Mainad
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Apparently Coe offered his services to help with Paris' latest bid, or so I heard. I wonder if anything will come of this or will the Paris organisers be too proud to accept help from the guy who cost them their last bid?
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The people of Paris have said yes, the President himself has said yes, surely it is but a mere formality for the CNOSF to now say yes and submit a bid to the IOC for what would be Paris' centennial Olympics! Exciting times ahead!
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Faster, I assume you will be giving your full backing to Paris if it decides to go ahead with a 2024 bid?
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Thanks for that! I'm looking forward to the 2024 bids more and more now that it seems likely Paris will put in a bid after all!
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I have some sympathy for Lee's position. Sensible suggestion: Can we please have a complete ban on any more threads and comments about Tony please! If he's done something that contravenes the rules of the forum, then its up to the moderators to take action against him. If he hasn't and you just don't like him or his opinions, then just ignore him! I came here to talk about Olympic bids and sport related issues and discuss other topics of interest and amusement, not stumble across endless threads and postings about one particular teenage Londoner whose only 'crime' as far as I can tell is that he seems to have an over-excessive if slightly misguided enthusiasm for his native city and country! Is that unreasonable???
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As I'm sure Baron will be the first to remind you, it's never too soon to start planning your opening ceremony! No kidding.....
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I can't help feeling that all this negativity from French posters about Paris' chances for 2024 are, at least in part, still fuelled by lingering bitterness about what happened to the city's previous bids, especially the last one, hence this 'we don't want it, we don't care about it, nobody really cares about it anymore anyway' masochostic mantra that seems to me to be like some sort of self-inflicted revenge for the failure of past bids! Chill out Frenchies. Where there's a will, there's always a way! A positive and enthusiastic bid for 2024 will put Paris automatically as the favourite. Now we know being the favourite doesn't always guarantee selection but I highly doubt the special circumstances of 2012 will occur again. For one thing, there is no Chirac around any longer to upset potentially vital swing votes on the eve of the election by making disparaging remarks about their cuisine! Who knows what might have happened if he had only managed to keep his trap shut?
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"The phrase originated from the swear words "sacré bleu", a Marian oath, referring to the color (i.e., "sacred blue") associated with Mary, mother of Jesus." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrebleu
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Just wanted to wish a Happy Christmas and Seasonal Greetings to everybody on here. Have a good one!
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I see you're not a fan of Scotland's national and most iconic instrument? IMO still beats a vuvuzela or a didgeridoo anyday!
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Does anyone know why they decided to relax the rules on headgear? It seems very odd to me!
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Congratulations to Germany, 4 times champions and 1st time as a united nation! Congratulations Argentina on making it such a close final! Congratulations to Brazil on organising a fantastic World Cup!
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England out of World Cup, Murray out of Wimbledon, Froome out of Tour de France. UK Sport's jinx year of 2014 continues. Let's hope the Glasgow Games will finally give us something to smile about!
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True but Froome was the defending champion! But yes, it all just adds to the gloom doesn't it? So come on Glasgow, give us something to cheer about!
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CWGs will probably be the best, and England will chse Australia all the way up the medal table.
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Brazil's sports year is even more jinx'd.
Volley failed, football humiliated, formula 1 no more... We are losing in everything... =[
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England flop at World Cup. Murray crashes out of Wimbledon. 2014 is turning out to be one gigantic hangover year following the glories of 2012 and 2013!
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Roll on Rio 2016 where ALL people will be welcome!
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Hear, hear!
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Er..okay Victor, whatever you say, mate!
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Booings are reserved only for Argentines... Matter of tradition...
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Today is the first anniversary of the End of the World!
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So have we all been spending the past year actually living in heaven, or hell?
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I know what you mean. Seems to defeat the object if we can't tell the difference, doesn't it?
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I just went to Mayan ruins on saturday... Atmosphere was peaceful.
