JJ McClure
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Way too random in places, some of the breakaway videos almost felt like Eurovision, I was half expecting a pissed up Terry Wogan to be making sarcastic comments about some fella running around on a roof.
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That would have improved it significantly.
KZNSeagull
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Postponed until Monday due to the rain
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
The worst opening ceremony I can remember. Dragged on far too long and was all over the place with no fluidity. Embarrassing and cringe.
If they need to postpone events due to rain its going to be a long, long Olympics I guess..
It’s going to be an even longer Olympics if the BBC presenters keep banging on about how magical Paris is, too
But to be fair, I suppose if dog shit and rude people are your thing, it’s right up there as a top destination.
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I didn't say the performance was shit, just that she's shit as a musician in general. What was she doing there, she's not French?
I spent a day there and like any capital city I've ever been to, I felt it it is streamlined and soulless and could be replaced by any other big city.It’s going to be an even longer Olympics if the BBC presenters keep banging on about how magical Paris is, too
But to be fair, I suppose if dog shit and rude people is your thing, it’s right up there as a top destination.
Actually it was probably the stop in Paris that made me decide I'll skip out on capital cities whenever I go somewhere. Usually they're all dirty and busy and filled with stressed out people who do nothing but work.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Such a loss for Paris
GB just taken the lead against Spain in the men’s hockey, big defensive error
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
KZNSeagull
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2-0. Penalty corner
That'll learn 'em for dissing our land (i.e., Gibralter)
You have to admire the ambition of the opening ceremony in trying to do something different and show the city rather than just a stadium, but yeah it didn't really work, and the weather didn't help. It must have been bewildering for those actually there live too.
I'm 98.2% sure I heard U2 at the 2012 Olympics ceremony. They're not English are they?
She's a native french speaker so there is a link as her ancestors settled from France.
Not forgetting Paul McCartney, too.
(Although now a naturalised Brit, living in Sussex, he was actually born and raised in the Independent Republic of Merseyside).
You said she was a shit Canadian while she was involved in one of the best parts of the ceremony.
You often do this. Say something odd, then when pulled up for it you insist everyone else has got it wrong. Embarrassing.
It's not that everybody else misunderstood you, it's that you failed to read the room by calling her shit just at a time when she was lighting up the ceremony with her fantastic voice.
maltaseagull
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And BBC moves to Badminton!
If only I had access to the I player.
Decided to pay 3.99/month for Discovery+ showing a load more sports with uninterrupted coverage