Nacholympic

In was in the Opening Ceremony with Yoko Ono and Peter Gabriel.

It's just FIFA being FIFA....

As a suggestion: For Winter Games in Chile, the host should be SANTIAGO-CHILLAN Not only nearSantiago Chile has modern ski resorts, but also in Chillan which is 400 km to the south of Santiago and has one of the best winter resorts in South America. It hosts a lot of snow competitions every year. https://www.nevadosdechillan.com/andariveles-y-pistas

Many of the segments were not boradcasted. In the documentary you can see that during the segemnt "Synchronization" many dancers should have been dancing on the roofs. They had been preparing that for months and in a the last minute decistion, they didn't, because of the bad weather. As a live spectator, I was near the Austerlitz Bridge. Behind us there was a huge pannel of lights which were supossed to be used at one moment, but they never went on....

In the meanwhile, enjoy the OC of the 15th National Games in China, 2025. They continue working on shows a la Beijing 2008.

Ok, let me see if I did understand what the main idea is: - The opening ceremony will have shots from 4 venues; mainly because of the athlete’s parade. So, they will alternate live images from San Ciro’s delegations and probably pre-recorded images of the rest of the delegation coming from one of those venues…. Indeed, we had a hint of it at Paris OC when they showed surf athletes waving hands from Tahiti. The same idea… now made bigger??? - I think this is the very first time the closing ceremony is becoming much anticipated that the OC. The Verona Coliseum is the reflection of what the IOC ceremonies new rules want to show: Integrate the community, the city as the venue itself… We have seen that previously, starting in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG OC, and after that, in a bigger and more broadcasted scale, Paris 2024 (still being discussed if it was the worst OC of all times… I was there and I can assure that the show was totally made for TV). Also, the World Games in Chengdu which was made “outdoors”, using the city skyscrapers as the main background… I could add to the list the big ceremony organized for the opening of the New Museum in Egypt (not a sport event, but it gives the current vision of how these massive shows should be) - Even with small budget, having a good team and dedication, good things can be done: Lima 2019 OC was truly fantastic (I wonder if it was the same for the audience at the stadium) – forget about the low budget the pathetic job in Santiago 2023 – Take a look at the OC for the Junior Panamerican Games in Asunción, Paraguay: small budget, but a fantastic show, stunning for tv, well organized as for people in the stadium as for the TV audience. That show really gives a huge hint of how the “musical ceremonies” (a lot in the latest years, such as the 2025 Universiade in Germany) and traditional ones can be mixed in a real fantastic show, resulting in a real “Olympic show” and not an extension of the Super Bowl half time. You must look at it!!!! I hope it can be the example for the upcoming “musical ceremonies” … - Anyway, Italy can give a surprise … I didn’t expect nothing from ASU 2025 - Junior Pan Am OC - and it resulted in one of the best (if not the best) ceremony for me in this 2025!!!!! Maybe we are now forced to think and see ceremonies outside the “Olympic” box.

I wonder how the show will be distributed across the four venues (one of them must be Cortina D’Ampezzo, and the others two?) The stage looks like it will be a display of projections on the floor a la Vancouver, Sochi, Rio, PyeongChang, Tokyo.... unless it is ice which is not probable. The athletes’ sits reminds me the Torino piazza and the stage is a mixture of PyeongChang and Salt Lake. I wonder if those flying rings are part of the ceremony too or just part of the video... Anyway, I think it’s the very first time that the Ceremonies stage is revealed with a lot of anticipation.

I couldn't continue commenting since I received a phonecall... But while I was talking I was watching the images: again too long segment for the flame. I liked the fact they repeated the music of "Eternité" which is a thrilling music... Or at least it strongly reminds when I was on the Seine that 26 of July. A French ceremony, it never took the rhythm of the previous ones, including the winter ceremonies. Even Tokyo and Beijing were more active, colorful and faster. A great display at the Concord, but I wonder if it really worthed the hundred of euros that ticket cost. On the top of Paralympics ceremonies continue Rio 2016, being the second best PyeongChang 2018. Let's see how the closing ceremony brings. Nevertheless the most important of it is the Paris - LA handover. See you guys!

I can understand they want to print the French style but it's too much!!!! I

Again the same... Long segments...too long!!!!

Rio 2016 I liked even more than the Olympic ceremony since the first time... It won't top the rhythm of the previous ones...

I think I'm starting to miss Rio 2016 again...

I talked too much before hand... Projections again!!!!!

Guys, I don't know you but.. I find the ceremony quiet boring.... 🙄🙄