Lord Coe says wear wellies

As I have just commented on the article he expects those of us who (shock horror!) live well outside the capital to either bring our wellies and then with no left luggage facility carry our spare shoes as well as everything else we needed for a night away or look like a complete tit catching the train and travelling across central London wearing wellies...
 
Talk about stating the bleedin' obvious!
With the weather we've had this summer, my waterproof boots haven't yet had a day off!
 
I was basically planning on wearing country boots anyway, I really don't think we will that stupid on the transport, have you seen some of the country fashion in town, we are just ahead of the times,,,when they had the wireless festival a lot of people wore wellies then, I for one am going to be wearing, red, white and blue an proudly wearing my wellies or country boots on the train, I'm proud of my country look, and I may clean my boos tho....
 
If the olympics are like any other horsey event I expect the majority of the crowd will be wearing Dubarry's, regardless of the weather conditions...
 
Put it like this, just wear correct footwear for walking around field and you'll be fine. If you're going wear flip flops or heals - D'OH!
 
In my humble opinion, if it rains like it''s been raining up to the 30 July, the first day of the Equestrian Olympics, the FEI may have no choice but to postpone until, say last week August First week September.

We are normally guaranteed to have some good weather in that period and the period that in my humble opinion the whole games should have been set.

Also the equestrians should not be in London, it's of rural origins and therefore should be seen to contribute to the rural economic infrastructure, where ever!
 
Has anybody carried out a Geophysical examination of the cross country track. I wonder? clearly nobody has considered that it is a surburban park with folk picnicing, dropping of glass, cutlerly this that and the other and the like, over many many many years which slowly ingests beneath the turf and remains undisturbed. So if it's wet and gets 'deep' we all know what 'deep' means, I wonder if the organisers know, will hoof meet such detritus at 30+ mph. I hope not!

I nearly forgot sharp large stones too.

This whole thing about the equestrian olympics being held in a surburban London park is really very irritating.
 
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I wore wellies on the tube for the first time ever on Saturday going to and from Hyde Park to see Bruce Springsteen. I promise you that no one will bat an eyelid :)
 
I don't belieeeve it!

A reliable fellow poster has PMed me to say that the Equestrian Olympics are being held in a suburban London park, because of the unique photo opportunity there is at the top of the hill.

Oh come on, this really cannot be real.

A photo opportunity, a photo opportunity for what!

Certainly not equestrian sport or the rural economic infrastructure.
 
Judgemental said:
In my humble opinion, if it rains like it''s been raining up to the 30 July, the first day of the Equestrian Olympics, the FEI may have no choice but to postpone until, say last week August First week September.

We are normally guaranteed to have some good weather in that period and the period that in my humble opinion the whole games should have been set.

Also the equestrians should not be in London, it's of rural origins and therefore should be seen to contribute to the rural economic infrastructure, where ever!
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What so the week Burghley normally takes place? Because it is never muddy there...... did you see it in 2008??? Waterlogged didn't even cover it! It was a huge disgusting muddy boggy mess, I would have hated to see the state of the tradestand area after all the marquees were removed, I saw a lorry sunk up past its axle.
 
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What so the week Burghley normally takes place? Because it is never muddy there...... did you see it in 2008??? Waterlogged didn't even cover it! It was a huge disgusting muddy boggy mess, I would have hated to see the state of the tradestand area after all the marquees were removed, I saw a lorry sunk up past its axle.
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Yes, on average last week August first week September is a runner for most events. Normally the period harvest is in full swing too.
 
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Yes, on average last week August first week September is a runner for most events. Normally the period harvest is in full swing too.
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The Olympics will be over by then - if they do postpone it'll still have to be run before the date of the closing ceremony.

For those worrying about wearing wellies through London, don't be, you won't get stared at. For a start you see so many people wearing them for fashion anyway :rolleyes: and I've been through London in full riding kit alongside guys in full polo kit, no one cares :D
 
I 'thought' that someone had posted on here somewhere, that the going is very good, it is free draining and hilly. It is only muddy where the contractors have been driving in and out. Some recent youtube clips and photos look good!
I really really don't want to wear wellies! Let alone bring them up to london / or carry them about.

