What the heck the meaning of "add oil" is though is something of a mystery, perhaps with oil at about $140 a barrel, its a way of saying your performance is valuable, or maybe its just one of those things that doesn't translate well.
Moving on to future Olympics, I'm sure the folks in London want the 2012 games to be a blast, but not quite like this...Work at one of the Olympic sites in London came to an abrupt stop when a 2,000 bomb dropped during World War II was unearthed. Unexploded bombs dropped by the Germans during the war are still occasionally found in London, though this 2,000-pounder was the largest uncovered in three decades. If it had exploded it could have thrown shrapnel up to a half mile away. The bomb disposal officer who defused the bomb was said to have worked under a "high level of stress". Gee, ya think?
Finally the London Olympic Committee is planning to take recycling to new heights. Their goal is to recycle most of the stadium that will be used for the opening and closing ceremonies. They are using an innovative plan to build a 55,000 temporary stadium around a smaller 25,000 seat permanent base. The belief is that London does not need another huge stadium, but could use a smaller field. So smaller, permanent field will be temporarily expanded to Olympic proportions.
The hope is that after the games, the temporary portion could then be sold, shipped to another city and reassembled. The London Committee has already had initial talks with the organizers of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid about that city reusing London's stadium.
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