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Vancouver Olympics: Thread 3, Day 17 (Closing Ceremony)
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16.6 million viewers on average for the game, 26.5 million watched part of it. Thats 80% of Canada!!
14.3 million viewers on average for the closing ceremonies, 24.5 million watched part of that.
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I can see on one hand that "join us for the next winter games in ___" makes sense, but they're both run by the IOC so it makes as much sense to say "join us for the next Olympic games in ___" since London will be the next time the "Olympic movement" is back together hosting an event.
Also, I was stuck working. was the closing ceremony really that awesome?
I missed all of it.
Jerks.
What am I going to watch now?
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ROGGE: "And let us call on the youth of the world to meet in two years in London!"
WINTER ATHLETES: "...yeah, hey, great, Rogge, we've kind of got plans then."
MAYBE ONE RANDOM ALPINE SKIER: "Hooray! I get to pursue my hobby of air pistol!"
OTHER WINTER ATHLETES: "Quiet, you."
I was hoping for like.. Our Lady Peace, or BNL, hell even Nelly Furtado. Oh well.
Because Nickleback aren't just bad, they are bland and samey and yet INCREDIBLY popular and, if you live in Canada and aren't deaf, utterly inescapable.
Don't underestimate the powers of alcohol.
Winter: 1%
Undecided: 9%
Holy shit! I live in Guelph too.
And yeah, I am Canadian and so I should start looking for Curling on TV.
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Which is sad since the Championship game was one of the best curling matches I've seen.
Briar is coming up in a few weeks though.
Yeah, more like one chick, and she looked like a cougar... in front of one of the shitty frats around UofT... But everything seemed so much more exciting then than it does now didnt it? I heard yonge/dundas was pretty insane too, but didnt get a chance to go.
It's this weekend:
http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2010brier/index.asp
I could have sworn it was this weekend.
Thanks!
I mean, yeah, there's country overlap, but you have to look within those countries. Let's be honest, Atlanta isn't hosting the Winter Olympics anytime soon, and Lake Placid isn't getting the Summer Olympics anytime soon.
I watched the game at a bar in the Annex and then walked down Bloor to Yonge and Dundas Square. Let me say that what was going on Bloor was nothing compared to what it was like on Yonge. Both sides of the street had just tons of people wearing Canada related stuff and high fiving, cheering and chanting. All the cars were honking and tons of people were leaning out of their car windows or standing through the sun roofs waving flags. People were running up and down the street giving high fives to people in cars. It was crazy and went on for like hours. They closed off Dundas square and parts of Yonge to traffic and a literal sea of people were gathered there.
And got fewer votes in the second round of balloting than the first. Puzzle that one out.
then I remembered that Rio gets the games in 2016...
New York has a high crime rate and low sexy Brazilian woman rate. Rio only suffers from one of these problems.
Also no one likes new yorkers.
I'm really disappointed that Brazilian Jiujitsu won't be a medal sport in the summer olympics in Brazil
Antwerp, Belgium hosted the Olympics, and New York hasn't. And the decision as to who gets the Olympics is beyond their control.
Antwerp. Post-WWI, sorry-for-getting-curbstomped-so-here's-the-Olympics-are-we-cool, your-Games-sucked-but-we-expected-that-here's-a-gold-star-for-trying Antwerp.
Antwerp... I'll always think of Quest For Glory when I hear that.
All it would actually accomplish would be to have a ton of money spent on new facilities and (way more importantly) new infrastructure to support the games. I'd rather they just spent the money on new infrastructure without actually hosting an Olympics. A high portion of NYers feel the same way, and as such there was never really any local support for the bid here. No one cares or really wants it to happen.
Rio's crime rate is much, much worse than NYC's.
Murders per 100,000 people per year:
NYC: 6.3
Rio: 37.7
Yeah.