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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 21, 2016 20:52:51 GMT -5
aww they stopped showing it would have happily watched that for another hour Honestly so could I. I thought it was relatively short for a closing ceremony.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Aug 21, 2016 20:56:21 GMT -5
FAREWELL YE OLYMPICS FAREWELL FOR 'NOTHER FOUR YEARS
and it's in the books .....
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Aug 21, 2016 21:00:34 GMT -5
I enjoyed these games. Especially Swimming and Track.
My favorite moment is easily Neymar winning Brazil gold. Especially when you consider he missed some big games at the World Cup.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 22, 2016 0:35:58 GMT -5
Looking forward to Tokyo. Cause if their Ceremonies are like Londons they will have a celebration to pop culture. So expect J-Pop, Nintendo (which was hinted already), anime, and Godzilla. In fact they could get the Big G to light the Cauldron with his atomic breath.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 22, 2016 0:40:48 GMT -5
I already have Olympic withdrawal symptoms. It happens every time. I honestly haven't watched anything else on TV for two weeks. It's been beautiful. That's the problem with the Olympics. They end. I get used to watching the news report nothing but positivity and optimism for 16 days and I shit you not, today, the first story I hear about is a damn suicide bombing. The Olympics are a welcome diversion from the misery, doom and gloom of the world, especially that Mongolian guy who stripped off in protest against the wrestling judges. It was a Ric Flair moment. Amazing.
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Post by mattperiolat on Aug 22, 2016 7:11:48 GMT -5
Well, time to put a cherry on the Olympic sundae.
So, these were the Games of Michael Phelps and they were also the Games of Ryan Lochte. These were the Games of Usain Bolt and they were also the Games of Russian doping. These were the Games where Brazil finally won Olympic gold in Men's Football and they were also the Games of Hope Solo.
In the end, the biggest thing about these Games is, for all the worry about crowds, terrorism, Zika and preparedness is that they happened at all. But they did and Brazil and Rio seem the better for it in the long run. Yes, they were flawed, but in the end, perhaps that is good reflection of our current world as it is right now - flawed, wracked by fear, worry and division, but still aspiring to be better. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, all of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking toward the stars.
Tonight, as the final clips rolled, I couldn't help but cry a bit, not just for the Games just past, but for history. Counting from 1992, when an understanding mother decided to let her teenage son take over the VCR for sixteen days, I've been striving to capture as much of the Games as I can. Since then, names like Bonnie Blair, Dan Jansen, Kristi Yamaguchui, Midori Ito, Carl Lewis, Derek Redmond, Shannon Miller, Gail Deavers and on and on and on have become as familiar to me as neighbors. For 24 years, the story rolls on and grows and I feel, for sixteen days, a part of something larger than myself. And it's never a burden, but a privilege to share with those new to the party and those coming around for another feast at the banquet.
And so, we look ahead. We think of a challenge laid before us every four (or two) years - if the best athletically among us can come together and make memories, not enemies; exchange hugs and tears, not gunshots; can we not all aspire to be just a bit more Olympic? A bit better than we started?
And so, in the footsteps of Jim McKay and Bob Costas, I say good night and goodbye - this final time - from Rio de Janeiro and the Games of the XXXIst Olympiad.
See you all in PeyongChang, South Korea, in 2018 for the XXIIIrd Olympic Winter Games.
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Post by mattperiolat on Aug 22, 2016 7:21:32 GMT -5
Soooo LA is getting 2024 right? I mean its one of the Final 4, and NA has not hosted Summer since 1996 and the other 3 are Europe which hosted 2012. 12 vs 28 years. I've learned over the years to never bet money on what the IOC decides to do. Right now, between Budapest, Paris, Rome and LA, I'd say it's a horse race between Rome and LA with Paris as the dark horse. Paris's big problem is concerns about security right now. Plus France has been through absolute hell the last year or so. Not sure the IOC would willingly risk their party there right now. IOC loves American money, but not so much America at the moment. They proved that by bouncing Chicago in the first round to set up a Rio victory for these Games. Wait until next year, see which way the IOC is leaning. It just depends.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 22, 2016 7:41:03 GMT -5
Just watching the replay of the Closing Ceremony now. Team GB seemed to get their footwear advice from Naomi in WWE.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 12:02:31 GMT -5
My takeaway from the Summer Games:
The tennis was amazing. (I learned Puerto Rico had a national anthem.) The cycling road races were great.
The NBC app was decent (once I figured it out), although it locked up during the women's singles tennis bronze medal match.
Overall, enjoyable, despite the doom and gloom.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 22, 2016 12:09:57 GMT -5
I felt like I missed a lot, then again you can only keep with so much, not to mention that I was more interested in certain events than others. Good thing that Xfinity On Demand have some events up until October. I actually followed it more in 2012. Now I just have to wait a year and a half for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
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