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Old 08-08-2008, 8:09 AM   #1
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The Beijing Olympics
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
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ceremony is bloody borin as. half the british team were there.

great
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I think they did a pretty good job

Looks superb in HD on the BBC channel

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Missed the opening as I was talking to Mr Signs!!

Is the opening show repeated? Watched the 7pm highlights but it only shown a tiny bit of it!
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Old 08-08-2008, 9:19 PM   #5
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Saw this today at work. Great having a live show on the bbc homepage. Well done to the BBC
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Just watched a re-run of the opening ceremony. Very impressive technicolour-lightshow And my interest in 08 is over
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Old 08-08-2008, 9:59 PM   #7
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Politics aside, that opening ceremony was superb, i cannot possibly see London beating it, they must have watched it and though, Damn, Chas and Dave will just not cut it.
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Old 08-08-2008, 10:01 PM   #8
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The opening ceremony was simply spectacular. I just watched up to the point the teams come out. At times, the ceremony reminded me of House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower films. I found out after the Director of the ceremony (and the closing one) is Zhang Yimou who is the Director of those films.

I won't be watching anymore though until the closing ceremony.
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Old 09-08-2008, 6:39 AM   #9
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I have only seen the last 20 mins or so ,looked great in HD, But have recorded the ceremony,look forward to watching it sometime today..............I thought the lighting of the torch was amazing...............
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Old 09-08-2008, 6:56 AM   #10
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can someone explain to me the politics side of the olympics please with all this protest and what not
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Old 09-08-2008, 7:05 AM   #11
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7299221.stm

http://www.thechinadebate.org/en/


Bit of info.................
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Hi,

A superb Opening Ceremony... totally and utterly ruined by the BBC in their usual, spectacular fashion, by three of the most inane and completely unnecessary commentators! See my thread here on it.


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Old 09-08-2008, 9:07 PM   #13
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Hi,

A superb Opening Ceremony... totally and utterly ruined by the BBC in their usual, spectacular fashion, by three of the most inane and completely unnecessary commentators! See my thread here on it.


Pooch
Couldn't agree more.
Mind you it's the same with nearly all BBC sports coverage.
We had Hazel Irving and Gary Linaker trying to bluff their way through the Open not so long ago - clearly using briefings they'd just been fed, but still making cock-up after cock-up.
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Old 09-08-2008, 9:12 PM   #14
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can someone explain to me the politics side of the olympics please with all this protest and what not
No offense, but I hope not.
This is the Sports Forum so I hope we can keep it relevent to the actual sports events, presentation, coverage etc and leave the politics out of it.

I'm fed up to death with the medias race to interview anyone and everyone with something anti to say.
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Old 09-08-2008, 9:14 PM   #15
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The opening ceremony was simply spectacular...............
I coundn't agree more - bloody brilliant.
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Old 10-08-2008, 12:31 PM   #16
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I missed this as I was at work

We have our first Gold medal in cycling. Congratulations to Nicole Cooke! You've done us proud.
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Old 10-08-2008, 12:54 PM   #17
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Mis-post.
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Old 10-08-2008, 1:02 PM   #18
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We have our first Gold medal in cycling. Congratulations to Nicole Cooke! You've done us proud.


Couldn't agree more, well done Nicole

I almost had a tear in my eye when she crossed the finish line
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Old 10-08-2008, 3:41 PM   #19
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Couldn't agree more, well done Nicole

I almost had a tear in my eye when she crossed the finish line
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Have to say i thought she'd blown it when they rounded that last corner but then i looked away and she was leading.

Well done NC.

So thats a statement of intent and a half then from phelps eh.

Just the 1.4 seconds off the world record..he could have made an effort.lol
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Old 11-08-2008, 6:44 AM   #21
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Well who would believe it, someone from Mansfield getting a gold medal
Swimming gold
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you can add a bronze and gold to our tally ftom thw womans swimming!
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Andy Murray's just been knocked out in the 1st round,that winning streak went well then
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Andy Murray's just been knocked out in the 1st round,that winning streak went well then
did you watch the game? TBH murray diddnt play that bad, teh otehr guyw as just pure class and at that rate he was playing on, i wont be surprised if he reaches teh semi's/

the only way andy cold have beaten that guy is if he played his very best
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No,not all of it,just flicking through the bbc-i on the virgin box,couldn't decide what to bloody watch
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The swimming has been excellent so far ,the weigthlifters are mad lol nearly 3times there own body weight ,even the women are stronger than 95% of our male population .
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Andy Murray's just been knocked out in the 1st round,that winning streak went well then
maybe that will get the newspapers to shut up thinking he's in the same league as the top 3.
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The swimming has been excellent so far ,the weigthlifters are mad lol nearly 3times there own body weight ,even the women are stronger than 95% of our male population .
That'll be the women with bigger taches' than 95% of our male population too
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That'll be the women with bigger taches' than 95% of our male population too
If we were married to one i bet we'd put the kettle on if asked lol.
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