The Olympics

[Kienashe]

Right now I'm watching the opening ceremony, very inspiring. I'm lucky to be such a youth (14) and understand the value of the olympics. To have all those countries come together is a very inspiring event, as was/is the opening ceremony. Iraq is back in the olympics, and they beat portugol (Not spelled right.) in halftime. I'm suprised the U.S.A. got so much attention seeing how we are so envied/hated, or maybe we are the only ones that hate ourselves, that would make sense in my opinion.<p>I have a question about the olympics, how often is it held?

[SheWren]

Every 4 years, but they alternate with the Winter Olympics. Thus in 2006 you can see the Winter Games and in 2008 the next Summer ones.

[SkymanDr]

I thought one of the most inspiring things was, even though it is mostly a publicity stunt, that South and North Korea marched in together. I didn't think the song that Björk sang was one of her better though.

[Kienashe]

I didn't find that inspiring because it's obviously a publicity stunt. Puerto Rico is owned by the U.S.A right? I pretty sure I saw that in a school map.

[Butoden]

America is just a big country and lots of American people were in the stadium. Alot of world leaders too. EXCEPT Bush! ~0 <br>The DJ who was playing tracks was Dutch. DJ Tiesto.

[Kienashe]

The cauldron went out a while ago!!!

[Butoden]

IS THAT TRUE!? OMG<br>I knew it was too good to be true, it looked like a giant cigar hahaha :p

[Monocromatico]

Lots of "countries" in the Olympic games are actually protectorates, colonies, or possessions of other countries. You can see Hong Kong, Palau, Cook Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico and French Guyana there competing under their own flags, but still they are not independent countries.<p>My sister carried the Olympic Torch when it came to Rio. It was quite something!

[Becky]

Your sister carried the torch nice one!<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Becky on [TIME]1092499227[/TIME]][/size]

[Monocromatico]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Becky</i><p>Your sister carried the torch nice one!<p>[size=small][Edit by Becky on [TIME]1092499227[/TIME]][/size]<br></blockquote><p> <br>My sister, former gymanstist and former rower, 5th place in the International Rowing Rally of the Canal du Midi, France, 2001, Mariana Accardo.<p>And Wlamyr Marques, 2 times world champion with the Brazilian Basketball Team in 1959 and 1963, two times olympic bronze medalist in 1960 and 1964.

[Missagh]

<blockquote>My sister carried the Olympic Torch when it came to Rio. It was quite something! </blockquote><br>Oh, that is amazing!

[Neo48]

Wow, thats cool!

[Tekno-Crystal]

I don't much care for the Olympics. Being Canadian kinda puts me off, we have very few athletes in the Olympics, and they usually do quite well, but it's not worth watching 6 hours of TV to see one event with a Canadian only to have it shoved to the side by an American winning a gold medal ~_~. Only getting American brodcasts of the Olympics kinda makes it biased that way. Well, Canadian stations do show it, but most of the time they just feed off American brodcasts.

[BluesX]

The Olympics are boring... ~z~ <p>Oh, and about Puerto Rico, the U.S. just governs it. I don't believe they own it.

[Butoden]

Holland already conquered 2x Bronze and 1x Silver! Yeah! Beating Americans in swimming estafettes is cool #)