Winter Olympics - Opening Ceremony this evening

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

Sure they just said France are yet to come.

Ah, Portugal. They should be good at tobogganing as they have those basketty things.

Went to Finland's national ski jumping stadium in spring. The full size thing is massive but they have a whole range down to tiny wee baby slopes to start on.

😂

You can buy it!

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San merino athlete is smiley

DH wasn’t allowed to have a go on the Lillehammer ski jump.

Can’t think why …

Cosy coats

Is anyone else suddenly getting adverts for northern European cruises? 😂

Singapore borrowed coats from Denmark.

Some of those people look far too young to be Olympic qualifiers!

Wow, that's blue.

Had he illegally injected his genitals and this would have given him a unfair aerodynamic advantage?

Eeek! Why would you do that? 40 mph and the distinct possibility of ending up in a heap of horse poo. Mind you I was pleased to see the horse had a rider, I had assumed you had to control it yourself.

Tempted.

i watched those in Madeira. Looked both dangerous and uncomfortable, so it was a double no from me.

Oi oi Sweden. That bloke with the beard and selfie stick can barely walk straight.

I think I would have noticed if DH’s tackle had <ahem> unexpectedly expanded.

Although DH has obviously given this some thought as he suggested saline injections as a less risky option.

It sure about the fakie Italian-knotted scarfs that quite a few teams have gone for. Surely Italian knot is only cool if you do it with a normal scarf?

Considering Seden’s flag is blue and yellow, their outfits look very purple.

I did It. It was fun but over quite quickly.

As is the case with so many things.

Testing positive for performance-enhancing grappa.

Think there's been a lot of that.

Nice to see people having fun.

That wasn’t at the Olympics…. It was at the World Championships afterwards in Ottawa.

2036??

Blimey.

Mind you, I remember Mancher bidding for 1996 (not the Winter games, we never get snow) and 2000.
I have a Manchester Lion somewhere.