2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Canada got the crowd

Anyone else cringing and hoping our team doesn't get boo'd becasue of the orange man?

I hope not. I hope people can stay classy.

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Anonymous wrote:OK I’m sure they have their reasons, but I do not like that the parade of athletes is taking place in four different places.

Usually, the athletes who are far from the ceremony don't get to participate at all. This is better than that!

Yes but usually it's only a handful of events and athletes who are too far away. This year a lot of the big ticket events are way up in the mountains very far from Milan and also scheduled early in the games. So it's way, way more athletes (including many of the most recognizable athletes in premier events) who are not actually at the stadium. They did this to avoid the opening ceremonies looking quite so empty, and also to ensure that some of the more famous athletes at the games actually appeared at the ceremonies.

Although this is not atypical of winter olympics. Torino, Vancouver, Calgary and others had events in pretty spread out places. SLC was good because the skiing is so close to the city but they still had a medal area in Park City in addition to downtown SLC.

It's definitely a challenge when picking winter olympic locations because there is a desire for it to be in a major city but also you need the right conditions for skiing events which are rarely located that close to major cities.

I wonder why Nordic countries so rarely host? Do they not have good venues for the downhill skiing events? Interesting that this is Italy's second Olympics in 20 years, they head back to France in 2030 and then back to SLC in 2034. Just a pretty narrow range of places that host these things.

They don't want to have USA there? Probably too much $ to host.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Canada got the crowd

Anyone else cringing and hoping our team doesn't get boo'd becasue of the orange man?

I hope not. I hope people can stay classy.

Yes classy just like the leader

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Anonymous wrote:Canada has 211 athletes

They excel at winter sports!

Hockey

Hockey (men and women), skiing, freestyle, curling, figure skating, speed skating, etc. Not sure about ski jumping and cross country.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do they have Snoop Dogg. Really? Why?

He is fun and happy dude!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Canada got the crowd

Anyone else cringing and hoping our team doesn't get boo'd becasue of the orange man?

I hope not. I hope people can stay classy.

Yes classy just like the leader

A lot of us did not vote for him.

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Anonymous wrote:OK I’m sure they have their reasons, but I do not like that the parade of athletes is taking place in four different places.

Usually, the athletes who are far from the ceremony don't get to participate at all. This is better than that!

Yes but usually it's only a handful of events and athletes who are too far away. This year a lot of the big ticket events are way up in the mountains very far from Milan and also scheduled early in the games. So it's way, way more athletes (including many of the most recognizable athletes in premier events) who are not actually at the stadium. They did this to avoid the opening ceremonies looking quite so empty, and also to ensure that some of the more famous athletes at the games actually appeared at the ceremonies.

Although this is not atypical of winter olympics. Torino, Vancouver, Calgary and others had events in pretty spread out places. SLC was good because the skiing is so close to the city but they still had a medal area in Park City in addition to downtown SLC.

It's definitely a challenge when picking winter olympic locations because there is a desire for it to be in a major city but also you need the right conditions for skiing events which are rarely located that close to major cities.

I wonder why Nordic countries so rarely host? Do they not have good venues for the downhill skiing events? Interesting that this is Italy's second Olympics in 20 years, they head back to France in 2030 and then back to SLC in 2034. Just a pretty narrow range of places that host these things.

I thought they were talking about rotating the winter Olympics among a smaller number of venues given the infrastructure required to host (jumps, luge tracks etc.).

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Best and worst outfits so far?

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Anonymous wrote:OK I’m sure they have their reasons, but I do not like that the parade of athletes is taking place in four different places.

Usually, the athletes who are far from the ceremony don't get to participate at all. This is better than that!

Yes but usually it's only a handful of events and athletes who are too far away. This year a lot of the big ticket events are way up in the mountains very far from Milan and also scheduled early in the games. So it's way, way more athletes (including many of the most recognizable athletes in premier events) who are not actually at the stadium. They did this to avoid the opening ceremonies looking quite so empty, and also to ensure that some of the more famous athletes at the games actually appeared at the ceremonies.

Although this is not atypical of winter olympics. Torino, Vancouver, Calgary and others had events in pretty spread out places. SLC was good because the skiing is so close to the city but they still had a medal area in Park City in addition to downtown SLC.

It's definitely a challenge when picking winter olympic locations because there is a desire for it to be in a major city but also you need the right conditions for skiing events which are rarely located that close to major cities.

I wonder why Nordic countries so rarely host? Do they not have good venues for the downhill skiing events? Interesting that this is Italy's second Olympics in 20 years, they head back to France in 2030 and then back to SLC in 2034. Just a pretty narrow range of places that host these things.

I'd love to see the winter Olympics back at Innsbruck or Oslo. Seems like such perfect places for winter Olympics.

Is it just me or does Shaun White sound like Mary Carillo?

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Anonymous wrote:Best and worst outfits so far?

Best parkas? Best winter hats? Not much else of fashion by athletes.

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China was bad.

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Anonymous wrote:China was bad.

Yes, boring. Finland did the ice theme much better, I'd wear that one.

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Can't they come out in reverse order? For once US can come out before everyone falls asleep

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Germany looks like they are going to a winter version of Burning Man.

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Anonymous wrote:Germany looks like they are going to a winter version of Burning Man.

Lol