Sir Rols

Thanks @Jon Will Chambers! Noticed you don’t include the year for Rome. Intentional or oversight?

Moreso the DJ booth

This the guy?

Brazilians look like Michelin men

Actually, splitting the parade does seem to be making it go quicker. I’m liking seeing them march through the streets of Cortina

Well. While the porridge cooks, my preliminary review… ‘Loved the initial segment/s, so fun, and great Italian vibes. Mariah? Meh. A bit robotic and lifeless to me. The poetry, interpretive dance, rings? All a bit same-same. A bit of a letdown after the quirky opening number.

Sigh… The athlete’s parade. Time to make breakfast

Took a while for those rings to join - did Thomas Jolly guest choreograph that segment?

Rafaela Carra tribute - hubby’s gonna love this!

Opera! I’m already liking this

San Siro looks pretty full

Just woke up to see Princess Anne on a red carpet as Giorgia Meloni watches on. Not something I thought I’d ever see. is this red carpet thing now going to become an Olympic staple?

I don’t have any great knowledge of copyright snd trademark law, so can anyone explain what extra protections pasting the ™ symbol on anything give? Surely they can re-submit existing trademark protections anywhere they’re in danger of lapsing, and the IOC has long been notorious anyway for being extra litigious in protecting their copyright for symbols and footage. Back in my working days, we’d often get requests from major companies- I’m talking the likes of IBM and Apple - to use the ™ symbol anytime we mentioned their company name or their products in our stories. We’d just tell them to go jump - it wasn’t our style, or any media organisation’s style, to pander to their corporate pretensions.

I hope not. I loved Paris 2024, but if the YOGs have any relevance at all. It’s for the smaller cities and countries. Paris has nothing to prove.

Is this a new thing? The IOC putting TM (trademark) into the OBS graphics?

Y muchas gracias Scotty! By the way @Nacholympic, are there any Chileno artists you’d like see perform for the polls/announcements? Bad Bunny’s management have approached us about lining up a practice gig before the Super Bowl, but we’d rather a local take the stage at Viña. And Pedro Pascal’s a nice guy and all, but singing? Let’s put it this way, he’s not exactly in line for a Grammy.

Yay @Scotguy II! Grazie Mille!

Si Signora! At your service Michelle!

Moguls skiers Jakara Anthony (gold medallist Beijing) and Matt Graham (four time Olympian) have been named as our ceremony flag bearers. Australia announces Jakara Anthony, Matt Graham as 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics flag bearers

Assuming Santiago votes go first, I’m sure Giorgia wouldn’t mind Ro e being an open city’s teensy bit longer (though for our peace of mind, it would be great to have it all wrapped and ready before Mariah takes the stage at San Siro).

Yeah, a slippery slope in my opinion. Really going to have to watch and hope they don’t backslide even further under Coventry to surrender too much to the commercial world.

They’d already hosted the winter Asiad before, in 2011 I think. I would have loved, and much preferred, if they’d hosted 2022 instead of China. And they came pretty close.

@Bear, @Jon Will Chambers, that unbreakable deadline’s fast approaching….

Yeah, issue resolved. Though apparently there’s a few others having music rights issues as well Figure skater saved from scrapping Olympic routine after Minions music copyright dispute

Almaty’s been chosen as the replacement Almaty to host 2029 Asian Winter Games, OCA