The opening ceremony was excellent. It will be very difficult for future games to better that. I watched the opening ceremony and I'll watch the closing ceremony because they are both theatre.
The rest will be avoided, like all other organised sport is avoided. My life is a sport free zone. I'm now going to suffer from two weeks of TV hell, until it's all over at last.
The original Olympic Games in Greece were spoiled and then eventually stopped because of money, bad spotsmanship and politics.
I have been saying for years, that the the Olympic Games should go back to Greece and stay there. They should be spread all over the country and the world should pay to have the best possible facilities built there.
All sorts of people hate the Chinese and will try to disrupt these games. Politics will ruin these games. No-one hates the Greeks. In political and sporting terms it's a neutral country.
I believe that by the time these games are over, many people will regret that they ever went to China. They will shamelessly cheat, restrict publicity and I expect they will stitch up some athletes who beat they favourite Chinese athletes.
It is no longer true to the spirit of the original. These athletes are not amateurs. They do nothing but train for their sport and if they work, it is to advertise for their sponsors. If that does not make them professional athletes, I don't know what does.
It is a total waste of money now. China has spent 40 billion dollars to run these games and yet their people are still living in what we call poverty for anyone in those types of conditions here.
Our DVD player will be getting a lot of use in the near future and channel 7 will be a no go zone. We usually watch their news but I even stopped watching that before the games started as they had so much crap about the olympics on.
So are we the same people who 8 years ago were jumping up and down in the euphoria of the Sydney Olympics? Or are we all just cynical now because we've had our turn?
I've always loved it. Whether people are cheating or not, seeing the best in the world compete, and seeing every Joe average of the smaller countries having a go is what it's all about.
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I avoided the Sydney games as well. Brisbane is talking about bidding to host the games some time in the future. If they succeed, I will be going away on holidays to ANYWHERE to get away from them.
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the olympic period in sydney was a great time, it will probably be remembered as a period when we
were our most neighbourly our transport systems really worked for a short time, i wonder why it
couldn t continue, i suppose we forget how to be humane to each other.
Not a massive fan, but do enjoy the fringe events. Like the Greco Roman Wrestling, Trampolining, Synchronized Diving, Handball etc. Great to see some sports we don't normally hear anything about.
And Yogie...tell the young fella from Adelaide who is competing for Australia in Trampolining that he is a professional, when he works 8 hours a day in a cafe and trains for 4-8 hours. Not all sports attract the sponsorship $$ and that is the beauty of the games, where we get to see the true amatuers perform.
BTW....swimming sucks!
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sorry mate, I was trying to be even handed. I didn't even vote until this morning.
Shahalud, their are some people that don't like the greeks. The macedonians.
The Olympics have always been a political football. How could they not. Mix nationalism in with money and what do you expect. A mate of mine almost went as a cyclist. He said something interesting, "take all the drug bans away and let them take what they want. I want to see just how fast a human can go." 😂
boristherat wrote:And Yogie...tell the young fella from Adelaide who is competing for Australia in Trampolining that he is a professional, when he works 8 hours a day in a cafe and trains for 4-8 hours.
That may be so but it gets very little air time and is more than offset by the basketballers that earn a squillion dollars playing the game professionaly the rest of the year as well as the tennis players. These people are truly professional. The high profile sports other than those do get the sponsorship and support.
I am not against people that are genuine amateurs out there to do their best. The problem I see is that you do not know if the people competing are honestly the best or are they simply the best because they are using drugs that are not tested for yet?
greenbug70 wrote:the olympic period in sydney was a great time, it will probably be remembered as a period when we
were our most neighbourly our transport systems really worked for a short time, i wonder why it
couldn t continue, i suppose we forget how to be humane to each other.
Because Sydney's moved on to win Gold in the most fikkin expensive place to live ever. Love how all the telecasts bang on about the smog with a somewhat smug 'we didn't have that in Sydney' implication. Good job they built it in homebush then. Sydney has the 'mist'. Have no idea why 'funny boy' Daddo is making an earn off it - surely 7 could have someone else in the warehouse who actutally knows something about sport?
