Olympic Ceremony 4 Tony and Papa Smurf flew off in a balloon

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Clare Balding "so how was that for you Michael"

Michael Johnson "diplomatic mumblings and positive spin".

Becky Adlington paraphrased "it was shit. Can I go to bed now please, it's nearly midnight"

Sadly hole in the tights!

Is there an app or something with the schedule for the Olympics? I don't want to miss he gymnastics

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Sorry I was too busy trying not to see papa smurf bollocks to be worried about the bloke behind.

OMG!! Thanks for the Smurf photo, and the stray bollock is even funnier!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The flag is a major embarrassment in terms of hosting. It's one of those things that just shouldn't happen in the ceremony

In fairness to Paris, didn't we mix up North Korea and South Korea in the parade commentary, which was a major cock-up?

OMG

Good opening ceremony, short and to the point.

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/26-july

BBC sport has a day by day guide

Men’s qualifying is tomorrow

That's a cock up. A big cock up.

But it's still not THE flag nor the flame. The two biggest things in the ceremony that you MUST NOT cock up.

Don't know if he will be, but here's a preview ...* https://www.instagram.com/reels/C9Sg9THNwPM/*

Droll

I did think it was supposed to be the last supper.

Why? Why did they do that?

The distress signal, the last supper and the appearance of one of the four horsemen?

Conspiracy theorists are going mental right now. Peppers have dashed out to the nearest supermarket for their last minute supplies.

My French friend is posting how proud he was to be french
and that he loved the ceremony!

Having just watched the dark knight rises earlier today, this made me chuckle
x.com/generalboles/status/1816913554752311673?s=46

Someone said on the previous thread that it might be something you have to be French to 'get'. There's probably truth in that.

Yeah, it was shit. Glad it's over.

I liked the Euro pop music for about 5 minutes, and Celine. The first few minutes of the horse were very good too.

Didn't understand Nadal, Serena, etc and all the random people carrying the torch in slow motion. They should have had just one athlete do the whole thing at normal speed.

I thought Celine was amazing. But having watched her recent documentary, which showed just how very unwell she was, and how much it had affected her voice, I'm staggered that she was able to sing like that. I really hope this means that she has recovered, as it didn't look like she was ever going to be able to sing again.

Agree.

Not sure it translates culturally tbh.

I think I'm secretly proud to be lead by a man in an anorak rather than a dude in a suit and a poncho tbh.

That's bad right?

We Brits do soggy boat singing better, though, and I will defend that opinion till the day I die!😂

I know!
I called it and thought WTF, but then everything was WTF about the opening, so…

Anyhoo in about 5 minutes I decided I could do a better opening ceremony…

location: a stadium as per every other one

Act one: something historical about the French Revolution and some sort of rousing rendition from les Mis

Act two: something based on French artists. Maybe some sort of immersive Monet experience with pretty lights, colours and dancers moving into a segment of the Paris opera ballet. Do some sort of reading of French literature.

Act 3: something themed around beauty of Paris- lots of pretty lights, some French music, something quirky about cheese and wine. Maybe a nod at this point to Disney and bring in either beauty and the beast or Notre damn. Big song sequence - bring in some cute kids. Finish with some sort of fake river seine water sequence blending to some sort of action on real river taking flame to ET. End with the ET being the host to the flame and all sorts of amazing lights. Then end with fireworks in stadium.

Any better?