Lord Coe says wear wellies

I can't wait and I love my wellies, no bother wearing them in London town :D its only a bit of mud - won't kill us.

Quite frankly when you've been from Euston to Elephant & Castle by tube dressed as Minnie Mouse you've no shame left anyway :o ;)
 
Judgemental you are getting rather tiresome! Greenwich is going to be used now whether you like it or not.

I was chatting to someone who was at Greenwich Saturday who said the ground looked good. If the news is also to be believed, the rain is meant to bog off soon so the going may end up being absolutely perfect!

I did have to chuckle that the 2 venues where wellies are recommended are Dorney and Greenwich! The 2 sports I have tickets for? Eventing and Rowing!! lol!
 
With the weather as it has been I'd've been shocked NOT to be going in wellies tbh, thus I shall be proudly squished into the tube in my mud splattered wellies :) (If I erm get that far, going with my claustrophobic mother so we may end up walking there if ridiculously busy!) I think it's great that the venue is so close to the rest of the games (I may not be saying that after experiencing the loveliness of travelling there but then none of the other venues on offer in a more erm "rural" setting would have been ideal for getting to anyway given that rural roads aren't known for their wonderful ability to cope with high volumes of traffic) Can't believe how close it is now!
 
Well done chaps/chapesses - that's the true GB spirit (apologies to any tough French/German/Japanese/Kiwi/USA/Other out there)
You'll all have a grand time :D
 
galaxy said:
Judgemental you are getting rather tiresome! Greenwich is going to be used now whether you like it or not.

I was chatting to someone who was at Greenwich Saturday who said the ground looked good. If the news is also to be believed, the rain is meant to bog off soon so the going may end up being absolutely perfect!

I did have to chuckle that the 2 venues where wellies are recommended are Dorney and Greenwich! The 2 sports I have tickets for? Eventing and Rowing!! lol!
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Galaxy, have I made any comment about you personally? I consider your comment to be personally offensive.

Are you suggesting one is not entitled to an opinion?

I shall be drawing your post to the attention of the Fat Controller by way of a formal complaint.
 
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I am sorry if you are offended. I don't feel I wrote anything that harsh. If TFC sees it that way I will take it on the chin.

I am certainly not the only person on this thread to have commented on the tone of your posts. If anything you have singled mine out.

You are perfectly entitled to comment on any post. I just feel that many are very much looking forward to seeing the events at Greenwich and you are trying to put a dampner on it.

I do understand your feelings about Greenwich. Honestly? No I wouldn't have put the equestrian events there either, but I feel it is too late to do anything about it now so we may as well sit back and enjoy it.
 
Judgemental said:
Galaxy, have I made any comment about you personally? I consider your comment to be personally offensive.

Are you suggesting one is not entitled to an opinion?

I shall be drawing your post to the attention of the Fat Controller by way of a formal complaint.
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Well, if you are entitled to an opinion then so is Galaxy. All s/he said was that you are getting rather tiresome. I concur.
You can save TFC a job by shopping us both at the same time.
 
I was at Greenwich yesterday, and found it awesome. Those lucky enough to have tickets will have a fantastic experience, and even those who can only watch it on the tele will love it!!! Can't wait for the 30th. If it's wet I'll wear boots, if not, then my trainers. Just common sense really...
 
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and to share them in the appropriate manner. However Judgemental, I do feel that you are being deliberately provocative by posting on the same subject on different threads all over the place. It is to be expected, therefore, that people will become slightly terse in their response. If you feel offended, then that is a shame and of course you are entitled to report any post you want.

The great shame about this country is that we/the press are a nation of nay-sayers who cannot let any event or occasion go without being negative about it. That shouldn't stop constructive analytical thinking, however the public/we should also be allowed to celebrate the event and to be able to get caught up in the excitement of it all. You may not be excited, I suspect you are not, but please could we just be allowed to be enthusiastic in peace?

Is Greenwich ideal? No, but then nowhere is ideal.
Are the ground conditions safe? As good as anywhere else and better than many other events.
Are the organisers complacent? Of course they're not.
Are there contingency plans? Of course there are.
Will it be busy on the roads/public transport? Of course, just like any other major event.
Do we need to wear wellies? Yes like at any other horse trials. Although if the weather improves as forecast they may not be needed.

Onwards and upwards people, let's enjoy the games and hope that the IOC decide to keep eventing in for the future.
 
