Olympics Poll

[phesina]

Wanted to watch the opening ceremony tonight but now I probably won't because I heard they've got farm animals involved which may be slaughtered after the ceremony. Signed a petition against it earlier today.
But I will probably watch some of the sport events, not sure which ones.

BTW, does anyone still remember our Kitty Olympics thread from 2004? Lily and Luna teamed up with Barbara's Tigris and Filou. We had so much fun those days!

Is this the thread you're talking about, Kirsten? - http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=2004+olympics

Looks like fun, right from the start!

[Kirsten]

Is this the thread you're talking about, Kirsten? - http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=2004+olympics

Looks like fun, right from the start!

Yes, it's that thread. (I didn't even remember that it was me who started it ).
It's been a lot of fun; unfortunately, most of the pictures in it are no longer online...

Thanks you for searching for it!

[Grace]

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

[Kirsten]

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...

[Grace]

USA just marched in - easy to pick out the basketball players - Kobe and LeBron and the others - so tall.

[Karen]

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!

[Grace]

Lighting the flame - never would have guessed the way they did it. Really cool