At least with CTV's coverage, they did a brief showing of which countries came in during commercials so we could still see them come in (I love to see what each country has). I also liked that they mentioned what Indo-Canadians did for the Indian team- if you didn't know, apparently India's team gets next to no money and had mismatched uniforms, so the local communities donated and made new uniforms plus there was extra money to help with training and spending money!
I wish Nelly Furtado and Bryan Adams had actually practiced the routine though- there were at least two times when one of them either missed putting the microphone up to 'sing' or started to 'sing' too early, and it wasn't just a word or two, sigh. I could have done without the version of the National Anthem they did- it sounded like watered down elevator music, ugh! (the Olympic anthem wasn't great either in my opinion, but I hate vibrato and am not a great fan of sopranos). That's neat about the designers- I'm not sure CTV mentioned it either, though they did at least say that it was Ashley MacIsaac fiddling.
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Date: 2010-02-13 10:27 pm (UTC)I wish Nelly Furtado and Bryan Adams had actually practiced the routine though- there were at least two times when one of them either missed putting the microphone up to 'sing' or started to 'sing' too early, and it wasn't just a word or two, sigh. I could have done without the version of the National Anthem they did- it sounded like watered down elevator music, ugh! (the Olympic anthem wasn't great either in my opinion, but I hate vibrato and am not a great fan of sopranos). That's neat about the designers- I'm not sure CTV mentioned it either, though they did at least say that it was Ashley MacIsaac fiddling.