Brekkie Boy
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4 minutes ago, rio2016man said:
Kudos to the creatives behind the opening ceremony
Who should never work in the industry again.
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Those in the stands at the Eiffel Tower must be even more bored than us and checking the T&Cs to see how they get a refund.
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The most entertaining thing about this so far are the "Stop the Boats" memes.
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5 minutes ago, Rob2012 said:
Christ that Eswatini boat looks wobbly.
It was insultingly small.
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10 minutes ago, Faster said:
CBC went to a major commercial break during an artistic segment. WTF
I'd be quite happy for the BBC to cut to a three hour teleshopping presentation.
And to think this is the ceremony NBC chose to show live and ad free. It's a ceremony perfect for the edit suite.
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This is truly terrible- I thought it might be a disaster but expected it to at least be an entertaining disaster. This is just dull, poorly filned with zero atmosphere.
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By this point in London 2012 we'd had the pandemodium sequence, forging of the Olympic Rings and the Queen jumping out of a helicopter.
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Well London can already be condident it won't be topoed. The worst start to an opening ceremony I can recall. Even the awful Commonwealth Fames ceremonies of 2014 and 2018 were better than this.
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The athletes are clearly hating this. Most look miserable compared to the reaction we see when they enter the Olympic Stadium. Flagbearees lost amongst it and now they've cut to Lady Gaga.
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A few boats in already clear this was a terrible idea. Athletes being denied their moment and it looks awful on TV.
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Athletes parade already - no artistic presenration?
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In terms of river events it has to beat the Millennium River of Fire and Golden Jubilee Pageant - both of which were disasters. I'm not very hopeful.
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Wish they'd waited till it was darker. The build up on broadcasters not being in the stadium has lacked the usual sense of anticipation of the event.
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4 minutes ago, Ikarus360 said:
They're not showing it in my national TV feed. Is it mostly a France TV thing?
Its been featured quite a bit on the BBC.
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Not a fan of this red carpet nonsense - it's not the bloody Oscars.
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Exactly, and really odd of Games Bids to be promoting it. "Entrepreneur" seems generous.
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Can't really blame them for saying no.
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No surprise - politicians love to understate the cost and overstate the savings of their decisions.
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Maybe Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett and Steve Hooker could all run towards the cauldron with a torch each, trip over and then get overtaken by Stephen Bradbury who gets to light the flame.
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Well this all seems to be a shitstorm of the IOC's own making, though always wobbles along the way. Ridiculous though we're looking at stadiums half the size of the Sydney Olympic Stadium - this currently feels like it's going to be another Atlanta rather than a repeat of the success of Atlanta.
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Kuala Lumper should be an ideal host - the venues from the 2017 SEA Games should largely still be around, and if they're hosting those in 2027 the Commonwealth Games is a perfect test event. The games of 1998 are quite fondly remembered (well, by me at least!), especially in comparison to the only other games outside the UK/Australia since then in India in 2030.
Not really a fan of London entering the equation for 2026 as that just feels like kicking the problem down the road really. I think regardless of whether 2026 goes ahead assuming Hamilton don't want it London is the obvious choice for the centenial games in 2030, and that feels like it would put them on a good footing to then enter into discussions with the IOC to look at hosting the Olympics again at some point in the 2040s.
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I think the Queen and Royal Family are somewhat irrelevant to it all - it's more about it just being a mini Olympics for a collection of countries which happen to be linked by that. If the European Games had taken off in a more significant manner from a British point of view I think we'd be happy to see an end to the Commonwealth Games, but actually from a sporting point of view there is perhaps more value in some sports at least of the Commonwealth competition than continental based games.
What doesn't seem to be on the table and perhaps should be is awarding them to a country rather than a city and spreading events out World Cup style. Indeed given the nature of many countries in the Commonwealth that probably opens up the possible hosts somewhat more, and it doesn't mean in the future cities or regions can't host rather than an entire country. Politically though I think governments are always quite nervous about being seen to invest in one city at the expense of the rest of the country, although practically it can be cheaper to build that extra Velodrome in a host city rather than invest in transport links to a city that has an existing velodrome - but of course the latter generally would have more benefits for the public beyond the games.
Where it goes from here remains to be seen - at the moment I don't see 2026 happening and at best the games might return in 2030 for the centenial and then probably face similar problems after that. In a way it's Australian politics that screwed over 2026 - if Victoria had just based the games around Melbourne in the first place we probably wouldn't be where we are now as Melbourne couldn't afford to be attached to such a failure.
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Glad to see the 2032 farce being called out. This new era process needs to be called out for what it is - completely untransparent and open to corruption. The Olympics shouldn't be a gift given to people upon retirement.
Whilst there is no doubt the bidding process needed to be streamlined and costs eliminated it does feel like this process hasn't done the games any favours at all - there seems far less certainty about the future of the games as a result and it's ridiculous that 6 years from 2030 we still don't have a Winter Olympics host locked in.
I do certainly think there is merit in awarding back to back games, or at least offering the runners up of one bid the option to host the subsequent games if criteria are met, but the games need a more transparent open and fixed process back in place for awarding them.
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Didn't even realise they were interested. God, I hate this backroom bidding process - feels like their response to past corruption in the bidding process is just to have an openly corrupt process now instead.
That said I'm very much in favour of a French Winter Olympics. Surely though they need to rebrand it as Nice 2030 - if for no other reason than for Nice to fully capitalise on it. Everybody knows the French Alps are there - so not using it to advertise Nice as widely as possible would be a missed opportunity.
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But it's already dragged out longer than normal and feels like we're barely half way through it.