Great Opening Ceremonies

George Grand
George Grand Posts: 12,258
edited February 2014 in The Clubhouse
The Russki's did good I thought. Some pretty creative stuff. Anna Ntrebko singing directly to me in Russian was thrilling, though somewhat tempered by the lyrics being about some new recipes she has found.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,864
    edited February 2014
    During this part of the opening ceremony, the Russians not only knocked it out of the ballpark, they put it into orbit:


    sochi opening ceremony.jpg



    Absolutely brilliant. Monstrous good
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,465
    edited February 2014
    Go USA!!!


    I won't be watching any of the games this year except for the hockey.
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  • pglbook
    pglbook Posts: 2,228
    edited February 2014
    I agree. It was an excellent opening ceremony. I loved how it really showcased Russia's history and artistic culture (Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, etc). What a great tradition!
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  • NJPOLKER
    NJPOLKER Posts: 3,474
    edited February 2014
    RUSSIA?

    You gotta be kidding me? I am red whte and blue just like the commies are commies.

    God Bless America
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited February 2014
    pglbook wrote: »
    I agree. It was an excellent opening ceremony. I loved how it really showcased Russia's history and artistic culture (Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, etc). What a great tradition!

    Good in some aspects.....Stalin however...not so much.
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  • pglbook
    pglbook Posts: 2,228
    edited February 2014
    I was mainly referring to Russia's great artistic tradition - literature, poetry, music, ballet, etc - and really liked how the opening ceremony paid homage to that aspect of Russian culture.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited February 2014
    I think the important thing here is that the arts are back in the former Soviet Union, albeit under the unacceptable eye of Putin. But hey we'll take what we can. And no one can say that the opening ceremonies did not hit it out of the park (Gorky Park).

    Oh, and congrats to Sage Kotsenburg for taking the first GOLD in slopestyle. An awesome performance!

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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited February 2014
    Overall, I liked the ceremonies.

    I did think the lighting of the Olympic Flame was a bit anti-climactic...I mean watching two people jog out of the venue and across a big empty lot for 30 seconds was a 'huh'? moment.

    Recall Lily Hammer where the torch was ski jumped in? Recall Barcelona with the archer and the arrow shot?

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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited February 2014
    Erik Tracy wrote: »
    Overall, I liked the ceremonies.

    I did think the lighting of the Olympic Flame was a bit anti-climactic...I mean watching two people jog out of the venue and across a big empty lot for 30 seconds was a 'huh'? moment.

    Recall Lily Hammer where the torch was ski jumped in? Recall Barcelona with the archer and the arrow shot?

    Erik, Rodina and Tretiak are two of Russia's most decorated and world-recognized athletes, so it was quite fair for them to light up the flame, as well as for other famous elders to bring out the Olympic flag (i.e. Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space). I highly doubt that Tretiak would ski jump the flame at his age :)

    And NJPolker... you can come out of your bomb shelter now, cold war is over, USSR fell apart, US won.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited February 2014
    NJPOLKER wrote: »
    RUSSIA?

    You gotta be kidding me? I am red whte and blue just like the commies are commies.

    God Bless America

    Umm, the Russian flag is red, white, and blue, too. I am thinking (perhaps hoping) you knew that.

    Flag_of_Russia.svg

    back on topic (sort of)...
    I think everyone's just waiting to watch super slo-mo, hi-def closeups of the US and Canadian women's hockey teams fightin'...
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