Quite true, but us Brittish like a good moan, haha..

The Olympics was always a bore for me. I would find it much more interesting if instead of the best athletes who spend a good majority of their lives training for the events, if they held a sort of a lottery and picked random citizens to compete against each other. That would be massively more entertaining and would give a better read on where each country actually stands against one another.

On a side note I found the opening ceremonies slightly pretentious. But honestly it was great entertainment. The ceremony i mean. Sports in general are kind of meh IMO.

LOL - you would need resuscitation crews ready at every event contested by industrialised countries.

What a fantastic idea. I must admit, i find the Olympics "who's better than who" to be quite offputting, as well as the time and money spent. I seriously question why it should even be mentioned here, after all is sporting excellence a sign of betterment really??..Or just sucking up to societies wants..?? The meeting of different nationalities is good, but Cities like London are already Very cosmopolitan.

Regardless of whether or not I approve of this summer Olympic's sponsors, marketing techniques, or their fundamental intentions, I actually enjoy events like this.

It isn't about voiding a nation of credit in athleticism because some of their citizens who are representing them hail from other countries, if that were the case a majority of the Olympic teams would not be competing. I'm surprised you nitpicked something as trivial as nationality and failed to acknowledge a simple truth, that we are all citizens of this Earth, and ultimately, though the populace fails to always recognize it, we are truly all brothers and sisters.

The true goal of the Olympics isn't about which country is better than who, or who's best at what. It's about the congregation of hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, along with fewer professional athletes from the majority of the nations on Earth. It's about setting aside prejudice and hate and truly enjoying impressive feats of athleticism, it's about sharing space with people, it's about inspiring the competitors, while they in turn inspire you. It's about sharing space with people from all walks of life while observing the human animal pushed to it's full capacity in so many areas of expertise. It's a celebration of life, really.

Watching television it's hard to believe that. Brittain was olympics mad, i got fed up hearing about "another gold for brittain", and our "heroes"...In fact last night i kept on repeating the word "heroes" because it's been so overused that anybody is a "hero" these days..thats why i posted the Shaolin monk footage, he's a world apart in his levels of skills and knowledge to most athletes.

Of course we are "one", but i'm sure you'll find the Olympics has always been about whichever country winning, and you'll find most populations still racist i'm afraid, olympics or not. Trained highly paid athletes are NOT a good example of what other races are like. Those athletes are few and far between, thanks to the massive amounts of investment put in them, etc, etc.

Of course any event that creates positive energy is good but i cant help but think this is for some other ulterior motive thesedays. If it hasn't always been so.

Really, isn't "sporting excellence" a rather "fickle" way to bring people together, why not sort it out for once and for all, get rid of Governments, start living in close nit communities, and get back to nature. The olympics may last 2-3 weeks of happy vibes, then it's back to the drawing board of "what's our next trick of making people feel like they should ALWAYS be feeling anyway??"..if u catch my drift??

just my 5 pence.

How do you suggest 7 billion people return to nature? Is that seriously what you think would fix the world, the fundamental circumstance that got us where we are, NOW!?

Doesn't make too much sense.

Sure people should spread positivity and love to everyone, but we are all human. As long as there is the instinct to survive, humans will disagree with one another, they will fight each other, and they will kill each other.

Sure you could say it's rather "fickle" that sporting events bring people together, hell, I might even say that, but that still doesn't negate the fact that this is the real world we find ourselves in.

well i guess even if people wanted to get back to nature the system would make it damn hard to do so. the problem isn't about nature, or city-- but measures of control...thats what causes problems,etc.

Anyway back on track..

I really enjoyed seeing the inclusion of BMX racing which I hadn't noticed before.

It would be nice to see more inclusion of extreme/street sports in the future as they hold more relevance to modern folk than many of the other private school taught disciplines.

I still love the classics mind. I have great resepect to anyone who can succeed at the endurance based end of sports especially. Multi-sport events are damn intriguing also. Especially when competitors look like Jess Ennis

Good to see a pole snap mid-vault too I saw a replay of that happening loads. On the subject of which, how foes one get into pole vaulting? I don't believe I've ever met one person who I know of that pole vaulted in their spare time.

