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The Olympic Games 2024

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  • #252
    AJB39
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭AJB39


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122494263#Comment_122494263

    RTE did show the Tom Cruise moment but on a tape delay when they returned from the ad break and then rejoined the closing ceremony live. I switched to Eurosport during the ad breaks and the speeches due to the lack of translation.

    In general RTÉ’s coverage of the Olympics was good but there were way too many breaks during the fortnight. This resulted in them choosing to air some events not involving Irish athletes on a tape delay to avoid missing key moments due to the ads.

    Post edited by AJB39 on


  • #253
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,750 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Is the ‘Car man’ up on stage yet.



  • #254
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Always good to hear Public Enemy in any context, never mind Channel Four’s coverage… 😎


    https://youtu.be/pCx5Std7mCo?si=RlQpb1I-2I96mTib



  • #255
    Needmoretea
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭Needmoretea


    Paralympics opening ceremony is quite good. Anyone watching? They're having better luck with the weather, the ceremony is taking place somewhere near the centre of Paris, and they're an the artistic bit now with a fella singing his heart out. I am not sure if this one will run over time. Need to get to bed early!



  • #256
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Great speech from Andrew Parsons. 🙂


    Strength in difference, unity in difference.



  • #257
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,153 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122556353#Comment_122556353

    Was watching a bit but there is only so much France I can take and then Christine from Christine & The Queens and I had to go. Nope. (I might have been put off by the time I saw her live, while I huddled under an awning, eating soggy chips in the rain at The Other stage with some friends while she yelled that male pigs are ruining the world for women)

    I will certainly watch the sports! I got really into that during London 2012 and the excellent and informative coverage. Watched more of that than the regular Olympics. Not out of any patronising "Virtue signalling" (Am I using that right? :) ) but because I found it fascinating. The complex classifications etc. Then, their closing ceremony was better than the regular Olympics.



  • #258
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Team GB facing China in the Table Tennis final.


    Good luck with that. 😁



  • #259
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Timmy McCarthy having the same enthusiasm for wheelchair basketball as he does for LeBron and Steph Curry and the likes.



  • #260
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    He's going on about guillotines again.



  • #261
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,750 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    where did all this calling it the closing "cer-em-oanie" bull spring from?

    WTF.



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  • #262
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,675 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122592957#Comment_122592957

    Didn't see that, but he's doing shoutouts to viewers during the women's gold medal match.

    It's just brilliant. :D



  • #263
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘Les Champs-Elysées’ 🙂



  • #264
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Needs more Gojira 😎



  • #265
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,706 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    DJ Cut killer in the closing ceremony!

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #266
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Hope we hear ‘Magic Fly’ by Space 🙂



  • #267
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,321 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Whenever I hear ‘Oxygene’, I immediately think of… 😀


    https://youtu.be/CsIafkpFZmo?si=B4WtNMQ7kch8eSCb



  • #268
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122595490#Comment_122595490

    The claw machine in Supermacs in Ballina used to play that.



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