Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE CHAT

[JMarkSnow2012]

Has it been normal to have Bach standing almost directly behind the OCOG speaker?

[olimpicgamer]

Are they having lots of technical issues? So many empty moments

[Rob2012]

OK, I'm going for a pee

[FYI]

How can anyone even quantify what was their "favorite" closing? Unless someone has watched each ceremony several times (which most people don't, even here, I think many just watch it once, when it's actually on, & that's it), to fairly determine which was is anyone's fave. Especially when we're talking about having to go back MANY years back for many, like Sydney.

[Olympian2004]

1 minute ago, Ikarus360 said:

This guy did so much damage to the Olympic movement and its popularity. He's the living embodiment of the "How do you do fellow kids" meme.
 

So fucking glad he'll finally be gone in 2025 and I won't have to see him again in Cortina. Mind you, i'm sure the IOC is already filled with people as bad or worse than him, but at least I hope the next president is more charismatic.

Wait until they announce their guest of honour on the VIP stand in Stadio Meazza - "the former president of the International Olympic Committee who will always remain an Olympic champion in fencing in 1976 to us... our dear friend Thomas Bach!" 

[Nacholympic]

It's incredible how 8 years later we take the value of Rio closing ceremony.

[JMarkSnow2012]

Just now, Rob2012 said:

OK, I'm going for a pee

You'll miss the best bit!

[Bear]

any guesses for bach's speech length?

[kevzz]

The Olympics rings are barely visible. 

[Scotguy II]

Where is Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

She would make a great IOC President - yes madame president

[Daze]

3 minutes ago, Ikarus360 said:

This guy did so much damage to the Olympic movement and its popularity. He's the living embodiment of the "How do you do fellow kids" meme.
 

So fucking glad he'll finally be gone in 2025 and I won't have to see him again in Cortina. Mind you, i'm sure the IOC is already filled with people as bad or worse than him, but at least I hope the next president is more charismatic.

We all thought the same when Sepp Blatter left......😉

[StefanMUC]

Tony E is really good as a speaker. Pity he is not (yet) an IOC member. Would have been a perfect choice to succeed Escrime 1976.

[sebastien1214]

Tony Estanguet who says "we saw ourselves as a people of indomitable grumblers"

(ahem, he hasn't yet seen the reactions of the French to this closing ceremony)

[Scotguy II]

1 minute ago, Bear said:

any guesses for bach's speech length?

4 years

[Ikarus360]

3 minutes ago, olimpicgamer said:

Are they having lots of technical issues? So many empty moments

No. The TV director is a massive amateur.

[rio2016man]

 Tony Estanguet's speech a masterclass

[emre]

Just now, Scotguy II said:

Where is Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

She would make a great IOC President - yes madame president

OMG yes pls.. i want my neighbour as the head of sports....Iron Lady and loves Istanbul hehehe  but she is not IOC member does she?

[HenryOaks]

The worst thing is that there was no security cordon to control that the athletes did not go on stage. That was a mess.

 

[Bear]

thanks tony for the shoutout

[Olympian2004]

2 minutes ago, FYI said:

How can anyone even quantify what was their "favorite" closing? Unless someone has watched each ceremony several times (which most people don't, even here, I think many just watch it once, when it's actually on, & that's it), to fairly determine which was is anyone's fave. Especially when we're talking about having to go back MANY years back for many, like Sydney.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but by now, I have probably watched every Olympic opening or closing ceremony of which footage exists on YouTube or other websites. And the idea of incorporating artistic segments into those ceremonies only really started in Moscow in 1980, so there are actually not that many ceremonies to watch in order to get a pretty good basis for comparisons.

[JMarkSnow2012]

2 minutes ago, Scotguy II said:

Where is Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

Roughly the same place she was in 1998

[Ikarus360]

2 minutes ago, kevzz said:

The Olympics rings are barely visible. 

I was gonna say that. They look so bad and amateurlishly placed. They didn't even bothered adding lighting effects to it.

[FYI]

3 minutes ago, Nacholympic said:

It's incredible how 8 years later we take the value of Rio closing ceremony.

The stadium was half empty though, due to the bad storm in Rio on the very last day of the 2016 Games. That also took away from the vibe of the closing ceremony there.

[Sir Rols]

5 minutes ago, FYI said:

How can anyone even quantify what was their "favorite" closing? Unless someone has watched each ceremony several times (which most people don't, even here, I think many just watch it once, when it's actually on, & that's it), to fairly determine which was is anyone's fave. Especially when we're talking about having to go back MANY years back for many, like Sydney.

Favourite is just what you enjoyed the best. What’;s so hard or bizarre about that? Most people here indeed HAVE watched multiples and most of them

[JMarkSnow2012]

Shoutout to the Paralympics! Yaaaaay!