Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Olympics category.
Faked Footsteps
Filed in Olympics, August 12, 2008, 13:35There are a few news reports around expressing consternation that the firework ‘footsteps’ from the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony were faked.
Expect a) on NBC at least, they said they were fake when they were showing them and b) unless your last experience of CGI effects was Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing video then they were [...]
Damn you NBC
Filed in Olympics, Television, US, August 9, 2008, 1:32Just watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on NBC. Annoyingly, when it got to Team GB they missed their entrance by still talking about Latvia, had a quick shot of Tom Daley and then cut to Nicholas Sarkozy!
God I miss the BBC.
Still , the drummers were cool.
It is political, but let’s not forget the sport
Filed in Olympics, August 8, 2008, 19:56The Beijing Olympics have started and I for one am looking forward to watching the opening ceremony when it is aired here tonight.
There have been a number of posts all across the blogosphere about the political aspect of these games and I can’t disagree that with China’s woeful human rights record and seeming lack of [...]
Olympic rowing course run dry
Filed in Environment, Olympics, Rowing, October 28, 2007, 18:24An interesting thread on the rec.sport.rowing messageboards here. The Olympic rowing venue in Beijing has run dry due to drought. The Beijing authorities are going to divert another river to replenish it. The course is in the arid, urban region Shunyi of Beijing so natural run-off to replenish the it is practically [...]
