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No kidding! How ironic, right?! Plus, a lot of them can sometimes be like informercials, that are like 2-3 minutes long. Telling you how marvelous this wonderful drug is, while in the next breath, they list a ton of other possible side effects. It's like really? Next thing you know, you'll need prescription anxiety pills to taper off your anxiousness just from listening to all that crap! It's a vicious pharmeceutical circle, which is of course what those greedy, despicable pharma companies want. You feel sick, go to a doctor, plain & simple. Don't let these prescription pharma TV ads dictate to you what "they" think you might have. That's what a doctor is for & why they went years to medical school.

The CGF have asked Malaysia as a last resort to host the failing event. They will most likely say no as we are only two years away. This SHOULD be the cue for the Commonwealth Games Federation to finally call it a day for the FULL VERSION of the games...And move up the Youth CWGs as its focus. That version seems for in line to what the Commonwealth should be about...global youth development.

Speaking of that, according to L'Équipe, an audition took place "discreetly" last weekend to select 600 dancers for the ceremony.

Either way, I can't imagine the indignation of the American public if NBC didn't broadcast the OOC live. Especially in today's era where we can have access to everything, live, anywhere around the world. Obviously for London it had aroused a lot of indignation (I may be wrong, not being American, but that's what I thought I understood), I do not dare to imagine with the concept of this OOC which, on paper, is the most existing ceremony since ... always ? So I think that for their image, NBC perhaps had no choice. (afterwards this is no longer a new thing on their part to braodcast live the OOC, I think that in any case even if it took place in a stadium NBC would have broadcast it live). Concerning the location of the Today team, I can't imagine them being installed on a bridge where there is already public planned. Firstly because it would take up a lot of space (especially for the technical installations), also because I don't think that NBC will be the only broadcaster to have authorization to set up on a bridge during the ceremony; it would be incomprehensible (and almost scandalous) if France Télévisions, at the very least, could not have this right. So maybe we will have a bridge entirely dedicated to television channels? Fortunately, Paris made the choice to set the time of the opening ceremony based solely on artistic criteria (and it is still a very nice idea to have a ceremony both during the day, with the sunset and night, especially when it takes place in the heart of Paris), and not because of the demands of a television channel that is not French, regardless of the billions they give to the IOC.

The fact you in the USA have to celebrate something that you would think is basic stuff that any broadcaster covering the games would have to do... But hey, NBC at least know the primetime hack.

Just saying, Panam Sports got a default from Colombia and even them didn't need to openly offer money to beg someone to host their games. Actually, they managed their condrum amazingly as noted by the article, in six weeks. (It helps that 1, Lima was the winning bidder and they had hosted already recently in 2019, and 2, unlike the commies, the PanAms are directly and indirectly related to the Olympic Games, which does help.) How many months there was since the Dan was pulled in Victoria?

Don’t forget to try his Strawberry Romanoff!

There’s no doping in Russia. Just Grandpa Valiyev serving drinks to athletes.

So Victorian taxpayers get a Commonwealth Games with their money after all

They always do this. It’s just their M.O. They always chose the weakest link for these things for some reason or another. It was simple mathematics in this case, really. Does PASO chose a bid from a much smaller, inexperienced city that would have to work from the ground up to get everything done in the limited time left ‘til 2027? Or do they chose the bid from a much bigger city that has recently already done this before in the small window of time left? It was a no-brainer. But little you-know-who couldn’t/can’t grasp that kind of analytical thinking. It’s like they go outta their way to go against the trend of the current just to be different, in their own delusion mind for whatever reason. At this point, it’s just best not to pay them too mind in these sort of instances.

Well, it's better to have someone ready in a special case like this, right? In the end, let's be honest, Lima is already better anyway than a city who would need to build literally everything in half the time needed. Asunción really had a chance?