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Originally Posted by cuteASAbug
What annoys me every opening ceremony is during the Parade of Nations when Liberia comes out. The announcers always say that it was founded by freed American slaves. Umm no, actually, it was founded for freed slaves. Huge difference.
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This DOES bug.
I was bugged by a lot of the comments during the parade of nations.
For example, the announcer said at one point... "The Central African Republic is a republic in Central Africa" with little to no sense of irony. UM, WHAT?
There were a lot of comments that I perceived as demeaning made about smaller nations. It was really offensive to me. Some of the poorest commentating I've seen at an opening ceremony. On par with John Tesh commentating gymnastics at the Atlanta games... oh, the horror!