Event chairman Lord Po said the event was a ‘big moment’ for the 2012 Cowes Flonking Organising Committee (Coflog), adding that 23 million ticket applications had been made by almost 12 people, which showed the Games had ‘higher levels of support than any previous international flonking event’. [read...]
‘I was hoping to watch Usain Bolt in the men’s 100m final, but I’ll settle for seeing his dad in the 60-ish yard dash.’ [read...]
Lord Sebastian Coe has today denied that the creation of the new Olympic discipline of ‘bottling it’ was done so with the express purpose of giving the host nation a medal chance. [read...]
‘wiff-waff’ apparently slang for ‘another four years as mayor’. [read...]
Crowds cheered as the ribbon was cut in East London today to mark the official opening of the 2012 Olympic Velodrome. However, the gathered dozens were soon left disenchanted upon discovering that a velodrome is just a curved track for people to ride bicycles as fast as they can. [read...]
