Posted on 07/06/2005 5:05:25 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The World's Fairs were mostly corporate sponsored exhibitions, much like the Epcot center at Disney World. If you've seen one, you've seen them all, just updated.
French basketball star Tony Parker of France:
``I don't know what else we could have done. If we don't have it now, I guess we will never get it.Former Olympic judo gold medalist Thierry Rey:``The IOC seems to be very pro-Anglo-Saxon. I feel extremely gutted.''
``This is an enormous disappointment, we don't understand what is happening, this is a massive slap in the face''Stephane Diagana, former European champion at 400metre hurdles:
``This is a huge disappointment, we really thought it was a good sign to face London in the final because the votes that had gone to New York were smaller than those who went to Madrid.``But we thought wrongly."
On a commercial flight the approach to Kennedy (Idlewild) led us over the NY World's Fair on the day it opened April 21, 1964. It was clear day and I was sitting on the side of the aircraft with the best view of the site. I didn't have the opportunity to visit that World's Fair however. As I mentioned in my earlier post I worked at Expo '67 and a number of years later, in 1986, attended the World's Fair in Vancouver, BC.
Remember: during the Olympics themselves, it is all about athletes, not nationalities. No country "wins" the Olympics, and there are no prizes to the countries with the most medals.
In theory...
I guess they decided the food in London is better. London has great restaurants - great Indian and other far Eastern food, better French restaurants than in France, great Italian restaurants - you don't have to have English food if you don't like it, so Chirac's remark made him sound like a hick who's never been out of France.
And by the way, how many Republics and other types of government has France had since the Revolution? (A stable form of government is more pertinent as to which country you can "trust" more.)
I had to laugh when I read Chirac's comments.
We can always 'trust' France, alright. Trust them to be the weasel, jelly-backed surrender monkeys of the world!
Was it Los Angeles in 1984?
I see France
I see Chirac
Crapping in his pants.
That sounds right - but I don't follow this event close enough to know for sure. Some of the sports are great, but many of them are pandering to people who want to be athletes and can't cut it and the whole shooting match is politics from start to finish.
im glad the frogs lost.they can be trusted?Is chirac nuts?i wouldnt trust a frog as far as i could throw them hooray for England!
That's where he lost it, right there. The minute he said that they knew that everything he said was a lie.
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