Athletes on parade
Feb. 6th, 2026 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwMonths ago I got rid of the cable connection for the TV. I have been doing OK with Netflix and a couple of other streaming services, plus watching Channel 2 live stream on the laptop, but it was getting to be Olympics time. I bought an indoor HDTV antenna and installed it all by myself. Now I can watch broadcast networks.
Two hours in to the delayed-to-primetime coverage of the opening ceremony NBC I am already irritated by their coverage but I knew what to expect. The ceremony organizers have done a clever thing for the parade of athletes. The primary division of sports is that indoor icy things are happening in Milan while outdoor snowy things are happening in Cortina, more than 200 miles away. The main ceremony is in an arena in Milan but they didn't haul the snow folks down for the ceremony - at each location the relevant athletes are marching (dancing, grooving) through Stargates (my thought, not what they are calling them). In Cortina they are walking down a street with people on either side like crowds watching a road race.
Sorry about the photographer's watermark/copyright thing. I couldn't find images from Cortina that didn't have it.
I like the Haitian uniforms the best and was sorry to learn earlier today that they were required to remove the portrait of Toussaint Louverture.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-olympics-uniforms-winter-games-diversity-f85baa15a623fadbc15569325efc61b5
I like the Mongolian ones a lot too (see above). Many counties have nice ones.
Watching network TV means I am getting commercials. My favorite so far is one for Chevrolet, using the song from my childhood ("see the USA in your Chevrolet. America is asking you to call"). I sang along. It will not make me buy a new car.
Two hours in to the delayed-to-primetime coverage of the opening ceremony NBC I am already irritated by their coverage but I knew what to expect. The ceremony organizers have done a clever thing for the parade of athletes. The primary division of sports is that indoor icy things are happening in Milan while outdoor snowy things are happening in Cortina, more than 200 miles away. The main ceremony is in an arena in Milan but they didn't haul the snow folks down for the ceremony - at each location the relevant athletes are marching (dancing, grooving) through Stargates (my thought, not what they are calling them). In Cortina they are walking down a street with people on either side like crowds watching a road race.
Sorry about the photographer's watermark/copyright thing. I couldn't find images from Cortina that didn't have it.
I like the Haitian uniforms the best and was sorry to learn earlier today that they were required to remove the portrait of Toussaint Louverture.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-olympics-uniforms-winter-games-diversity-f85baa15a623fadbc15569325efc61b5
I like the Mongolian ones a lot too (see above). Many counties have nice ones.
Watching network TV means I am getting commercials. My favorite so far is one for Chevrolet, using the song from my childhood ("see the USA in your Chevrolet. America is asking you to call"). I sang along. It will not make me buy a new car.
