Olympic Games opening ceremony.

[BOXtheFOX]

Is there anywhere that I can watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games? Is it available on line or as a repeat programme on T.V?

 

[Lauren]

I hope so. It was truly spectacular.

 

[ClubMan]

?

 

[davidoco]

All I can say is that you only need the first 45 mins to an hour. The 2 hours of athletes coming into the stadium was pretty boring - unless you have sky+

 

[redstar]

I hope so. It was truly spectacular.

... and, apparently, partly faked. Some of the events were pre-recorded (eg fireworks)

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Also, and more despicably, the pretty little girl shown singing perfectly during the ceremony actually mimed to the voice of another, less pretty, little girl.

But the singer was Yang Peiyi, who was not allowed to appear because she is not as "*************************" as nine-year-old Lin.

The show's musical director said Lin was used because it was in the best interests of the country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7556058.stm

 

[ClubMan]

... and, apparently, partly faked. Some of the events were pre-recorded (eg fireworks)

[broken link removed]

Also, and more despicably, the pretty little girl shown singing perfectly during the ceremony actually mimed to the voice of another, less pretty, little girl.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7556058.stm

Who cares? Wasn't the lighting of the Olympic torch in another recent games (Athens?) "faked" when the archer who was supposed to be lighting it missed? And do you think that everybody sings live at such events?

 

[redstar]

Well, I suppose its about as real as most music videos, then.

The bit i didn't like was the use of a fake singer because she was *************************, implying that the 'real' singer was flawed because she wasn't as pretty, particularly as this was the Governments attitude.

 

[ClubMan]

The bit i didn't like was the use of a fake singer because she was *************************, implying that the 'real' singer was flawed because she wasn't as pretty, particularly as this was the Governments attitude.

Yeah - that would never happen in the "free world".

 

[jhegarty]

Who cares? Wasn't the lighting of the Olympic torch in another recent games (Athens?) "faked" when the archer who was supposed to be lighting it missed? And do you think that everybody sings live at such events?

that was Barcelona, 1992....if I remember correctly in practice he could light it correctly it bounced into where the crowd would be sitting most of the time...