[nlagalle]

Originally Posted by oz_mark

Wouldn't need to be in Beijing that far ahead of time. As far as I can tell it was VH-OJH that was on its way to Beijing at 6.30 am this morning.

The 333 will be coming from Hong Kong.

Yes but the team would have left before OJH got there! they were leaving at about 4pm AEST. The athletes check in and get their boarding passes at the Village, get bussed to the airport and straight through customs and onto the plane.

[markis10]

Originally Posted by nlagalle

Yes but the team would have left before OJH got there! they were leaving at about 4pm AEST. The athletes check in and get their boarding passes at the Village, get bussed to the airport and straight through customs and onto the plane.

OJH had a one hour turnaround arriving at 6PM our time and leaving at 7PM our time, not even enough time to have a wash Its a 12 hour trip both ways!

[oz_mark]

Originally Posted by markis10

OJH had a one hour turnaround arriving at 6PM our time and leaving at 7PM our time, not even enough time to have a wash Its a 12 hour trip both ways!

Yes, but it would have flown up pretty empty, so cleaning requirements would have been minimal.

[xsprint]

Originally Posted by markis10

OJH had a one hour turnaround arriving at 6PM our time and leaving at 7PM our time, not even enough time to have a wash Its a 12 hour trip both ways!

It was indeed OJH, complete with its old ratty paint job. Check out the pics on smh.com.au - could do with a respray imho.

Compare it to the pics of the arrival of the British olympic team on a BA 747 named 'Pride'. I wonder if a quick rename (and/or new paint job - it looks pretty fresh) was arranged for their flight? see thesun.co.uk for pics.

[serfty]

Originally Posted by xsprint

... Compare it to the pics of the arrival of the British olympic team on a BA 747 named 'Pride'. I wonder if a quick rename (and/or new paint job - it looks pretty fresh) was arranged for their flight? see thesun.co.uk for pics.

See a reference in post #2 of this thread on the FT BAEC forum:

• BA38 (747 with gold nose) from PEK lands @1512

[albatross710]

Originally Posted by garyjohn951

there were 20 gold medalists [14 medals plus 2's and relay 4's].

Mrs Albatross said there were more gold medalists as the composition of the winning relay teams were different to the teams which competed in the heats/semis to get the four in the winning final, all of the team particpants are awarded gold medals. A 4 x relay gold equals 5 or 6 medalists.

put that one away for the next trivia night.

[garyjohn951]

Originally Posted by albatross710

Mrs Albatross said there were more gold medalists as the composition of the winning relay teams were different to the teams which competed in the heats/semis to get the four in the winning final, all of the team particpants are awarded gold medals. A 4 x relay gold equals 5 or 6 medalists.

put that one away for the next trivia night.

Yes, that is correct, in fact the Women's 4 x 200 had 8 in total and yes, the IOC give 8 medals, however if you look at

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there are only 4 in the picture !!