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Olympics

snakemom1961

snakemom1961

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I don't know how many of you like them. But of those of you who watched the opening ceremonies, what where your thoughts.
A couple highlights for me were the showing of the original inhabitants and a bit of each of their cultures and the whales swimming across the stadium, coming up for breath and shooting their spray.
Over all I thought it was a wonderful opening ceremony.
 
I love the olympics, Nancy. And always love the opening ceremonies. I was humbled and teary-eyed at the role the native american tribes played. The role they were given, and their pre-eminence (as I remarked upon in DYK) was very moving and respectful on so many levels. I'm such a nerd, now I want to look them all up and read more about each of those individual tribes.
I loved the whales, too. I figured neat geeky techy effects would play a role, here in 2010. And the young guy who performed in the depiction of the plains of Canada. That was very very unique and artistic.
Oh my gosh, and K.D. Lang's singing was super fantastic. Beautiful performance.
I like when they involve VIP's that excelled in the past, too.
 
It all was awesome. I just pointed out a couple of things that stood out for me, but I sat here transfixed for 3 plus hours. I thought Vancouver did an awesome job. I just read a top 10 and of course the top 1 was the malfunction for lighting the culdron.
I was saddened by that, because to me that took away from what all happened before that moment.
I am SO looking forward to the next 16 days. Just wish I had next week off instead of this past week..lol
 
The malfunction didn't bother me much. People are human, and it was all done live. At the time that all the people in red were on inline skates, I thought wouldn't it be horrible if someone busted their behind.
That little lady with the white hair (who helped carry in the flag) who won a medal in 1948 for figure skating was a cutie patootie.
 
vetusvates said:
The malfunction didn't bother me much. People are human, and it was all done live. At the time that all the people in red were on inline skates, I thought wouldn't it be horrible if someone busted their behind.
That little lady with the white hair (who helped carry in the flag) who won a medal in 1948 for figure skating was a cutie patootie.
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I couldn't agree with you more Eric. Seeing all the people from all different walks of life carry the Olympic flag was awesome. The woman you were referring to was an Olympian the same year one of our die hard announcers for figure skating got his metal. Dick Button.

I can't say enough about how awesome I thought the whole thing was. Big deal, there was a malfunction. Did that take away from the whole ceremony? I don't think so. I realize it was the pivotal part of the whole ceremony, but they were able to make it work and work well.

I will never look back and think of this Olympics and think "yeah, but they had that malfunction in the end"

What I"ll remember are the points I listed before and the standing ovation(I cried) when the Georgia country walked in.
 
I loved the opening ceremony. My favorite part was the punk fiddlers and tap dancers. I liked this opening ceremony better than Beijing. The Beijing ceremony seemed overly flashy, just so they could show the world how great they are. Also, the lengths the Chinese were willing to go to in order to dominate (underage gymnasts, replacing a good singer with a cuter one to lip-synch in the opening ceremony) overshadowed those games for me. I thought the Canadian ceremony came more from the heart.
 
Hail_Britannia has a point.
Oh...and I liked the fiddling and the tap-dancing, too. I can't think of the right words. Sometimes less is more, though. Showcasing the history and folk culture of Canada drew one in...it seemed more intimate.
 
I really enjoyed the opening ceremonies. I've been looking forward to seeing the opening for a very long time. Aboriginals are such an important part of the culture on coastal British Columbia, and I was so pleased to see the recognition they were given. All the entertainers were spectacular. It was a proud Canadian moment for me.
 
Sadly I was gone for most of the night and did not get to watch the opening ceremonies, I always love watching the opening ceremony. I'm always a fan of the winter olympics, for the most part I like the winter better than the summer olympics. Anything skiing and snowboarding is my favorite.

When I went to Northern Michigan University, they have a "US Olympic Education Center" program, that participates in training olympic hopefuls. They use what is referred to as "Suicide hill" in Ishpeming, MI, one of the main US ski jump sites, as a training site, and Ishpeming is home to the US National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum. It is all very impressive to see in person.

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A pic I took myself in autumn
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