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Despite the criticisms of some of these logos (in this thread and elsewhere), I don't think I would be as embarrassed to be from any of these places as the Lond

• timdorr 17y ago
  That logo is so 80's it makes me wonder if they're going to turn back on all the analog cell sites in the city and hand out Zack Morris DynaTAC phones.
• furyg3 17y ago
  So... that logo made me go "what?", and a few seconds later think of Lisa Simpson performing a sexual act, before finally realizing that it says "2012". Conclusions: I'm deranged. That logo is horrible.
• hughprime 17y ago
  It's worth mentioning that the bid logo is generally different from the logo of the actual games. London's bid logo was a much more attractive (if less attention-grabbing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_2012_Olympic_Games_bid_logo.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_2012_Olympic_Games_... I'm not sure why they change the logos, given that the final logo is almost always less attractive than the bid logo. In Sydney, frinstance, we had a nice neat bid logo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney2000bid.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney2000bid.png) which for the actual games they decided to unnecessarily complicate with a running man and some boomerangs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_2000_Logo.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_2000_Logo.svg Nothing nearly as bad as London 2012, though.