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Post by chiver78 on Aug 10, 2024 17:50:17 GMT -5
both my dogs are snoring, I didn't want to wake them up. Chiver (or anyone else): what are in the foot long or so thin boxes handed out to medal winners during the medal ceremonies? posters, an artistic "map" of Paris and the event sites. meant as another keepsake in place of flowers that are perishable.
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Post by Opti on Aug 10, 2024 18:24:31 GMT -5
Chiver (or anyone else): what are in the foot long or so thin boxes handed out to medal winners during the medal ceremonies? posters, an artistic "map" of Paris and the event sites. meant as another keepsake in place of flowers that are perishable. Nice idea, I like it.
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Post by Opti on Aug 10, 2024 18:26:22 GMT -5
without spoiling, find a replay of the men's 4x400m relay that just finished. phenomenal race, congrats to the gold/silver winning teams for a fantastic race! there wasn't anyone else close at the end. Watched it and I was cheering as if I was in attendance. Missed it but maybe I'll see the replays. Liked the woman who throws Javelin. Only saw her first attempt, but the announcers were gushing over her and her technique.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 10, 2024 19:23:31 GMT -5
Chiver (or anyone else): what are in the foot long or so thin boxes handed out to medal winners during the medal ceremonies? posters, an artistic "map" of Paris and the event sites. meant as another keepsake in place of flowers that are perishable. The Thanks, Chiver.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Aug 11, 2024 4:31:39 GMT -5
I love the bouldering, etc events!
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2024 15:20:51 GMT -5
the Closung Ceremony is pretty cool so far. it's incorporating the same pair of masked characters that Parkour'd through the Opening. def tune in if you can!
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 11, 2024 15:32:10 GMT -5
the Closung Ceremony is pretty cool so far. it's incorporating the same pair of masked characters that Parkour'd through the Opening. def tune in if you can! I liked the homage to Nike, the Winged Victory of Samothrace. If one has never been to the Louvre to see the Winged Victory of Samothrace statue, one should.
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Post by tallguy on Aug 11, 2024 15:58:31 GMT -5
Chiver (or anyone else): what are in the foot long or so thin boxes handed out to medal winners during the medal ceremonies? posters, an artistic "map" of Paris and the event sites. meant as another keepsake in place of flowers that are perishable. Article and picture
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 11, 2024 16:41:50 GMT -5
posters, an artistic "map" of Paris and the event sites. meant as another keepsake in place of flowers that are perishable. Article and pictureThank, TG. I have to wonder if the poster shown in the linked article is the same size as the poster in the box handed to the medal winners. That is a pretty small box for such a big poster. Maybe there is a coupon in the handed out box to redeem the large poster.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2024 16:50:26 GMT -5
my sister called me and wouldn't shut up, so I missed some of the ceremony. I did pause and I'm probably 20min behind. but, what's the meaning of the Olympic athletes specifically included in this? Eliud Kiproge was one, and he has a storied record of his career. Just trying to figure out what that meant to convey. TIA!
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 11, 2024 16:52:13 GMT -5
Horrible thought. Just horrible. If trump wins the election, he will be opening and closing the 2028 Los Angeles summer olympics.
trump will be rambling on about raking forests and windmills killing whales.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 11, 2024 16:54:28 GMT -5
my sister called me and wouldn't shut up, so I missed some of the ceremony. I did pause and I'm probably 20min behind. but, what's the meaning of the Olympic athletes specifically included in this? Eliud Kiproge was one, and he has a storied record of his career. Just trying to figure out what that meant to convey. TIA! I watched it and still don't know. It might be lost to me as the accent of the French person was a bit too much for me.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2024 17:01:00 GMT -5
my sister called me and wouldn't shut up, so I missed some of the ceremony. I did pause and I'm probably 20min behind. but, what's the meaning of the Olympic athletes specifically included in this? Eliud Kiproge was one, and he has a storied record of his career. Just trying to figure out what that meant to convey. TIA! I watched it and still don't know. It might be lost to me as the accent of the French person was a bit too much for me. cheers, I was listening to it once I tuned in, but I'd missed the intro. I'm not the best conversationalist but I understand the spoken word and am completely fluent in reading. my dialect is a train wreck to the rest of the French-speaking world.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 11, 2024 17:06:17 GMT -5
I watched it and still don't know. It might be lost to me as the accent of the French person was a bit too much for me. cheers, I was listening to it once I tuned in, but I'd missed the intro. I'm not the best conversationalist but I understand the spoken word and am completely fluent in reading. my dialect is a train wreck to the rest of the French-speaking world. All I know is there was an athlete from each continent on stage with Eliud Kiproge.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2024 17:10:51 GMT -5
cheers, I was listening to it once I tuned in, but I'd missed the intro. I'm not the best conversationalist but I understand the spoken word and am completely fluent in reading. my dialect is a train wreck to the rest of the French-speaking world. All I know is there was an athlete from each continent on stage with Eliud Kiproge. I'm going to go back and watch that again tomorrow or whenever I have some time. I know why he didn't medal expected. I'm just curious who the other folks were and why they were there.
