Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Friday, July 27, 2012
Olympic 2012 opening spectacular
Watching the 2012 Summer Olympic opening ceremony. Highlights so far were the Industrial Revolution transition and raising of the Olympics Rings, Daniel (James Bond) Craig and HM the Queen together, and Rowan (Mr. Bean) Atkinson in a spoof of "Chariots of Fire" -- music and the film. An amazing spectacle for sure.
Monday, March 1, 2010
And the games are done, long may they run to the final frontier
Loved Neil Young performance of "Long May You Run" as one of the closing songs of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And Captain (William Shatner) James T. Kirk giving his I Am Canadian (We Dream Big) monologue. And Catharine O'Hara on "I'm Sorry" and Michael J. Fox letting everyone know that "We Claim You."
One more song with Michael Buble dressed as a singing Mountie and a purposeful costume malfunction where he turns into a lounge singer complete with big band backup.
Giant Mounties and hockey players, dancing maple leafs and voyageurs complete with canoes, and huge balloon beavers and moose capped off a great closing ceremony!
Post-closing ceremonies saw musical performances by some great Canadian bands and singers.
One more song with Michael Buble dressed as a singing Mountie and a purposeful costume malfunction where he turns into a lounge singer complete with big band backup.
Giant Mounties and hockey players, dancing maple leafs and voyageurs complete with canoes, and huge balloon beavers and moose capped off a great closing ceremony!
Post-closing ceremonies saw musical performances by some great Canadian bands and singers.
CTV commercial breaks during 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies
Wasn't that less than classy of CTV to interrupt the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies with commercial breaks? They were running filler prior to the start of the closing ceremonies, why couldn't they have put all their commercials into that half hour?
Friday, February 26, 2010
A modest proposal: ban any and everything worldwide, including words, that violates the International Olympic Committee brand value
As a result of yet another news story about the Canadian Olympic Committee's (COC) pressure tactics against a small business owner in Vancouver that I blogged about in What, no flames allowed at the Vancouver Winter Olympics?, I've come up with a modest proposal.
I propose that any and everything that violates the International Olympic Committee's brand value be henceforth and irrevocably banned worldwide. This would include not just existing registered trade marks such as Toasterz and Eaterz, the very trademarks that the COC objected to, but also more famous ones such as the Calgary Flames name and logo, Ronson’s Lighter Fuel logo and any pizza joint worldwide that uses the word Olympic in its names, as well as words such as torch for flashlight in Great Britain and the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
Since an Olympic event is held every two years, with the next one after the Vancouver Winter Olympics being the London Summer Olympics in 2012, and the IOC has demonstrated over the years that it is like the UN of the sports world, why don't we just avoid all the legal hassle of doing battle with them, bite the Olympic, er, sporting bullet, and take the opportunity to stretch our creative muscles.
I propose that any and everything that violates the International Olympic Committee's brand value be henceforth and irrevocably banned worldwide. This would include not just existing registered trade marks such as Toasterz and Eaterz, the very trademarks that the COC objected to, but also more famous ones such as the Calgary Flames name and logo, Ronson’s Lighter Fuel logo and any pizza joint worldwide that uses the word Olympic in its names, as well as words such as torch for flashlight in Great Britain and the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
Since an Olympic event is held every two years, with the next one after the Vancouver Winter Olympics being the London Summer Olympics in 2012, and the IOC has demonstrated over the years that it is like the UN of the sports world, why don't we just avoid all the legal hassle of doing battle with them, bite the Olympic, er, sporting bullet, and take the opportunity to stretch our creative muscles.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Lost and not claimed, lots of mobility aids at the 2010 Winter Olympics
A bizarre report in the Times-Colonist (online, February 20, 2010; hardcopy, February 21, 2010) that lots of mobility aids, including artificial limbs, have been left behind by 2010 Winter Olympics visitors using Greater Vancouver's public transit system operated by Translink.
As Todd Coyne wrote,
If you've recently been part of the Olympic crowds in the Lower Mainland and can't find something you might have left behind on the Translink system, here's their Lost and Found contact information.
As Todd Coyne wrote,
TransLink’s lost property storage centre has a whole area devoted to the dozens of crutches, canes, walkers and artificial limbs left by those who apparently boarded transit needing mobility aids and then somehow waltzed off without them.
If you've recently been part of the Olympic crowds in the Lower Mainland and can't find something you might have left behind on the Translink system, here's their Lost and Found contact information.
Vancouver 2010 medal winnings widget (not really)
View the vancouver2010.com medals' table.
WordPress.com doesn't allow HTML widgets, so when I tried to insert this widget it got converted into a straight link.
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