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Great commercial! We'd never get that here un the states, it would be too controversial...

as good of an explanation as any other! I would also have accepted they are French and French = Weird & Creepy

Was there any part of the Albertville ceremonies that was NOT bizarre??? I remember watching it on RV with my mother when I was just 9 1/2... the Costumes were weird, the choreography mad no sense, the music sounded like some sort of nightmarish Phillip Glass composition... I am willing to declare the Albertville ceremonies and the most bizarre of my lifetime... that clip you posted is not even the most unusual... The ceremony seems so ill-concieved especially when compared to the Lillehammer ceremony from just 2 years later which was the epitome of winter serenity, tranquility, peace, and wholesomeness and Albertville 2 years earlier looked and sounded like Cirque du Soliel's idea of what hell would be like... Albertville shall forever stand as an example of what NOT to do for a Winter opening ceremony..... On TV, not RV...

Brian Williams? I'm guessing this is a different brian williams that the great and mighty Brian Williams from NBC News in the USA?

Im not sure what a 2+1 is either... maybe 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom?

Wow... thats a classic... just think that in about 60 years there will be a whole bunch of grannies with wrinkled lower-back tattoos rolling around in their wheelchairs with their geriatric depends-thongs hanging out... it will be great...

Just draw big wiener that squirts out olympic colors? That would be the logical progression would it not...

My initially low expectations and upset over Chicago's loss are quickly being raised... i'm getting excited about Rio!

Making mountains out of mole-hills? Really? THANK YOU! Making mountains out of mole-hills is the sign of a true Brit... I will take that as a huge compliment! You made my day :-)

Wow... how can I break this down for you... The 'event' was not the photo shoot itself but the public release of the images... which should have been an 'event' but was a literal 'non-event'. Usually the volunteer uniforms are revealed to the public in a press session with live models to show off their flashy new garb as opposed to just releasing some rather poorly shot digital still images (poorly by professional photographic standards). There were image quality issues, lens glare, reflections in glasses, ill-fitted pant lengths and improperly sized jackets, etc... One would think that if you are only using about a half-dozen models for this that at least the uniforms they are to model would either fit properly or be pinned and clipped to give the illusion of fitting properly for the photo shoot... Same amateur issues with a number of phot quality issues in the images released to the media... Does that explanation make it as clear as possible?

There were numerous amateur photography errors and mistakes...

... LOL Nice attempt to quote out of context :lol: and it was botched, there's an entire thread on the problems with it on the London 2012 forum...

What you mean London's poorly botched gamesMakers uniform photo shoot versus a photo of a blind woman weeping while feeling up the Rio Paralympic 'sculpture'? Yeah... you can't buy that kind of a moment... I don't get what LOCOG is thinking sometimes... I have no experience whatsoever in event organizing yet can easily point out some of their problems... don't they have anyone on their paid staff who can do the same? 5 1/2 years out and Rio seems to be rolling along ahead of where London was at this point without the PR disasters...

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Hat to break it to you but no symbol says "London" like Big Ben... it is recognized instantly around the world... the current 2012 logo... would be unrecognied by most people around the world right now... and it says nothing about London... it is meaningless drivel... hell, this would be a huge improvement: At least it is easy on the eyes... and was vastly more popular than the real logo.. and has the element of being clever..

...and that is a bad thing? You should be glad it became a popular public plaza and is frequently relit to keep the cauldron's legacy in the public eye and not falling into disrepair!

Wow... that picture says it all.. and the huge Paralympic logo in the lagoon, BEAUTIFUL! Rio did good on this one... if only London could have done something like this... Im afraid the garish neon colors of the London 'look of the games' might burn out my retinas while watching on tv... I might have to switch to black and white to view them safely...

Well i'll happily take this over the disgrace London is schlepping off on the global Olympic movement... I like that it is 3-dimensional, sculptural, and it has no beginning or end, it continues in an infinite loop... not terribly revolutionary, but beautiful, simple, and infinitely complex all at once... well done Rio!

And of course Tom Brokaw's tribute to Canada before the 2010 opening ceremony: Go Canada!

Well there never is a better introduction to the Olympics than those made by NBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyt0MI8OSdQ&feature=related I remember them quite fondly... I was a freshman at University that year... wow I feel old...

Well I don't know what the Canadians think but the 2002 Salt Lake games are still VERY fondly remembered here in the states and still playing a frequent mention in our politics with Mitt Romney still having his management of the games touted as being in his favor to be President of the United States in 2012... Largely forgettable I think not...