Winter Olympics - Opening Ceremony this evening

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Opening ceremony tonight, from 6.30pm on BBC2. Surprised it’s not on BBC1.

Liked GB outfit!

Guinea bissau

GB do look nice.

GB looked very smart and classy 🥰

The scarves were a bit ‘ look at me’ ! ..
I hope the two young Ice dancers do well.

That’s exactly what I said!

Great scarves. Dull coat game from GB.

I like Haiti coats

"I'm wandering about in a huge papier mache composer head".

That is just so "Jeux sans Frontieres" or "It's a Knockout" (in English).

Here is an example from 1981, go to 5 mins 35 seconds:

It was a series of international games (a bit like a sports version of Eurovision) between different European countries.

You do have to be a certain age to remember all the costumes and games (it was last broadcast in the UK in 1982.

Scarves . . . there's a good knitting challenge

Gets out the graph paper

Preloading. Winter sports athletes are all absolute caners.

Me too. Looking forward to seeing the spice girls dance routine. Seems to have attracted a lot of interest..I think Mel B got involved?

Fuck me, Haiti. I went there once and only once. Absolutely terrifying place. There were soldiers lined up to shoot anyone who talked to us.

Brian Orser

And between those two groups was Scott Hamilton

Loved the GB outfits. Canada was really cool too.

I remember Italy being particularly bad at Its a Knockout

Mel B sent her best wishes. The only one of the spices who could actually sing !

I think I want a GB scarf.

Which reminds me, my mother (she's 75) ordered a rugby top for the 6 Nations- as of the other day , it hadn't arrived. She was not pleased.

I don't understand this. 😕

Can’t wait for the UK team, apparently Tom Daley has personally knitted every outfit. Trouble is wool takes so long to dry if it gets wet so any rain or heavy snow and we will be scuppered.

Good for iran

Mel C I thought

I want the laughing emoji back. 😂

The Spice girls dance was this morning. I missed it too.

Mel C ! Not B
my bad