thompson to do the deed. But mates with Coe? hmm.

 

[Corax]

In keeping with the ethos of the Olympic Games, it should be MacDonalds' UK Director of Operations.

 

[Badgers]

Daley Thompson or John Terry

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Won't be any of them

 

[AverageJoe]

Seb Coe

 

[quimcunx]

Probably an 8 year old leukaemia survivor in a wheelchair. They get all the best stuff.

 

[Lock&Light]

Seb Coe

That would be way beyond controversial.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Wiggo was mentioned on Radio 4 today. Jeremy Cunt wouldn't be drawn on the possibility.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This one's still alive but no wheelchair

or, I wonder if someone totally unexpected, like a survivor of the London bombings, considering that was the day after London won the Olympics or....

Cherie Blair - as she won the Olympics for Britain!

according to her husband

Or, Margaret Thatcher. She's probably being wheeled about in a wheelchair now

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Wiggo was mentioned on Radio 4 today. Jeremy Cunt wouldn't be drawn on the possibility.

I thought that yesterday as they decided two hours before he won the race yesterday that they'd settled on who it was

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Or

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[Corax]

Anjem Choudary & Steven Yaxley-Lennon, together.

...In Perfect Harmony
Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord Why Don't We?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Which reminds me, that's on tonight

 

[maldwyn]

Dot Cotton using her fag.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I think an Olympian from 1948 would be good. A last vestige of the Olympian Spirit before mammon & corporate take-over.

 

[rubbershoes]

Bono. He could light the flame with the power of his compassion

or use a match

 

[stuff_it]

This one's still alive but no wheelchair

or, I wonder if someone totally unexpected, like a survivor of the London bombings, considering that was the day after London won the Olympics or....

Cherie Blair - as she won the Olympics for Britain!

according to her husband

Or, Margaret Thatcher. She's probably being wheeled about in a wheelchair now

O2 and flames mix a bit too well...

I think they should get Goldie Looking Chain to light it. That would be teh well funnies.

 

[Quartz]

Gordon Brown. As long as he stays in the flame once it's lit.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Where's Jesse Owens these days?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'll do it for a tenner plus exes.

 

[Corax]

I think an Olympian from 1948 would be good. A last vestige of the Olympian Spirit before mammon & corporate take-over.

Can they give a motivational talk in the corporate box afterwards?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Where's Jesse Owens these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Woods_Cemetery

 

[OneStrike]

Adrian Chiles

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Roger Bannister possible

How about a medal winner still alive from the 1948 games, although I doubt they'd be that well known except among sporting types

eta: Mrs M's already come up with that suggestion

*curses Mrs M*

 

[gosub]

If there's a public vote then rig it so Steve Ovette wins just to annoy Coe, post otherwise Daily Thompson

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

David Beckham's going to use his wife to light it

 

[twentythreedom]

It's Chris Hoy

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's Chris Hoy

No, he's the flag-bearer for the Olympic team.