Swirlymurphy said:
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and to share them in the appropriate manner. However Judgemental, I do feel that you are being deliberately provocative by posting on the same subject on different threads all over the place. It is to be expected, therefore, that people will become slightly terse in their response. If you feel offended, then that is a shame and of course you are entitled to report any post you want.

The great shame about this country is that we/the press are a nation of nay-sayers who cannot let any event or occasion go without being negative about it. That shouldn't stop constructive analytical thinking, however the public/we should also be allowed to celebrate the event and to be able to get caught up in the excitement of it all. You may not be excited, I suspect you are not, but please could we just be allowed to be enthusiastic in peace?

Is Greenwich ideal? No, but then nowhere is ideal.
Are the ground conditions safe? As good as anywhere else and better than many other events.
Are the organisers complacent? Of course they're not.
Are there contingency plans? Of course there are.
Will it be busy on the roads/public transport? Of course, just like any other major event.
Do we need to wear wellies? Yes like at any other horse trials. Although if the weather improves as forecast they may not be needed.

Onwards and upwards people, let's enjoy the games and hope that the IOC decide to keep eventing in for the future.
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I have posted against various different subject threads. Indeed I have only started one thread - The Loos, which is perfectly reasonable, bearing in mind some 50,000 people are expected to attend.

That said, you will see under that thread my views as to the way in which urban decision takers have set the Equestrian Olympics in a Surburban London Park, which is at odds with any consideration for the rural economic infrastructure.

I predict that by the time the games come to an end, the issue of having the Equestrians at Greenwich and the plight of the farmers, the lack of support for the rural economy will be writ large by the media and press generally.
 
Really I wouldn't worry about wearing wellies on the tube, I regularly wear all sorts of horsey clothing getting between work, home and the yard on a variety of london trains, buses and tubes and no one pays the slightest bit of attention.

I'll probably wear the boots I'm wearing around the yard at the moment.
 
criso said:
Really I wouldn't worry about wearing wellies on the tube, I regularly wear all sorts of horsey clothing getting between work, home and the yard on a variety of london trains, buses and tubes and no one pays the slightest bit of attention.

I'll probably wear the boots I'm wearing around the yard at the moment.
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No I would not worry either.

But it is traditional rural footwear and fundamentally the Urban Decision makers who set the Equestrian Olympics at Greenwich are through that simple act, are causing rural people who have to make their way to Greenwich and are causing them through necessity, to make a personal public statement on public transport as to their origins and destiny.

Perhaps when they leave Greenwich, covered in mud and wish to go into a shop or where ever, and leave a trail of mud across the floor, they may not be welcome.
 
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Swirlymurphy said:
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and to share them in the appropriate manner. However Judgemental, I do feel that you are being deliberately provocative by posting on the same subject on different threads all over the place. It is to be expected, therefore, that people will become slightly terse in their response. If you feel offended, then that is a shame and of course you are entitled to report any post you want.

The great shame about this country is that we/the press are a nation of nay-sayers who cannot let any event or occasion go without being negative about it. That shouldn't stop constructive analytical thinking, however the public/we should also be allowed to celebrate the event and to be able to get caught up in the excitement of it all. You may not be excited, I suspect you are not, but please could we just be allowed to be enthusiastic in peace?

Is Greenwich ideal? No, but then nowhere is ideal.
Are the ground conditions safe? As good as anywhere else and better than many other events.
Are the organisers complacent? Of course they're not.
Are there contingency plans? Of course there are.
Will it be busy on the roads/public transport? Of course, just like any other major event.
Do we need to wear wellies? Yes like at any other horse trials. Although if the weather improves as forecast they may not be needed.

Onwards and upwards people, let's enjoy the games and hope that the IOC decide to keep eventing in for the future.
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Excellent, excellent post.

100% agree :)
 
Oh for goodness' sake, no-one is making fools of anyone, and do you not think they might have thought of the number of loos?

And as for the rural vs city argument, LOCOG needed to show that eventing can be part of an urban Olympics to safeguard eventing's participation in future games as not every host nation has the kind of rural infrastructure that the UK has. That's just one reason why Greenwich and not somewhere else, and there are plenty of others. There are also plenty of rural businesses benefitting from the Games wherever they were going to be held in the UK.

Roll on the 27th and the start of the equestrian competition.
 
Oh Judgemental.

