Paris Olympics - opening ceremony

[Cycleops]

While everything went of well and there were no mistakes some eagle eyed viewers noticed one performer who literally dropped a b****ck with one testicle protruding from his costume.

 

[fossyant]

Celine was INCREDIBLE

She makes my ears bleed.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I really wanted to love the horse and there was a lot to love, but it was ruined for me because they got the gait of the horse completely wrong. The order in which the legs move in the gallop is not what they represented, so it was an extended mental torture to me.

I agree, it really spoiled the realism of a silver metal horse galloping down the middle of the River Seine in the pissing rain whilst everyone who hadn't paid proper attention* wondered why. ☺️

*Guilty m'Lud

 

[lazybloke]

Having reflected, and slept on it, i can only think that thank God for the amazing backdrop of Paris to elevate all that erm, creativity; squeezing it into a stadium would have been far worse.

I did enjoy it, but i think @Cathryn had the right idea; wine would have made it better!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Having reflected, and slept on it, i can only think that thank God for the amazing backdrop of Paris to elevate all that erm, creativity; squeezing it into a stadium would have been far worse.

I did enjoy it, but i think @Cathryn had the right idea; wine would have made it better!

It is France - maybe that was the point??

 

[Cathryn]

It is France - maybe that was the point??

It was French wine too!

 

[Cathryn]

Gutted for Ellen!

 

[13 rider]

Gutted for Ellen!

Err wrong thread ,how much wine did you drink 😂

 

[Cathryn]

Oops!

 

[Grant Fondo]

.... has it finished yet?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

.... has it finished yet?

Olympic torch is currently just outside Nantes. In the hands of a Monsieur Gump, I believe.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

…well, yes. A little like Fermat's last theorem; utterly intriguing and largely incomprehensible. My lingering memory is why, oh why, did the BBC make that cartoon trailer for its Olympic coverage showing bikes with the chainwheels on the wrong side? Alice au pays des merveils, perhaps. Stand by for a blank verse exposé in Liberation. Two weeks of bogglement to go, please enjoy!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

.... has it finished yet?

No, couple of weeks to go

 

[lazybloke]

It is France - maybe that was the point??

Indeed.
A refreshing change, but some would also say it lacked ambition.