gavin18787
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Very happy as the mountain biking for the 2012 olympics is going to be held in Hadleigh castle country park and few hundrad meters from my house 
I am a keen mtb rider so should see some good benifits for the money that they are going to put into it 
Should be a good venue as there is already a good selection of natural routes etc
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Mike
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I'll give you a fiver if you knock someone off 
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Pete_vxl
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how shite is the opening ceremony gonna be compaired to the chinese btw
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deano87
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The training grounds may also be about 20 mins from my house Chicksands btw!
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gavin18787
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quote:
Originally posted by deano87
The training grounds may also be about 20 mins from my house Chicksands btw!
Nice CS meet round mine to watch it 
Whens the Bejing MTB event on as I want to watch that
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by deano87
The training grounds may also be about 20 mins from my house Chicksands btw!
Really? that'll be
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deano87
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quote:
Originally posted by gavin18787
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Originally posted by deano87
The training grounds may also be about 20 mins from my house Chicksands btw!
Nice CS meet round mine to watch it
Whens the Bejing MTB event on as I want to watch that
No idea.
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Originally posted by Dom
Really? that'll be
Well, it was in contention. No idea if it'll be for definite.
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Phi
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Originally posted by Pete_macari
how shite is the opening ceremony gonna be compaired to the chinese btw
as soon as it started i felt embarressed for us 
even animated on the tv will not make it better either
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Superlite Ltd.
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quote:
Originally posted by gavin18787
Should be a good venue as there is already a good selection of natural routes etc
I've herd its a load of crap. Supposed to be far too easy
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Jas
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For you Ed yes,
Olympic athletes no
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Superlite Ltd.
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"It's s baren, featureless wasteland and flatter than a witches tit "Hill areas" and a "valley" my arse!
More importantly, being situated where it is, I give it all of 20 minutes before all those nice, shiny competition-spec MTBs go missing..."
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=579500&y=186500&z=4&sv=579500,186500&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=581480&ay=186879
look at the features
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Doug
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Originally posted by Jas
For you Ed yes,
Olympic athletes no
FPMSL
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Doug
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* Event: Men's Cross Country
* Date: 23/08/2008 Beijing Start : 15 0 End: 17:30 (BST Start: 080 End: 10:30 )
* Venue: Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
* Team GB Athletes Competing : Oli Beckingsale, Liam Killeen
* Gold Medals Avail: 1
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Fad
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Judo is going to be Dartford....
The shooting is going to be i Woolwich at the royal Arsenal so most of spectators will have guns too
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CorsAsh
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Originally posted by Pete_macari
how shite is the opening ceremony gonna be compaired to the chinese btw
Probably very, will no doubt have a white girl singing but a Muslim girl miming on stage as it looks better for England.
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gavin18787
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quote:
Originally posted by Superlite Ltd.
"It's s baren, featureless wasteland and flatter than a witches tit "Hill areas" and a "valley" my arse!
More importantly, being situated where it is, I give it all of 20 minutes before all those nice, shiny competition-spec MTBs go missing..."
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=579500&y=186500&z=4&sv=579500,186500&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=581480&ay=186879
look at the features
Admititly it wont be as good as your local area as the south east is flat as you like anyway
Only thing is it has to be near london so most decent places up north etc are out  Epping forest would have been good though imo but again its rather flat.
Oh and edd 20 mins is loads of time the local people of essex will have them away in less then 10
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Mad Moe
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I've got family who live in Thundersley and always thought it looked a nice place
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gavin18787
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It is really its just got a bad rep. I live in hadleigh which is 10 mins down the road
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ed
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Why can't people just be happy about something once.
Just because you are British, doesn't mean you have to moan given a micron of a chance. Our opening ceremony will probably be great too, it doesn't make you cool saying it's going to be shit 4 years before it's due to happen.
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Superlite Ltd.
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Why can't people just be happy about something once.
Just because you are British, doesn't mean you have to moan given a micron of a chance. Our opening ceremony will probably be great too, it doesn't make you cool saying it's going to be shit 4 years before it's due to happen.
it keeps rainning too 
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willay
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Ed you welsh cunt dont be a hater.
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Why can't people just be happy about something once.
Just because you are British, doesn't mean you have to moan given a micron of a chance. Our opening ceremony will probably be great too, it doesn't make you cool saying it's going to be shit 4 years before it's due to happen.
ed for king.
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Doug
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
quote:
Originally posted by ed
Why can't people just be happy about something once.
Just because you are British, doesn't mean you have to moan given a micron of a chance. Our opening ceremony will probably be great too, it doesn't make you cool saying it's going to be shit 4 years before it's due to happen.
ed for LG Style Icon.
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Welsh Dan
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The canoeing event will be in Cardiff Bay, so about a mile or so from where I live.
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mwg
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its all going to be a few hundred miles from my house. how cool is that
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