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So will there be a "Parade of Nations"?

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Post by knarfmo Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:26 am

Just wondering...
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Post by LeLeOne Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:31 am

probably yes, it's the main moment in every Olympic ceremony.....I don't know what Mitsos is preparing for the opening ceremony but I'm sure that is gonna be great Smile
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:38 am

Of course is going to be parade of the athletes. This is the greatest moment of the ceremony. Actually for the first time its going to be a real opening ceremony. But is a secret guys!!!! Very Happy
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Post by LeLeOne Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:40 am

ok we won't tell anyone....have you seen the beijing opening?
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:52 am

Yeah I saw it but I can say that I didn’t like it very much. I expected something else. More human less militaristic. But some fireworks I ve made are similar with beijing's
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Post by LeLeOne Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:09 am

well I understand what you mean.....I didn't like it too in part....probably beacause the chinese culture is more collective, rigid and schematic than the European or american ones
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Post by CraigKingOfIreland Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:19 am

I thought it was amazing as a whole. There were some bits I didn't get, they were a bit too....strange Smile But overall it was spectacular.
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:20 am

Exactly. I don’t want to compare different civilizations Chinese has it‘s own great culture, but in Athens we presented more theatrical, simple but still spectacular ceremony. What I saw on Friday was a nation that wants to tell us about its strength and its new power. the new super power.
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Post by CraigKingOfIreland Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:30 am

I suppose you're right, it was very "anything you can do, we can do better" by making it on such a huge scale.
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:37 am

and they spent 45 billion $. Evil or Very Mad
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Post by LeLeOne Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:39 am

mmm I agree with you, all the ceremony has been very auto-commemorative....but I don't think that they want to show to the world their new power or things like that.
Unfortunately I have not seen the ceremony of Athens, but I was present to the Turin ones, and in comparison was more intimate, scenografic and perhaps comprehensible to a vast public...but maybe they are my suggestions
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:42 am

Well You are very lucky guy.
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Post by LeLeOne Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:54 am

I was a volunteer for the Olympiads....I have been fortunate indeed
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Post by mitsos Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:05 pm

The best thing is to participate in these games because the possibility to be hosted by your city or the country is extremely low.
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Post by LeLeOne Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:33 am

You are so right....there are many ways to live the Olympic spirit and I believe that to be the volunteers is one of the best, has been an unforgettable experience
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Post by Matt Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:13 am

The Olympics will never be held in Romania...No chance for me to live that experience No
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Post by LeLeOne Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:30 am

never say never
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Post by dljrfn2000 Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:40 pm

ya there is a good chance its going to Brazil in '16.... never say never when it comes to the IOC.


but going back, I think China did a great job artistically with the opening ceremony. (as a musician I notice these things)

As a political person I notice that the government pressed there communist give everything to the state, the future of the state is the future of the people system right up the west's rear. So in that case I was not impressed at all and was rather disheartened, but not at all surprised, the Chinese government would use the opening ceremony of the games as propaganda.
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Post by Bindie Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:52 pm

Just like the Nazi's did for the 1936 Games.

I am not saying that China does not deserve the games, but I do think the Peoples Republic of CHina have broken one of the key rules of the Olympic Spirit and that is not politicising the games, which is what they have done by using the Olympics as a sideshow to demonstrate their facade of a Utopia.
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Post by Melbourne Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:33 pm

The Chinese Government today said that people go to the Olympics are for watching and reporting on sports and not human rights. They also have claimed that they didn't make any promises to the IOC to win the Games. They just choose to ignore their flaws and think that we don't see them.
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Post by LeLeOne Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:27 am

I think that Rogge is doing a good job into cancel from the Olympiads all of this that concerns with the spirit of peace and communion to which the Olympic movement should inspire. He has never given sign of pressures on the Chinese State for the Tibetan matter, and he hasn't declared nothing concerning the Russian aggression to Georgia, that has in fact broken the Olympic truce (all this without forgetting the Russian Olympiads in 2014).
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Post by dljrfn2000 Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:56 am

well the olympic truce since the 1980's has really not been much in application really the only time I've seen a truce out of sports was the 2002 World cup I forget what nation in particular but the entire nation was plunged into civil war the two sides agreed to a cease fire to route on there countries team in the world cup. Often with rebels and loyalists playing on the same football team.
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Post by LeLeOne Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:40 am

Yes you are right, dljrfn, but it's tradition of the Olympic Committee making sign to the participants nations an 'essay of not belligerency' before the Games's start. It's a pity that however all of this remains a formality....and it's sure that Rogge has a debatable attitude toward certain situations
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Post by Slacker Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:56 am

I think this image sums up the Beijing games perfectly:

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Post by canuck3360 Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:35 pm

spot on slacker
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