The Opening Ceremony

[CellyDee87]

Keep your eyes out for the Aussies Eddie, they look like a pack of smurfs threw up all over them Come to think of it, none of the team outfits were really that great!

 

Best Fireworks ever, but my favourite Opening Ceremony is still Sydney

[Edwin]

Heh, i fast forwarded through a lot to get to the Smurfs. 450 athletes 400 in the swimming/diving area. Hahaha ,j/k

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI

 

 

and finally the host country. The People's Republic of China

Edited August 9, 2008 at 03:26 AM by EdwinDeux

[CellyDee87]

Yeah you're probably right about that, our strength is in the water!

[Edwin]

Yeah you're probably right about that, our strength is in the water!

It's like you're surrounded by it or something Oke, well you may not have the strength to click on all those profiles, but I just finished going through men's baseball,and now im off to men's beach volleyball

[CellyDee87]

OMD lucky it's you and not me I don't have the patience!

[Edwin]

Heh, well there weren't as many to look through actually. Just had to look at male Dutch athletes:

 

Now they are singing the Olympic song in Greek.

[DianaLuts]

OMG I just realized that I actually know 2 olympians this year. Besides Rebecca Soni Team Swimming USA, I know a gitl from my math class from Spring 2008 semester at SMU. Her name is Maroua Mathlouthi and she is on Tunisian Olympic Swimming team as well. Maroua borrowed my notes bodore the final and never returned them!!!!!!!!!! What do you know.

 

About the opening ceremony. Thank god for DVR, so that I was able to fastforward to the nations I was interested in. What the heck happened to Estonian costumes? They are supposed to at least remotedly represent national colors. What the heck is with ORANGE, GREEN and BLUE???????????? What happened tp pride and joy SININE MUST VALGE (Blue, Black and White)????????????????

[Davey84]

Her name is Maroua Mathlouthi and she is on Tunisian Olympic Swimming team as well. Maroua borrowed my notes bodore the final and never returned them!!!!!!!!!! What do you know.

 

omfd! the little Biatch!

 

 

here you have amazing pictures!!

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2...g_ceremony.html

 

 

http://beta.nieuws.be/nieuws/Foto-overzich...8_7f8b7e38.aspx

[Bellamy]

I like this photo. I just love the night shots of the bird nest.

 

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/oly_08_08/oly4.jpg

[doveceline]

To be frankness, i am not very fond of the part when pianist LangLang with a little girl playing the piano part. The girl looks not active enough, just sits there. And Lang Lang plays so hard and really scares her.

 

And the theme song"You and Me", what do you guys think? Not Passionate enough, but sounds very peace and beautiful. A little short.

 

Why Sarah Brightman, i personally think cause she is from London, UK, and London is the next host city in 2012.

[Bellamy]

And the theme song"You and Me", what do you guys think? Not Passionate enough, but sounds very peace and beautiful. A little short.

 

Why Sarah Brightman, i personally think cause she is from London, UK, and London is the next host city in 2012.

I don't think it's peace and beautiful. It's childish like a lullaby, definitely the worst choice for an Olympic theme song.

 

No. They answered because they want a foreign female singer and the Chinese composer like her. So that's all. I'm glad he doesn't like Celine.

[doveceline]

ya, maybe u r right, bellamy, watched television again this afternoon, very short, and makes people sleepy.

 

If let Celine sing with Liu Huan, must have a very different feeling, very moved, like"I know I loved you".

 

Yap the Dirctor Zhang Yi Mou has told the press the reason why chose Sarah, but anyway, makes some people think that way. And Sarah sang some Chinese Lyrics, right? I heard "shou qian shou". To be honest, i really don't know what she was singing without the lyrics...

[Your_Su_Phu]

omg that was the most spectacular opening ceremony EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. watched it from beginning to end with my family

i loved the confucius scholars and the naval dance thing and the tang lady dancers

 

although i'm not chinese I can imagine this must be an amazingly proud moment for chinese. It's crazy to feel like ur watching such a historical event unfold before your eyes.. sth that will be remembered for years to come

 

 

i hope celine is in the closing ceremony.

