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Olympics - Closing Ceremony

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  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    edited August 2012
    Cant imagine having three bullets pass through my body then winning Olympic silver! Running!
    And Greece only got 2 bronze, but Cyprus beat them in the final table with 1 silver!
    Only 6 medals for the 2.21 billion people of India. Surely they have enough University teams/clubs to unearth more winners than that?
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,166
    Keep playing the same three songs bloody mix it up
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    Seems a lot of people are having a moan up about this but I'm not sure they realise it's supposed to basically be for the athletes to come out and parade to a bit of music and then the flame handed over to Rio. It's not supposed to be Glastonbury or a West End show. They could have just stuck a CD on.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,602
    poor so far in my opinion
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    According to the BBC

    Ceremony director Kim Gavin has said he wants an athletes' "mosh pit" for the gig ahead. As in the opening, the athletes are filling the floor of the stadium. Their body language is so much more relaxed than that of two weeks ago.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    I really like the way the Union Flag has been used to such effect at every opportunity. The Stadium from above looks just unbelievable.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    ValleyGary said:

    Seems a lot of people are having a moan up about this but I'm not sure they realise it's supposed to basically be for the athletes to come out and parade to a bit of music and then the flame handed over to Rio. It's not supposed to be Glastonbury or a West End show. They could have just stuck a CD on.

    They have just stuck a CD on!
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,316
    Good to see the athletes being kettled. A fine British tradition. :)
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,583
    Surely they could have played some different tunes whilst the athletes are getting into place, pretty naff playing what we have already heard.
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    edited August 2012
    formal bit now about to start
    Bye bye flame
    the artistic director this time is the man who stages Take That's live shows

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  • Tom_Hovi
    Tom_Hovi Posts: 465
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    What's Charlie's real name then

    Charles ;0)

    Charles Phillip Arthur George, so Charles is one of his real names

  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    hope not see Elton john here,eyeing up the young olympians
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Mike said:

    Keep playing the same three songs bloody mix it up

    Once live, then to do the artists justice, pre recorded versions.
    you wouldnt want a live band whilst the pyramid is built would you?

  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    image
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    LargeAddick said:

    poor so far in my opinion

    Better or worse that Sydney and Beijing closing ceremonies?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    I very much doubt most have ever watched a closing ceremony before but fuck it it's shit anyway
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    ValleyGary said:

    I very much doubt most have ever watched a closing ceremony before but fuck it it's shit anyway

    Shit is a very colourful word Garry !

  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    Well brown anyway.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    ValleyGary said:

    I very much doubt most have ever watched a closing ceremony before but fuck it it's shit anyway

    Don't watch it then.

  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Do you really feel so strongly that you have to be quite so foul mouthed?

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    Good to see the feel good factor hasn't lasted past the closing ceremony.

    Welcome back the real CL/UK
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    WSS - brilliant - thanks for that.
    Are you there now?
    ValleyGary isn't as impressed as he was expecting to be.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    edited August 2012
    I was bein sarcastic!!!!!

    People will actually moan about anything. I don't see how you can have a 'poor' closing ceremony.
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Eric Idle?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,486
    ValleyGary said:

    I very much doubt most have ever watched a closing ceremony before but fuck it it's shit anyway

    That's one way of putting it I suppose........Mmmmmm!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    like a bear crapping in the woods
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    Oh I forgot

    'WHOOOOOSSSHHHHH'
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    Floyd Montana said:

    Eric Idle?

    Always look on the bright side of life ?

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    Imagine all the people
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Ah Mr Lennon and his 'sugar-coated communism' song Imagine.

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