> "Jonbhoy"
champsagain.com> wrote in message
> news:C4GdnccvLf8nEQHVnZ2dnUVZ8gydnZ2d@giganews.com...>> Have to say apart from the usual way to long team entries into the
>> stadium that opening ceremony was pretty amazing . The stadium looks
>> superb too .
>
> I could see those wires...;) Seriously looked amazing. Ang Lee, Crouching
> Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was involved at some point but I'm not sure if he
> dropped out over Sudan.
Ok ill give you that,the wires were a bit of a give away! lol . But even the
way the old guy went up and ran around the top looked pretty amazing.Never
saw the crouching tiger film so dont know who the guy was.
> Also, I'm not surprised that during the opening ceremony they concentrated
> on Confucius rather than the Cultural Revolution when telling the China
> Narrative. They communists were a bad lot.
Yeah they mentioned on BBC that they would probably skip the revolution
bit....which they did.
>> Must be one of the greatest ever opening ceremonies and makes me wonder
>> how poor Londons is going to look in comparison (Ok its a bit pessimistic
>> but just get the feeling it will be the usual London thing of the seats
>> still being put in during the opening event while a local chav lights the
>> flame with a butt end!).
>
> Gwad it's gonna be awful by comparison. It's be a wee East End knees up,
> they'll probably hire cockney sparrows Chaz and Dave to sing "Roll Out The
> Barrel"...or some pearly king and queen....
Its fairly ironic because Beijing got the olympics but their ceremony was
all about China as a whole , yet a number of times as the atheletes entered
you could see and hear scotland the brave and a pipe band from aberdeen! Yet
i bet the London one will be purely about London and dont doubt it will all
be jellied eels and cor blimeys!
>> On a political note though i did find it a bit strange how they are
>> talking about olympic unity etc when the Russian team walked in and VP
>> stood up as russian tanks moved into Georgia .
>
> I don't know my South Ossetia from my elbow when it comes to Caucasas
> politics...but politics closer to home that I've been thinking about
> is...are Northern Ireland in Team GB or Ireland?
I heard somewhere a couple of weeks ago about the troop build up in that
area but wasnt sure as to what was happening.But when i heard that Georgia
were usually backed by Bush i just thought with the tension over the
deployment of the military stuff the USA want to install in eastern europe
that this could blow up into another cold war (of which it seems Bush has
been trying hard to build back up again!).But as a reporter said,Bush just
doesnt have the means right now to deploy american troops there . Its going
to be one to watch!
JB
