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[TheShuttleExperience]

That's why Russia is absent from the Olympic Games

I think it's due to the agressive war in Ukraine first of all Speaking of corruption, let's not talk about Russia in this context

 

[Urwumpe]

That's why Russia is absent from the Olympic Games

Because corruption is still not an olympic discipline yet?

2022 Corruption Perceptions Index: Explore the results

How does your country measure up in the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index?

www.transparency.org

I linked to the performance of Gojira here, its a better cleaner capture of it.

What music are you listening to?

www.orbiter-forum.com

 

[N_Molson]

One of the main thing about Olympic Games, historically, is that the ancient Greek Cities (which were always more or less fighting each other) agreed for a truce during the Games. Just saying.

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1. People's Republic of China	16	12	9	37
2. United States of America	14	24	23	61
3. France	12	14	15	41
4. Australia	12	8	7	27
5. United Kingdom	10	10	13	33
6. Republic of Korea	9	7	5	21
7. Japan	8	5	9	22
8. Italy	6	8	5	19
9. Netherlands	6	4	4	14
10. Canada	4	4	7	15

https://olympics.com/fr/paris-2024/medailles

*note : for some reason I can no longer access emoticons or formats.

 

[Urwumpe]

One of the main thing about Olympic Games, historically, is that ancient Greek Cities (which were always more or less fighting each other) agreed for a truce during the Games. Just saying.

Well, so goes the legend. The reality looks worse. Even the ancient games only had an Olympic Truce in the sense, that the city where the games are held, is not attacked and all participants to travel there safely. With the effect, that it became common quickly to begin a war as hosting city state against another and then expect a truce for the games or to attack a neighbour so it cannot become a hosting city.

If you want to appeal for a peaceful coexistence, the olympic games are certainly not ideal.

 

[N_Molson]

The Games are over.

Nice USA-France women basketball final, score was 67-66. It was real tight until the end. Also congrats to all male and female marathonians that ran 42km into Paris by more than 35°C !

Tom Cruise made a quite impressive bungee jump from the roof of the Stade de France. He sure is quite fit for his age. Other than that the closing ceremony was very 'conventional', a bit long.

Final rankings :

 

[MaxBuzz]

horror part of the closing ceremony of the olympiad is weak

 

[N_Molson]

I must say I'm not sure what this part of the ceremony exactly meant.

 

[Urwumpe]

I must say I'm not sure what this part of the ceremony exactly meant.

Thats normal for such ceremonys. AFAIR, Cruise represented the USA as host of the next Olympic Games. Everything beyond is art, in the sense of "Normal people can't understand this".

 

[N_Molson]

Thats normal for such ceremonys. AFAIR, Cruise represented the USA as host of the next Olympic Games. Everything beyond is art, in the sense of "Normal people can't understand this".

You can also say that art is open to everybody own interpretation.

 

[STS]

I must say I'm not sure what this part of the ceremony exactly meant.

Well, I enjoyed that part (didn´t watch the full ceremony).
I interpreted it as:
1 - Man (maybe god applies here too) arrives to Earth, man(kind) invents the Olympics in Greece (therefore the Greek flag being planted by other character different from the "Golden Voyager (wich was also an allusion to the disc on the Voyager spacecraft wich was made in france, according to what the Spanish comentators explained there)").
2 - Mankind runs the Ancient olympics for many centuries (lightshow with the ancient sports pictures on the crowd´s seats).
3 - Ancient olympics end, but centuries later the Modern Olympics are created (Represented with the Olympic rings show, wich was really cool).
(and I had lo leave for bed around that time, but will watch the ceremony recording)

I think that the format for the Opening ceremony was interesting but didn´t work because of the rain and I think they rushed it a bit, making it shorter of what it should be. I didn´t understand the story it wanted to tell. In my opinion, this was the worst opening ceremony I have watched, and I watched all since Athens. There were also too many political messages, that I support, but that I think were out of context; my favourite was London 2012 for sure (Barcelona was of course excellent, I watched the recording of it). But I enjoyed very much the ending of the Opening Ceremony, with that Pegasus riding the river, and that magical cauldron wich was an actual balloon! However I didn´t like the aspect that it´s not actual fire. I understand that there is an undeniable climate change, but come on, is there real harm on keeping a gas going to keep a flame burning for two weeks? I think that the fact that the cauldron was electric is an exaggeration.

In my opinion they should really have executed a B plan for the opening ceremony in case of rain.

Spain did very good on this olympics. I hope that LA 2028 will be better, both in the opening ceremony and the rest!

Best regards,

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

The only thing I did not miss (well, I saw it on YT after it was over):

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

I must say I'm not sure what this part of the ceremony exactly meant.

Happens very often in the department of art, that I don't know what it means I remember back in the early 90s, when I visited a "performance" of an artist with my mom. He baked a 1 m³ cube of yeast dough Whatever that meant...