Winter Olympics 2010

Ghoulish Delight · 02-13-2010, 01:57 PM

I hate the bogus cauldron lightings, where they just kinda shoot a flaming projectile somewhere near the cauldron, or light something else big near the cauldron but the cauldron is clearly lit not by the flame from the torch but by a pilot light. I'm not one who is big on symbolism, but I do find the idea of the continuity of the olympic flame, being lit in Greece and being passed torch-to-torch until it reaches the games pretty cool, and it's lame that the final most spectacular part is bogus.

Was it the archer in '92, Barcellona, that started that?

02-13-2010, 01:57 PM	#11
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I hate the bogus cauldron lightings, where they just kinda shoot a flaming projectile somewhere near the cauldron, or light something else big near the cauldron but the cauldron is clearly lit not by the flame from the torch but by a pilot light. I'm not one who is big on symbolism, but I do find the idea of the continuity of the olympic flame, being lit in Greece and being passed torch-to-torch until it reaches the games pretty cool, and it's lame that the final most spectacular part is bogus. Was it the archer in '92, Barcellona, that started that? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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