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Post by Opti on Aug 11, 2024 17:30:10 GMT -5
Thank, TG. I have to wonder if the poster shown in the linked article is the same size as the poster in the box handed to the medal winners. That is a pretty small box for such a big poster. Maybe there is a coupon in the handed out box to redeem the large poster. Posters can be made in many sizes. Since the many of the athletes' fly back, they may have given them a poster that is at most 2 feet long in the longest dimension. Whereas the display in France could be 24x36 or even larger. When you give gifts, it shouldn't put an undue burden on the recipient so I think a poster in the 18x24 class would be the way to go, Have no idea what they chose.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Aug 11, 2024 17:33:31 GMT -5
All I know is there was an athlete from each continent on stage with Eliud Kiproge. I'm going to go back and watch that again tomorrow or whenever I have some time. I know why he didn't medal expected. I'm just curious who the other folks were and why they were there. I am not sure if I am thinking of the same moment you are talking about, but my closed captioning mentioned something about “refugee athletes”.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Aug 11, 2024 17:40:10 GMT -5
Well that was pretty good, well done Paris we loved it. Your turn next over in LA I can remember it before when I was a kid..... loads of people playing pianos which was pretty spectacular. And the first time I had seen people flying with those rockets on their backs.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 11, 2024 18:53:31 GMT -5
I'm going to go back and watch that again tomorrow or whenever I have some time. I know why he didn't medal expected. I'm just curious who the other folks were and why they were there. I am not sure if I am thinking of the same moment you are talking about, but my closed captioning mentioned something about “refugee athletes”. could be, I missed a bit before I answered the phone. I didn't pause til I got back from stirring something on the stove. that makes sense though
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Post by djAdvocate on Aug 11, 2024 23:50:55 GMT -5
Horrible thought. Just horrible. If trump wins the election, he will be opening and closing the 2028 Los Angeles summer olympics. trump will be rambling on about raking forests and windmills killing whales. if California has not seceded by then.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 0:02:50 GMT -5
Watching the suspended piano again at the closing ceremony. Also loved the singer that followed.
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Post by obelisk on Aug 12, 2024 8:23:20 GMT -5
Great summer Olympics closing. Just Wow!
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 15, 2024 12:31:12 GMT -5
I love the bouldering, etc events! Those were cool.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 15, 2024 18:11:12 GMT -5
Horrible thought. Just horrible. If trump wins the election, he will be opening and closing the 2028 Los Angeles summer olympics. trump will be rambling on about raking forests and windmills killing whales. Maybe he will start world war 3 and we can cancel.
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Post by toshmanta on Aug 15, 2024 20:33:46 GMT -5
The opening ceremony was nigh on blasphemous and as a devout evangelical I was so distraught, hopefully Donald Trump will demand respect for our faith in 4 years time. Is the President still alive, not that it would make any difference.
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Post by tallguy on Aug 15, 2024 21:05:22 GMT -5
The opening ceremony was nigh on blasphemous and as a devout evangelical I was so distraught, hopefully Donald Trump will demand respect for our faith in 4 years time. Is the President still alive, not that it would make any difference. So is what you are saying that you are one of the extremely gullible who thinks that was a Last Supper reference? It wasn't. At all. This has been explained multiple times. Any insistence otherwise will show you to be on the intellectual level of...the average Trump supporter.
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 15, 2024 21:15:39 GMT -5
didn't we have a poster named tosh awhile back? I think he got banned. I'll followup in the am, I'm about toast tonight.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 15, 2024 22:07:03 GMT -5
didn't we have a poster named tosh awhile back? I think he got banned. I'll followup in the am, I'm about toast tonight. Previous last post was Mar 25, 2018.
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