Official Live Thread - The Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics

The Daily Herald; Vanity ^ | 2/24/2002 | John Branch

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I have no good excuse............but plenty of rotten ones.

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That's that.........

[Victoria_R]

NBC starts its broadcast of the Closing Ceremonies at 6:00 PM Mountain time (8:00 PM ET). What are your favorite memories of these Winter Olympics?

That the Closing Ceremonies provides about 5 years worth of material to rebut the "community enforcement of Sunday as the Lord's Day" harangue.

Yeah, I know. But it's a "Northern Utah" thing. Particularly for the minority that gets to be oppressed.

P.S. Bring back the 1984 Olympic Marching Band. We would have been way better than KISS.

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hey, how's dem apples?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

:)

GOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[Tennessee_Bob]

Apples? I'm looking at the blonde in the top shot on post 947.

And the one in 949...

[BreitbartSentMe]

I believe that NBC put those into the broadcast digitally, it's some new technology they're using in sports coverage. I think Fox started it. They also used in in the ski-jumping competitions to put in a red line to show how far the longest jump was so far.

[NYCVirago]

Willie ruined Bridge over Troubled Water, I love that song. And surprisingly, Paul Simon butchered it too for that WTC fundraiser the stars had right after 9/11. I was in my car driving home, and couldn't figure out who the singer was, when I saw that it was Paul Simon on TV later, I just about died. Thank heavens Art Garfunkel still sings it the right way...

I thought that was so wrong for Paul Simon to do that song. Art sang the lead on the original version, and it's identified as being "Art's song" more than any other Simon and Garfunkel song. It was as if Ringo Starr sang "Yesterday" in concert.

[NYCVirago]

At least Spears had the good sense to dress somewhat tastefully at the Super Bowl.

Britney wasn't at the Super Bowl this year, and last year she dressed like a tramp (as usual).

[NYCVirago]

The only thing the Closing Ceremonies could top/redeem for us ladies would be an enchore performance of Alexi Yahudin's backstage laundry drop ;-)

Hey, did anybody get stills of that? That was classic!

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The only thing the Closing Ceremonies could top/redeem for us ladies would be an enchore performance of Alexi Yahudin's backstage laundry drop ;-)

We'd all much rather see a screen shot of that than of the scantily-clad Christine whats-er-name ..... *grins*

Well, all of the ladies here, anyway. I guess that's not true for the guys.

[zlala]

You were terrific during the games! Thank you. BTW are you married? A student a the Y? Have a boyfriend? Between the ages of 19 & 23? I have a son at BYU...an RM, 22, cute, available...and he'd die if he knew I was posting this! (-;

Can't wait to hear from him; he drove to SLC to watch the fireworks.

[MozartLover]

"Britney wasn't at the Super Bowl this year, and last year she dressed like a tramp (as usual).

I know, I remembered that just after I posted. It was Mariah Carey this year.:)

[mikhailovich]

My fondest memories...

The Gold medal Russian figure skaters on Friday's exhibition performance, also Goebel and Sale/Pelletier.

Irina Slutskaya dancing like a little girl during closing ceremonies.

The commercial where the guy hitchhiked from Moscow.

Yagudin's performance hatcheting across the ice during Friday's exhibition performance. The crowd went wild. The cameraman followed him backstage and got surprised by his black underwear.

Michele Kwan falling to the ice.

Sarah Hughes' performance.

The 18 year old ski-jumper from Finland laughing like a young boy being tickled, after winning the Gold.

The Canadians' finishing goals against US Hockey Team in closing minutes. (I think there were 3!)

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Donnie and Marie bump!

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Chirstina Aguilera is such a tramp, lingerie at the Olympics!