2024 Olympic Games: doping & other issues

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

2024 Olympic Games: doping & other issues

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2024 Olympic Games: UK gvt again demonstrates lack of backbone by caving in on opposition to RUS/BLR participation

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Archive now want to charge, so even the free articles arent free!

Sorry. Wasn't aware of that. cry Not a problem for me, as I have access to ToL, but what a pain for others who don't. furious

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Archive now want to charge, so even the free articles arent free!
Sorry. Wasn't aware of that. Not a problem for me, as I have access to ToL, but what a pain for others who don't.

No worries - you can register for a month free on archive but then they will start charging, at least that is what it told me.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Is this the British backbone we're so proud of?

Not even getting involved with if the original decision is right or wrong

Ps and, absolutely, golf, tennis, soccer, baseball etc - NONE of those should be Olympic sports

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 18th of April 2024 05:32:12 AM

Lambda · Challenger level

JonH comes home wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Archive now want to charge, so even the free articles arent free!
Sorry. Wasn't aware of that. Not a problem for me, as I have access to ToL, but what a pain for others who don't.
No worries - you can register for a month free on archive but then they will start charging, at least that is what it told me.

I see nothing about charges for archive or anywhere to register. What I did notice the other day was that it no longer gets around the paywall. I wonder if what you've taken as archive charging is that it's archived a page as seen by a non subscriber and so includes the subscription offer for the Times?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Archive now want to charge, so even the free articles arent free!
Sorry. Wasn't aware of that. Not a problem for me, as I have access to ToL, but what a pain for others who don't.
No worries - you can register for a month free on archive but then they will start charging, at least that is what it told me.

I see nothing about charges for archive or anywhere to register. What I did notice the other day was that it no longer gets around the paywall. I wonder if what you've taken as archive charging is that it's archived a page as seen by a non subscriber and so includes the subscription offer for the Times?

ah, that actually makes sense and on closer look that is exactly what it has done, it is the subscription for the Times and not Archive itself. Good spot, and good news. However, the article is sadly not visible as it shows the first paragraph and then kicks into fading away and mentioning subsribing (to the Times!)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: 2024 Olympic Games: doping & other issues

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Now I've heard everything - except, of course, he didn't amputate himself, he had it amputated...! Lazy journos, but, sadly, a common grammatical error. disbelief

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Pity the poor Parisians: the thoughts of Agnès Poirier on the legacy of the Games.

steven · Tennis legend

London wasn't fenced off like that in 2012, they do seem to have gone a bit crazy. As for the last bit of the article (being able to hold the open water swimming / triathlon in the Seine), the thing they were most worried about was run-off from heavy rain, so it could be more than just the opening ceremony that ends up suffering as a result of the weather.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
London wasn't fenced off like that in 2012, they do seem to have gone a bit crazy. As for the last bit of the article (being able to hold the open water swimming / triathlon in the Seine), the thing they were most worried about was run-off from heavy rain, so it could be more than just the opening ceremony that ends up suffering as a result of the weather.

I seem to recall that there were also/still are some concerns about E. coli in the water - so not just the Thames!

Off topic, I thought the opening ceremony was a bit of a curate's egg. I had it on, but it didn't have my undivided attention: there were some genuine highlights, especially towards the end, but there were also long stretches when it was actually pretty boring.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
London wasn't fenced off like that in 2012, they do seem to have gone a bit crazy. As for the last bit of the article (being able to hold the open water swimming / triathlon in the Seine), the thing they were most worried about was run-off from heavy rain, so it could be more than just the opening ceremony that ends up suffering as a result of the weather.
I seem to recall that there were also/still are some concerns about E. coli in the water - so not just the Thames!
Off topic, I thought the opening ceremony was a bit of a curate's egg. I had it on, but it didn't have my undivided attention: there were some genuine highlights, especially towards the end, but there were also long stretches when it was actually pretty boring.

Yes, I'm with you SC

The ending was quite spectucular

The Eiffel tower, the hot air balloon thingy, and didn't Celine Dion absolutely nail her song, in true old-fashioned French style???? Brilliant Especially given what she's had to put up with recently.

But, for me, the athletes being on boats didn't work - it lost the pomp and ceremony, of arriving in the stadium, and lost the 'togetherness' which is rather moving when you see all the athletes, filling up the stadium

It also meant noise was very dispersed - so there was hardly any clapping etc (that could be heard - all you could hear was rain) - so you didn't really get the emotion that comes with the noise of all the specatators in a stadium

It also seemed rather more of a Paris tourist advert than an Olympics ideal advert

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ive only just clocked, the surfing is taking place in Tahiti!

Fabulous!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
London wasn't fenced off like that in 2012, they do seem to have gone a bit crazy. As for the last bit of the article (being able to hold the open water swimming / triathlon in the Seine), the thing they were most worried about was run-off from heavy rain, so it could be more than just the opening ceremony that ends up suffering as a result of the weather.
I seem to recall that there were also/still are some concerns about E. coli in the water - so not just the Thames!
Off topic, I thought the opening ceremony was a bit of a curate's egg. I had it on, but it didn't have my undivided attention: there were some genuine highlights, especially towards the end, but there were also long stretches when it was actually pretty boring.
Yes, I'm with you SC
The ending was quite spectucular
The Eiffel tower, the hot air balloon thingy, and didn't Celine Dion absolutely nail her song, in true old-fashioned French style???? Brilliant Especially given what she's had to put up with recently.
But, for me, the athletes being on boats didn't work - it lost the pomp and ceremony, of arriving in the stadium, and lost the 'togetherness' which is rather moving when you see all the athletes, filling up the stadium
It also meant noise was very dispersed - so there was hardly any clapping etc (that could be heard - all you could hear was rain) - so you didn't really get the emotion that comes with the noise of all the specatators in a stadium
It also seemed rather more of a Paris tourist advert than an Olympics ideal advert

I read Israel and Iran would have been on the same boat if theyd kept to strict alphabetical order, so a little shifting around was needed!