Well, nobody(?) uses green + purple as national [-]colors[/-] colours, so everyone will stand out. Except maybe Magilla Gorilla, I guess, but he's hard to miss in any case. It's funny how an athletic arena or field looks so big on TV, and then you see it from the stands and it's so small!
It's not actually a gymnastics arena anyhow. It's more impressive when it's done up nicely for concerts, et al. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O2_Arena_%28London%29
Damn, that's even more ugly than the damn logo England decided to go with for 2012. I mean, really? All that money, and no one could up up with anything better?
I think 1996 Atlanta had a pathetic joke of an icon called a ....."whatzit" or something that was so infuriating it incited a bomb attack! I was in Korea at the time - refresh my memory.
They're going with blue for the aquatic sports, so at least Phelps won't break the Olympic record for most medals on a pink podium. The other sports are going to be either pink or orange, so apparently gymnasts weren't the only ones to get the decorating shaft.
Obviously someone told them that pink's a manly colour. And it is. It's just so garrishly inappropriate here.
The Economist's take on the Olympics. In short, any nation that goes after getting the Olympics is foolish. Since the 1960s, the cost of putting on the Olympic games have hit cost overruns of 179% (higher than any other government boondoggle), and very little of the stuff built for the Olympics ever gets reused.
HA! A few years back our next door neighbor painted his living room that exact pink/purple color. It looks horrendous.
Fuck the Olympics, what I want is a Cascadia World Cup. Between Seattle, Vancouver and Portland plus OU, OSU, WSU and UW we've got a lot of good stadiums in the area.
