The Opening was AMAZING! ... too bad we couldn't get it all the way up :(
This... this is boring, ill prepared crap. WTF were we thinking?Totally agree with those who said Cirque shoulda been hired (probably shoulda been hired for our Opening or Closing ceremonies to :S)
Cirque were asked if they would like to perform but they actually wanted to be paid (unlike the other performers who were honoured to be asked and who did it free) so they were given the flick.
@taryndancer29 im not even canadian (I live near Chicago) and i thought it was awesome. However, I have visited Niagra Falls and Toronto in 2006; it was amazing.
what a pile of rank steaming feces that they tried to mask with a drop of maple syrup. i hope someone shits in gordon campbell's mouth come february 2010.
i live in vancouver. great place. i have opening and closing ceremony tickets. but there is a lot of controversy. stupid protesters are saying that the money going to the olympics should be going to public housing, education, stuff like that even though the money would never go to that even if there were no olympics. hope the natives don't make the ceremonies lame like they did in the 2010 segment of these games.
because there was Ice fishing, snowmobileing, eskimos,native chiefs those are steryotypes that the world has on canada and like really the games arnt taking place in Iqaluit this is vancouver show what vancouver is really about. ive been there and it does not look like that at all.
i'm also canadian and still wonder without native culture and the other canadian culture displayed here like circ do sol(or whatever) what is vancouver culture? what makes it so special? or what could have been display'd for vancouver. i think this was a awsome way to represent Canada (not just vancouver) it's the country as a whole. ps: avril lavigne is dead sexy in this vid *drool*
I dont think you get it. The whole world laughed at us about this ceremony. Its so gay and bad that it was funny. Seriously, i live in Toronto and i dont see fucking native dancers running down the street, same with vancouver! tell me man, do you see native people everywhere around vancouver??? I havnt, i see NORMAL people in vancouver not chief whatchamacallit or the HATU tribe either way its so embarassing!!
i'm a vancouverite and vancouver is really about nature, snowboarding, hiking, if you go a little far out, there berry picking and salmon fishing, really, if you are an outdoorsy person, vancouver is an ideal place. but if you plan to LIVE here, it's just like anywhere else, in fact, it's just like a more natural version of Seattle (with lots of rain of course).
also wtf is up with the eskimos were not eskimos thats up in the territories p.s any americans watching we are developed and i dunno if our governement brainwashed them but vancouver is very populated and is a great city. skyscrapers.
OK WTF IS UP WITH THE NATIVES im canadian and i believe that there is more to our culture then stupid natives its an embarassement to us our opening and closing ceremonys are gonna be a disaster it will all be about the natives.
I must admit that I thought that this was going to be a lot worse to view than it actually was. We will be ready by 2010. It won't be Beijing but it will be fine!!1
I don't care about the ceremonies, I'm just glad that the Olympics have come to my hometown. I am still shocked that Vancouver is given the privilege to host the Olympics.
Let's hope the opening ceremonies reach A LOT higher. Bring on Cirque de Soleil and hire an artistic coordinator with some balls. This looks as if it was cobbled together by Gordon Campbell and a bunch of goofs from City Hall. C'mon guys, surprise us, cut the Canadian corn and do this thing with some panache... and PLEASE do something to clean up the Downtown Eastside while your at it. The people of Vancouver and Canada deserve better.
i felt like this was choppy and drawn out for all that was in it.. i liked the cirque-du-soliel kinda acrobatics.. but i felt it could have been bigger more exciting than a man pulling a fish out of a hole.. avril was a nice touch though.
wow I really liked that. I cant wait until Vancouver 2010.. visited Vancouver for the first time in my life last summer, me and my family were jaw dropped. It's such a great (and good looking) cty!
Well you don't know the rest of Canadians there r not just white people,that Inuksuk is not white, if u want to see the real Inuksuk go to northern Canada
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Terrible program. The Aboriginals have some sort of place, though they probably whined to the government again about not being respected, thus getting into this program. The ice fishing is stupid and Avril coming in with her high pitched nonsense at the end made it worse.
I can see why most people in Vancouver hated this.
what was that at the beginning with the natives of four different tribes and the "symbol". it sounded as if no one in the stadium knew whether to clap or not (mind you, not many viewers probably knew what to think after that). hopefully the opening ceremonies are better than that are truly represent what all of Canada is about as well as Vancouver. Even John Furlong (head of the VANOC)said that this presentation was a mistake of sorts. Anyways, can't wait for 2010! GO CANADA GO!
I didn't really get the whole demonstration thing there with the blocks before they built the inukshuk... I think that was more appropriate for Whitehorse or Yellowknife.. not Vancouver. Heh.. I've never seen anyone ice fishing here in Vancouver. haha..