 

I'm glad he doesn't like Celine.

 

!! who told you that? that's horrible! that almost makes me not his fan anymore

Edited August 9, 2008 at 05:26 PM by Your_Su_Phu

[Bellamy]

i hope celine is in the closing ceremony.

Impossible. She has concerts in Qeubec at that time.

[Bellamy]

Friday night's NBC telecast of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was the most-watched and highest-rated non-U.S. summer Olympics opening ceremony broadcast ever.

 

The Beijing event averaged 34.2 million viewers!

 

According to the Hollywood Reporter, in the nearly 50 years of televised Olympics, that's higher than any previous non-domestic summer opener — up 35% in viewers from the Athens ceremony in 2004 and 25% higher than Sydney in 2000.

 

NBC's performance was far above industry expectations. Insiders had estimated that NBC's event last night would drop about 11% from the Athens Games opener.

 

Plus, NBC has been pissed on for delaying broadcast of the ceremony until primetime while most nations aired the event live.

 

However, it's argued that NBC's patience may have aided the show in ways not anticipated by the network.

 

Great reviews and breathtaking images saturated the media on Friday. Many viewers probably tuned in to see if the ceremony could possibly live up to the hype.

 

We thought it did! It was absolutely breathtaking!"

[Edwin]

Plus, NBC has been dissed on for delaying broadcast of the ceremony until primetime while most nations aired the event live.

 

However, it's argued that NBC's patience may have aided the show in ways not anticipated by the network.

 

If you delay it, they will come After trying to catch some of the events live this weekend (which means late nights for me), let me tell you I am very glad to be able to watch at a 'decent' hour even if it means pre-recorded, lol.

 

China gave us quite a show to watch, and the host countries in the future will need to bring their "A" game.

[Love,]

BRAVO! The Opening Ceremony in Beijing was The Greatest Show on Earth! :w00t: :w00t:

 

Congratulations to all the artists, performers, the Chinese people, and Zhang Yimou!

[Duchess]

this might seem like an odd request, but did anyone record the opening ceremony. from looking at the pictures i realise that i missed quite a bit of the ceremony. i just bought a new decoder and i was waiting to be connected, i was only connected about an hour and a half into the ceremony and that was spectacular. i would like to see the whole thing after seeing those pictures.

anyone? please???????

[Prince Whiskers]

Friday night's NBC telecast of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was the most-watched and highest-rated non-U.S. summer Olympics opening ceremony broadcast ever.

 

The Beijing event averaged 34.2 million viewers!

 

According to the Hollywood Reporter, in the nearly 50 years of televised Olympics, that's higher than any previous non-domestic summer opener — up 35% in viewers from the Athens ceremony in 2004 and 25% higher than Sydney in 2000.

 

NBC's performance was far above industry expectations. Insiders had estimated that NBC's event last night would drop about 11% from the Athens Games opener.

 

Plus, NBC has been pissed on for delaying broadcast of the ceremony until primetime while most nations aired the event live.

 

However, it's argued that NBC's patience may have aided the show in ways not anticipated by the network.

 

Great reviews and breathtaking images saturated the media on Friday. Many viewers probably tuned in to see if the ceremony could possibly live up to the hype.

 

We thought it did! It was absolutely breathtaking!"

It had more viewers in the US than the most recent Academy Awards and American Idol finale.

[Your_Su_Phu]

lol there's probably a torrent online somewhere duchess

[Bellamy]

I heard NBC cut some little pats of the performances out. I didn't see the broadcast yet, so I'm not sure which.

[Edwin]

I heard NBC cut some little pats of the performances out. I didn't see the broadcast yet, so I'm not sure which.

I would be extremely pissed off if after a 4,5 hour pre-recorded broadcoast of the opening ceremonies they cut out anything and had the nerve to add all those damn adverts!

[Bellamy]

Today is the one year anniversary of the Opening Ceremony.

[Lymon]

I can't believe it's been a year.