Anyone have some other streams? I only speak American :thepirate
Jackson
Watched it earlier, It was really cool that when Iraq came out and was announced the whole stadium cheered really loud :)
ChemEnhanced
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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Well if thats your argument, I really hope you don't watch any sort of professional sports period. Pro sports is nothing but a selling machine, and not about the athletes either. Olympics is really the only more pure sports left that just isn't out to sell shoes, coca cola, or cars alone.
The difference is that pro athletes are paid for what they do....there is a need to sell products. The olympic athletes are not paid by the IOC and are not "professional" athletes. If they paid the athletes a portion of the money made on the olympics then I say advertise the crap out of them.
ChemEnhanced
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Originally posted by Jackson
Watched it earlier, It was really cool that when Iraq came out and was announced the whole stadium cleared out of there :)
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kadomony
China’s rain-stoppers face big Olympic test
By Mure Dickie in Beijing
Published: August 7 2008 19:35 | Last updated: August 7 2008 19:35
Of all the Chinese officials working behind the scenes to produce a flawless Olympic opening ceremony on Friday evening, few face a task as daunting as those in charge of making sure it does not rain.
Staff from China’s “weather modification” departments have deployed aircraft, artillery and rocket launchers to ward off rain before the three-hour ceremony in Beijing’s spectacular but roofless “bird’s nest” stadium.
Cloudburst
I did not because it was in the middle of the day and I was working. Who cares anyway. :o
Dr. DAS
I didn't watch it, and I have no plans to watch any portion of the Olympics this year.
It has nothing to do with the business of it, it's all about the site. China hosting the Olympics is a mockery to the spirit of the games. Their abhorrent human rights record, opressive regime and state-controlled media do nothing but tarnish what should be a celebration of global cooperation and sport. It seems unfair to support the games when there are so many people who can't watch it because they are hog-tied to an electrified bed frame.
If China wants to torture and kill people for no other reason than political activism, the're not funding it with my money.
Why didn't they just go out and hand it to Pyongyang and get it over with?
As unfair as it might be to the atheletes, who train their entire lives for this, I don't believe that any socially responsible nation should have fielded a team.
See you in 2012.
phyrrus
link to engrish stream anyone?
Lira
I don't understand the pessimism. This is probably the best thing that could possibly have happened to China. The communist regime cannot control all these foreigners as if they were ordinary citizens. This may well be the seed of a later democratic revolution thanks to the influx of new ideas. Besides, the Olympic Games tend to be profitable events, and they can't control the market (and the citizens) forever. Beijing is not Berlin 70 years ago.
Kinezi
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Originally posted by Jackson
Watched it earlier, It was really cool that when Iraq came out and was announced the whole stadium cheered really loud :)
I missed it, how many Iraqies were there? you have any youtube link to that?
Here is the vedio of 2004 Iraqi Olympics Team enterance.. at Athens..
I am guessing the number of athletes this year after 4 years is reduced to half of original atleast.. As US managed to liberate most of Iraqies..
Dr. DAS
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Originally posted by Lira
I don't understand the pessimism. This is probably the best thing that could possibly have happened to China. The communist regime cannot control all these foreigners as if they were ordinary citizens. This may well be the seed of a later democratic revolution thanks to the influx of new ideas. Besides, the Olympic Games tend to be profitable events, and they can't control the market (and the citizens) forever. Beijing is not Berlin 70 years ago.
The world, and the tourists, will only see what the PRC allow them to see. They have already banned open photography, you don't think they have greater ambitions than that?
They want to show the world what a modern, progressive country they are, but the shiny gloss they've rolled on Beijing is in no way a reflection of the country as a whole. Anyone care to google the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Kinezi
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Originally posted by Lira
democratic revolution
Oh please stop shoving your democracy on every corner of this planet.
