http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/opening_ceremony-2012-hp.jpg

Opening ceremonies 3.30 pm EST.

Quite the opening - could do with out the commercials and voice overs from brain dead announcers but mercifully not too much of either.
Very cute with Bond and HRM :clap:

We switched to BBC coverage over VPN. Used the mountain lion to AirPlay onto our apple TV.
Preferable to watching the horrid CTV coverage and the advertising.

Love Mountain Lion!

The live feed was superb tho. Found the singalong too long but otherwise well done.:clap:

150000 condoms were given out to the athletes in the Olympic village. Yikes!
That's 576 condoms per country - which is about 2 per athlete per day, if they did use them , when would they have the time to participate in sport?
LOL

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150000 condoms were given out to the athletes in the Olympic village. Yikes!
That's 576 condoms per country - which is about 2 per athlete per day, if they did use them , when would they have the time to participate in sport?
LOL

Women weaken the legs, Rocky.

beat me to the Queen .... - good laugh this morning - she was looking dyspeptic......maybe rough paracahute landing ;)

http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/olympics-archery-2012-hp.jpg

They cancelled baseball, but they have hockey in the summer games? Now I am confused.

Wrong hockey game boyo.

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I usually detect repeat commercials but I grin every time with this one.....well done :clap:

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Wrong hockey game boyo.

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I usually detect repeat commercials but I grin every time with this one.....well done :clap:

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Have to agree. In fact the entire Rona series are well done.


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Have to agree. In fact the entire Rona series are well done.


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We have three Rona stores right here in St.John's, so I am not sure why there had to be a screwdriver brought in from the Victoria store? :confused::D Still, it was a good commercial.

We have three Rona stores right here in St.John's, so I am not sure why there had to be a screwdriver brought in from the Victoria store? :confused::D Still, it was a good commercial.

Probably the same reason he didn't have a hammer. ;)


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Probably the same reason he didn't have a hammer. ;)


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Maybe.................. but it might not have been St.John's since the boat said St. John. Still, it was an interesting commercial.

Wrong hockey game boyo.

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I usually detect repeat commercials but I grin every time with this one.....well done :clap:

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Agreed this is a great commercial...

Love the music from TGTB&TU.

We just heard CBC has been awarded the Canadian broadcast rights for future Olympic games.
Thank goodness!

CTV (Bell) stinks!

Yeah the Olympics has been quite interesting:

- Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal to set a new record for the most decorated Olympian. His 19th medal was a gold for the anchor leg of relay swim.

- Canada has won 6 medals - 5 bronze, 1 silver. Silver was for men's 8 rowing I believe.

- the Queens grand-daughter Zara Philips won a silver (her whole team won silver) in Equestrian. My mom loves the equestrian event.

- one of the Chinese swimmers swam so fast in the last leg of the race that there have been rumors that she used doping, but no proof of it.

And this:

Canadian team advances after badminton players expelled from Olympics for match-throwing (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadian-team-advances-after-badminton-players-expelled-from-olympics-for-match-throwing/article4453784/)

Still no Downhill Weightlifting, Ballroom Judo, or 1000m Road Rage. :ptptptptp

Still no Downhill Weightlifting, Ballroom Judo, or 1000m Road Rage. :ptptptptp

What?

And this:

Canadian team advances after badminton players expelled from Olympics for match-throwing (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadian-team-advances-after-badminton-players-expelled-from-olympics-for-match-throwing/article4453784/)

Yeah I saw that last night. I can't believe 4 teams were trying to play so bad, so they could get favourable (easier) matchup in the next round. I definitely wouldn't have wanted to watch those 2 games. It is good news for Canada, though.


As well, today, the women's 8 rowing, matched the men's by winning a silver medal. Way to go, women's rowing team.

And this:

Canadian team advances after badminton players expelled from Olympics for match-throwing (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadian-team-advances-after-badminton-players-expelled-from-olympics-for-match-throwing/article4453784/)

I love that the Canadian team is Team Bruce-Li. Oh the jokes, the puns...

Still no Downhill Weightlifting, Ballroom Judo, or 1000m Road Rage. :ptptptptp

I'm surprised Happy Slapping and Dwarf Tossing haven't been included this year either.

I believe creating a "standard" dwarf has proven to be a major impediment to its inclusion as an Olympic Sport. I am sure this issue will eventually be overcome via genetic manipulation,:eek: thus making it possible to establish records and stats, that will not later be called into question.:rolleyes:

We just heard CBC has been awarded the Canadian broadcast rights for future Olympic games.
Thank goodness!

CTV (Bell) stinks!

CBC an Olympian at spending (http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/02/worthington-cbc-an-olympian-at-spending)

Here we go again — or is this time different?

News that the CBC has won the radio and TV broadcasting rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, raises the question why a state broadcaster is bidding against private companies.

So far, CBC brass won’t say how much they paid for the Olympic rights, but whatever the amount is, it comes from the taxpayer, not private enterprise.

