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Yes we are all fully aware that the Ö÷²¥´óÐã/5live has the rights to broadcast the London Olympics but that doesn't mean we have to be bombarded with the usual over done hype and trailers every 5 minutes, it is tedious and counter productive.5live and your sporty chums may be interested but I have yet to find anyone who shares your enthusiasm.I would rather the billions spent could have been put to better use like not closing down hospital wards or making people in this country work until they are 66 or 68 to claim a basic state pension ! Whenever it is on I think many besides me will just switch off. Wimbledon,Euro Championships, Olympics ?Will there be any room for any news ? No wonder 75% of people think 5live is just a sports station.

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Must admit I AM looking forward to the volleyball competition at the Olympics and 5lives coverage.Well worth the entrance fee and I hope 5live give over a large proportion of broadcasting to what could be soon the number event at any Olympics.

oh dear ' number one event ' that should read sports fans..

I thought this country was bankrupt but still got billions of pounds for the London Olympics ? Is this a wind up ? Looking forward to hearing ' fencing ' on 5live radio.

The Olympics ? In London ? Nobody told me about this ! I have hardly heard it mentioned on 5live recently........

Yet more 2012 hype from the Beeb that the majority of the population couldn't care less about.

Is there an Olympics in London this year?........... I'd never have known if it wasn't for the adverts every 5 minutes for it on 5live.

It's probably the biggest event (sporting or otherwise) that Britain has ever hosted so I would suggest it deserves the coverage it's getting.
I completely disagree with the suggestion that the whole country is apathetic about the Olympics (and I'm speaking as a northerner) It's the first Olympics where the all tickets have been sold out in advance and the outcry about the application process would suggest a great deal of interest. This week's FiveLive poll was all about the value for money aspect, which is a completely different argument.

On the subject of last night's programme, I would like to congratulate FiveLive for 3 hours of compelling listening that I couldn't switch off. It also reinforced my opinion that Barry Davies is possibly this country's greatest living sports commentator.

There are still loads of Olympic tickets left......... the only one to have sold out is synchronised swimming.

The bad news is the London Olympics could cost up to £24 billion ......the good news is for the 5live presenters who will be entrenched in London and won't have to make the trip up too Salford for weeks.

Five Live has commissioned Colin Murray to front a programme about former Olympians.

In today's Daily Mail Controller Van Klaveran is described as being 'in thrall to Murray' while correspondent Charles Sale describes him as 'Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport's most irritating broadcaster'.

I know who I'm with.

Why do so many people seem to have forgotten years of the evolution of the mind to confuse excitement about the Olympics with whether they should be in London at all. Of course we all know times are tough, but guess what, the event is going to happen. If Seb stood up tomorrow and said, look money's tight in the whole country and so we're cancelling the Olympics would we all be happy? I assume not and so we are where we are.

Imagine if Paris had won, we'd still have lots of hype around current, previous and future Olympians, we'd have 'Paris Calling' We did with Beijing, Sydney and Athens (pause for everyone to ponder whether the Athens Olympics is in fact the sole reason for all of the current problems in Greece...) and we will in Rio.

So please, let's all wander as to the cost and the juxtapositon of this vs benefit in terms of all the hotels, food, drink, soveigners, day trips around the country that these thousands of visitors will hopefully embark upon, with all the VAT and fuel tax etc that. But why not, quite seperatly just allow ourselves a short period of national pride and look forward to the 'greatest show on earth'?

People love to bitch, moan,criticize, its almost a hobby to some people, the Olympics coming to London is fantastic, once in a life time opportunity, the Worlds top athletes coming to London, thousands upon thousands of visitors spending the Cash here etc etc, yet people would rather be miserable and Bitch about Mosey, Seb Coe etc etc, lighten up people!!!

Why should we 'lighten up'? Why should anyone tell us how we should feel? It's this enforced jollity that non sports fans have to endure - we cannot escape the Olympics and we ceratinly cannot escape it even for a few minutes on 5live.

' If Seb stood up tomorrow and said look moneys tight in the whole country, so we are cancelling the Olympics,would we all we happy...... ?

YES !! Hurrah !! I can think of far better ways to spend £24 billion,this country hasn't got !!!

I listen to a lot of FiveLive and don't understand where the perception that the Olympics are being rammed down our throats 24/7 is coming from. Last week there was the excellent programme on Thursday night (if this hadn't been on we'd probably have had another football discussion) and the test torch relay event which was a news story. On a news & sport station I don't think that's overkill for the biggest news & sports event of 2012 and to suggest that you can't escape it for 5 minutes is ridiculous.
I don't think that The Voice & Britain's Got Talent are newsworthy, but I understand that other people do so it's valid on a station that tries to cover everything.

And to suggest that cancelling the games now would make the public happy is ludicrous. We've already spent £10bn and if we tried cancelling now it would ruin millions of people's summer, make the country a laughing stock around the world and ruin any chance of ever hosting any major event again (although I get the impression that would make some people happy!)

' If Seb stood up tomorrow and said look moneys tight in the whole country, so we are cancelling the Olympics,would we all we happy...... ?

YES !! Hurrah !! I can think of far better ways to spend £24 billion,this country hasn't got !!!'


The thing is binkie, the monies spent, cancelling the event now would be a a total waste, as I say - we are were we are...

I live in London.

I applied for tickets and received 0 (I have some for the Paralympics including, hopefully seeing Pistorius if he doesn't get in to the main Games).

I can't wait for the Games or the peripheral things happening here.

Wherever you live in the country you are still closer than most of the Chinese were, the Australians were, the Brazilians will be, etc etc.

So stop complaining about it being too far away.

Sit back and enjoy the spectacles that are going to unfold. Watch on big screens all over the place or, blimey, come to London and see some of the Cultural Olympiad 2012.

And stop complaining and have some pride in what has been achieved. The athletes will be amazing, the buildings are awesome and the Games will be too.