Anyway, weather is improving, getting hotter, drier and sunnier... so positive thoughts that Lord Coe is just covering his back rather than giving us instructions!!
 
The course itself is good and is hilly (and I've been reliably told it looks good too) but we all know how little it takes for walkways to become muddy and soggy, esepcially given the weather we've had. If the weather continues, the grass won't take long to turn to mud, which is what happens at every event going.

It'll be no different at Greenwich and don't see why everyone seems to think differently?
 
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Ive just seen the weather forecast on the news and apparently the jet stream, which has caused the wet cold weather, is moving northwards to where it should at this time of the year. This means warmer drier weather for the end of july in the south!!
 
Wearing your wellies is fine. This is London, nobody will care. I used to take the tube in full riding kit, including schooling whip, and nobody said a thing or even stared! Plus, I was there last weekend for a run, and loads of people were in wellies anyway - they are fashionable dahhlinks;)

Of course if anyone is too embarrassed to go in their wellies I will selflessly step into the breach and attend on their behalf for only a nominal fee...:D
 
I must say the only soggy bits I saw were around the stadium area (where contractors are still working setting up shops etc.).
I guess you just wear the gear you would to a normal event in similar weather. It's going to brighten up anyway :D

I too have been on the tube in full riding gear and I second the "nobody gives a toss" observation. Apart from a couple of builders who did a double take. Poor sods :D
 
This whole scenario takes me out of my comfort zone. Especially as it's down a drive/track about a mile long and one only sees the postman ocassionally, from one day to the next, if one is unlucky.

The thought of going to London wearing wellies, getting on the tube to goodness knows where. Likely in the rain, mud and umpteen thousand other people who don't really know where they are, a security force of recently unemployed, not knowing what they are doing or why - assuming any of them bother to turn up, to watch something that I believe should be in an entirely rural location fills me the greatest unease. probably having to use the most awful Loos where mud and damp have been tramped.

No doubt some well meaning soul on this board, will tell us how wonderful the loos are and that they have personally tested them! What are they going to be like after two weeks.

The mere thought of it all, is just too awful to contemplate for too long.

So Spudlet if I had tickets, but I don't, because the means of or place for purchase has passed me by, I would gladly give you the tickets. Indeed I would probably pay you to take them.
 
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What really riles me is the Shooting centre 15 million £££ 3 million££££ to demolish it after the Games WHY WASNT THE MONEY SPENT AT BISLEY:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
Funnily enough when I was travelling back through London this evening I noticed quite a few people wearing fancy designer rubber wellies - god knows why but they were. Also noticed someone on the tube with some designer bag with two pairs of new wellies in it. Can't recalll the designer but the wellies looked pretty ordinary.

Just got a new pair of Le Chameau so I should fit in OK :D
 
Judgemental said:
This whole scenario takes me out of my comfort zone. Especially as it's down a drive/track about a mile long and one only sees the postman ocassionally, from one day to the next, if one is unlucky.

The thought of going to London wearing wellies, getting on the tube to goodness knows where. Likely in the rain, mud and umpteen thousand other people who don't really know where they are, a security force of recently unemployed, not knowing what they are doing or why - assuming any of them bother to turn up, to watch something that I believe should be in an entirely rural location fills me the greatest unease. probably having to use the most awful Loos where mud and damp have been tramped.

No doubt some well meaning soul on this board, will tell us how wonderful the loos are and that they have personally tested them! What are they going to be like after two weeks.

The mere thought of it all, is just too awful to contemplate for too long.

So Spudlet if I had tickets, but I don't, because the means of or place for purchase has passed me by, I would gladly give you the tickets. Indeed I would probably pay you to take them.
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If you are not going then you will have no need to worry about the loos or whether someone will actually give a damn what you are wearing. People in Welles won't look any more ridiculous than boys whose jeans are struggling with gravity and hoping that some part of their anatomy will keep them up or girls that put leggings under a skirt and only use the top third of the skirt anyway.
As to whether the horses will gallop through a bit of mud - that is what horses do and the risk of injury is far greater on firm ground. They could just as easily tread on something in their own field especially if it is by a road as people will chuck bottles and drop things anywhere, including on bridle ways and rights of way throughout the country. The horses will be quite unconcerned that their competition is in the city so let's enjoy the build up and take what comes.
 
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