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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Topic Started: Aug 9 2008, 04:10 PM (1,073 Views)
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Did anyone watched last night's opening ceremony. I was very amazed by it. It must have taken them a lot of work to do that.
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I saw that.
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Yep, that was a spectacular opening ceremony.

Somehow, I missed USA's entrance. I was over at my parents house, and right before going to a commerical break, it was said that there were about 20 more countries until USA came out. So I went back to my place, which is about 10 minutes away, and I still ended up missing it.
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Have you seen Dwight when he marched to the ceremony? Ben Q Rock might still have the photo of him.
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No, what did he do?

I just watched the USA introduction on YouTube, though. They don't talk about Dwight, but towards the end theres a shot of him walking, along with Bosh and a few others in the background.

Here's the video I watched (taped off of a TV, so quality isn't great):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBXE8mgaevI
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He just look excited just as everybody. I've seen how he reacted when the whole group of Team USA marched to the Olympic ceremony. Take a visit at Ben Q Rock's blog.
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Did any of you see this:

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BEIJING (AP)—Players on Spain’s Olympic basketball team defended a photo in an ad showing the players using their fingers to apparently make their eyes look more Chinese.

The photo, which has been running as a newspaper spread in Spain since Friday, shows all 15 players making the gesture on a basketball court adorned with a Chinese dragon. The photo was part of a publicity campaign for team sponsor Seur, a Spanish courier company, and is being used only in Spain.

“It was something like supposed to be funny or something but never offensive in any way,” said Spain center Pau Gasol, who also plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. “I’m sorry if anybody thought or took it the wrong way and thought that it was offensive.”

Point guard Jose Manuel Calderon said the team was responding to a request from the photographer.

“We felt it was something appropriate, and that it would be interpreted as an affectionate gesture,” Calderon, who plays for NBA’s Toronto Raptors, wrote on his ElMundo.es blog. “Without a doubt, some … press didn’t see it that way.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/1...l.olympics20081

Um, are they serious?
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Kwik10z
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i seen that this morning.....shocking!
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SG489
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:huh: What in God's name are they're thinking?! God, that's so offensive! (and cheaply chessy!)
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Calderon's quote is the most surprising. He/they thought it would be "interpreted as an appropriate gesture"???
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I couldn't understand Calderon's words that implies this. I don't think that people in Spain would appreciate that!
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calderon is an idiot. yeah lets impersonate stereotypes of other cultures and they'll laugh it off like its funny.
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Kwik10z
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good thing we didnt pursue Calderon moreso than we did.....that kind of incompetance would be bad for our Magic
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ehh i would still like to have him on the team if it would have been possible for us to get him. the guy can play despite how much majority of magic fans (including me) hate his guts. 40%+ from 3 and his skills as a pg are too much to overlook.
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Yep, he's a really good PG.

I don't care enough about the Raps to hate him.
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