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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,766
    I've enjoyed most of this but the flame lighting is a bit drawn out.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,440
    This is starting to drag now.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,342
    They really need to get a move on. The closing ceremony starts in a few minutes. 
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 935
    Anyone know the French for " Are we there yet?"?
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    Someone put them in an Uber ffs 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited July 2024
    God knows that music crap!

    Cant someone just fire an arrow and be done with it.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,969
    The hot air balloon flame is cool.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    I likes the balloon tho! :)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    Balloon is Impressive. 
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 935

    nous avons coché toutes les cases, que les jeux commencent

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,906
    A great flame that 

    Democratic, but weird to have the flame in one place, the athletes and dignatories in another,  and the main stadium in another.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Have they not got any celebs of their own?

  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,317
    Ah he’s playing that soggy piano from earlier 
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,702
    Spectacular finale 
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    amazing that no one at the bbc recognised Nadia Comaneci

    that had some ups and some downs but the cauldron is bloody incredible
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Hal1x said:
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Have they not got any celebs of their own?

    Edith Piaf wasn't available.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,342


    It's over!
  • Grapevine49
    Grapevine49 Posts: 997
    You simply can’t rush the French can you - I see what they were trying to do in taking the Olympics to the people across the city and the city to the athletes. It got lost in several places along the way but there were moments of real style which will stay in the memory
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,688
    I know the Soloman Islands were only a two athlete team, but giving them a raft to row down the Seine was a bit much.

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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,853
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Didn't she belt it out? Absolutely spectacular.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,370
    It got better towards the end but overall I thought it was too long too samey and lacked decent camera work. They even imported celebrities to make the numbers up. 

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,771
    got home to watch the last of the soggy lot waving flags on boats down the river.

    what a pile of old french horse crap. really thought it was poor.
    what was assassins creed doing there?
    awful disco music and crap dancing. 

    highlight was seeing Nadal and Williams nearly falling overboard and of course the Olympic balloon flame and Edith Piaf/Celine Dion. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,109
    bobmunro said:
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Didn't she belt it out? Absolutely spectacular.
    I forgot how good she was to be honest. Utterly incredible. They'll be listening to her long after I've gone.
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,857
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    …what was assassins creed doing there?…
    The game was developed by the French company Ubisoft.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    bobmunro said:
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Didn't she belt it out? 
    Unfortunately
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,906
    Good to see Mauresmo there, but outside of football France do lack recent sporting icons.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,486
    Hal1x said:
    bobmunro said:
    cafctom said:
    OK, pulling out Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower as a finale is pretty epic
    Didn't she belt it out? 
    Unfortunately
    ?
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,771
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    …what was assassins creed doing there?…
    The game was developed by the French company Ubisoft.
     Christ, the french are really getting desperate. 
  • last_line
    last_line Posts: 574
    10 minutes of Andrew Cotter was enough to turn over to Eurosport. Excellent commentary with a few moments of amusement thrown in. Think TDF style commentary. Glad I turned over.

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