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  • edited July 26
    Typical of the French, putting lots of foreigners on small boats 
    do they send them straight over the Channel?

    pretty piss poor concept doesn't really work, bloody French! neither does all the mincing along the shore, bloody French! looks like they booked to do it in a stadium then found someone had already booked it for a boules tournament, and had to make do with the river. Bloody French!
  • se9addick said:
    Love the Opening Ceremony
    I liked the idea, but feels slightly devoid of atmosphere.
    I'm not convinced it's a great idea, as some of the early entertainment by the river was visually dull. 
  • It seems to be very disjointed. I am bias and do tend to compare to our London games but so far our was better at every minute. 
  • It would be good if the BBC commentators could actually tell us what the heck is going on. Who is the faceless guy with the flame supposed to be? Who are this rock band?
  • se9addick said:
    It would be good if the BBC commentators could actually tell us what the heck is going on. Who is the faceless guy with the flame supposed to be? Who are this rock band?
    Gojira
  • edited July 26
    It seems a bit all over the place for sure. Bad luck with the weather too!
  • se9addick said:
    It would be good if the BBC commentators could actually tell us what the heck is going on. Who is the faceless guy with the flame supposed to be? Who are this rock band?
    They don't who he is either. 
  • edited July 26
    se9addick said:
    Love the Opening Ceremony
    I liked the idea, but feels slightly devoid of atmosphere.
    Ah I didn't mean this one in particular, just in general it's one of my favourite parts of any Olympics. Only once (twice if you count the closing...) every four years do we get something like this that's such an expression of the host country's culture.
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  • Huskaris said:
    You're not going to beat the queen parachuting in with James Bond. 
    And our Thames is better than their River Stream. 
  • Boats of all shapes and sizes. Perhaps we'll hove into view aboard the Bibby Stockholm.
  • Think that piano may need retuning after that ! ☔️
  • Nice idea, the whole travelling down the Seine into the city etc but it's very disjointed.  

    And a lot of the sound feels like it's being lost.

    Shame about the weather too.
  • I like the idea but the execution just feels messy 
  • MarcusH26 said:
    I like the idea but the execution just feels messy 
    Maybe they're doing a tribute to the French Revolution ;)
  • Reckon they'll 'reveal' the Assassin's Creed guy as someone famous at the end?

    Like Mbappe or Zidane.

  • Clearly I’m in a minority, but I’m loving the “Frenchness” of the whole thing (admittedly assisted by some very nice red wine from Italy). Paris looks beautiful, even in the rain, where are the romantics out there?
  • Liked the idea of the paintings coming alive.
  • the first 15 minutes in London and Beijing sort of set a standard, and it’s pretty hard to follow those 
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  • Rothko said:
    the first 15 minutes in London and Beijing sort of set a standard, and it’s pretty hard to follow those 
    You would think at least that  they would have a bash at it. Very Pish Poor.
  • The choreography's  enSeine.
  • edited July 26
    Hal1x said:
    Rothko said:
    the first 15 minutes in London and Beijing sort of set a standard, and it’s pretty hard to follow those 
    You would think at least that  they would have a bash at it. Very Pish Poor.
    Doesnt usually take the French too long to wave the white flag to be fair
  • Bet a small fortune that the LA 28 team, are making sure the SoFi is all ready to go for their opening 
  • Have they paused the Ceremony for a quick fashion show? 
  • I have an idea the French are trying to noble the athletes spaying all that river water up in the air. I expect a few of them to have to two bob bits tomorrow evening. 


  • Air exclusion zone over France during the ceremony…
  • Mrs GA pleased, just seen her cousins’s lad on the New Zealand boat.
  • Did the Chad and Czechia boat break down, or is there some weird linguistic reason why they were in with the Ts?
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