CANADA, THE MOST EMBRASSING OLYMPICS EVER???

Actually, Canada has much to be proud of in putting on these olympics. They were perhaps the most exciting games ever with great, riveting performances, timely events and generally well managed venues.

Too bad trivial things that had little or nothing to do with the performances distracted you. It is obvious that you are not an athlete. Whiny.

Your powers of perception are small. I am an athlete.

I mean just look at the closing ceremonies, my wife is Canadian, and was really want to celebrate the closing of the games and...then those inflatable Thanksgiving day parade cliches of tourism barf floating all over.

Trully review those closing ceremonies-- the chaotic confused dancers with the fake snow boads. List out some classier and more relevant Canadian stars that could have, should have appeared in the closing ceremonies.

Finally my wife said "oh God, this is embarassing and cannot end soon enough, they have turned into into a Disney on Mainstreet parade of cliches.

Norway got it done. The Australians got it done, Athens did a masterful job of expressing their history and culture.

Not a lot of native people's in the ceremonies, should have been more respect for the heritage of the region, and the nature.

Giant Beaver Balloons?

That closing parade was conceived in a late night idea storming session that surely included marijuana.

Dudley Doright handing off the flame to Boris and Natasha would have been as effective.

And that is what the closing ceremonies seemed like.

LOW Brow.

Don't you mean embronzing?

"We mean well but somehow we can just never get it right".

Sounds more like U.S. foreign policy to me.

Could be why the rest of the world prefers to play somewhere else.

At least they got the Games. The U.S.' last Olympic bid was so weak they didn't even make it out of the first round of voting, remember?

Telling it like it was wrote:

Norway got it done. The Australians got it done, Athens did a masterful job of expressing their history and culture.

Giant Beaver Balloons?

That closing parade was conceived in a late night idea storming session that surely included marijuana.

You can't have it both ways. Beaver and marijuana are both essential parts of Canadian history and culture. Although preferably the other way around.

[quote]Telling it like it was wrote:

First, they build a luge run faster and more dangerous than ever before; resulting in the death of an Olympian the day before the games.

Second, the crew they hired to do the opening ceremonies; they hired cos he did them for the Sydney game.

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OK. There were flaws.

But, The Olympics were very entertaining. If you went, (did you?) Then you might have seen some things us television viewers did not.

Just a point on grammer; "Cos", is a slang used for texting. It does not actually have a place in a dictionary.

It is used by teen age girls and boys who feel their texting words translate into the real world. It makes you look dumb.

Night train bobsled wrote:

[quote]Telling it like it was wrote:

First, they build a luge run faster and more dangerous than ever before; resulting in the death of an Olympian the day before the games.

Second, the crew they hired to do the opening ceremonies; they hired cos he did them for the Sydney game.

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OK. There were flaws.

But, The Olympics were very entertaining. If you went, (did you?) Then you might have seen some things us television viewers did not.

Just a point on grammer; "Cos", is a slang used for texting. It does not actually have a place in a dictionary.

It is used by teen age girls and boys who feel their texting words translate into the real world. It makes you look dumb.

You have serious anal retentive issues if the use of "cos," on a chat board bothers you.

Ain't did not used to be in the English language either.

Did you know that the English language grows at a rate of over 1% a year, and has since 1975. Do you know why?

And yes, Virginia, while the athletics were entertaining, there is no excuse for how poorly the Canadians executed in so many areas.

We are talking about a shortfall in execution that immediately resulted in the death of a young man; for which the IOC's official response was...to place the blame on the athlete. --This even after hoards of athletes had expressed their fears and concerns about the track.

How Quickly people forget. Every Olympics have their problems. But most people remember the Olympic Performances.

Before you slam Vancouver lets check out some Atlanta Headlines.

The transportation problems have gotten so bad here that many foreigners and the foreign press are calling this one of the worst-run Olympics in terms of logistics. Take a look:

* The London Daily Mail -- "Olympic Chaos."

* Mexico City News -- "Atlanta Reels"

* Los Angeles Times -- "Bum steers in Bumfuzzled Atlanta"

* And France-Soir said: "Africa has been deprived of the Games since their creation with the pretext that African countries don't have the necessary infrastructure. After Atlanta, any country in the world can apply to host the Games."

Oh - don't forgot the bomb that went off and killed one person and injured 111 others. That's pretty embarrassing.

Yes, there were some cliches for sure, as every Olympics has. But in terms of attendance and spirit, these games were second to none. I have watched many Olympics where lesser sports (luge, curling, nordic combined ski jump) have had virtually no one in attendance other than family. Did you see the end of every luge, bobsled, skeleton run? It was like they were rock stars arriving. Parties every night in Whistler and Vancouver without any bombs going off. Talk to the athletes, see what they say?

I agree that some things went poorly, but for me, these were the most exciting games in a long time. I usually hate NBC's coverage of the Olympics, but I think they did a much better job this time around.

Telling it like it was wrote:

Your powers of perception are small. I am an athlete.

You're definitely not a speller.

The Closing Ceremonies were good and bad. First off the Giant floating beavers, moose and all that is all done in a tongue-in-cheek way as a comment to say, 'we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously' or 'here we are laughing at ourselves - join in'. We were making fun of ourselves rather than thinking 'Disney'. Sorry, but Disney is Americana, this was about self-deprecation, Canadian style, after a massive 2-week party.

So it was all in good fun, the humour was lost on you - your issue.

The second half of the ceremonies fizzled when we had Hedley, Avril Lavigne et al performing songs not related to Canada.

ON the other hand, having Neil Young sing, Long May You Run was awesome, just as it was great to have KD Lang sing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah during the opening ceremonies.

No one was going to point out to you Atlanta's gaudy and tacky and highly embarrassing 2-week moment until you put yourself out there. Perhaps you could do with a little self-deprecation.

The Coca-Cola Olympics of 96 set back America's chances hosting an Olympics again probably 25 years.

Stop your crying about losing the Hockey tournament. The better team won!!!

It is obvious you are secretly in love with the great big beavers!!!

The problems began when Vancouver was awarded these Games. Did no one realize these would be the warmest locale ever for such Games? And we wonder why it was raining instead of snowing. The people of Vancouver, B.C., and Canada should be embaressed.

George Webbs wrote:

The Coca-Cola Olympics of 96 set back America's chances hosting an Olympics again probably 25 years.

or 6

LOL! Well done.

On second thought, I would imagine the IOC had already chosen SLC before the ATL Olympics happened?