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Google Doodles for London 2012

Have you been paying attention to the Google Doodles for London 2012?

I like the hurdle one they had up yesterday.

http://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012

Usain Bolt Wins Gold in Lego

 

 

Unofficial London 2012 Olympic Souvenirs

Mmmm, as someone who has worked in licensing and merchandising for an Olympics I am well aware of the restrictions around who can produce Official Retail Merchandise. That means I shouldn't even be giving the products below a second glance, but... they make me smile.

 

Dieter Braun London Print

 

Olympic Flame Print

 

London Calling Print

 

Tote Bag

 

Not quite sure what to call this headpiece, it won't give you much protection from the sun.

How about some biscuits? You can have either a sports tin or a London icon tin.

 

How about some regal egg cups?  The directors of the company are in court trying to keep the egg cups for sale, so you should buy them soon.

 

A double decker London bus for my Pandora charm bracelet.

 

Olympic Smurfs. There are 10 in total.  Swimmer, weightlifter, beach volleyball player, rider, gymnast, relay runner, winner, sprinter, shotputter, and javelin thrower.

The winner is cute, look at him gazing at his medal.

 

My favourite has to be the javelin thrower with his eyebrows scrunched and his tongue hanging out.

 

London 2012

When I'm not cooking breakfast, cleaning rooms, gardening or kayaking this is where I'll be. In front of the TV. Watching the Olympics.

Athletes or events I'm most looking forward to seeing:

Pretty much any event with Aussies in it. Although between CTV, NBC, TSN, etc etc there's not much coverage of the Australians.

Kohei Uchimura - mens gymnastics. An awesome gymnast from Japan who was favourite to win 5 gold medals. He didn't get off to a good start falling of the bars.

Oksana Chusovitina - women's gymnastics. At 37 this is her 5th Olympics She also competed in the 92, 96, 2004 and 2008 Games, winning Team Gold in 92 and Silver on the vault in 08.

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh-Jennings - Beach Volleyball. Gold medal winners in 2004 and 2008. Can they threepeat?

Roger Federer - one of the greatest tennis players ever. He's never won Olympic gold in the men's singles in three previous games (2000, 2004 and 2008).

Track and Field and the Marathon - I don't know many (if any) of the Australian team anymore. But it's still my favourite sport.

Sally Pearson - Australian hurdler. Current World Champion, silver medalist in 2008. Until recently she was undefeated in 2012.

Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake - sprinters from Jamaica. Or will another sprinter take them both out.

Roman Sebrle - decathlete. Silver medalist in Sydney 2000 and gold in Athens 2004. First decathlete to score over 9000 points. Suffered a potentially career ending injury in 2007 when a javelin punctured his shoulder.

My favourite events to watch:
Swimming
Diving
Track and field
Hockey
Gymnastics
Beach Volleyball
Canoe Slalom
Cycling - track and road
Rowing
Tennis
Water Polo
Anything really.

London 2012 Biscuit Tins

I have a bunch of old, not vintage just old biscuit tins that I use for all sorts of junk.  There's an Arnotts bus that now contains my collection of wine corks.  A toy shop tin with R. Wilson on the awning that is full of girl guide and athletic pins.  A Tim Tam tin holds coupons and membership cards. My Mum and Dad store tea bags in my tins from Tokyo Disneyland.

I need more biscuit tins like I need a hole in the head. But these three appeal to me. I'm sure I could find a use for them. Pity I'm not going to London anytime soon.

 

 

This is the Jubilee tin from Marks & Spencer

 

 

 

This is also from Marks and Spencer. It's covered in London landmarks most of which I have been to.

 

 

 

The red phone booth has typical London characters on each of the four sides. This was their 2011 Christmas tin

 

 

 

This bus is a chocolate tin, and it's really small. It's very cute. It could hold all that loose change in my car.

 

 

 

 

 

London 2012 Mascots

 

Really? Not my cup of tea. I think they are hideous. They look like something out of Dr Who.

 

   

 

Wenlock (Olympic mascot) and Mandeville (Paralympic mascot) were created from the last drops of steel left over from the construction of the final support beam for the Olympic Stadium. 

 

 

 

Read more about them at London 2012 or buy the first mascot merchandise at the London 2012 online store.