The official Beijing Olympics Thread

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Might as well start this off now. anyone gunna watch the ceremony? if its online i might take a peak at it this lunch time. i usualy watch the ceremony and see each country come out.

great stuff but im just abit upset that we will miss alot of teh action this time round seeing as most of teh events takes place in early hours!

come GB and the philippines. do your fellow countrymen proud Love the olympics and looking forward to the tennis event especialy

[Emirzan]

Woohoo for working night shifts! Since I'm up at weird hours anyway I'll be able to watch plenty of it live. Don't think I'll include the opening ceremony in that though, always very drawn out and ultimately nothing really happens. It's all about the live sport action, not the dressy shows.

Hopefully the pollution won't cause any athletes problems. I hope it won't but in reality I don't see how it can't.

[Stewart]

The mistake everyone makes with the opening ceremony is making it last 19 hours, and always doing the same thing - let off some fireworks, get loads of people wearing costumes to dance around a bit.

Not this time though, I've been watching, and this time its fireworks being let off while loads of people in costumes dance around a bit. Its magical.

And its only 19 hours long this time as well. So completely different to all the others.

And the commentator always goes 'and this part of the show represents the history of China, through the ages, and the twin powers of ying and yang, and the fire of the dragon that burns in the heart of blah blah'... and its some fireworks being let off while people in costumes dance around.

Enough with the fireworks and dancing!

[Parm]

This is one cool opening ceremony! Those tai-chi people who were just on were ace! Only downside is the BBC commentator putting a negative spin on everything.

ooooh, this space thing looks cool...

[Stewart]

'and now we will see a representation of the indiscriminate massacre of students in Tiananmen Square by PLA forces...'

*fireworks* *dancing*

[Norky]

Originally Posted by Stewart

Enough with the fireworks and dancing!

I think we should do the same in 2012, just compress down to about 2 minutes. I'd be quite content if my taxes were spent to set off £4000bn worth of fireworks in 2 minutes while people fly around on wires with glowsticks

[HSK]

woohoo! more fireworks! i love me some fireworks followed by dancing and more fireworks. and some extra fireworks.

[Parm]

Originally Posted by Stewart

'and now we will see a representation of the indiscriminate massacre of students in Tiananmen Square by PLA forces...'

*fireworks* *dancing*

We're going to need an official politcal Beijing Olympics thread, too, aren't we?

[Stewart]

he, no thats my only political comment of the games.

Anyway, the athletes are coming out now... to the tune of Scotland the Brave. Fantastic.

I like this part as you only ever see everyone elses flag once, but the Union Flag appears 97 times, as its in the corner of every place in the world we've conquered.

'And now the Facist Democratic Communist Republic of the Made Up Islands!' *man walks in with yellow flag with Union Flag in the corner*


*Settles down to watch*

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i wonder what our ceremony in 2012 will be like. i cna imagine it now, spice girls dancing all around the place with robbie williams striping his gear off

[Stewart]

The Spice Girls were big in 1996 mate, you're about 16 years out of date.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Originally Posted by Stewart

The Spice Girls were big in 1996 mate, you're about 16 years out of date.

wow has it been that long ago? lol!

[Stewart]

Well it will have been in 2012.

[HSK]

i like how they cut to president bush as iraq's team were walking by.

[samcross]

The drummers at the beginning were definitely the best!!

[ACiD303]

I'm never found Olympic Opening Ceremonies that great.... but that was spectacular! Once in a every small while to make some proud to be Chinese. London's got a lot to follow up, I reckon!

That's Olympic games over for me now