Every few years the Olympic games brings the world together to watch the planet’s finest athletes compete for the gold medal — assuming you’ve got the money to travel the globe and can afford the ridiculous markups charged by restaurants and hotels in the host city. Not to mention trying…
According to NBC, the official broadcaster of the 2012 London Olympics in the US, Australia is a beautiful, landlocked country bordered by the likes of Switzerland, Hungary and Slovakia. You read correctly: NBC just confused Australia with Austria.
The opening of the London 2012 Olympics went off with a figurative and a literal bang. You’ve probably seen countless videos of the fireworks going off over the London stadium, but I bet you haven’t seen three British fighter jets spray Union Jack-coloured cloud over the city.