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  5. IOC hits “pause” on Olympic bid process as new president Kirsty Coventry orders review of timing and member involvement

    in GB Newswire

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    5 hours ago, baron-pierreIV said:

    My question is -- on matters which pertain to the Winter Games, should they not limit the IOC members who determine the crucial issues of the WOGs just to the regular "snow" countries?   I mean what concern does a desert or tropical island country really have in a winter sport?  A voting member from Mauritius or Tonga can throw off a whole election just to be contrary or for the artificial reasons of "inclusivity"?  

    Lol! I remember my very first forum spat was back in 2004 with you over exactly this question.

    Probably a bit moot now, though. Kirsty’s unlikely to bring in votes again - more it’ll be “educating” the non-winter countries on why they should rubber stamp her the FHC’s preference.

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  8. The Next IOC President

    in General Olympics Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, StefanMUC said:

    So today is the day and no mention yet here of it?

    Good riddance, Fencing 1976!

    Not that I have much hope in Swimming 2004/2008 though…

    Yeah, surprising not much comment. But we’ve had huge drone strike waves of spam bots specifically targeting General Olympic Discussions over the past 12 hours, so maybe Uncle Vlad had unleashed the troll farms to dissuade attention from it. Not to mention that the Donald dominates the news cycle, as always.

    Bye Bye Bach, I’m pretty sure you won’t be missed here. A whimpering end to one of the three great autocratic IOC presidencies after Brundage and Samaranch. Thing is, I considered Bach incompetent as well as autocratic.

    We’ll wait and see, I guess, what Kiss Me Kirsty brings to the role, and if she grows beyond being Thomas’ Mini Me.

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  10. Should the 2028 Olympics be removed from the nation of braindead cvnts?

    in Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games

    Posted

    I know this is about the Club World Cup and next year’s World Cup, but thought it was most pertinent here…

    America is showing us football in its final dictator form – we can’t afford to look away

    Lots of quote-worthy stuff in there:

    Under Gianni Infantino Fifa has become a kind of mobile propaganda agency for indulgent regimes, right out in front twirling its pompoms, hitching its leotard, twerking along at the front of the parade like an unholy Uncle Sam.

    So we had the grisly sight this week of Donald Trump not just borrowing football’s light, but wrestling it on to his lap and ruffling its hair, burbling like a random hot-button word generator about women and trans people, while Juventus players gawped in the background.

    We have the spectacle of both club and international football hijacked as a personal vanity platform for Infantino, the dictator’s fluffer, the man who sold the world not once but twice. Infantino’s status as a wildly over-promoted administrator has always had an operatic quality. But there is something far more sinister in his political over-reach, out there nodding along at the latest Oval Office freak-off, helping to legitimise each divisive statement, each casual erasure of process.

  12. LA 2028 Ceremonies

    in Los Angeles 2028 Ceremonies Discussions

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    On 6/13/2025 at 4:48 AM, Olympics2028 said:

    LA is already diverse and international, so as host city it should celebrate the customs, cultures and peoples of the entire globe.

    I hope the creative team have the guts to present a tribute to West Hollywood, and have RuPaul lead a tableau recreating Washington crossing the Delaware.

    And then a long tribute to the foundations of LA, featuring Mexican immigrants, Spanish friars and Conquistadors founding the first mission and stamping Iberian culture on the west coast of the continent.

    I’m serious

  15. LA 2028 Ceremonies

    in Los Angeles 2028 Ceremonies Discussions

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    3 hours ago, Olympics2028 said:

    btw, this forum doesn't have enough users as it already is, so if you'd rather not see different opinions here, than it will be like a small town with one traffic signal. Or one horse. Or zzzzz.

    We love to see different opinions here. So why don’t you give us some? Instead of the same half-dozen ”opinions” you re-hash here over and over and over and over and over again.

