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Vancouver Winter Olympics - News and Views
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on March 01, 2010, 10:45:15 am ---And it was in French and English. (according to Allen Barra)
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Only an American (or a no-clue Canadian) would suggest that this was in French & English. Had there been as much French as English and as little English as French, would the statement still be valid?
I rest my case.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Meryl on March 01, 2010, 10:45:53 am ---ETA: Giant beavers and Michael Buble? Save us! :o
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/01/sports/olympics/0228-CLOSING_index.html
Vancouver Brings Down Curtain on Winter Games
The "Maple Leaf Forever," performed by Michael Bublé once competed with "O Canada" to replace "God
Save The Queen" as the Canadian national anthem.
Giant cutouts of Mounties, tabletop hockey players and maple leaves made an appearance toward the end
of the ceremony. The hockey players were wearing gold medals.
Vancouver youths helped kick off the closing ceremony on as they performed with snowboards around the
Olympic caldron.
The Canadian born singer and songwriter Neil Young performed "Long May You Run."
The actor Michael J. Fox was part of the "I am Canadian" segment with William Shatner and Catherine O'Hara.
Russian ballet dancers performing.
In a news conference Saturday, the president of Sochi 2014, Dmitry Chernyshenko, unveiled shiny globes
called zorbs and announced that they represent the transparency of the new Russia, the interconnectedness
of sports fans everywhere and the dot in the Sochi.ru logo.
ALSO:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/sports/olympics/01ceremony.html?hp
Olympic Flame Burns Brighter on Last Day of the Games
Vancouver youth danced around the Olympic caldron at B.C. Place Stadium on Sunday night.
By JULIET MACUR
Published: February 28, 2010
Meryl:
Ack! Maybe they figured they could never compete with Beijing, so they went in the opposite direction? :P :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on March 01, 2010, 12:42:05 pm ---Ack! Maybe they figured they could never compete with Beijing, so they went in the opposite direction? :P :-\
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Before the opening show I heard some official say something quite similar to that, except that the intent was to go in another direction, rather than the opposite direction.
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Meryl on March 01, 2010, 12:12:25 am ---I was wondering if you were watching the Games. I've been cheering for Norway all week! They did a really great job, didn't they? And yours was the last anthem played at the closing ceremonies because Petter Northug nipped over the line a few hundredths of a second before the German skier to win gold. 8)
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Great to hear you've been cheering for us. I bet that made all the difference! :-*
Yes, I wouldn't be Norwegian if I wasn't watching. We're totally, utterly nuts about the winter olympics. (Especially the skiing, which has the longest traditions.) Petter Northug is a bit of a conceited and spoiled brat, but he's gonna be hailed like a minor god nevertheless when he returns here. For all his medals, but especially those last 100 meters of the 50-kilometer.
And the Swedish ladies here will have to forgive me when I tell the truth; that the major thing for Norway is always to beat Sweden, so in that respect the games were especially successful this year.... :P
But as for the Nations overview that John posted, I'm a little bit peeved at whoever wrote it. They say;
--- Quote ---Notable Olympians: Petter Northug, Jr., Cross-Country (Gold; Silver; Bronze); Oeystein Pettersen, Cross-Country (Gold)
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...and I would draw their attention to the most notable Norwegian Olympian of them all; the positive, spirited, wonderful and enthusiastic skier Marit Bjørgen. This link shows a picture of her with the medals she won in Vancouver: 3 gold (2 of them individuals), one silver, one bronze. She beats all the Norwegian boys and she doesn't get a mention! (The pic is too big or I would have posted it).
Go Marit!!!
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/02/28/sport/ol_i_vancouver/ol_2010/10633569/
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