AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Philip Barker with hisOpening Ceremony ticket … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 9 hours ago, Sir Rols said: Don’t worry, I’m not gonna crash your party tonight. Have your fun. I won’t guarantee I won’t peruse it tomorrow for the after-party and have my say then, though. If a pristine thread without pesky interlopers was required, perhaps it shouldn’t have been created so extremely prematurely, for whatever reasons. I wonder who’s gonna jump the gun and start the closing live chat within hours of the cauldron firing up? So you are going to watch it? just not live lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 This is what ceremony fans have needed these last couple of covid years..... i can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Yes absolutely. Here is a close-up of his OC ticket …. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 A nice collection ….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, AustralianFan said: A nice collection ….. That ski jump entrance of the olympic flame at Lillehammer 1994 is just perfection..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Scotguy II said: So you are going to watch it? just not live lol No, not at all. Quite determined not too. But i will peruse this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 4 hours to go. Pyeong Chang’s 2018 Opening was conducted in absolutely freezing temperatures, much colder than Beijing’s Opening will be tonight. Pyeong Chang also had drones but so far no sign of any at the Beijing rehearsals …. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 The Olympic medal is back for its 4th olympiad since i got it. just over 3 and a half hours to go until showtime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 From Olympics-After Fraught Games Run-Up, Beijing Turns to Opening Ceremony - 4Feb2022 - US News and World Report: “The fireworks used on Friday night will equal only 10% of those used in 2008, and only in silver, white and green” “While exact details of the ceremony are kept under wraps, including who will light the cauldron, a promotional video depicts scenes of winter wonderland, with activity on snow and ice and a snowflake flying around the world” Volunteers walk outside the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, where the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be held later in the day, in Beijing, China February 4, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Incredible and beautiful scenes on natural ice in the mountains for Chinese New Year and the Winter Olympics … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 hours 15 mins to go. From outside the Birds Nest Stadium in the late afternoon , Philip Barker from Inside the Games just filed this …. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 The Opening Ceremony has it’s own emoji 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rio2016man Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 big day is finally here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Hi again guys. I have read the discussions in this topic and I don't want to fuel them any further. I just want to say that I will be watching the opening ceremony and also commenting on it here, BUT my enthusiasm for the Games is as low as it has never been before. Even Beijing 2008 created more anticipation for me than this winter edition in the same city. I will focus on the athletes for these Games, as they are the original focal point of each Olympic Games, while I detect that the IOC and the Chinese regime focus on economical and political interests. For me, these will be the athletes' Games and not those of those people who want to profit from them for all the wrong reasons. And I think that it is more and more farcical that the IOC insists on the unpolitical status of the Olympic Games just in order to deflect from the fact that they are bigots and would sell their soul to the devil in order to gain cash and personal standing. I will watch tonight's ceremony with all those in mind who can't have a free life in China, without repression and violence. And I will think about the good people of China in general, not those who lead them. I get that the Chinese regime wants to transform this in a big propaganda show about how much "fun" life in China is - and I think that it is important to keep them accountable for all the human rights violations that already took place and will take place in their country even while we watch all the "glitz and glamour" of tonight's broadcast. That said, let the Games begin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 18 minutes ago, Olympian2004 said: Hi again guys. I have read the discussions in this topic and I don't want to fuel them any further. I just want to say that I will be watching the opening ceremony and also commenting on it here, BUT my enthusiasm for the Games is as low as it has never been before. Even Beijing 2008 created more anticipation for me than this winter edition in the same city. I will focus on the athletes for these Games, as they are the original focal point of each Olympic Games, while I detect that the IOC and the Chinese regime focus on economical and political interests. For me, these will be the athletes' Games and not those of those people who want to profit from them for all the wrong reasons. And I think that it is more and more farcical that the IOC insists on the unpolitical status of the Olympic Games just in order to deflect from the fact that they are bigots and would sell their soul to the devil in order to gain cash and personal standing. I will watch tonight's ceremony with all those in mind who can't have a free life in China, without repression and violence. And I will think about the good people of China in general, not those who lead them. I get that the Chinese regime wants to transform this in a big propaganda show about how much "fun" life in China is - and I think that it is important to keep them accountable for all the human rights violations that already took place and will take place in their country even while we watch all the "glitz and glamour" of tonight's broadcast. That said, let the Games begin. Great to see you back mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 2 hours to go. The sun has set in Beijing. From: 500px.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 16 minutes ago, Scotguy II said: Great to see you back mate Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 55 minutes ago, Olympian2004 said: Hi again guys. I have read the discussions in this topic and I don't want to fuel them any further. I just want to say that I will be watching the opening ceremony and also commenting on it here, BUT my enthusiasm for the Games is as low as it has never been before. Even Beijing 2008 created more anticipation for me than this winter edition in the same city. I will focus on the athletes for these Games, as they are the original focal point of each Olympic Games, while I detect that the IOC and the Chinese regime focus on economical and political interests. For me, these will be the athletes' Games and not those of those people who want to profit from them for all the wrong reasons. And I think that it is more and more farcical that the IOC insists on the unpolitical status of the Olympic Games just in order to deflect from the fact that they are bigots and would sell their soul to the devil in order to gain cash and personal standing. I will watch tonight's ceremony with all those in mind who can't have a free life in China, without repression and violence. And I will think about the good people of China in general, not those who lead them. I get that the Chinese regime wants to transform this in a big propaganda show about how much "fun" life in China is - and I think that it is important to keep them accountable for all the human rights violations that already took place and will take place in their country even while we watch all the "glitz and glamour" of tonight's broadcast. That said, let the Games begin. You put that far better than I ever could. The actions of the IOC and China have left me feeling nothing on the morning of an Olympic opening ceremony...I'll also have in mind how the IOC megalomania forced Oslo out, depriving the world of what would've been one of the greatest Winter Olympics ever held, in the capital of the world's most winter sports-mad country. If the Olympics ever die out, the day they sent that list of demands to Norway should be given as the death date Also I never responded to @StefanMUC fascinating comment on Dassler, I never knew any of that. Are there any others, or anywhere to read more? Sounds like he is the Don Corleone at the centre of everything that's happened to sport recently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Another photo from outside the Birds Nest Stadium taken an hour or two ago …. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 60 minutes to go From: 500px.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Just in from the Yiannis Exarchos with the OBS Ceremonies production team at the Birds Nest: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Woke up right now to see this, can't wait for it to start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PikyoK Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 more hour to go!!! It's nearly time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted February 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 Just now from inside the stadium, this shot of the 7 Network Australia commentary team. In then background, a very mysterious object on the stadium roof above the screen….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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