{"id":5189,"date":"2026-02-06T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:55:41","slug":"milano-cortina-olympics-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"Milano Cortina Olympics, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Opening Ceremony Tidbits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I liked the first part of the opening ceremony a lot. It was fun, and not overly long, or too ambitious. The Eurobeat flavor was cool. The colors were nice. It was nicer than the French one I thought. In retrospect, perhaps the Paris opening was too ambitious for it’s own good. But, meh, that’s neither here nor there at this point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The parade of nations even seems more fun, oddly, than usual. Not even sure why. Maybe it’s the “fun” setting, with the fake snow and the cool glowy entrance ring and such.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The NBC captions occasionally provide a source of amusement of their own. On the Olympic pre-shows I watched yesterday, skating pairs was captioned as “skating pears”. I intentionally avoided mentioning this yesterday because I wanted this error to go uncorrected during the livestream during the games; I so so desperately wanted to see see “Skating Pears” in the Olympic Games, lol. Unfortunately, during the team event they showed this morning that error had since been corrected. I did note, that, however, that the Japanese greats of Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi did not skate to “Paint it Black”, they in fact skated to “Peanut Black”, apparently. I mean, who knew, lol.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. And on that note, fittingly, the country of Chile becomes the country of “Chilly” during the Winter Olympics. Because of course it does.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. I missed Gracie Gold, apparently. She was in the Opening Ceremony pre-show, which I WAS watching, but the stream stopped like 5 minutes before she showed up or something. It is \/ was upsetting. The only reason I know she was there was because I saw a second of her on a promo. ‘Tis unfortunate. Le sigh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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