what interesting thing happens after the country walk in?
Seems like this might go until the morning.
Seems like this might go until the morning.
Rio Olympics 2016
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The Olympics.
very boring .... or maybe Ive seen too many of these!
It's incredibly weird that so many of these countries have hardly won anything considering how many events there are.
The commentator just made a Chile pun. Disappointed.
Cyprus must have arrived without their suitcases.
If memory serves me right - some speeches, the end of the torch relay and the lighting of the olympic cauldron.
Thanks
I've laboured through most of it so I might as well finish it.
Woke up for it too.
The girls on the bikes at the front are the only reason I'm still in
Montenegro the fittest so far.
What's with the small plant the kids are carrying?
It's to symbolise changing climate change and one new plant/tree to be planted for each country attending. Meanwhile over 1000 acres of rainforest has been destroyed while this ceremony has been going on.
What's with those weird silver boxes and what are the athletes putting in them? Looks like they are putting seeds in, very strange whatever it is.
I missed them, but Romania have surely just got the gold?
I reckon the silver thing is a seed bank and each nation is putting the seeds of their national plant in there.
Makes sense to me
Was going to post about the quality there but thought two on the same page was a bit much
And Romania had a few that dragged the overall quality down, worthy silver or bronze, but Montegro gave it their all.
Yeah, that's not a bad shout. I like your thinking. I can't work out if every athlete has a seed or just a few or what? Also, there are like a hundred or so slots on the things and some are really high up tooI reckon the silver thing is a seed bank and each nation is putting the seeds of their national plant in there.
Makes sense to me
It's really puzzling and I missed where the BBC commentators said what it was all about.@langster Thanks
wow never realized there are so much countries
Oooh Uruguay
No problem, you are welcome
Must feel awesome to walk out as an athlete, being part of that.
My next door neighbour (literally right next door) Bill Lucas, was in the GB Rowing team in London, although unfortunately he was one of the only members of the team who didn't win a medal, he said walking out at the opening ceremony was the most amazing but completely surreal things he ever experienced in his entire life.
Oscar Schmidt carrying the Olympic flag there, what a legend.
twank mowing about global love.
Was the ceremony good, then?
Money talks, and Brazil spent way less. Nothing will compare to Beijing's!
All the best stuff is on too late for me.
Men's cycling road race starts in about an hour. Brutal and long parcours.
Very tough one. I suspect Dumoulin is gonna drop out pretty quicky and use it as a training day. He needs to start in order to be able to do the time trial, which I think he holds good cards to win for.
Yeah Tom is right up there for the TT win, although I'm not sure how much that broken radius he suffered at back end of the tour will hold him back. Outside of the British contingent, I'd love to see Kiryienka do well in the TT and Poels to ace the Road race.
Jesus, 212km to go. You'd have to be a diehard fan to sit through the whole bloody race.
My channel switched to Hockey now. It's just showing everything with the Dutch in it though, so that explains it.
I rate Poels highly today, over Mollema, who misses a little bit of a killer instinct in my tastes. Dumoulin dropped out already too, as expected.
207km now! I know next to nothing about cycling. No chance for Adam Yates?
I'm watching it now, I'll probably go and do something else and then come back when there is about 50 km left. It's always fun at the end of the race.
Anyone can still win
Yeah, makes sense. I put the water polo on from the red button. Weird sport and looks fecking knackering to play. Very stop/start though.
In a very entertaining water polo opening game Serbia (the heavy favorites for the gold) and Hungary (probably the nation with the biggest tradition in the sport) drew 13-13. The Hungarians were leading till the very end but the Serbs got the equalizer 4 secs from time while they had also hit the post twice in their previous attack. Excellent game from both teams.
@Mrs Smoker
Do you have a link to the daily events.
Do you have a link to the daily events.
Sure. https://www.redcafe.net/threads/rio-olympics-2016-schedule.420305/
Maybe the excel sheet is more useful --- has sorted by sports option too.