Olympics Poll

[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

[Kirsten]

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

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.