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  1. This is the very reason .... ceremonies reflect what is the IOC intends to push since now on... So, brivery scandals and overbudgets were going to kill the Olympics (at least in the format we now now)... so, it's a way to reliefe the huge crisis of the Olympic Movement... We have to be realistic... Today, with internet, everyone (almost...) has the acces to view culture and tradition of any country. Uo to 2000's the Olympics were THE chance to put the countries in a worlwide showroom and media turned their eyes into them.... I have told that before: Ceremonies will never be the same as they were up to 2016. The great challenge is to change formats and styles, and from it to conquer the audiences again... Today we have many major spectacles we can see easly on the internet, such the opeming ceremony of the World Expo in Dubai in 2021 and regional games which, many times, have top the Olympic spectacles themselves... It's time to hink outside the box... Beijing ceremony was TRULY GOOD... come on! It was a "pandemic ceremony" and many of the critisicsm that arose due to the - boring and fast made - Tokyo ceremonies were thet they didn't have the ability to replace the lack of people with technology. Beijing did it and anyway critisicm are excessive... In Paris we won't have a "normal" ceremony again, since it is going to repeat the same format of the ceremony of the 1998 FIFA World Cup (on the street and free) . Getting 2026, in Milano - Cortina we may have an Opening Ceremony as they used to be, inside a stadium... but it will be ONLY de Opening, since the Closing won't be in the Milano Stadium.... Just to wait for regional games to continue watching "traditional" ceremonies (Universiade this year orPan Am Games in 2023) but.. guys!!!! The Olympic movement is chanching and the ceremonies are the face of it... Think different, move on according to the times.. Otherwise, these threads and our ceremonies adiction are due to die...
  2. Drone show in Shenzhen prior to the Opening Ceremony
  3. Here is the full replay of the Olympic Channel on Youtube... you should search for a VPN that works!
  4. Yeah. I read about it and despite the name of the place has changed, the Olympic Committee should start to change in all of its references to "Palisades Tahoe". So, the name of the games should be "Palisades Tahoe 1960"
  5. OK, Beijing… you didn’t right!!! CORRECTION: OK BEIJING... YOU DID IT RIGHT!!!
  6. Mt thoughts about the ceremony: - Even when I didn’t have my expectation too high, due to we were facing the second “pandemic ceremony” and having too fresh in mind what Tokyo offered us just few months ago, adding the limited time they had (just 100 minutes) you couldn’t expect a show that could top Vancouver or Sochi. With all those limitations, what Beijing, in its second opening ceremony at the same Bird Nest Stadium, made a ceremony that I can say more than “good”. Also, we couldn’t expect a mass show (despite of what we saw for the China National Games even fewer months ago) since it was going to be carried out according to the Olympic protocol under strict covid rules. Yimou replaced mass for high tech. And really it was HIGH TECH! with a ceremony based on aerials and last generation LED screens with motion sensors… taking the technology for ceremonies to a new level. - The environment seemed a lot more vivid and cheerful than the Tokyo’s mourning-style. We could feel again that it was an Opening Ceremony and not a tribute to everyone and everything that lasted 4 hours (or 2 in this case). - The segments were mixed with the protocol and it may interrupt the anxiety we can feel when we watch an Opening Ceremony. Anyway, the segments were truly lavish! - We are getting used to “videos countdown” since London (despite it had a “stadium” London) and Beijing 2022 was not the exception. Coincidentally, February 4 marks the beginning of the spring according to the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar year and the 24th Winter Olympics. - Visually stunning, the first impression of the green brunches (which their colours reminded me “Pindorama” segment from Rio 2016) could lead to the first “wow” factor after Rio, totally absent in Tokyo and PyeonChang. - The Chinese flag welcome was a hint of what we saw in 2008 ceremony, adding modern factors, such the inclusion of “street” people and the children playing the trumpet interpretating a piece of music from an Old Chinese movie. - Then, the high tech started in majesty: the Chinese ink becoming the Yellow river, “flooding” the stadium was another stunning moment. We could appreciate, at that moment, that we were facing a replacement from the classic mass Chinese shows to a High tech show. I loved the ice arising from the floor, following the tradition of the Winter Games of remembering all the previous edition (which was skipped in Sochi) and then breaking the ice to emerge the Olympic rings. This maybe my favourite part of the ceremony. It called my attention that for the 1960 Winter Games, we could red “Lake Tahoe” instead the official name of the games: “Squaw Valley”… why? - The parade was fast, entertaining and cheerful. The snowflakes, as the plaques, was unique but not original. In 2015 we could see LED panels as plaques for the Opening Ceremony of the Pan Am Games in Toronto. - The ceremony continued at Yimou style: cheering people walking through the interactive panel discovering images of people around the world, another hint of what we saw before the torch lighting in 2008 when Li Ning, flying, discovered the route of the flame ass he passed by. - A new version of “imagine” was played. At this point I don’t know if this song belongs to the new Olympic Protocol for ceremonies, such as double flag bearers, joint oaths and the next host country marching next to last. I think that after listening to “imagine” in Torino, London (at least it was the country of the author), PyeongChang and Tokyo we’d had more than enough… What’s next? Someone singing “imagine” in French version on the Seine River? - The peace segment was unified with the Torch Segment. One by one the barely known torch, was approaching to what all of us were expecting: the cauldron that was going to be lit in an “unprecedent” way, while a children song was used as the background. By the way, that was another visually stunning high-tech segment. - Effectively, the flame was “lit” in an unprecedent way: NO CAULDRON AT ALL! Just was the torch which was put in the middle of the giant floating snowflakes, formed by the names of the countries which were the plaques on the parade…. But OK, Yimou thinks in everything: Did the flame from Olympia arrive to the stadium? Yes Is the Olympic Flame present in the ceremony? Yes Is now, what was condemned to be the most infamous Olympic torch of the history, worldwide well-known? Yes OK… Mission accomplished! They appealed to sustainability and no gas emission… what about the fireworks, then? This “lighting” of the cauldron ceremony left in me the feeling of… “it is not over, yet”… An original, but weird, maybe, the weirdest idea for the Olympic Flame. My conclusion: no taking in consideration the “no cauldron” factor (who broke the most important tradition for an opening ceremony, turning it into a sort of “queen’s baton” relay) it was a simple, short, well done and impressive ceremony. A pandemic ceremony, well executed who successfully replaced the (may be ancient) mass segments by stunning technology… OK, Beijing… you didn’t right!!!
  7. OK, Beijing… you didn’t right!!! CORRECTION: OK BEIJING... YOU DID IT RIGHT!!!
  8. Mt thoughts about the ceremony: - Even when I didn’t have my expectation too high, due to we were facing the second “pandemic ceremony” and having too fresh in mind what Tokyo offered us just few months ago, adding the limited time they had (just 100 minutes) you couldn’t expect a show that could top Vancouver or Sochi. With all those limitations, what Beijing, in its second opening ceremony at the same Bird Nest Stadium, made a ceremony that I can say more than “good”. Also, we couldn’t expect a mass show (despite of what we saw for the China National Games even fewer months ago) since it was going to be carried out according to the Olympic protocol under strict covid rules. Yimou replaced mass for high tech. And really it was HIGH TECH! with a ceremony based on aerials and last generation LED screens with motion sensors… taking the technology for ceremonies to a new level. - The environment seemed a lot more vivid and cheerful than the Tokyo’s mourning-style. We could feel again that it was an Opening Ceremony and not a tribute to everyone and everything that lasted 4 hours (or 2 in this case). - The segments were mixed with the protocol and it may interrupt the anxiety we can feel when we watch an Opening Ceremony. Anyway, the segments were truly lavish! - We are getting used to “videos countdown” since London (despite it had a “stadium” London) and Beijing 2022 was not the exception. Coincidentally, February 4 marks the beginning of the spring according to the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar year and the 24th Winter Olympics. - Visually stunning, the first impression of the green brunches (which their colours reminded me “Pindorama” segment from Rio 2016) could lead to the first “wow” factor after Rio, totally absent in Tokyo and PyeonChang. - The Chinese flag welcome was a hint of what we saw in 2008 ceremony, adding modern factors, such the inclusion of “street” people and the children playing the trumpet interpretating a piece of music from an Old Chinese movie. - Then, the high tech started in majesty: the Chinese ink becoming the Yellow river, “flooding” the stadium was another stunning moment. We could appreciate, at that moment, that we were facing a replacement from the classic mass Chinese shows to a High tech show. I loved the ice arising from the floor, following