The Closing Ceromony

Dickodownunder · Guru

The Closing Ceromony

Grey fox · Veteran Member

As a Queenslander totally discussed not a closing ceremony more just mob of officials pattIng themselves on the back

dabbler · Guru

It isn't finished on TV yet Grey Fox. In fact firworks just went off over the stadium (which I can both see and hear). I guess you switched off before the concert. Not sure which Village People songs were played either. But I will ne glad that the light shows and rehearsals at 3am will stop finally and I can sleep with the curtains open again.

the rocket · Guru

Some of it was great.

the rocket · Guru

dabbler wrote:
It isn't finished on TV yet Grey Fox. In fact firworks just went off over the stadium (which I can both see and hear). I guess you switched off before the concert. Not sure which Village People songs were played either. But I will ne glad that the light shows and rehearsals at 3am will stop finally and I can sleep with the curtains open again.

Hi dabbler. I bet u will b glad When it is over. 3 am rehearsals. Omg.

Blues Man · Guru

I thought the closing ceremony was was supposed to be about the athletes , not an athlete to be seen.

A bit ordinary i thought. cry

Leo · Senior Member

Both the opening and closing ceremonies were fatuous, cringeworthy, political correct misrepresentations of Australia, with the athletes finally being edged out totally for a Australian Idol get together as a prelude to monstrous political egos taking centre stage to bore the remaining audience out of their seats.

Honestly, how can anyone, even egotistical political clowns like Annastacia Palaszczuk and Peter Beattie 'stuff up' such a shoo-in as a C-wealth Games in friendly SE Qld - where there is tons of expertise and professionalism in running big events? Just as a small example of that efficiency where politicians and Games administrators are out of the way (and heading to Carrera to strut at the closing ceremony!), the contractors had all Gold Coast streets cleared of barricades and things back to normal within hours of the marathon completion. Watch how quickly all of the temporary stands and so on disappear.

The news is that athletes bolted from the closing ceremony and took to the Coast to have their own, well-deserved celebration. Good for them and they were made to feel very welcome and finally liberated from officialdom.

When will Australians revolt against the greed and opportunism of incompetent, 'jobs for the boys and girls' politicians and ex-politicians?

-- Edited by Leo on Monday 16th of April 2018 08:51:08 AM

Delta18 · Guru

When the aboriginal bit was on who were all the white folk on the stand?

Oh yes, they were all aborigines. confuse

What a joke.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Peter Beattie admits failure

Cheers - John

Leo · Senior Member

The Gold Coast public are doing the right thing by Australian athletes as I write this. Public recognition and plenty of face-to-face in Surfers. There are smiling faces everywhere, eg the netball team - warm memories forever they say.

Ch 9 and Ch 7 are a mite busy scoring points off each other and the pollies have moved on for their next disaster in the making. So I guess it will be up to the community, the athletes, plenty of hugs and their mobile phone cameras for memories. Hey, easily done and much cheaper than Beattie's cool $500,000 (on top of that generous super etc he was receiving anyhow from taxpayers). smile smile

The Belmont Bear · Guru

You can't blame the people of the Gold Coast or SE Qld for being disappointed with that debacle that was put on by the organisers of the closing ceremony. The games themselves seemed to be a big success and the location provided a wonderful backdrop for people in places in the world that it was broadcast to. I turned over to free to air just to watch the athletes march into the stadium and celebrate their achievements, instead I watched a raft of unknown people making irrelevent speeches - I probably lasted about half an hour before I gave up and switched back to Foxtel so I could watch the gambling adds broken up with the odd sporting break.. cry cry

Cheers

BB

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

In the link I provided, one can read that the athletes were part of the closing ceremony ... but their involvement was not telecast.

To save everyone reading the link (which most never seem to do hmm ) -

Beatie said, Closing Ceremony; we wanted athletes to be part of and enjoy the Closing Ceremony, he said. However, having them come in to the stadium in the pre-show meant the TV audience were not able to see the athletes enter the stadium, alongside flag bearers. We got that wrong. This decision to bring the athletes into the stadium before the broadcast was operationally driven given there were restrictions on being able to keep the athletes waiting in comfort. We were driven by the welfare of athletes, he noted. The speeches were too many and too long. I was part of that and I acknowledge it. Again, we got that wrong.

People are thinking that Channel Seven has chosen not to show pictures of athletes or not to show the flag-bearer Kurt Fearnley or other flag bearers, Griggs said. We can only show the pictures that are provided by the actual host broadcasters. They made decisions not to have athletes enter the stadium. They made the decision not to show the flag-bearers.

Cheers - John

dabbler · Guru

Rocket, I will also be glad to get the traffic flow back to normal after close to 8 weeks of diversions and road closures during both games and prep plus the years of roadworks. The 10 days of events was just a tiny part of the disruption. I'm high on a hill so not affected but the suburban streets leading up the hill were lined with spectator cars most games days as only main roads were posted No Stopping. Don't get me wrong, many friends and relatives attended (and volunteered) so really enjoyed the games opportunity.

the rocket · Guru

dabbler wrote:
Rocket, I will also be glad to get the traffic flow back to normal after close to 8 weeks of diversions and road closures during both games and prep plus the years of roadworks. The 10 days of events was just a tiny part of the disruption. I'm high on a hill so not affected but the suburban streets leading up the hill were lined with spectator cars most games days as only main roads were posted No Stopping. Don't get me wrong, many friends and relatives attended (and volunteered) so really enjoyed the games opportunity.

All i recall of peter beatties time as premier was him saying "sorry" .

parts of the closing ceremony were good but most of it was, in my opinion, sh&t.

-- Edited by the rocket on Monday 16th of April 2018 05:32:33 PM

JA2340 · Senior Member

Glad I didn't bother, then!
Lots of carry-on, loud noise (thought to be music by some) and lights flashing all over the place! That's my experience of opening and closing ceremonies of Olympics and Comm Games.

I have more to interest me than listening to/watching that sort of carry on!

Watched quite a bit of the games themselves, incredible effort by all participants! But the razamattaz, the speechifying and self-congratulating of the organisers give me the terminal sh!ts!

Phillipn · Guru

One must give credit to Peter Beattie, he stuffs every thing that he touches.

He was full of praise for himself at the closing of the games because he thinks he is God, hang your head in shame you grub.

Dickodownunder · Guru

And after him saying that he thought the closing ceremony wasnt up to scratch for leaving the athletes from the telecast on TV,
Peter Beattie now is call us a "pack of whingers" yawn yawn

Leo · Senior Member

Anyone notice that the media have been keen to limit the criticisms of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games to the deletion of the athletes opening parade?

Yes, the omission of the parade was a serious flaw.

However the criticisms of the opening and closing ceremonies go well beyond that. The Courier Mail 's editorial a day ago nailed it, 'Gold Coast Commonwealth Games closing ceremony marred by political correctness'. There were concerns about the authoritarian political correctness from the very beginning and Peter Beattie and his mates cannot duck that,

Commonwealth Games political correctness: Volunteers told to use ...
http://www.news.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/volunteers-told-to-use-genderneutral-words-to-avoid-causing-offence/news-story/ec04212fb6ffab7bb8da2262fb63c65e?from=rss-basic
Feb 10, 2018 - FORGET gday Gold Coast Commonwealth Games volunteers are being told to welcome visitors with the little-known Aboriginal greeting jingeri.

Does Australia get the tin medal for being the most politically correct country on the planet, ever?