Alan2005

Course they will - look at the trashing the millennium projects got (with the exception of maybe the london eye). The olympic lisa simpson bj logo was universally mocked by the british press.

I've heard the atmos downtown is pretty good, but history won't remember that - it will be international media that says whether the games are a success or not. VANOC have some work to do to turn this around; however their po-faced humourless attitude won't win any friends in the media.

My own view is that the most unforgivable screw up they made was gambling on cypress even when they knew a long time in advance that this was going to be an el ninio year. Everything else is just the usual cock ups you can expect from an event of this size; with that many people you are always going to get a proportionate number of incompetent idiots doing some of the organization.

JonboyE

Sorry, but you are way off beam here. Its the NHL that doesn't want to compete in the Olympics, not the players.

Elizabeth I

I hate when that happens...

JonboyE

To be fair, the number of people in the world that give a **** what the Grauniad writes is limited to a precious few.

Elizabeth I

dats wot I thought too.

Elizabeth I

LOL, that's what I was thinking...the only time I ever hear of them (or any British media for that matter) is if someone posts it on here...

JonboyE

You, and he, are right.

Anyone that finds cheering Canucks hard to take better build a bunker in case they win the gold.

Elizabeth I

WOO HOO!!! Go for GOLD Canucks!

Elizabeth I

I'm getting caught up in it too and I'm all the way down here! You should see the Kiwi sports commentators on our main terrestrial TV station, it's called Prime (that's the channel that's bringing us the coverage) -- they're freaking LOVING it! It's all extremely positive, and they're making it cool to watch because they're well into it and excited about it. They've only been positive about Vancouver, I haven't heard a negative comment out of them and that makes a nice change from the crap about the "international" media that keeps being talked about in here.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it very much, our TV commentators are well impressed, they're pulling for Canada but were impressed with America today and we're all still hopeful about NZ (even though we're sucking right now, still trying to remain cheerful and hopeful despite, lol).

So that's good enough for me to regard these games as a success thus far.


ETA: The only thing that has truly marred it for me in any real way was the death.

Alan2005

Tell that to the local media. You know how it is with Vancouver - they jump all over any international coverage no matter how small and inconsequential. It makes them feel 'world class'

Here's news1130's take:

http://www.news1130.com/news/nationa...mping-olympics

adele

Haha, that reminds me of the time a few years ago a colleague wrote in her report about smoking not being allowed in pubic places in Canada...

I agree though, despite the moaning beforehand the atmosphere is infectiously positive and vibrant downtown at the moment, especially now the weather is so beautiful. Regardless of who writes what in the press or what happens, we might as well enjoy the party as best we can I'm even coping with working 7-3 during the games - although it's bizarre emerging to line-ups at the Bell ice cube and hoards of people all the way up Robson Street.

Oink

CBC just had a story on the evening news about the media coverage in the UK, what a bunch of parochial wankers.

VANOC have ballised up loads of stuff and they seem incapable of understanding the political component of the games. While I can understand the need to exclude the riff raff, you just don't want them to know they're being excluded.

Elizabeth I

I'm so jealous.

wish I was there, I wanted to be all moved over by these games but it just hasn't panned out that way....So YES! Enjoy the party! Enjoy yourselves for Pete's sake!

Oink

I know it's mild but its still *******g winter here.

Elizabeth I

Definitely. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter two hoots what the media thinks, it's what you think.

This reminds me of when England won the Rugby World Cup. Apart from Australia, this had to be the WORST place on the planet to be if you supported England. The media was scathing and the whole country was in mourning except me and my husband (lol, of course I'm exagerrating but I'm telling you there was no party going on down here.)

Of course I was swinging from the rafters with jubilations, LOL, even more so that no-one else wanted to celebrate and the media couldn't hide their childish contempt. I thought "stuff it, England were bloody excellent and they won AND they deserved their triumph, so this lot down here can all go and suck on their sour grapes."