Posted on 07/26/2024 12:50:06 PM PDT by simpson96
I think the real turning point for me was when they decided to split the Summer Games and Winter Games into different years. I guess I was pretty young, but it just seems like after that, nothing about the Olympics was as exciting. Maybe that was the same time it went “corporate”.
Also when the Cold War ended, it took all the fun out of it, it was all about rooting against those evil Commies.
“Performances from Lady Gaga and approximately 3,000 dancers, acrobats and actors are hard to hear over the sound of rain”
well, at least the sound of rain won’t affect the army of mimes ...
Quel désordre !
A masked torch bearer runs atop the Musee d’Orsay ??
Athletes of the Refugee Olympics ??
The ‘yoops’ have a way don’t they? 🤔😁👍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFmxOpZTgpA
They killed off what brainy people they had in the Terror and years after. Not known for much else since then, except existentialism, Paul Sartre.
Wow. That took me back! Thx.
The beds in the living quarters are made of CARDBOARD -———And there is NO A/C.
lol what a complete waste of time
Some countries gave in and we’re supposed to be buying their own ac units. I guess climate change isn’t that bad after all
It’s a shame we were just there and it could have been beautiful.
Team USA is among those who brought there own AC units because climate change is so terrible
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/nx-s1-5017544/paris-olympics-air-conditioning-usa
It’s good to be old!!
“ The lack of AC isn’t the only subject of criticism this week. Parisians threatened to defecate in the Seine River on Sunday to protest sewage contamination after reports found unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria in the water less than two months before Olympic swimming competitions are scheduled to start there.”
It’s a complete crapfest
Sounds like it was worse than London in 2012.
Watching it now...
I trained for the Olympics for a decade...
I attended the Olympics on four occasions...
T%his is the most constipated, boring, anti-climactic Olympic ceremony i’ve ever scene...only made worse by the NBC hosts telling everyone how great it is...
I did like the Queen parachuting in to the opening ceremony
Best was Barcelona when they shot the arrow to light the flame.
I want to see more of this so the masses are overwhelmed by the full blown fruit display the freaks want all to see. Us pointing out how epically ridiculous it is doesn’t seem to work so let the sheeple eventually judge for themselves.
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