I'm guessing some posters in this thread were either bullied by jocks or just were always picked last in sports

No Soulfood, some of us simply KNOW that no matter what we do or ACHIEVE, it will never even come remotely CLOSE to the incredible beauty of what we really are. For that reason i believe the olympics are really a sign that populations are looking to material feats and they are misguided and wrong-

Although bmx and weightlifting was great, haha!

Juust my wierd, strange, 1 ukcash.

so do you think we should all sit around doing nothing as no matter what we do it is inferior to our true beauty? Im pretty sure winning a gold medal is way closer to our actual beauty than sitting around posting on the Nexus (i know, i know, blasphemy )

so why bother posting on here?

No we, should ideally create a special way of making our lives as sussed as possible so that we can fit as much spiritual growth into our lives as possible.

If big events like the olympics with all the hype, blarb, money, marketting, and stuff is your scene, fair go...but it really aint mine. It's greeat to see those people do those great physical feats, but i dont think it calls for admiration. That would be misguided as much as the point of those events.

And indeed i guess it's worth asking why at all do we even consider these kind of events to be of importance..Have we lost our sense and understanding of what matters in life and gone mad over things that don't matter, are insignificant, are perhaps inhumane and vulgar displays of power and greed??

Human's can achieve amazing results given the opportunity and backing, but this shouldn't startle us or bother us too much knowing what's possible these days given the right conditions. The olympics is pretty much the same old format, some people break records by seconds, but does it really matter, why the big deal over breaking a record by a few "fickle" seconds??. What's the obsession with speed and performance, and at what PRICE??



That's in your hands 3're eye!!

your posting isnt in my hands (for the record im glad you post here). if you think the participation in the olympics is pointless then surely posting on the Nexus is pointless and takes away from your opertunity to grow yourself spiritualy.

i think that if you dont have any admiration for the athletes, not the games themselves, but the individual athletes, then you dont really understand what it takes to get to the level they achieve.

Thanks for what you said, 3'rd.

However i DO respect the work they put in. I train hard every day in the gym, used to run 1/2 marathons, cycle miles, even try to make good times.

But as i get older i question this kinda stuff. in fact i question everything, and i'm glad i do.

Is it admirable that a person should be able t0 lift x weight or not, after years of scientific diet and training- is it ethical use of "talent"??- i don't think so. Good for them, but really, so what, what about doing something really useful!?

What good does it do. that's my point. Why don't they build a poor village in Africa some free accomodation, use that energy to help spread good will "actually" than indirectly, with all the marketting blurb.

Then that would truly be "hero" worthy.

We don't need sporting "heros", we need !Robin hoods!!"

ok, fair do's, im glad you can appreciate the effort.

i personally find that its not the weight or the speed but its the effort and the sacrifice that these people have put in that i find admirable. I also train hard for climbing and

anyway never fear, the footy season kicks off soon, i bet you've got your season ticket ready aint ya

The IOC has said, prior to the olympic´s, that anybody who would use the words 'olympic', 'olympic´s','2012 olympic´s', 'london olympic´s', etc, in a 'negative way' would be charged with violating trademark law. . I´m still trying to figure out whether i would be allowed to question whether this would be a violation of my freedom of speech, or whether asking such a question would be too negative already.

Anyway, i didn´t watch the games. I´m one of those suckers who thinks that rockclimbing in the south of france is more fun than watching TV.

wow..olympics just suck soo bad. I feel sorry for London. I hated the 2012 olympics here in vancouver. It just left a large mess in it's wake for everyone else to deal with(pay for).

What an odd outlet for a complete "society sucks" meltdown. I mean, honestly... how much time must you have on your hands to unload such a payload of grumbling?

Your comments about the disabled athletes are especially psychotic, as is your philosophy that we should all of us just strive for nothing and be the beautiful lazy blobs god intended. And then the video you post from the "real hero" who's drilling a hole in his head??? If they're handing out medals for mental health, you ain't makin' it up onto the podium.

There are certainly aspects of the Olympics that bug me. It can be loud and crass and much in the service of selling chicken mcnuggets, but it's hard to be too cynical about the individual achievements. These people train for years and years to reach the pinnacle of their sports. They make tremendous sacrifices in order to get there and take part in something enormous, something that very few in the world have the drive and talent to reach.

Confucious say Those who can, do. Those who cannot, grumble, complain, and then smoke yet another bong load.

This made my day.