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Would be great to see Wiggo cycling up in Yellow to light it but for Olympic greatness Sir Steve would be hard to beat.
Who is you money on?
Wiggo and Redgrave on a tandem 🙂
Prince Philip
Margaret Thatcher.
I'll be very disappointed if it isn't Steve Redgrave.
Kylie
eddie the eagle
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Redgrave ]
[/url]Redgrave is a supporter of Chelsea football club.
How can you put someone forward that not only follows football but supports Chelsea?
Sir Roger Bannister.
Tony Blair!
Daly Thompson - anyone who gets a legendary computer game named after them gets my vote. Also he could use his decathlon skills to make his was up there; it'd be awesome.
perhaps.....
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Who's the British equivalent of Ali? Or Kathy Freeman?
Sir Roger Bannister.
+1
Redgrave as [s]our[/s] the best Olympian
Sir Roger Bannister.
+1
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Why is the debate Redgrave or Thompson? Wiggins has won more medals, 3 golds a silver and 2 bronze.
Let em all do it.
Redgrave rows the torch down the canal, hands over to Wiggo to ride it into the stadium where he hands it to Bannister for a jog around the track before Daley pole vaults one-handed into the cauldron with the torch in the other hand.
slainte 8) rob
Redgrave 17 golds across competitions over 16 years is quite impressive in anyone's book. More impressive in such a demanding sport too.
That's not to take anything away from the achievements of others.
Why is the debate Redgrave or Thompson? Wiggins has won more medals, 3 golds a silver and 2 bronze.
Thompson - STW obviously likes a butch muscular man with a moustache 😉
Redgrave - well 5 golds at 5 different Olympics do you need to ask? FWIW he has 6 like Wiggo as he a Bronze from 88 as well
I dont think even wiggins thinks he is as great an Olympian as Redgrave.
Bannister never won a medal at the olympics but the sub 4 minute gives him some Kudos
Zola Budd
She would need to trip the favourite then fail to light it herself for purposes of historical accuracy
Sir Redgrave without shadow of a doubt.
Zeus
Edit: sorry, Hades
Ronald MacDonald..?
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Did Redgrave ever compete on his own or as a team?
The criteria should be:
1. A person who has won the most gold medals on his/her own.
2. A person who is not endorsed by sponsors.
3. A person who has not become a celebrity.
4. A person who has scarified a lot for sports but gain very little.
🙄
And who fits those criteria?
Did Redgrave ever compete on his own or as a team?
Yes.
[url= http://www.steveredgrave.com/profile/full_list.html ]
[/url]THE COMMONWEALTH GAMESEvent: Commonwealth Games
Year: 1986
Achievement: Gold Medal Single Sculls
And of course any boat with more than one person can be considered a team. 😉
1. A person who has won the most gold medals on his/her own.
2. A person who is not endorsed by sponsors.
3. A person who has not become a celebrity.
4. A person who has scarified a lot for sports but gain very little.
Blah blah blah. David Beckham. 😉
Cheryl Cole.
In all seriousness Redgrave as the greatest Olympian. It was not about being on top form for one Olympics but several.
Katie Price
Junkyard - MemberAnd who fits those criteria?
No such person? Crikey ..
don simon - MemberTHE COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Event: Commonwealth Games
Year: 1986
Achievement: Gold Medal Single Sculls
That does not count as Commonwealth Games are just for the "empire" ... 😆
sputnik - MemberKatie Price
FFS! Don't even mention that name ... vile.
jonba - MemberCheryl Cole.
I will go across the road in Heaton and tell her mum ... NO!
I reckon this poor deprived kid from the 70s..
I expect Charlie the cat'll be long dead
RIP 🙁
That does not count as Commonwealth Games are just for the "empire" ...
My bad, I've always considered Redgrave was a bit crap anyway, he only beat our crew because stroke lost his seat, so we kind of gave the victory to him on a plate.
And who fits those criteria?
Easy must be GW... Or njee 😀
+1 for Keith Flint
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my arse and your face
oh sorry, who not how
Can't think of any myself ...
I think Kelly Holmes should be fine as she won 2 golds at the grand old age of 34 but the question is ... has she become a celebrity? 
Others seem to be too in your face with sponsors written all over and media constantly mentioning them.
OK Take your pick
But why can't it be a team and only One single person ?
[url=http://]Olympic Medalists List[/url]
It might be a good idea to define celebrity for this, might it not?
don simon - Member
It might be a good idea to define celebrity for this, might it not?
