Olympics

Jul. 27th, 2012 10:20 pm
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Watched the Olympics opening ceremonies with maaseru and Pim.

Loved it all, especially the sequence with the Queen. Loved the historicity of it.

I don't usually watch sports at all; I'm not sure how to find out when and where to watch the things I'd like to see - equestrian, fencing, archery (that seems to be this weekend), taw kwon do. Not sure I get the the TV stations that show it. We shall see. Perhaps [livejournal.com profile] maaseru, who is savvier than I am about Olympics, will tell me... and invite me up to her place.

Of course, I particularly loved seen Kenneth Branagh doing bits of The Tempest. Gorgeous!

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2010 Winter Olympics...

Mar. 4th, 2010 11:00 pm
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I wanted to say a few things about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; I'd better do it quick, before I forget what I wanted to say. Okay, it's too late for this to be 'quick', but I can try not to be any tardier.

I don't often pay much attention to ports on television, but I watched some of the figure skating, and enjoyed it very much. Watched the opening and closing ceremonies. A few other odds and ends - but not the exciting hockey game which ended on a high note for Canadians. A few thoughts:
  1. Protesting the Olympics seems to me ill-advised and short-sighted, whatever one's motivation might be. The Olympics gives us something to be excited about, something to draw us together as an international community. I'd rather it were less competitive, but there's so much that's good about it, I think it's small-minded to confuse it with politics or causes. It's bigger than that.

  2. I particularly enjoyed watching Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. Loved the broccoli. If you missed that bit: Tessa Virtue, when winning the gold, carried a bunch of broccoli like a bouquet, because her mother had told her if she ate her broccoli she'd have the strength to win the Gold Medal. I guess it worked.

    I also really liked Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao.

  3. I like to think of myself as an internationalist, but the opening ceremonies chocked me up somewhat, and aroused all those latent nationalistic feelings I wasn't sure I had. The multiculturalism delighted me, and I was also pleased that the appearances of both Ashley McIsaac and k.d. lang, proving that you don't need to be hetersexual to be a celebrity in Canada. Let's hear it for diversity!

  4. It was fun to see William Shatner and Michael J. Fox, beloved Canadian ex-pats. I was also glad to see Michael Bublé, whose music I like, but I don't often see him on television. It was also good to see Donald Sutherland. Just... because. And hey, Wayne Gretzky. Felt like a blast from the past.

  5. I was glad Rick Hansen was included.

  6. I loved it when John Furlong, in the speech for the Opening Ceremonies, talked about the "magic so rare that it cannot be controlled by borders". In an event in which people and competitors seem acutely aware of nationality, yes, let's hear it for borderlessness!

  7. How'd Canada win all those medals? ( I guess they... )

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