Official Olympics Rio 2016 thread

[alenleomessi]

Opening ceremony is tomorrow, basketball starts saturday, track and field a bit later.. Women football started yesterday with this gem and men football is on later tonight with the host nation brazil playing

[LexiKhan]

Opening cerimony was pretty decent so far. Short also, but they did spend 10 times less then the London Olympics.

Really liked the cerimony up until the giselle walk, then it kinda fizzled out with the generic dance act set to modern urban brazil music. I specially liked the bit with the natives and the portuguese discovery followed by the influence of the various communities in building brazil. Was pretty cool the changes in the background going from jungle to farmlands and then to the current urbanization.

[9erempiree]

Opening cerimony was pretty decent so far. Short also, but they did spend 10 times less then the London Olympics.

Really liked the cerimony up until the giselle walk, then it kinda fizzled out with the generic dance act set to modern urban brazil music. I specially liked the bit with the natives and the portuguese discovery followed by the influence of the various communities in building brazil. Was pretty cool the changes in the background going from jungle to farmlands and then to the current urbanization.

There are west coasters that haven't seen it yet.

I may have to avoid this thread.

[LexiKhan]

There are west coasters that haven't seen it yet.

I may have to avoid this thread.

Damn sorry, I thought this was being broadcasted live all over the world.

[9erempiree]

Damn sorry, I thought this was being broadcasted live all over the world.

Not your fault.

[highwhey]

Not your fault.

Muslims fault am I right?

[poido123]

Muslims fault am I right?

It's your fault.


This has been pretty disappointing opening ceremony overall. Some good apsects though, the green rings followed by the fireworks was pretty cool.



Guy on our TV network said it resembled more of a closing ceremony.




Ziiinng

[9erempiree]

Are they going to show Neymar?

He the biggest staiin Brazil. Not Giselle.

Giselle got the heck out of there.

[9erempiree]

Climate change propaganda in the Olympics?

[9erempiree]

Wow.

There is more fear mongering than a DNC.

They are showing maps of cities being flooded underwater.

[FillJackson]

The most dominant swimmer on Earth is a 19 year old American named Katie Ledecky.

[QUOTE]She

[iamgine]

The most dominant swimmer on Earth is a 19 year old American named Katie Ledecky.

crazy

She looks like a guy...on this very site.

[9erempiree]

Luka Modric

[gigantes]

well, damn... score one for hitler. :S

The modern convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue began in 1936 in Germany. Carl Diem devised the idea of the torch relay for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin that was organized by the Nazis under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels.

The Olympic flame was lit by a concave mirror in Olympia, Greece and transported over 3,187 kilometres by 3,331 runners in twelve days and eleven nights from Greece to Berlin.

Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flame#Modern_era

[alenleomessi]

australians creampieing the french.. where is ben simmons though? they could have easily contended for a medal with him