BuffaloKyle Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Hey it'll actually be here before you know it! They are going to be doing the opening ceremony on the River Seine. The competitors from each country will be in a boat going along the river with spectators along the river banks and on the bridges. They are anticipating there will be 600,000 spectators to see it. The preview illustration in the article looks spectacular. https://olympics.com/ioc/news/paris-2024-reveals-spectacular-opening-ceremony-plans-for-river-seine Edited February 21, 2022 by BuffaloKyle + azdr0710 and + Charlie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 wow, fantastic way to stage the opening ceremonies......spectacles like this can be goose-bumpy thrilling!..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marylander1940 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Taking the Olympics out of the stadium! A new concept! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 The Eiffel tower is in need of some major repairs but they won't have time before the Olympics and will simply repaint it again: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/paris-eiffel-tower-is-reportedly-badly-in-need-of-repairs/ar-AAZcFrf marylander1940 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted November 14, 2022 Author Share Posted November 14, 2022 The mascots were revealed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/olympics-phrygian-caps-to-be-the-paris-2024-games-mascots/ar-AA1455dm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSR Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 17 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said: The mascots were revealed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/olympics-phrygian-caps-to-be-the-paris-2024-games-mascots/ar-AA1455dm The phrygian cap mascots look more like phrygian aliens, but I like the French revolution theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted July 27, 2023 Author Share Posted July 27, 2023 We are officially less than a year away now! CuriousByNature 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 I've been tossing up whether to post this here, as it's about football qualification for the Olympics, or in the football world cup thread as it's about the continuation of Australians' infatuation with the national women's team we saw during the world cup a couple of months ago. Anyhoo, Australia is playing a qualification round with Iran, the Philippines and Taiwan, in Perth. The three Australia games were scheduled to be played in a 20,000 seat stadium, and they quickly sold out. I saw an interview with the Iranian coach who said that her team had never played in a full stadium before. (Since you asked, the Iranian women wore hijabs of sorts and, wrist and ankle length kit.) The Australia-Philippines match was moved to the new 60,000 seat Perth Stadium and quickly sold out there as well. Six months ago, the idea of selling that many seats to a women's football game here, and in Perth rather than Sydney or Melbourne, would have been unthinkable, but here we are. It remains to be seen whether it will last, but the enthusiasm was expected to end after the world cup. We continue to waltz with the Matildas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 The surfing competitions are going to be held in French Polynesia which is 10,000 miles away from Paris: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/the-surfing-venue-for-the-paris-olympics-is-on-the-other-side-of-the-world-but-could-steal-the-show/ar-AA1kSkA3?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=b4632a778be34d77a3ad04ea263c0beb&ei=9 BSR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marylander1940 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 On 11/15/2022 at 3:43 PM, arnemgreeves said: China, the USA, Britain and Australia tend to dominate each games. It's a little boring. and Russia with the help of some "enhancers". Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ tassojunior Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 11/15/2022 at 3:43 PM, arnemgreeves said: China, the USA, Britain and Australia tend to dominate each games. It's a little boring. it's been the US and Russia competing but the US solved that by disqualifying Russia from competing. The Olympics should not be political. Making peace for games was the original intent of the olympics. Sad it's devolved into politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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