baron-pierreIV Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Extremely over-rated. Its parts were greater than its whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningrings Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Extremely over-rated. Its parts were greater than its whole. In your opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 In your opinion... Of course. Why should I voice someone else's?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athensfan Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Athens is easily the most cohesive and aesthetically arresting ceremony to date. Baron is just being his usual subversive self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 did anyone explain the 6th ring in the fountain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Athens' cauldron is my favorite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Athens' cauldron is my favorite! We all have our favorites. Let's NOT go there for now as we'll have wasted another 6 pages or so of "My favorite is __________." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 True - the Games that are about to begin are called the Sochi Games and not the Athens Games. We've moved ten years forward since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4seasonscentre Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Countdown to Sochi...workers wave from high atop the the #Olympic cauldron: https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/430755954666119168/photo/1 I think they were put up there after being caught kissing and are crying for help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Athens' cauldron is my favorite! People in Colorado love that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 The latest rumour in Russian media is that the cauldron will be lit from space. Allegedly President Putin commissioned the national space agency Roskosmos to make that possible. German tabloid newspaper BILD reported on that (link in German: http://www.bild.de/sport/olympia/olympisches-feuer/wird-aus-dem-all-entzuendet-34568076.bild.html), but the Olympic broadcaster also picked that rumour up in its breakfast show today. Sounds a bit unrealistic - but who knows? Maybe with such a lighting scenarion, they want to compensate for taking a boring unlit Olympic torch to space. And weren't there even reports that they would use exactly that very torch that went to space for the lighting of the cauldron? They could pretend somehow that the flame was brought down from space with that torch, and then it triggers the "chain reaction" from inside the Olympic Stadium via that fuse up the cauldron. Well, we'll know in about 12 hours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 But how? They've just tested the lighting on the back of the neck of that slope. It will be lit from inside. How can it be from space?? Totally disconnects from the Torch relay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexico 1968 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 The latest rumour in Russian media is that the cauldron will be lit from space. Allegedly President Putin commissioned the national space agency Roskosmos to make that possible. German tabloid newspaper BILD reported on that (link in German: http://www.bild.de/sport/olympia/olympisches-feuer/wird-aus-dem-all-entzuendet-34568076.bild.html), but the Olympic broadcaster also picked that rumour up in its breakfast show today. Sounds a bit unrealistic - but who knows? Maybe with such a lighting scenarion, they want to compensate for taking a boring unlit Olympic torch to space. And weren't there even reports that they would use exactly that very torch that went to space for the lighting of the cauldron? They could pretend somehow that the flame was brought down from space with that torch, and then it triggers the "chain reaction" from inside the Olympic Stadium via that fuse up the cauldron. Well, we'll know in about 12 hours... IF IT'S TRUE It will be like in Montreal 1976 " The Olympic Flame was placed in front of a sensor that detects ionised particles and was then encoded into impulses and sent via satellite to Ottawa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 But how? They've just tested the lighting on the back of the neck of that slope. It will be lit from inside. How can it be from space?? Totally disconnects from the Torch relay. Putin's giant orbital death laser battle station platforms which he's set to announce to the world tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 BBC Sport The Olympic flame has been lit at a spectacular #Sochi2014 opening ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Glad I didn't go to Sochi and watch the OC only to have the cauldron-lighting (the highlight) take place outside. Kinda deflates the whole ceremony for me. Glad Irina Rodnina was in shape to make that run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 a flaming hockey puck lighting could have been great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illustrado Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 BBC Sport The Olympic flame has been lit at a spectacular #Sochi2014 opening ceremony still looks like a penis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzl Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 still looks like a penis I guess we can't take it out of your head, huh?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 This guy is obsessed with penis^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 And so the "lighting from space" rumour was the most massive wrong rumour in Olympic cauldron history, I guess. Instead, we got one of the maybe most boring cauldron lightings in recent Olympic history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illustrado Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 I guess we can't take it out of your head, huh?? This guy is obsessed with penis^ i might have a Freudian mind. but if some cauldron need a bit of imagination to look like a penis, this cauldron does not need an ounce of imagination. the shape and the angle make it look like penis and it's unfortunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympicnapso Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 i might have a Freudian mind. but if some cauldron need a bit of imagination to look like a penis, this cauldron does not need an ounce of imagination. the shape and the angle make it look like penis and it's unfortunate. why are you saying about penis only, i was in Olympic park and it look gorgeous with a fountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzl Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 I still don't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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