Thursday, July 07, 2005
Why NOT Paris?

Yesterday the family was propped in front of the television waiting to hear which city would get to host the 2012 olympics. Truth be told, all 4 of us were rooting for Paris. Arrr. Imagine the Olympics being held in Paris. Wouldn't it be nice? Ooooh how lovely!

But of course London won. Everyone has seen all their stadiums! Think EPL and Wimbledon?! Ahh, but I think its for that same reason that they were chosen. They boasted stadiums which hit the IOC's soft spots, therefore having the majority voting for them.

The crucial analysis of the logo would go like this:

No offence to Londoners, but the logo is simply horrifying. Where's the creativity, man?

Secondly, the video presentation. C'mon man, its the one thing you're going to present to the IOC members to showcase your country and why it should be holding the olympics. But I thought 2 videos stood out from the rest.

Paris:

Very creative, colourful. Even using cars, planes to drive/fly in circles forming the olympic rings. Oh, they used french loaves too! Very nice, and happy-wappy and bustling and shows the comraderie among the Parisians. Really gave the impression that Paris would welcome the people with open arms. Very nice.

NYC: zZzZzz.

1) video was in black and white

2) It showed nothing about the city and the olympics

Madrid:

I seriously can't remember anything about the Madrid video. I think they showed a little of sports. But wasn't impressive.

Moscow:

Wait is it moss-cow(cow as in moo-moo cow) or moss-ko?! Okay irrelevant. Just like the video. It had colour, which was good. But the video said nothing about the country and the olympics. It just said thankyou in different languages. Huh? Thank you for what?

London:

Woohoo, props for London. The video was great. Really brought out the olympic fever. Construction men became pole vaulters, bell boy became gymnast, all because of one woman running down the street. And of course they had that suave hunk of a man David Beckham in the video. That's not important, but worth mentioning. heh.

So I guess it was the right final two.

But I thought London would lose some points for their hooligan-istic supporters. Think world cup.. games would often end with a supporter brawl outside the stadium. Hmm.

Well, if the french weren't so stuck up and not be so extremely proud of their language, maybe they would have won. People who can't speak french would have a hard time, I guess, since French people refuse to speak English. Even if they know. That explains why the banners around Singapore are only in English and French.

And the hosts spoke English and French. What bias! How about Russian and Spanish. Hmmff.

And Jacques Rogge HAD to speak in French. I don't get it. Singaporeans speak English, not French, sir.

Anyhooos. Singapore should work towards hosting the olympics in 2062. Eyy, who knows right.