Totally agree that you have a right to free speech. However, I genuinely do not believe that the Olympic movement is about the urbanisation of sport. Equestrianism is at risk of being dropped as an Olympic sport. Organisers HAVE to demonstrate how this activity can operate integrally (ie close to the main action) and leave a site that has other uses for non equestrian societies.

I would love to have seen a state of the art national training centre, but sports funding wise, retention of Olympic status is more important.

The urban/country debate is irrelevant.
 
Just all wear your horsey stuff - no biggie.

You will stink the tube out, people will faint / get off, and your journey will be left with like minded people to chat to who don't understand what they fuss was about ;)
 
JM for goodness sake, what do you think London is like? I used to go round the supermarket, in Tooting Broadway, in my horse poo-smeared riding gear, and nobody. Cared. At. All. I get more grief in the shops here in Norfolk (I was once followed around Waitrose by a lady with a broom:D)

Good grief, I go to meetings in my Tuffas:rolleyes: Ok, I give them a wipe first, but really, nobody has ever thrown anything at me. It's London, not Beirut!
 
Jenni_ said:
Just all wear your horsey stuff - no biggie.

You will stink the tube out, people will faint / get off, and your journey will be left with like minded people to chat to who don't understand what they fuss was about ;)
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Believe me there are far worse smells on the tube than horsey smells and Londoners will do their usual combination of don't get involved and too world weary and cyncial to raise an eyebrow at anything.

Though I do push my luck by taking bags of stable rugs that smell of wee home on the bus (very inner city bit of north london) to wash.
 
Spudlet said:
JM for goodness sake, what do you think London is like? I used to go round the supermarket, in Tooting broadway, in my horse poo-smeared riding gear, and nobody. Cared. At. All.
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I think I used to go round the same supermarket when I lived in Tooting and *shock horror* used the underground to get to and from riding lessons. In fact, even when I went into the supermarket covered in mud and with blood on my face following an unscheduled dismount, still nobody cared.
 
weevil said:
I think I used to go round the same supermarket when I lived in Tooting and *shock horror* used the underground to get to and from riding lessons. In fact, even when I went into the supermarket covered in mud and with blood on my face following an unscheduled dismount, still nobody cared.
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The Sainsburys right outside the tube? I never saw another horsey person when I lived there! I wish we'd overlapped, that would have been cool. I was there 2006-8.

I used to ride at Vauxhall either before or after work, and muck out etc too - and the pony was a mucky little devil, so 'eau de cheval' was my perfume of choice back in the day. Seriously, nobody will give two hoots. London people try not to ever look at people anyway. Sometimes when I'm back there I accidentally make eye-contact on the Tube and being Norfolk-indoctrinated I smile - v awkward, people instantly have me down as a nut for doing that:D

Eventing has, as I understand it, teetered on the edge of losing Olympic status a few times, so I think if Greenwich can prove that you can run it as part of the main Games rather than out on a limb - good stuff. I wish the event every success, and I wish I was going!
 
That's the one. Think I must have just missed you - I moved to Cambridge in 2006.
TBH I think during the olympics that the usual commuters will be so fed up of having to wait even longer to squeeze themselves onto even more crowded trains that they will neither notice nor care what people are wearing on their feet...

As others have said, surely it is better to have the equestrian events at Greenwich than not at all? The venue is not going to change now so instead of whinging about it why not just be thankful you have got tickets (which is more than I have managed to do) and make the best of it.
 
Some days, when I am walking up Regent Street to my office in Mayfair in the rain, I feel the odd one out to be NOT wearing wellies. They are really a must have, you know.
 
When I came to my VST last Monday, I was wearing my boots (trousers tucked in to them). I travelled from Suffolk by car, ditched it in Wellin, then caught 2 buses to get to Greenwich. I was carrying a little rescue dog which I handed on to someone at Greenwich, so I was too concerned for him to worry about what I looked like! Anyway, I wasn't aware of people staring at me, in fact, some people were very friendly because of the dog. If it doesn't rain much more, I will wear the issued trainers or my waterproof walking shoes. My feet ached after wearing my boots for 14 hours, my fault, I should have changed them for the drive home...
 
Judgemental said:
Galaxy, have I made any comment about you personally? I consider your comment to be personally offensive.

Are you suggesting one is not entitled to an opinion?

I shall be drawing your post to the attention of the Fat Controller by way of a formal complaint.
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Judgemental, the comment "tiresome" isn't offensive, it is factual. All you appear to have done is whinge and in MY opinion, are looking for controversy.
 
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