Winter Olympics 2010

Watched part of the opening ceremony. Dumb, as always.

It's way too long, as always. Also, even though I didn't watch the whole thing, I could not stop but thinking about how stupid the ceremony was. Prolonged program that mostly have nothing to do with sports at all. More like a artistic show of symbology and tourism promotion rather than an opening ceremony of a sports event. I'm not just complaint about this opening ceremony but most of them are like that. I actually quite like the Athens one but I didn't see the whole thing so I couldn't comment too much.

And there's the silly torch relay. I found that it's so stupid to have it carried by so many people. And near the end of it, the day of the ceremony, the radio just kept going on and on and on about the speculation of who would be the last torch bearer. I happened to have ortho appointment that day, which means that I spent extra time in the car and that the ortho office happened to be running late so that I was watching the news station on the tv there, which, _surprisingly_, also talks about who might be the last torch bearer and was boardcasting live, showing the ppl who were carrying the torch. Really, they only get to walk like 100m with the torch (I hear that they carry it longer in smaller towns and cities). So stupid. I was sick of the Olympics before it had even began.

I also heard on the radio that Vancouver was trying to make it a "green" Olympics. They were having these hydrogen fuel shuttle buses to show the rest of the world how "green" they could be. But the irony (heard from the same radio show) is that, they had to "truck" the fuel all the way from Quebec. All the way from the east end of the country to the west end. How retard is that? So, basically, it may seem "green" to the ppl who only knows the surface but it's actually the complete opposite to the "green" spirit. Whoever came up with this "green" idea should really be shot in the head.

Talking about "green". I have so much to say about it but then it probably should belong to another post and I'll procrastinate on it for now.

Not that the Olympics is all bad things. I do quite enjoy watching some of the competitions. I mean the actual action, not the interviews of the athletes and the faces of their families when they won or when they lost. I don't mind seeing the joy of the athletes themselves in the moment of victory but come on, who cares about their family? It's not like I don't care about other ppl but the Olympics should really be about the sports and the athletes. I hate it when the tv networks tries too hard to put on the "extra element" to create the "emotional" effect or whatever effect that they are trying to achieve. May work for some audience but not for me. Sorry, really not my cup of tea.

And then there's those awkward interviews of the losing athletes. I understand trying to interview the winners and asks about how they feel and stuff but interviewing the losing ones?? That's pure cruel man. I mean, ya, they are all great athletes in order to be in the Olympics and probably deserves some recognition but sometimes I found them beyond cruel. They would have the athletes sitting there (after they were all changed) and replayed the clip for them and asked them questions like "Do you know that the other athlete was right behind you?" (the "other" person eventually passed our guy and won the race). What's that? It's not an interview. It's more like mockery.

Not to mention quite a lot of stupid commercials on tv. The PC were saying how they were feeding the Canadian athletes with their "nutritional" food. My goodness. I am actually a customer of PC but I still think that the ad was so dumb. All kinds of different product are exploiting that fact that they are somehow sponsoring the Olympics and that's why their product is the best. When can the Olympics be back to the origin intent, pure sports competition and the goal to challenge human limit, without all the commercial or other "add ons" to it? (I personally don't think that it would ever happen cos the 奸商 would never stop to exploit any opportunity to make $$. So sad...)