Don't you mean Exempt Celebrities Just why would you include them ?
anyone you have heard of
so we need an olympian we dont know who is poor and unsponsored but won medals....should be easy
dont tell me the answer though or I will have heard of them.
so we need an olympian we dont know who is poor and unsponsored but won medals....should be easy
dont tell me the answer though or I will have heard of them.
Tough one that.
Hang on!
The Stig?
How can somebody that nobody knows be a celebrity?
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_gold_medalists_for_Great_Britain ]List Of British Gold Medalists[/url]
Granted some you may have to dig up
Surf-mat?
Surf-mat?
Seconded.
coe wants his buddy daley
Coe and redgrave don't get on
everyone else wants redgrave
. . . allegedly . . .
IDave
SamCooke - Member
IDave
Is that not an App 😉
Daly Thompson for defo!
mind you word on th estreet is they have 'made' up a job for beckham as they left him out of the footie (no joke) would be a crime if it was him..
come on rowing v decathlon....
That quip about Zola... Lol!
For real entertainment and the look on Seb Coes face when it happens it should be Steve Ovett!
Nah should be Redgrave. Might be Pinsett though.
Surely it'll be that little dude from EDF energy after all he's well equipped as a flame 😀
Love the idea that a sports person must fade away into obscurity having given everything to get where they are. Trying and make some money for them and their families is considered poor form.
Chris Hoy did ads, still a great sports man
Brad will do loads does it remove his achievements?
Plenty to choose from
Regrave, Tammy Gray Thompson, Coe??, Daily Thompson, Cycling Team GB.
The only thing that David Beckham should have to do with it is as kindling.
my moneys on lennox Lewis.
If its a fire lighter we are looking for what about or own Stoner and MC, fuel would not be a problem 😉
Well after yesterday we're full circle, Wiggo in Yellow it has to be...
Smurfhat thirded.
Just not Cameron (or Blair for balance).
Gazza
Ken Dodd with a flaming tickling stick
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. . .carried in 5 bellies arms . . .
800m staircase from track to flame - enter Coe and Ovett. The final showdown. Both have torches - first to the top lights the flame. Go Ovett!!
But more likely - Bannister, Redgrave or Thompson with the latter turning up incorrectly dressed as per normal!
"Bannister never won a medal at the olympics but the sub 4 minute gives him some Kudos"
Some Kudos !?!... more like Britain's greatest sportsman.
Should be him.
I'd like something original such as the participation of the entire stadium.
By creating an electrical charge by rubbing their arses frantically on specially designed static charge generators, commonly known as plastic seats, 80 thousand people, minus the corpirates as they have already done so much to make the games what they are today (and for which , we shall remain eternally grateful. Amen) power a 50ft high Mechanical Steve Ovett, which raises it's arm in a flaming one fingered salute to lord Seb.
Either that or the blind archer routine, provided they don't miss the torch 8)
Edit: Doh. Sausage fingers on android phone. That should read corporate, but as it looks so right-on, I'll leave it be.
How did we forget about Peaty
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Personally I would be most pleased if the stooges from TOWIE lit it ,only after they had been doused in paraffin first!
Now that I would pay to watch.
Liz?
A bit of a hint from the boy Pinsent there. 😉
[url= http://www.backbenparkinson.co.uk/Home_page_Back_Ben_Parkinson.html ]Ben Parkinson[/url]
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Someone local - Elfin!
Just seen this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18977404 - now I really don't give a stuff about most of the opening ceremony, but please no.
(apologies if this is old news)
aracer - MemberJust seen this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18977404 - now I really don't give a stuff about most of the opening ceremony, but please no.
(apologies if this is old news)
Well, they are keeping it within the celebrity circle ...
The really worrying thing thinking about that is that they were refusing to comment on whether or not it was an Olympian, as supposedly that would give the game away. Now if they said it was an Olympian that wouldn't narrow it down very much...
Somebody who can prove has paid all the due taxes at the appropriate rate and not got anything offshore. Well that'll be most of the celebs mentioned out then.
Like I said, Liz.
Why bother with the upkeep of a ceremonial family, and then not use them for ceremonies?
Just seen this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18977404 - now I really don't give a stuff about most of the opening ceremony, but please no.
Really, Beckham, what a travesty.
Any of the "Windsor PLC" bunch, but not Beckham!!
Can see it now, he will kick a burning football into the heart of the burning thing.
I still think it should be Ben Parkinson