Posted on 08/22/2016 6:13:59 AM PDT by C19fan
Rio said farewell to hosting the Olympics on Sunday as the closing ceremony experienced periods of rain that poured down on the thousands of athletes and spectators in attendance from around the world. The Olympic flame was extinguished at Maracana stadium, signaling that the Rio Games are officially over. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach gave a poignant speech during the ceremony that saw Toyko's new governor, Yuriko Koike, the first woman to hold that job, happily accept the Olympic flag from Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes.
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We watched some of the games, but the leftie NBC announcers made me want to puke. I just hate those guys.
Is it really, finally, truly over? Seems like it was on for a month and a half.
Who won the sewage-chug?
NBC ruined what little that was good. And they stetilized it so much it was like eating hospital food. Cannot wait until Tokyo!
I’d rather have the old battle of the network stars over the modern laff-a-lympics.
It was on for 6 months and they will. continue to discuss it for 6 more months! ( just be over, please)
“Brazilians claimed they invented power flight”
I saw that at the opening, I’ve never heard that. IIRC Wilbur and Orville have movie footage, do the Brazilians I wonder?
Some British guy named Furman living in Hong Kong made the same claim. There is even a replica of his plane in the hong Kong airport
Fine with me if it was over forever.
Tokyo is going to do a good job.
It will be interesting to see the reception the Chinese and the Koreans get.
The last Olympics I even remotely followed was held in LA in the early 80’s. The best part was the closing spectacle. Or was it the opening? I don’t remember.
Other than that It’s pretty much just hype to me and always has been. I’ve always wondered what kind of life those athletes had outside of the games themselves.
Wow, never thought about that. One thing I noticed in Korea...every old building important enough to have a plaque on it would list the date it was built, and the two re-build dates after the Japanese destroyed it - one was hundreds of years ago and one was circa 1940. Koreans do not like the Japanese.
I think I saw about one hour of the Olympics total, and that is only because it was on in the background at the galley during some meals. And I really didn’t miss it.
Not to mention the Japanese taking a lot of their women and forcing them to serve as prostitutes.
It was pouring rain, and there was the option to watch it on TV...
It looked like empty seats, but then it looked like many people were wearing clear plastic ponchos that, due to reflections, looked like empty seats. Personally, I wouldn’t have sat there in the rain, but I’m sure the party on the field after was fun! The opening/closing ceremonies were incredibly lame, perhaps even worse than the pastel colored antebellum dresses and chrome plated pickup trucks that shamed us all during the Atlanta Olympics.
Only caught a few moments of this entire Olympics while occasionally channel surfing. It just didn’t capture my interest.
I did notice the empty seats.
It reminds me of professional baseball. I sort of follow the TX Rangers and noticed at most of their home and away games for several years that there are entire sections of the staduim with empty seats. I wonder why and how they can afford to stay in business. I guess they get a major portion of their revenue via TV sponsors and ads.
Add to that the number of games, and it becomes ridiculous. About 160 games to half-empty stadiums?
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