A thread for the Olympics. 🏃‍♂️

Septimia

I'm very much looking forward to all the different sports, but it's already spoilt for me - Claire Balding presenting again. I do hope she's not going to be doing everything. She's not my favourite presenter but I can accept her presenting sometimes. The trouble is that she's ubiquitous at the moment...

Agree!

The best bits for me are the scenes done for tv, in the Louvre, tho I like the giant heads in the river, and for the spectators there the flames and the Carmen music.The Lady Ga Ga feathery fiasco was cringeworthy.Now I’m watching some poor bloke play a piano in the pouring rain.

GB just up. Soaked

I know I’m biased but X (Twitter) has been showing the scene with Roman Atkinson and the theme from Chariots of Fire- really funny! Our opening ceremony set the bar very high - we even had the Queen parachuting in.
It’s all dragging a bit in Paris, but I do feel sorry for the French experiencing British Summer weather though!

The letter E now😁 it’s going to take a while……..

I'm enjoying it

The damage being done to that posh piano. 🌧

If I had paid to sit and watch a load of boats pootle down the river while all the action was either recorded or nowhere near where I was sitting I'd be feeling a bit p#££ed off

Do you think it will buck up?

The mistake I think is not using a stadium. A linear show doesn’t work I think

It's an amazing spectacle and I can't imagine the amount of organisation it's taken. I'm loving it without trying to understand it.

I gave up about 20 mins in 😱 Dire.
I knew it wasn’t going to go well when they attempted humour in the empty stadium shot at the beginning.
The French can’t do humour.

Thanks for the tip Foxie48 (I thanked you on the other thread for your comprehensive explanation)

I wish there was more of a running commentary. I have no idea what is going on, and none of it seems at all joined up.
And where are the rest of the boats?

The music is live, not recorded, because you can hear the rain beating down on the microphones.

Thank you for this thread Urmstongran.

I'm thinking the opening ceremony is rather disjointed.
Felt a bit wobbly seeing those musicians on what looked like stone ledges. Yikes! Where was health and safety?

Shame about the rain for everybody taking part.

I’m bored too.

I’ve turned it off'j

At the risk of sounding naïve, where is the music coming from?

The countries are all coming in French alphabetical order on the boats, but the purple flags bear the English translation of the names, which puts them out of alphabetical order!
The Lady Gaga routine would have been better under lights in the dark, but then I guess we wouldn't have seen the backdrop of Paris.
I agree with the comments about the disjointed feel.

NotAGran55 If you are new to dressage, watch the freestyle on Sunday week as you might find the GP tests a bit like watching paint dry unless you have someone with you who understands what's going on. Freestyle is dressage set to music and they have to do certain movements but not in a proscribed order and there's a separate mark for artistic impression. It is lovely to watch. I hope you enjoy!

That can can sequence was just awful and yes I’m bored too.

I think it's a bit different. Do we know that they won't be gathering in the stadium?

The opening ceremony is pretty sad so far. I suppose the athletes are enjoying themselves but I'm bored. And now it's raining. And there's a dreadful rendition of the can can.

I feel sorry for the flag bearers, not getting the honour of leading their country into a stadium.

Some of those boats are bumping about ! Choppy waters