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Rhein-Ruhr (NRW) has lounged its website also: NRW steht bereit für Olympische und Paralympische Spielen an Rhein und Ruhr

You are right - I didn't see that the Berlin bid section is under the Berlin Stadtportal website...

... yes, "but" that is a website about sport activities in Hamburg in general - not about a potential bid only ...

... Berlin has a dedicated website as well Olympische und Paralympische Spiele Berlin+ No, Hamburg wants to bid for 36, 40 or 44 My personal highlight of the presentation of the potential Hamburg bid was that a new stadium will be built next to the Volksparkstadium - no matter if Hamburg receive the honour to host, since in the 2040 the maintenance costs of stadium will become higher than the costs of a new stadium. The new stadium would be the venue for Athletics - the Volksparkstadium would be the venue for Aquatics - the HSV, one of the two major football clubs of Hamburg, will change into the new Stadium after the Summer Games... The old Volksparkstadium might be dismantled. Image of the Volksparkstadium - and the new stadium (the Olympic Village on the bottom of the pic)

... in a way it feels strange to call the Games "Alpes Françaises" in my point of view. It is the first time that no city/town is named/mentioned as host. I wonder if they add Nice at the end...

Well - the concepts of all potential bidding cities from Germany are online, but there are no English version right now. The German NOC will talk with the different cities about the requirements and plausibility of their concepts until September 2025 - in December 2025 the concepts will be presented at the member assembly of the NOC in Frankfurt on 6th December 2025. (In Frankfurt is the headquarter of the German NOC). The cities can hold referendums until June 2026 - all cities want to hold referendums: Munich in October 2025, Hamburg and NRW in Spring 2026 - Berlin hasn't set a date yet. The concept will be evaluated by a evaluation system, which isn't fixed yet - in Autumn 2026 the NOC will decide with which city it will bid. Berlin - A Celebration of Unity Map of the venue concept - Berlin Hamburg Map of the venue concept - Hamburg (pdf) Munich Concept - a little bit below is a map of the venue concept NRW (North-Rhine Westphalia / Rhein-Ruhr) Concept of Rhein-Ruhr - cloud (password: nrw)

My partner just said: "Mad Max meets Wagner"

... the moving lights in the audience is amazing!

somehow the "alien entrance" reminded me on Eros from the Athens 2004 OC

Beethoven would have done it better (with his ear trumpet)

Didn't know that Queen is French...

Joe Dassin vs. Aznavour 1:0

Ski Alpin and Ski Jumping are great in ORF, but the other sports are mediocre only... When you live not in your home country, you recognise how nationalistic the coverage is around the world - we don't share the experience of common Olympic Games, we see them through national coloured glasses since the TV channels pick what they show - just the ceremonies we share in a way...

No, the ORF coverage of Summer Olympics is awful, F.!

I prefer such athletes parade than this "boat trip in rain" a lot!

On German TV the sound is quite "tinny"...

I am glad that it does take place in the stadium

Good evening everybody

John Kovacs is such a hot and nice guy!

I think I paid about 800 € for a ticket at the 2012 OC - I really understand your anger about the „ceremony“ last Friday!

Albertville 1992 opening ceremony is one of my all time Winter ceremonies - it was something really special!!!

May I ask you, what did you pay for your opening ceremony ticket?

"Paris" had the intention to make an opening ceremony in the heart of the city for a wider audience than in a stadium. The organisers planned to include some iconic sights - like Tour Eiffel, Grand Palais, Louvre, Notre-Dame, ... They wanted to connect the live action along the Seine with Video footage and pictures of the teams on the boats. That caused a lot of problems: - you can watch the live action only, which takes place right were you are. The live action, which takes place at other places is only to be seen on big screens - you can't follow live action taking place on rooftops, when you are at street-level. You have to watch it on big screens. - the audience, which was there, didn't have the same experience: e.g. at the Conciergerie it saw the "Revolution segment" - at Trocadero it saw a laser show, listened to boring speeches and the flame for "five minutes" ... The result: the video footage, the live action (where you were standing/sitting), the live action covered by live-broadcast on big screens (where you were not standing/sitting), the live action, which took place on rooftops, covered by live-broadcast on big screens for everybody made the story-telling a huge challenge and not very enjoyable for the audience at the Seine/Trocadero in my point of view... This might have worked for the TV-audience, but the heavy rain made caused a lot of problems with the live action - the "can-can-dancers" looked not really professional - it was a huge chaos. The dancers on the bridges, the skaters on the pontoons and the catwalk was a wet mess. The athlete parade on the boats flawed the outfits of the teams - due the cameras were to far away and couldn't show the outfits from different angles. Why didn't they show the French country-names on these "flags"? I would like to end my "verdict" with the positives: fantastic costumes, the horse on the Seine looked amazing (but the segment took much too long), the laser show at Tour Eiffel was impressive (but nothing really new). The idea with the balloon cauldron is nice, but I would have preferred a real flame. Great intentions aren't equivalent to a great ceremony.

the cauldron looks like a gondolier by Montgolfier

I believe now that the cauldron is on top of the obelisk on place de la Concorde