Olympics: 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - 1:30 PM Eastern

[Erikfromfin]

No. Success!

supposed to be rings no?

 

[Jussi]

CELINE! Massive respect, considering the horrible disease she's going through.

supposed to be rings no?

No, hot air balloon is very much French.

 

[PanthersPens62]

I don't think its supposed to fly away !

 

[Jussi]

All Canadians should give her a standing O for performing in general.

 

[John Price]

Celine <3

 

[GQS]

Yeah one sounds like Mike Tyson and has a lisp.

They really are dreadful. Just because you were an athlete does not mean you make a good commentator.

Absolutely. Also doesn't help that none of the commentators seem to have information available about the torcher bearers and what they're known for. The old crews would've had all that info ready to go so we would know who's who.

 

[Daisy Jane]

wow. I LIKE this idea a lot. a Hot Air Balloon!

 

[PanthersPens62]

She sounds awesome !

 

[Daisy Jane]

Absolutely. Also doesn't help that none of the commentators seem to have information available about the torcher bearers and what they're known for. The old crews would've had all that info ready to go so we would know who's who.

NBC isn't doing any better. it makes me wonder if they were given any info.

 

[LOFIN]

Got better as it went along

 

[gary69]

CELINE! Massive respect, considering the horrible disease she's going through.


No, hot air balloon is very much French.

Horrible desease, but still tough for French taxpayers to pay millions to her for one song.

 

[Jussi]

Horrible desease, but still tough for French taxpayers to pay millions to her for one song.

I don't think they mind in this case.

Top that, next hosts! Bravo!

 

[Erikfromfin]

4½ hour torture over

 

[gary69]

I don't think its supposed to fly away !

I was expecting to see the Batman sign appear on the balloon

 

[Hanji]

Rather pedestrian ceremony overall. But damn, Celine was on fire!

 

[Daisy Jane]

Man. Celine. oh man. that was great.

 

[PanthersPens62]

I don't get the hot air balloon thing.......is it just going to levitate over Paris for 17 days? What obvious thing am I missing here?

 

[Evilo]

Good luck to LA.
This ceremony has made every opening ceremony obsolete.
Wow, incredible work by Thomas Jolly.
All the symbols were there like a big fat finger towards Macron and his buddies, as well as the racists of our country.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I don't get the hot air balloon thing.......is it just going to levitate over Paris for 17 days? What obvious thing am I missing here?

nothing. it is. they didn't want to put it in the stadium they wanted to make it accessible. which okay. it's very unique-ish. i like it.

 

[I am not exposed]

Good luck to LA.
This ceremony has made every opening ceremony obsolete.
Wow, incredible work by Thomas Jolly.
All the symbols were there like a big fat finger towards Macron and his buddies, as well as the racists of our country.

 

[Daisy Jane]

This ceremony has made every opening ceremony obsolete.

it didn't do that for me. but i am really glad that you enjoyed this one so much

 

[gary69]

HOT AIR BALLOON?!

The longest surviving French Olympic gold medalist in the wheel chair.

Absolutely brilliant idea.

Was born in 1924, when Paris last held Olympics. I wonder how many people are alive who saw those games as a kid.

 

[Jussi]

I don't get the hot air balloon thing.......is it just going to levitate over Paris for 17 days? What obvious thing am I missing here?

Hot air balloon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot-air balloon in Annonay, Ardèche, France, and demonstrated it publicly on September 19, 1783, making an unmanned flight lasting 10 minutes. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first balloon flight with humans aboard, a tethered flight, performed on or around October 15, 1783, by Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who made at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Reveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Later that same day, Pilatre de Rozier became the second human to ascend into the air, reaching an altitude of 26 m (85 ft), the length of the tether.

 

[GQS]

NBC isn't doing any better. it makes me wonder if they were given any info.

BBC crew had all the info ready to go. Named every athlete and what they're known for as they were passed the torch. Really need Ron MacLean here. He would've gotten it all right.

 

[Evilo]

I'm sure you'll like the drum beating in a stadium in LA.