The Scottish Olympic Parade

[blackpuddinonnabike]

The crowds gather



Right to Left:
Chris Hoy - 3 cycling gold medals
Katherine Grainger - rowing silver
Ross Edgar - cycling silver
David Florence - canoeing silver





Since when were the police allowed funky facial hair? And that bobby could do with getting on a bike...



The crowds follow the bus to Holyrood (at which point I had to head back to the office)

[Ariadne]

Ah! I forgot about the gallery! Much better photos than mine, too...

[Jaded]

Ooooh!

About the same number of people that turned out to see the Queen in 1977!

[GruB]

Funky facial hair came with gay rights.

[blackpuddinonnabike]

Ah! I forgot about the gallery! Much better photos than mine, too...

At that point they were all up front - I would have been miffed too if they'd come past with Hoy being interviewed!

Funky facial hair came with gay rights.

Given Lothian and Borders police winning of some award for its gay rights record that would explain a lot... 

[David Martin]

And the save meadowbank campaign managed to get some good publicity..

[LEE]

I thought they were British not Scottish

[David Martin]

I thought they were British not Scottish

<hoy>The two are not mutually exclusive</hoy>

I think we now know why they had it at an awkward time for people to turn up and watch...

..d

[blackpuddinonnabike]

I thought they were British not Scottish

You are Rev. Ian Paisley AICMFP! This parade is an outrage!

It's interesting that so many comments have been attributed to Hoy about the Scottish/British thing but when you see the actual interview is exactly that 'not mutually exclusive' point that he makes. We like to see things as polarised, when 99.9999999% of the time they really aren't.