Olympic Buzzword Bingo

Download your sheets by clicking here.

Choose a sheet you will use.

During the Opening Ceremony tick off each buzzword when it is said by a commentator or particpant.

You could have a drink penalty for each word too.

The winner is the first to tick off everything on their sheet.

Make sure you use the hash tag: #OlympicBuzzwordBingo


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Thanks to Tracy Steadman (@lou_lou1972) for the suggestion to do this!

Heavy-handed Olympic Torch security?

Olympic Orbit Tower

Anish Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit, which has just be completed in the Olympic Park, will be the UK's tallest structure.

Here's a short film about it.

Move to the Beat - London 2012 - Mark Ronson & Katy B

You've probably seen the short ad, but here's the full length track:

BBC Olympic torch trailer

There will be cynics who don't like it, who aren't behind the build up to the Olympic Games, but I think this BBC Olympic torch trailer, with it's tease of the specially commissioned Elbow track that will be used as their Olympic coverage theme tune, is genuinely inspiring.



What do you think?

100 Days to the London Olympics

Today marks 100 days until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

To me, the Olympics are a tremendous event, something which is inspirational, something which will be remembered for a lifetime, and something which will have a physical and emotional legacy on future generations.

Yes, I accept there are issues about the Olympics.

Some point to the cost of staging the games, whilst ignoring the increased tourism they will bring.

Some point to the potential for terrorism, or to what they consider to be OTT restrictions on civil rights during the Games - but i'd rather the Games went off without incident with everyone safe.

Some point to the corporate sponsors and say that a few of the companies giving money to the Games have questionable backgrounds and records - and I, for one, have some sympathy for their view. I wish it wasn't necessary to have any corporate sponsorship at all. I wish that fast food and confectionary companies couldn't link their names with sports events. I wish that companies with bad human rights records couldn't try to make themselves look good by linking to the Games. It is an unfortunate by-product of the economic system the West has chosen.

Some point to the transportation delays possible during the Games but ignore that there's been plenty of warning and it's up to individuals to make sensible arrangements. Remember, it is only for a couple of weeks.

Some dismiss the sportsmen and women as over paid prima donnas and mostly drug cheats. Yes, that may be the case for a few, and the Okympucs need to look seriously at whether drugs cheats are ever allowed to compete again, but the vast majority are examples of humanity excelling in sporting endeavours.

Some, including me, are hoping the Olympics doesn't become a tasteless orgy if nationalistic jingoism - but fear that our tabloid press will fuel such unpleasant fervour.

But, even if all of those things were true, even if all of them were as bad as they could get, I think the Olympic Games is a fantastic event and one which the UK, an historically important sporting nation, should be looking forward to hosting.

COMMENT: Boxers threatened with bans.... for fighting

Last weekend boxing hit a new low with, it seems, as much violence before and after the "big fight" as during it.

But what do people expect?

This so-called "sport" is controlled thuggery. Quite how it remains in the Olympics, indeed actually expanded in the Okympics with the inclusion of female boxing, is a mystery.

The. "sport" is run by dodgy wheeler-dealers, controlled by managers and trainers wo appear to have dubious backgrounds, and competed by virtually brain dead idiots who think that thumping someone, trying to hurt another human being, is a reasonable way to earn money - sadly, huge amounts of money.

I just don't get boxing. Haye and Chisora look likely to be charged for violence that, in the ring, the crowd would have applauded.

Some, desperately trying to defend boxing, say it gives structure and discipline and a way out of poverty and crime to men (and now women) who would otherwise probably end in jail. As far as I'm concerned they may as well end in jail because, while boxing remains legal, it is a stain on all society.

Dog fighting, badger baiting, etc. are all criminal in the UK and yet we allow two men, often with a restricted intelligence, to fight each other for entertainment. It might not always end in death but that's not the point. Look at the deaths, the brain damage, the other injuries...

Who can look at the state that Muhammud Ali is in today and say that boxing is a good thing? Only the most idiotic dullard.

Defenders of boxing say about the amount of effort that has been put into making the "sport" safer. They refer to amateur boxing having head guards and restricted numbers of rounds. And their excuses go on and on. They miss the point, though. Boxing is trying to hurt an opponent through punching them. How can that ever been acceptable? Isn't it monstrous that society still allows these modern day gladiators to fight for money?

Yes, banning boxing would drive it underground but now, with it legal, there is already illegal fighting taking place.

The British Medical Association has long called for a ban on boxing but successive governments ignore them. This is a dereliction of duty.

Boxing must be banned. The London Olympics are shamed by having it. Thuggery and violence has no place in the modern world.

OLYMPICS: Volunteers' uniforms unveiled

I'm still eagerly awaiting my letter or email to say whether I have been selected to be a Games Maker at next Summer's Olympic Games.

I got through the first stage and was then interviewed early one Sunday morning at Warwick University. I should, apparently, hear the decision by the end of November (if all is on schedule).

In the meantime, the uniform I'll get to wear, if selected, has been unveiled: