BTHarner

Too bad that Bob Ley was never in a position to be a Olympic primetime host. Just my opinion, but he would have been far better than Jim McKay or Bob Costas.

I don't know about 2031 with LA hosting the 2028 Olympics and Salt Lake perhaps hosting the Winter Games in 2030 or 2034. I doubt the USOPC will be interested in presenting a Pan Am bid in that time frame unless PanAm Sports is desperate for a host and a some sort accommodation favorable to the USOPC can be reached. I like the idea about a DC-Baltimore bid, it being so close to home. However, despite the fact that the Pan Am Games do not require the mega-facilities of the Olympics, the price tag for 2015 and 2019 was more than a billion dollars for each edition. How would a US based games

Thanks for finding that ceremony. The audio wasn't the greatest at times, but I've been waiting to see it for so long that it was a minor problem. Found it interesting that the commentators were largely silent unlike American commentators who talk a little too much. The only opening left on my wish list that I haven't been able to re-watch is Lake Placid 1980. Every other one from Munich to the present has been out there for at least a short period of time.

Five years already. Just doesn't seem possible.

I don't like Bach anymore than some of you, but he is not a complete ignoramus who blindly believes that this is going off as planned. Surely they are working with the needed parties, and they are many, to reschedule this and is withholding any comment until everything is set in stone. I just wish they would announce it now and just reset the countdown clock, but this is going to be incredibly complex. I think they will pull it off though (using lots of money to keep many happy) and, barring another situation such as this, the Games will take place in the summer of 2021.

Well at least the look should be present from the beginning unlike 2016 when it seemed to arrive throughout the Games.

Interest in the YOGs is, at best, lukewarm around here (75 total posts in the forums pertaining to the 2018 and 2020 editions). That's probably why nobody was beating the door down to post the OC as soon as possible. You can slap the Olympic rings on it, but it just doesn't feel like an Olympic Games. Just my opinion.

You just cannot reason with these people. You can address all their concerns and then they'll invent some new ones just to keep stirring the pot and any amount of attention they get just emboldens their resolve and their agenda. Why do they target the Olympics and the Olympics only? How about motor racing and it's effects on the environment? How about other sports organizations and the their insistence on using public funds to build stadiums? They don't seem to have too much to say about the issues related to the 2022 World Cup, either.

Puts me in mind of the Rio Paralympic logo.

That was a fun few weeks. I had serious doubts a few years back about how this was going to turn out. After all, they seemed more concerned about the mascot than the venues. It all turned out fine in the end and I commend those who made it possible.

The entire commentator-free ceremony is up on the Pan Am Sports Channel. The app is also now up, but only in Spanish and only on Android devices.

Still have to watch the rest of the ceremony after the parade of athletes. Decided to be a nice husband and go with my wife to a concert and returned home late and watched on the DVR through the end of the parade. I think my initial impressions might be clouded from fatigue and crankiness so I'll need to take the time to watch it again at a better time.

Enjoy the Games Tatsh. I wish I could be there.

There was absolutely no promotion on any of ESPN's English-speaking outlets and that is indicative of where the event ranks on the sporting hierarchy. Many friends my age remember them from the 70s and 80s (before the international sports calendar got glutted with more frequent and lucrative World Championships and the like) when CBS would broadcast the Games, but had assumed that they no longer existed because there was no English coverage from 1995-2003 and just snippets since. The amount of coverage on ESPNU is just fortunate timing since they have a lot of time to fill during the down peri

Actually the graphic look. I wouldn't trade my opening ceremony experience for anything, it will always be one of the most memorable experiences in my lifetime. I know those who are more into the artistic presentation didn't think much of it but, being culturally naive, they could have replaced Cirque du Soleil with thecombination of the Mummenschanz mime troupe and Up With People and I still would have found it memorable.