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  17. Should the 2028 Olympics be removed from the nation of braindead cvnts?

    in Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games

    Posted · Edited by Sir Rols

    36 minutes ago, BigVic said:

    Give Tokyo a 2nd chance. We were robbed of an Opening Ceremony that featured video game references, Akira and Super Mario in 202(1) so relocating the Games to Tokyo from LA is still feasible. 3 years to go and Japan has all the infrastructure to host at such short notice 

    We may have missed our chance at a Super Mario/Sega OC, but Paris gave us a Ubisoft/Assassin’s Creed OC. And the way the US is going, LA may well give us a Grand Theft Auto/Cyberpunk OC.

  18. LA 2028 Ceremonies

    in Los Angeles 2028 Ceremonies Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Sir Rols

    It’s likely not what O28 had in mind, but it was fun and a great example of something specifically written for multiple voices. Girl From Ipanaema most definitely was not, and the choral version he posted was a travesty. - didn’t realise Ipanaema could sound so anaemic.

    Anyway, we’re just getting caught up in O28’s bi-monthly foray here to regurgitate his usual lust of grievances.

  19. LA 2028 Ceremonies

    in Los Angeles 2028 Ceremonies Discussions

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Olympics2028 said:

    That's the point. The event IS an Olympics ceremony, not a two-bit concert at the local nightclub. Or a program sponsored by the Grammys. Although maybe the Olympics and an music awards show are now sort of the same thing?

    Forget about whether this segment even fit the opening of a major international sports event. Forget about whether Gisele looking like she's walking down the red carpet at the Oscars could have been done to better fit the Olympics. Or whether the singer (the grandson of the writer of the song) fit the event like he was doing solo at the American Music Awards.

    If that segment had been accompanied by the sound of a group like this, it would have given the moment more sense of occasion or big-time ceremony. 

     

    Honestly, I don’t think you could have picked a worse example to champion choirs as the ones you presented. The Girl from Ipanaema is such an extremely famous Bossa Nova, it’s meant to be a soft, sensual fusion of samba and jazz. It was exemplified by that presentation in 2016. It’s literally about a beautiful girl who makes every man she passes go… Aaaaaah! Giselle exempfield that girl. It was fitting.

    The choir version you shows turns it into a cheesy tune with no passion, sensuality or sense of culture to it. It’s quite simply even worse than the many stereotypical elevator muzak version that have proliferated over the years. It completely misses the point of that particular song.

    There’s a place for choirs, and there’s a place for solo singers and artists. A sense of ceremony does not have to depend on numbers and massed voices. A choir might well have produced a passable rendition of Hymne d’Amour at the close of Paris’ OC, but I doubt it could have done it as powerfully as Celine Dion did - her’s was probably one of the great showstoppe performances of Olympic history.choirs, on the other hand, are probably better suited for national anthems or the Olympic hymn than many solo performers… or maybe not even then.

    You seem to give the impression your view of an Olympic ceremony is as a fusion of quasi-military and almost religious solemnity. Something worshipful and regimented. But ultimately anachronistic in today’s world. What might have played well in the 1930s could only come across as pompous or parody to today’s audience.

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  21. Germany 2036

    in 2036 Olympic Games Bids

    Posted

    Is it just me, or does the Hamburger plan seem the most compact? Hard to tell by the scale of the map.

    Anyway, my choices in order of preference 

    1: Hamburg

    2: NRW (I guess we’re saying that instead of Rhine-Ruhr now)

    3: Munich 

    4: Berlin

  25. Brisbane 2032

    in Brisbane 2032 Summer Games

    Posted

    2 hours ago, baron-pierreIV said:

    So what are the citizens of Brisbane called? 
    - Brisbanese?
    - Brisbanians?

    - Brisbanites?  

    According to Wikipedia, the official demonym is Brisbanite, with Brisbanian also sometimes used.

    In Sydney (and I expect Melbourne), we’d usually just say “Bloody Queenslanders”

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