Perhaps Rogers and Bell who won the rights for the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Beijing Games (for $150 million) didn’t want the rights, since they lost money.

But the word is that their $70-million bid for 2014 and 2016 was lower than IOC extortionists wanted, so the CBC stepped in with a higher bid — maybe as high as $150 million, but we don’t know.

That raises another point. This is public money — money the rest of us pay the government in taxes, $1.1 billion of which goes for the CBC to waste. It is in the public interest to know the costs.

But like salaries given to its on-air hosts, anchors and performers, the CBC won’t tell what it pays. But it’s a lot, compared to salaries that ordinary folk get, though modest compared to what big broadcast names in the U.S. earn each year.

The thing is, that if we have a state-subsidized broadcaster, it should be concentrating on programs that the private sector ignores — not competing with the private sector and raising the costs of programming.

The CBC is said to be worried that it may lose the rights to NHL hockey, which is a sure money-maker (unlike Olympic coverage which is a gamble and usually loses money for the broadcaster).

A case can be made that if private TV channels (Bell and Rogers) are bidding for something, the state broadcaster should back off instead of raising the anti, and giving itself an unfair advantage.

As long as Canadians get to see NHL hockey on TV (or the Olympic Games), the CBC should turn its attention to programs of cultural worth that the private sector in its wisdom feels it cannot afford.

PBS in the U.S. does this — and leaves the game shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to the private sector. But CBC-TV has been airing the latter two programs to attract viewers, ignoring the quality stuff.

The CBC’s main concern should not be to gain big audiences, but to produce quality content for Canadians interested in quality. Like Masterpiece Theatre.

The CBC is a huge bureaucracy that is almost a law unto itself. When it comes under criticism, it battens the hatches and outlasts its critics. But it embodies all the traits of bureaucracy in that its main concern is more money from the government and fewer restraints and little accountability. A poor way to run a business.

One should remember that the CBC was inspired by the BBC, which in turn was the inspiration for George Orwell’s great novel 1984 complete with Big Brother and the despairing Winston Smith who, in the CBC’s case, is the benighted Canadian taxpayer.

One can be assured that the CBC’s successful bid for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, done at the expense of Rogers and Bell, will spend more lavishly on Olympic coverage. After all, it’s our money.

I guess we’d all better adjust to Peter Mansbridge talking sport instead of Brain Williams — not a cheerful prospect.

I love that the Canadian team is Team Bruce-Li. Oh the jokes, the puns...


Damn, I didn't notice that. Hilarious! :lmao:

CBC an Olympian at spending (http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/02/worthington-cbc-an-olympian-at-spending)

One more reason to sell off the CBC and end the tax drain on the leftist network.

Hooray, Canada gets it's first Gold medal today in women's trampoline!

Michael Phelps gets his 22nd Olympic medal today as well.

It's good to hear that Oscar Pistorious from South Africa, the guy with no feet (he's called a blade runner), got his chance to run in the 4x400 men's relay! All that work he did to make it to the Olympics and he lost his chance to run the 4x400 men's relay on Thursday because a teammate in a earlier leg of the relay crashed into another runner and fell.

http://www.london2012.com/athlete/pistorius-oscar-1085895/pictures.html#oscar-pistorius-south-africa-waits-for-the-baton-competes-during-the-men-400m-relay

Damn - disqualified in the 4 x 100?? - why???
Put his foot on the inside line...:( not over .... just on. XX)

Tough DQ. As a PE Islander this was heartbreaking to watch. That said, proud of Jared's honesty in accepting responsibility for it. He faced the cameras and "manned up". Good on him.

Yup - he sure felt bad - but hey "how you played the game" and they done good in that fleet set.

They done good - hard to believe that was the same place that started out so dismally a couple hours back. :clap:
Well done Britain.

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What happens to an Olympic site after the olympics? They're usually abandoned. (http://www.flavorwire.com/318267/fascinating-photos-of-abandoned-olympic-sites?all=1)

GB can certainly lay claim to one of the most boring closings in recent memory. Put me to sleep a couple of times.

They done good - hard to believe that was the same place that started out so dismally a couple hours back. :clap:
Well done Britain.


We recorded the closing ceremonies and just watched them last night, They were truly spectacular... one thing Britain does better than the rest of the world is Pop music, I didn't like all of it but most of it. The production quality was truly outstanding. Well done indeed!

Yeah, there were alot of Pop and Rock bands in the ending, Queen (with a female singer, LOL) was there, the Who, they had a video of Lenon singing "Imagine", I hear the Pet Shop Boys made an appearance but didn't see it, and of course the Spice Girls.

They gave a rocking good farewell party.

As for the Olympic buildings/sites, the British government said they had secured uses for 6 out of the 8. But I guess we'll have to wait and see if that's true.

The main arena, can actually be partly disassembled. The roof and upper section of seats were made so they could be disassembled and removed if you didn't want such a big arena.