Closing ceremony

Err. Upwards….

I rather liked the hanging piano

It takes skill.

Callistemon213

MayBee70

Whitewavemark2

Anyone going to watch the perseid meteor shower?

Gawd this is boring!

It’s always cloudy at Perseid weekend. The years I’ve spent sitting in the garden for half the night, usually when I had to be up for work the next day. I can’t actually believe it’s that time of year again though.

Which direction?

Well they reckon the east of England will get the best view. But apparently

Find somewhere really dark.

Lay down and wait😄😄

Any time after midnight

MayBee70

Err. Upwards….

🤣🤣🤣

I'll ask DH!

From the NE apparently but all over the sky.
We've got a street light at the front which is NE!

The highlight of the evening was the joyful athletes, obviously happy and having a great time. They should have cut straight from that to the handing over of the flame to LA.

Yes, it was lovely to see the athletes.

Well done to all of them. 🥇🥇🥇

Callistemon213

It's all very um, er, atmospheric?
Apart from That Carpet.

The Antiques Road Show was interesting.

There was a clue that it was going to be as awful as the opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony had a joke in the first few minutes.
The closing ceremony started with a durg. Not too bad by French standards.
But, we all know there’s two things the French can’t do: humour and music.

petra

Callistemon213

It's all very um, er, atmospheric?
Apart from That Carpet.

The Antiques Road Show was interesting.

There was a clue that it was going to be as awful as the opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony had a joke in the first few minutes.
The closing ceremony started with a durg. Not too bad by French standards.
But, we all know there’s two things the French can’t do: humour and music.

music
As a teenager in France I loved Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday!

Edith Piaf was/is an icon.
Goes off singing L'Hymne à l'amour 😃

They can certainly run an Olympics well though petra, which is far more important. I thought they did a brilliant job, beautiful venues and very smooth operations. Well done France, let’s hope LA is as good.

Ravel, Debussy, Bizet ....

But none of that featured in the closing ceremony. ☹

Children singing beautifully. 🙂

That's it for four years.

As a teenager in France I loved Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday

I’d forgotten all about Sylvia Vartan. Wasn’t keen on Johnny Hallyday.

I like Françoise Hardy and Richard Anthony.

That's a couple of hours I'll never get back. Switched away after 45 minutes of Clare Balding & Co repeating themselves to see the end of CountryFile (which shows how bored I was) and then stayed with Antiques Roadshow. Switched back just as the flashing lights and weird discordant music started, and peeked out occasionally from behind my Sunday Telegraph only to be confronted by the baffling and excruciatingly self-regarding antics of Gimp-suited refugees from Cirque du Soleil trying their hands as scaffolders. After a few minutes fruitlessly praying that an Opening Ceremony-style deluge would put us all out of our misery, I took the executive decision to turn the telly off. I like the French, but just occasionally they are so far up themselves....

Countryfile was very good this evening as was Simon Reeve in Cornwall.

To add insult to injury that’s one of the worst versions of the Star Spangled Banner I’ve had the misfortune to hear.

Why oh why do singers drag out the National Anthems. That renditio of The Star Spangled Banner was excruciating.

The closing ceremony started with a durg
A durg ?
A “dirge” perhaps?

That's no example to set. Where is Tom Cruise' helmet?

Top Gun!!

Off he goes!

I'm yet to be convinced, on the strength of what I am currently seeing, that the 2028 Games are in the best of hands.

Callistemon213

Countryfile was very good this evening as was Simon Reeve in Cornwall.

Now you’re talking. Simon Reeves. 🥰
You forgot Charles Aznavour 😂

petra

Callistemon213

Countryfile was very good this evening as was Simon Reeve in Cornwall.

Now you’re talking. Simon Reeves. 🥰
You forgot Charles Aznavour 😂

You forgot Charles Aznavour 😂
Oh yes!

ixion

I'm yet to be convinced, on the strength of what I am currently seeing, that the 2028 Games are in the best of hands.

Surely they could have come up with something better than that.