16-year-old Canadian musical prodigy Nikki Yanofsky sings the Canadian national anthem as the Canadian flag is hoisted during the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 12, 2010. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (CANADA)
Posted on 02/12/2010 7:02:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – In time-honored tradition, the show went on. Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics' opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown by the crowd filling BC Place Stadium.
The festive mood, and the opening rain of confetti, contrasted sharply with the grief that befell the games earlier in the day when luger Nodar Kumaritashvili of the republic of Georgia died in a horrific crash on the sliding track at Whistler.
"This is a very sad day," said a visibly shaken Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee. "The IOC is in deep mourning."
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Tape delayed here on the West Coast..
Real classy , NBC.
16-year-old Canadian musical prodigy Nikki Yanofsky sings the Canadian national anthem as the Canadian flag is hoisted during the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 12, 2010. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (CANADA)
A snowboarder flies through the olympic rings at the start of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 12, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Blake (CANADA)
I’m really annoyed that we won’t be able to watch the Canadian feed. Some other network got the contract and nobody outside of Bellingham carries it.
Stuck with NBC.
Candles are lit up in commemoration of late Nodar Kumaritashvili of Georgia at the Whistler medal plaza ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, February 12, 2010. Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old Georgian luger, died in a horrific crash on a training run on Friday, casting a pall over the Winter Olympics hours before the Games were to be declared open. Kumaritashvili slammed into a pillar at 90 mph after being thrown off the sled as it bounced over the rim on the 16th and final bend of the lightning fast track at the Whistler Sliding Centre. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (CANADA - Tags: SPORT LUGE OLYMPICS OBITUARY)
An artist performs during the opening ceremony of the
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 12, 2010.
REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (CANADA)
Why on earth are they showing footage of that Georgian luger’s final moments?? It’s all over our local news in Lost Angeles and on the national news also. It feels so inappropriate. And disrespectful to the deceased, his teammates, and his loved ones.
Ratings.
NBC is the worst! How many more years are they having the olympics?
Wish I could watch it....I have directv, and no access to local channels....
Change the subject so no on focuses on the real problem. The federal and state gov'ts are dysfunctional.
until they run out of money.. or GE does.
I always had local channels when I had directv.
Feel lucky you can watch at all...I am missing it. So distressed!
We took our honeymoon 26 years ago, in Whistler....
Very disrespectful. I can not believe that it is on the NBC website, for all to view! Low class liberals
Those days are gone....wonderful government changing to digital and forcing people to have local channels, when we wouldn’t mind having a new york or LA channel...but no. There has to be some stupid law to screw it up! There are wavers and a 45 day wait to get a broadcast channel on directv. I should switch to dish I guess, but that won’t help me tonite....sigh......
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