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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
I'm all for watching the opening and closing ceremonies... always prescribed to the same formula laid down by Baron Pierre de Coubertin over 100 years ago.
Politicians are tempted to grandstand the opening ceremony... but Olympic rules require them to only declare the games open.
Here's the rules for the opening ceremonies, straight from the IOC's website: http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_840.pdf
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I watched bits of a really interesting TV program last night about the games. Hitler was actually the one who started the tradition of the torch relay. There was also something about the rings - the Germans planted some in Greek soil and had their archeologists "discover" them as a link to the original Olympics (don't know if the rings were in use before the Munich games or if it was another Hitler invention) and he also was the first to make such a production of the opening ceremonies. I was surprised that some of the traditions we now love were started by Hitler and that no one has put up a stink about it...
Sorry, AJ, don't know any GLO ties to the games.
And I'm excited that Mo Bhardwaj gets to go. I didn't realize they had set the team yet.
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