AxC wrote:
Big disappointment that Roger Bannister did not light the cauldron and even bigger disappointment it wasn't any British athlete of note.
I understand what they were going for with the kids but I feel like the cauldron lighting is the part of the ceremony that is most a celebration of host nation's athletic history. This was a celebration of what maybe, could be its future. Seemed like the crowd responded with a collective "ehh" while the lighting usually gets among the loudest cheers of all.
Mediocre PR claim at best. This games is about nothing but making money. Every games ever is about making money.
deanouk wrote:
It fits in entirely with the original pledge in 2005 that this would be a Games to inspire a generation of Youth and to leave a long term legacy.
americans really don't understand the emotional attachment between the British public and the NHS - pretty much everyone in the UK thinks the NHS segment was magnificent
torchy wrote:
A whole section dedicated to NHS? moronic at best, somehow I don't see the opening ceremonies as a time to hold the world hostage to the directors political views...overall i'd give the whole thing a D+ and the lightning ceremony itself an F.
That was definitely the best part of the entire ceremony.
VoR wrote:
The lighting culminated in the playing of Eclipse. No future ceremonies will ever be able to match that moment.
Not even in the same stratosphere at the flaming arrow lighting at Barcelona. That was awesome.
Hiya Folks wrote:VoR wrote:That was definitely the best part of the entire ceremony.
The lighting culminated in the playing of Eclipse. No future ceremonies will ever be able to match that moment.
typical uninformed moronic fu.ck tard
fly a kite wrote:
Typical myopic distance runners. Bannister has NO Olympic medals, so let's shun all those who have? Only distance people care about the 4-minute mile, no one else gives a damn. If anyone should have lit the torch, it should have been Coe (but that would have been a huge conflict of interest). Good decision to have the real athletes (Olympic medalists) nominate future stars, including Desiree Henry, who won world Youth last year in the 200m. Ron Clarke lit the cauldron as a Junior athlete (1956) and went on to become a world-record holder and Olympic medalist.
The Olympics is about more than distance runners, in fact the general public doesn't really give a crap about the silly distance geeks anyway.
You mean then one where some guy shot a flaming arrow out of the stadium while the cauldron somehow lit itself as if by magic?
Sp!kes wrote:
Not even in the same stratosphere at the flaming arrow lighting at Barcelona. That was awesome.