But I was wrong, and Coe was so so so right. He has been truly superb, stepping into the spotlight when things threatened to go wrong - as with the security cock up and the empty seats controversy - but otherwise stepping back into the shadows and allowing the athletes to bask in all the glory. All that talk of who should carry the torch for the opening ceremony and there should really have been one candidate only, the man who had the vision to bring the Olympic Games to London and Great Britain: Sebastian Coe.
What a triumph for the nation and for Coe personally. He has been dignity personified throughout and the Games have done the nation proud!
And there's one other person who has been forgotten and who should really have been invited to the Opening and Closing ceremonies. I detest the man because I felt betrayed by him when we invaded Iraq and launched an illegal war, justified by lies, but Blair, like Coe, had the vision to commit to the bid in the first place, something the Tories would never have done!
So will Osborne now sit up and take note? Was the Olympics a triumph because of penny pinching austerity or did it inspire a nation by celebrating in glorious excess? Thatcher wasn't for turning; if Osborne doesn't learn from the last fortnight and what has happened in Greece, then God help us all!
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Call me a cynic, but Seb Coe said "thanks Olympic team for keeping us all safe" - I just thought please let's not hear a mighty explosion...:-) And Seb Coe saying "oops I spoke too soon"....
I'd do Coe, or Blair... Or maybe both at once... hehe
Yes I winced at that point 0117 and thought, please God nothing happen on the tubes or as people swarmed out of the stadium! Makes you wonder how many people may have been interned as a precaution!
But it all went off so smoothly in the end and the tributes to the volunteer workers were excellent too. Not sure about the closing ceremony personally - too much music and too little athletics / sport in my book but as long as the athletes themselves saw it as a tribute to them from the music industry - and the athletes were like excited teenagers with their cameras so were clearly amazed - then great.
Such a shame the closing ceremony was marred by w,ham supporter russell brands attempt at singing. Surely the organisers could've come up with someone better than a tone deaf w,ham supporting smackhead? Pure embarrassment in front of the world.
Agree with it all apart from Blair being invited to the ceremonies. The organisers got that bit right by keeping that repellent arsehole out of it.
I like this new you, and it's a refreshing change to all the Leeds baiting nonsense you've been obsessing over in past weeks. Long may it continue...
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