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Originally Posted by charlene
I can't believe the Russians who were caught using banned substances last year are at the games. The IOC and the Olympic Ski fed. should be ashamed. toss them now before the races begin!
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I mistakenly watched the opening ceremonies right to the bitter end . now where is that clip of Gord singing She Was My Athabaska Lady??
I thought afterwards of the 101 things I could have done instead
In fact I enjoyed an article in the New York Times online far more:-
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/sp...14mcgrath.html
entitled
An Appraisal
A Tasteful Way to Start the Olympic Games
some particular opinions therein
"There was also relief among those who had been fretting since 2008, wondering how the Vancouver organizers could compete with the opening ceremony for the Summer Games in Beijing. Wisely, they didn’t try. Friday’s ceremony was not a cast-of-thousands spectacle, and no children were subjected to voice dubbing, though a doping committee may want to look into what the aboriginal people were taking that enabled them to dance without stopping for three hours straight."
"The ceremony was long, a little dull at times, but it was also thoughtful and stirring. It was authentically and unabashedly Canadian. The poet Shane Koyczan pointed out that his was a country not afraid to use the words “please and thank you.” You could add that it’s a country unafraid to put a poet up there on the stage."
He also said that Canadians (correctly) said "A to Zed not Zee"
And that Canada was the "What" in "What's new"
The article also said:-
"About Nikki Yanofsky’s rendition of “O Canada,” the less said the better. She has picked up the unfortunate trait of turning the national anthem into a power ballad."
and pair of sharp observations
"As always, one of the best things about the ceremony was simply watching the athletes, bright-eyed and hopeful, and wondering about all the nonathletes who manage to get into the act. Why is it that a country sending one athlete to the Games also sends a handful of out-of-shape middle-age guys to march with him?"
"It’s true that the Bermudans, in shorts and knee socks, seemed to have mixed up the calendar, and what was with those German uniforms that bore “Team” on the front? They needed to be reminded?"