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Beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze: The running Olympics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by deskslave, Aug 6, 2008.

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  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Re: Beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze: The running Olympics threa

    Why the torch lighting was so cool? Details, people. Details!
     
    Inky_Wretch, Aug 8, 2008
    #61
  2. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    I don't want to give it away for people that might actually want to see it.
     
    Tommy_Dreamer, Aug 8, 2008
    #62
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Re: Beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze: The running Olympics threa

    How about a PM then?

    And maybe we should have a "Spoilers" warning on the thread?
     
    Inky_Wretch, Aug 8, 2008
    #63
  4. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    I'd like to know about the flame-lighting too, if someone would please indulge me.
     
    PeteyPirate, Aug 8, 2008
    #64
  5. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_opening_ceremony
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Aug 8, 2008
    #65
  6. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Had to step out. Thanks for handling that LJB.
     
    Tommy_Dreamer, Aug 8, 2008
    #66
  7. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    It's no problem. I actually wish I could watch the shit again.
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Aug 8, 2008
    #67
  8. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    Sorry I don't believe in spoilers.

    They hooked an ex-gymnast up to some wires and he hoisted him and the flame to the top of the stadium. He then was pulled around the top of the stadium perimeter and mimed running against a video backdrop of Olympic sports.

    The actual lighting of the flame was pretty much what you would see at any other Olympics.
     
    NoOneLikesUs, Aug 8, 2008
    #68
  9. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Now that it's out of the bag.

    I was just glad that:

    1) He didn't pull an Owen Hart (dead wrestler)
    2) He didn't drop that torch
    3) The torch didn't ignite his cables somehow
     
    Tommy_Dreamer, Aug 8, 2008
    #69
  10. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    The first hour of the opening ceremony was amazing and the lighting of the torch was very cool. The fireworks afterward was the best display I've ever seen and shook the surrounding buildings they were so loud.
     
    dreunc1542, Aug 8, 2008
    #70
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    The Olympics better not interrupt the Brett Favre coverage.
     
    Mizzougrad96, Aug 8, 2008
    #71
  12. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Let the propaganda begin: CNN aired an interview from England's IVN with an IOC health director (non-Chinese) who said the air was fine "just humidity" he said. The IVN reporter then whipped out an air quality monitor that showed the air was three times dirtier than the top level considered healthy in England which is something like 50 particles per whatever. My problem is that the IOC didn't have any qualms about ripping Atlanta's organizing committee, but the IOC seems to have had to keep their balls in quarantine for the next two weeks.
    Having these games in China might be the biggest boost for the Green movement since Gore's kid got caught going 100 mph in a Prius.
     
    DanOregon, Aug 8, 2008
    #72
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