I wonder if it will be finished by then

2/7/2014 8:15:43 PM

Test will be held later on the Cyrillic alphabet.

2/7/2014 8:19:47 PM

somebody's family is being shipped off to a gulag after that malfunction.



[Edited on February 7, 2014 at 8:33 PM. Reason : ]

2/7/2014 8:28:06 PM

Dear God, we're an hour into their coverage and I can tell that NBC hates covering these Games.

2/7/2014 8:29:09 PM

Does Putin have a daughter?

2/7/2014 8:30:39 PM

oops, one of the red people in the flag moved

2/7/2014 8:31:25 PM

Epic shorts for the Bermudans. I probably didn't say Bermudans right, but oh well.

2/7/2014 8:48:30 PM

Moving too fast, London camera guys were way better at finding hot chicks

2/7/2014 8:49:42 PM

The lone Venezuelan athlete so far wins Best Entrance.

2/7/2014 8:50:43 PM

The lone athlete from Zimbabwe was pretty awesome too.

2/7/2014 8:56:49 PM

Some of these athletes are displaying a pet peeve of mine in international sport: citizenship by convenience where you have nothing to deal with who you're representing.

"An Irish snowboader from San Diego whose grandparents are Irish."

[Edited on February 7, 2014 at 9:01 PM. Reason : /]

2/7/2014 9:01:15 PM

Mexico Represent!

2/7/2014 9:09:50 PM

^^He probably couldn't have made our Olympic team.

2/7/2014 9:15:36 PM

^ yeah, but he's not Irish

2/7/2014 9:16:26 PM

Our wear looks like Christmas sweaters.

2/7/2014 9:26:13 PM

These announcers are the biggest negative nancys i've ever heard.

2/7/2014 9:40:00 PM

^They must still be pissed that their hotel is still under construction and the workers are sharing their hotel rooms.

2/7/2014 10:00:47 PM

Flyin Ryan Yeah. I know that was a source of controversy back in the Athens when most of their baseball team were Americans who had Greek grandparents.

2/7/2014 10:04:57 PM

"Peter the Great did something unthinkable. Built this great city on what was a swamp."

We did the same thing, it's called Washington. (okay, you could say it's not a great city )


St. Petersburg would be a good idea for a Summer Games host.

[Edited on February 7, 2014 at 10:08 PM. Reason : /]

2/7/2014 10:06:24 PM

Russia: A Cautionary Tale

2/7/2014 10:09:19 PM

I gotta say, for all the bad Russia has done in preparing for these games, the opening ceremonies (especially the projection show) is pretty great

2/7/2014 10:09:38 PM

^ agree

helps when you have a lot of culture to draw from (like a ballet from War & Peace)

2/7/2014 10:11:36 PM

So you mean to tell me that none of these hundreds of russian professional male dancers are gay, Putin?

2/7/2014 10:13:37 PM

the mechanical stuff is cool

[Edited on February 7, 2014 at 10:25 PM. Reason : /]

2/7/2014 10:24:58 PM

Putin is nostalgic of Soviet Russia? No shit

2/7/2014 10:29:52 PM

I'm amazed at how well they keep the projections proportioned on that huge stage. It really looks great.

2/7/2014 10:35:17 PM

Aside from the ring fuck up this has been pretty good show. The gantry system thing is crazy.

These announcers hate Russia for some reason, holy shit.

2/7/2014 10:36:28 PM

That projection is pretty mind blowing. So many possible applications for arena events.


Here comes Vlad

2/7/2014 10:38:06 PM

So far this is my favorite opening ceremony

2/7/2014 10:41:59 PM

Anyone else catch Obama's comments earlier with Costas about Putin? How he isn't all bravado behind closed doors but lives up to his shtick in front of his citizens? Thought it was a pretty candid comment on a worldwide stage

Also apparently Bob Costas already contracted pink eye in Sochi

2/7/2014 10:45:47 PM

I never watched the London Opening Ceremony. I enjoyed the Vancouver Opening Ceremony, but it was very different to this one. More light-hearted in tone.

Beijing all I remember is 1000 men banging a drum simultaneously.

I remember Sydney's. I can't remember any others off the top of my head outside of the heavily negative reaction to Atlanta's.

2/7/2014 10:46:01 PM

Torino 2006 was the greatest of all time
-no one

2/7/2014 10:48:41 PM

Quote :

"more light-hearted in tone."

When I think of Russia, nothing "light-hearted" comes to mind. More like "In Soviet Russia, the ceremony opens you!"

2/7/2014 11:07:24 PM

Karelin.

This guy is a god in the sport of wrestling.

^ Yeah. I was saying Vancouver was the light-hearted one.

[Edited on February 7, 2014 at 11:10 PM. Reason : .]

2/7/2014 11:09:28 PM

Holy shitballs that prop house was huge

2/7/2014 11:12:32 PM

Tretiak sure had to run a long way.

(He runs Russian Hockey now.)

2/7/2014 11:13:13 PM

In soviet russia, torch lights you.

2/7/2014 11:14:19 PM

I got tired of watching the intros and missed the cool shit

2/7/2014 11:16:44 PM

DUTCH units are dope

2/8/2014 12:12:48 AM

Quote :

"Karelin's wrestling record is 887 wins and only two losses in his entire sport career.[3] "

beast indeed.

2/8/2014 12:18:53 AM

lol japan wore radiation suits

2/8/2014 12:45:44 AM

USA women up 1-0 on Finland 53 seconds into the game.

2/8/2014 3:23:47 AM

USA women defeat Finland 3-1. Switzerland up next.

2/8/2014 5:13:06 AM

I would like to see a highlight of the slope style final but no luck!

2/8/2014 5:47:41 AM

Girlfriend is watching ice dancing, and lo and behold: Terry Gannon doing the announcing.

Interesting.

2/8/2014 10:37:22 AM

Canadian women: 5-0 in their first game.

2/8/2014 10:56:42 AM

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2014/02/sochi_opening_ceremony_theatrical_flamboyant_and_gay_gay_gay.html

lol URL

2/8/2014 12:57:46 PM

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[Edited on February 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2014 2:13:58 PM

there was a nasty crash earlier with a Slovenian skier on the downhill, lost control when he took off on a big jump, tried to find it on Youtube and didn't see it (he was able to ski off on his own after a few minutes but was bleeding)

"Norway has never won the men's downhill". How?

[Edited on February 8, 2014 at 3:09 PM. Reason : /]

2/8/2014 3:04:36 PM

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2/8/2014 3:10:30 PM