the tradition of the Winter Games of remembering all the previous edition (which was skipped in Sochi) and then breaking the ice to emerge the Olympic rings. This maybe my favourite part of the ceremony. It called my attention that for the 1960 Winter Games, we could red “Lake Tahoe” instead the official name of the games: “Squaw Valley”… why? - The parade was fast, entertaining and cheerful. The snowflakes, as the plaques, was unique but not original. In 2015 we could see LED panels as plaques for the Opening Ceremony of the Pan Am Games in Toronto. - The ceremony continued at Yimou style: cheering people walking through the interactive panel discovering images of people around the world, another hint of what we saw before the torch lighting in 2008 when Li Ning, flying, discovered the route of the flame ass he passed by. - A new version of “imagine” was played. At this point I don’t know if this song belongs to the new Olympic Protocol for ceremonies, such as double flag bearers, joint oaths and the next host country marching next to last. I think that after listening to “imagine” in Torino, London (at least it was the country of the author), PyeongChang and Tokyo we’d had more than enough… What’s next? Someone singing “imagine” in French version on the Seine River? - The peace segment was unified with the Torch Segment. One by one the barely known torch, was approaching to what all of us were expecting: the cauldron that was going to be lit in an “unprecedent” way, while a children song was used as the background. By the way, that was another visually stunning high-tech segment. - Effectively, the flame was “lit” in an unprecedent way: NO CAULDRON AT ALL! Just was the torch which was put in the middle of the giant floating snowflakes, formed by the names of the countries which were the plaques on the parade…. But OK, Yimou thinks in everything: Did the flame from Olympia arrive to the stadium? Yes Is the Olympic Flame present in the ceremony? Yes Is now, what was condemned to be the most infamous Olympic torch of the history, worldwide well-known? Yes OK… Mission accomplished! They appealed to sustainability and no gas emission… what about the fireworks, then? This “lighting” of the cauldron ceremony left in me the feeling of… “it is not over, yet”… An original, but weird, maybe, the weirdest idea for the Olympic Flame. My conclusion: no taking in consideration the “no cauldron” factor (who broke the most important tradition for an opening ceremony, turning it into a sort of “queen’s baton” relay) it was a simple, short, well done and impressive ceremony. A pandemic ceremony, well executed who successfully replaced the (may be ancient) mass segments by stunning technology… OK, Beijing… you didn’t right!!!
  9. Yes, they were LED screens. Commentators said that hundreds of times in TVN, broadcasting for Chile.
  10. Also you can try on Marca Claro - Claro Sports on YouTube, but it's only available for Latin America.
  11. It's not available until the end of the games on the Olympic Channel...
  12. I am!!!!! I really liked what I saw excepting the "no cauldron" ... you can not expect more for a city which is under strict rules for covid infections...
  13. OK Guys... just a pleasure to be with you again... But, remember it was another "pandemic" ceremony... into this context it was fine, even though the "no cauldron" factor. Let's meet for the closing ceremonies... remember than closing ceremonies are being at the same level, or even better, than then the opening ones... For me it was a good ceremony... I really didn't have my expectations to high (most of all after watching what they dared to do at Tokyo) See you!
  14. It doesn't have to do with pandemic times, but with the resources they use and the complains and huge critisism about them. Not only for ceremonies, but for the games themselves. The Olympics are facing major crisis because no one want to host them anymore after subsequent scandals... so, ceremonies are the "face" of simplicity in organizing the events... Again, I told you.. ceremonies wll never be the same and they are open to new ideas and new formats since Buenos Aires 2018 opened that door...
  15. I have told in previous post... ceremonies will never be as they used to be... The great era of ceremonies was after Beijing, prior Rio. I think you are going to hate me because of what I am going to write: I have always thought that Torch relay and Cauldrons are a HUGE loss of resourses, money and energy (for cauldrons) Anyway, in a ceremony there should be a cauldron, even small, as they where in Lima or Tokyo...
  16. With no people allowed to gather, China bet for a high tech ceremony with no cauldron... There should be a cauldron even if it is small... But they didn't want they Olympic torch to be missed in time... no relay took place, so, Chinese creativity, put the torch as the cauldron itself... Is it the end of the cauldron era???
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