My biggest wish for the Olympics is that everyone will be safe! There was a lot on Munich '72 on German tv lately, and I hope something like that will never happen again!
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My biggest wish for the Olympics is that everyone will be safe! There was a lot on Munich '72 on German tv lately, and I hope something like that will never happen again!
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Originally Posted by Grace
Bill Johnson, So Cal boy wins a medal.
I remember the Mex City protest, the 72 games and the end of the basketball game.
The first woman's marathon, Mary Slaney and Zola Budd! Dan and Dave? The premier of short track skating.
The Nagano games and the U.S. hockey team tearing up the rooms, The premature celebration at the end of the snowboarding race.
I saw the SLC Flame when it came thru El Lay, and the Atlanta and L.A. torch runs too.
I love the Olympics and think that they should ban all corporate BS and make the games true amateur comps like before....
EDDIE THE EAGLE! Katarina Witt.
I'll be watching (and taping) the opening and closing ceremonies, and I'll be watching both the men's and women's gymnastics, and a lot of the track and field competitions. The rest get a little boring!
Is this the thread you're talking about, Kirsten? - http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=2004+olympicsQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
Looks like fun, right from the start!
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Originally Posted by phesina
Yes, it's that thread. :) (I didn't even remember that it was me who started it :o).
It's been a lot of fun; unfortunately, most of the pictures in it are no longer online...
Thanks you for searching for it! :)
Watching the Opening Ceremonies, live, right now. The BBC is doing a livestream, and I hooked into it. The Parade of Athletes is going on - Ireland just came in, followed by Israel :)
I was also watching (the best news for me was when they said in the beginning that the animals are not going to be slaughtered). I think it was such a beautiful ceremony; like a fairytale, and a little Tolkienesque in the beginning... Would love to watch until the end of the show to see who's carrying the fire, but it's past midnight here, and I'm really tired...
USA just marched in - easy to pick out the basketball players - Kobe and LeBron and the others - so tall.
It's so fun to see the athletes all together, and it just makes you realize just how tall the basketball players are, and how tiny the gymnasts are, as we are used just seeing them with other athletes in their own sports, and there's no way a 4' 10" person could be on a basketball team, or a 6'10" on a gymnastics team - they'd have to build bigger equipment and longer matts! :)
Lighting the flame - never would have guessed the way they did it. Really cool :)
I voted nah, why bother but I really would just vote no....I'd probably watch some of it but I don't have TV.
I missed that; hope I'll be able to see some reruns of it somewhere... I gave up at 1 a.m., that was after all the athletes had walked it; I was really tired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Rowing, rowing and more rowing!!!!
My brother, a crew (formal name for rowing) coach for over 35 years, coached one guy that's on the U.S. team's 8 man shell.
Oh, how cool is that?! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by moosmom
I was watching the rowing competition this morning and was very pleased with the German results. :)
I am sure it will be replayed many, many, many times! Check YouTube!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten