Winter Olympics Opening Cermony

JONJO THE MISER

On live now.
Looks nice from the air.

Mint Sauce

Why keep the thread exclusive to the opening ceremony, there are the games as well for the next two weeks. Although the first events were yesterday, or even wednesday.

JONJO THE MISER

37,000 secruity around the staduim:eek:

JONJO THE MISER

Great start the picture is gone on RTE:rolleyes:

Mint Sauce

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Great start the picture is gone on RTE:rolleyes:

Watch it on the Beeb, although the sound is cutting out on that.

Duckworth_Luas

Asked my Russian flatmate about these Winter Olympics but he's too caught up in Garth Brooks mania to care.

shamrock55

Id love to know where the 30 odd billion pounds has gone, the most expensive olympics in history ffs id say at least half that is in the pockets of putin and his cronies

spank_inferno

Seeing a lot of the #sochiproblems on Twitter, I'd love to see what they spent $50billion on.

And also.... Seeing as gay people cannot interfere with children, I assume straight people can.

Manach

shamrock55 wrote: »

Id love to know where the 30 odd billion pounds has gone, the most expensive olympics in history ffs id say at least half that is in the pockets of putin and his cronies

So they are not as advanced as our own political/business system then.

Mint Sauce

Although with the Games, the WC there in four years time, PLUS a planned F1 race either this year or next, Russia are really trying to sell them selfs.

This is more about politics, than sport, just a shame some of their political ideals are not in keeping with the rest of the western world that they are trying to sell them selves to.

The Backwards Man

Where did they have the figure skating and the snowboarding in Ancient Greece?

iDave

Opening ceremonies are so bizarre. Little or nothing to do with the actual sports

Mint Sauce

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Where did they have the figure skating and the snowboarding in Ancient Greece?

When the pool froze over in the winter silly!

DEFTLEFTHAND

shamrock55 wrote: »

Id love to know where the 30 odd billion pounds has gone, the most expensive olympics in history ffs id say at least half that is in the pockets of putin and his cronies

Apparently the athletes accommodation and some of the hotels are in a terrible state. The IOC are fuming over it, very embarrassing for Russia.

spank_inferno

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Where did they have the figure skating and the snowboarding in Ancient Greece?

I guess you have never heard of "Slalom".
The Greek god of skiing?

Mint Sauce

iDave wrote: »

Opening ceremonies are so bizarre. Little or nothing to do with the actual sports

They are never anything to do with sport, rather a celebration of the host countries culture.

spank_inferno

That little girl must be miming.

I'd wager the value of the Gulag her parents are being held in, on it!

Mint Sauce

First gaff, one of the flakes did not form into an olympic ring.

JONJO THE MISER

Putin in his finest.

spank_inferno

50 billion dollars & the snowflake/Olympic ring thing fails to deploy!!

Heads will literally roll!

SEPT 23 1989

What time is Ireland's "Snowboarding Seamus" on at?

iDave

oh FFS Jimmy McGee commentating. RTEs go to guy whenever a sport is on that no one else has a clue about.
IOC president wearing thermal underwear. Thanks for the update Jimmy

Mint Sauce

Its not a patch on Londons so far, but then again, I could associate my slef with the themes of Londons.

Edit.

Gotta love their national anthem.

MilanPan!c

spank_inferno wrote: »

50 billion dollars & the snowflake/Olympic ring thing fails to deploy!!

Heads will literally roll!

One has to assume they've spent some of the billions on building new prisons for people who failed at their bit of the Olympics.

MilanPan!c

The whole thing looks pretty disorganised, especially after Beijing and London.

spiritcrusher

Judging by his facial expressions, I'd say Putin is having the time of his life.

Mint Sauce

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What time is Ireland's "Snowboarding Seamus" on at?

Was in the heats yesterday, semi finals tomorrow morning, however no one got eliminated before the opening ceremony, you either went straight to the finals, or to the semis to have two more chances.

Although one of the beeb commentators described him as 'A second rate American boarder looking for alternative citizenship', then retracting it after his second run in the heats.

MilanPan!c

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Judging by his facial expressions, I'd say Putin is having the time of his life.

Or has painful gas.

dreamers75

Tatu singing later always thought they were lesbians.

Guess not or they be deported or killed.......

JONJO THE MISER

I thought the Greeks had no money.

spank_inferno

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Although one of the beeb commentators described him as 'A second rate American boarder looking for alternative citizenship', then retracting it after his second run in the heats.

Which is a bit rich seeing as a 1/4 of the GB team in 2012 were not British 5 years ago.

JONJO THE MISER

Skippy just skidded on the ice.

SEPT 23 1989

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I thought the Greeks had no money.

credit union loan

Mint Sauce

spank_inferno wrote: »

Which is a bit rich seeing as a 1/4 of the GB team in 2012 were not British 5 years ago.

Was watching a re run this morning, was pretty shocked when I heard him recounting his thoughts on him.

Piliger

I have no intention of watching this. Makes me sick.

shamrock55

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Apparently the athletes accommodation and some of the hotels are in a terrible state. The IOC are fuming over it, very embarrassing for Russia.

I know yea, seemingly its dog rough, but thats what you get for giving anything to russia

Mint Sauce

spank_inferno wrote: »

Which is a bit rich seeing as a 1/4 of the GB team in 2012 were not British 5 years ago.

There was a mention of a persons eligabilty the other day, not sure it it applied to the summer or winter games, where if someone claiming citizenship, it was alright as long as they were not replacing someone else, who may have been inferior.

spank_inferno

For a country so anti-gay, Russia is tremendously camp.

I wouldn't be surprised if caged shirtless lithe men descended from the stadium roof, grinding to the back-beats.

My name is URL

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

37,000 secruity around the staduim:eek:

Are there even that many people in the stadium? There looks to be thousands of empty seats.

It's pretty grim really

MilanPan!c

spank_inferno wrote: »

For a country so anti-gay, Russia is tremendously camp.

I wouldn't be surprised if caged shirtless lithe men descended from the stadium roof, grinding to the back-beats.

That's how Putin plans on getting down to the podium later.

smileyj1987

The most important question of these games has to be . Is there a Jamaican blobsleigh team ?

Mint Sauce

smileyj1987 wrote: »

The most important question of these games has to be . Is there a Jamaican blobsleigh team ?

YES!! Two man bob this time out.

My name is URL

smileyj1987 wrote: »

The most important question of these games has to be . Is there a Jamaican blobsleigh team ?

Yes. Thanks to Doge

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/jamaican-bobsledders-ride-dogecoin-into-olympics.html

Wow. Such cold. Many slide

smileyj1987

Mint Sauce wrote: »

YES!! Two man bob this time out.

I hope they win gold !!! Feel the rythmn feel the vibe check yourself it's cool running time .

JONJO THE MISER

Have North Korea a team?

My name is URL

That music is diabolical

MadsL

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Where did they have the figure skating and the snowboarding in Ancient Greece?

Mount Olympus, obviously. :rolleyes:

MilanPan!c

A look at all the empty seats. It looks maybe 60% full.

spank_inferno

Ireland...Woop!!

Wearing army surplus.

ProudDUB

G'wan the lads !

MilanPan!c wrote: »

A look at all the empty seats. It looks maybe 60% full.

At $1000 per ticket (according to BBC News) for the just the cheap seats, I'm not surprised. God knows what you'd pay for seats with a decent view.

iDave

way to feck up waving the flag









Edit: Best of luck lads