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Like what the hell is this? I live in Canada, and I dont think ive ever seen anything like this, and what is the the fish that he brings outta the hole? I dont have great respect for the native community here, but I hope the Ceremonies dont revolve around it, Canada has alot to offer... And I hope they dont offer this kind of a ceremony to the world on Feb. 12 2010 at BC Place
See Canadians get resentful that the world vies them as all snowshoeing across icy tundras, ice fishing, and building igloos, and then they go to the Olympics and use their one moment to propagate that very stereotype. Go figure!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Our big moment to shine, before the entire world, and we cart out Avril Lavigne and some hockey players. Hurrah for cultural freaking significance. I liked the inukshuk in concept, but it wasn't even close to being epic enough.
How about some choreography? We have tons of athletic dancers in Canada; let's use them! And costumes maybe? People in snowsuits is just cheap! At the very least, they could've turned up the lights ...
vancouver has sh*tty weather conditions, it never snows in winter, only rains all day, and summer, its super hot. vancouver is consider as the hottest place in canada. and even though the cherry blossums r cool in spring, this year is pretty bad dued to air pollutions. even ppl here complain bout the up and coming olympics in 2010. not that i have anything against it... but if u were to consider going to a place, u should understand the gg and bad of it.
Vancouver that a relativly small City , compared to Toronto and Montreal.Which is 3-4 time bigger in population city-wise than vancouver.Beijing it's not even a contest.So i can't believe you're whining about the polution in vancouver.That absolutly nothing compared to much bigger city.
thats the whole point of this... to promote ppl to come to vancouver. but in reality, vancouver is just as sh*tty as any other place. i live here... i should know.
This games was AMAZING Bravo Torino¡¡¡¡ but Vancouver...My gosh at least have hired the circus solei...so Boring, so unfair...
lilymaoas 1 month ago
im canadian and russia's display at our games were wayyyy better
BombasticLove87 4 months ago
I'm italian, i love this only for my love: Avril ♥
AvriLavigneAbbey 8 months ago
I like how they built the logo but this is really boring!
AlexHWalker 1 year ago
Cool use of projection onto the stadium floor, foreshadowing what they would do at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies 4 years later.
dewnyc 1 year ago
I prefer Sochi's presentation in Vancouver over this one.
aric2007 1 year ago
my favourite closing ceremony was vancouver's, because of the olympic flame and the way it descended.
rameshfrf 1 year ago 2
Vancouver Closing ceromony was far better then this no offence.
koolaidmoonwalk 2 years ago 3
@koolaidmoonwalk This closing is really bland!
CancorseTV1 2 years ago
vancouver's closing ceremony sure has a lot of...humor in it. :)
cgsilverscreen2020 2 years ago
@cgsilverscreen2020 I was in that closing as a youth performer :)
CancorseTV1 2 years ago
The Opening was AMAZING! ... too bad we couldn't get it all the way up :(
This... this is boring, ill prepared crap. WTF were we thinking?Totally agree with those who said Cirque shoulda been hired (probably shoulda been hired for our Opening or Closing ceremonies to :S)
SP3489 2 years ago 2
Cirque were asked if they would like to perform but they actually wanted to be paid (unlike the other performers who were honoured to be asked and who did it free) so they were given the flick.
Canuck2099 1 year ago
a few hours to start the opening ceremony of the twentieth first winter Olympic Games of Vancouver 2010
TheY3y0 2 years ago
Omg, no offense but this is VERY dull, i hope the opnening cermony isnt going to be like this tmrw,
bobbylou122 2 years ago
can you believe 2010 opening ceremony is tommorow?!!! wow time flies!
taryndancer29 2 years ago
@taryndancer29 and now it's all over :(
cgsilverscreen2020 2 years ago
I KNOW :( us canadians had a great olympics! loved the closing ceremony!
taryndancer29 2 years ago
@taryndancer29 im not even canadian (I live near Chicago) and i thought it was awesome. However, I have visited Niagra Falls and Toronto in 2006; it was amazing.
cgsilverscreen2020 2 years ago
@taryndancer29 haha of coarse who doesnt love giant beavers and giant table hockey players! Canada knows how to throw a party
krisjimo 1 year ago 5
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what a pile of rank steaming feces that they tried to mask with a drop of maple syrup. i hope someone shits in gordon campbell's mouth come february 2010.
doctorasstastic 2 years ago
why can't they hire Cirque du Soleil to play. These guys suck and not even interesting.
VS257 2 years ago
@VS257 exactly.. thats what i ask. Vancouver should have hired them
enarow 2 years ago
They chose Avril - cause she is a proud 100% Canadian, Nelly would have been a good choice too!
nightziggy 2 years ago 2
i live in vancouver. great place. i have opening and closing ceremony tickets. but there is a lot of controversy. stupid protesters are saying that the money going to the olympics should be going to public housing, education, stuff like that even though the money would never go to that even if there were no olympics. hope the natives don't make the ceremonies lame like they did in the 2010 segment of these games.
AleksthePster 2 years ago
well, I'm not from canada, but I love that country, and I'll be waiting to see the new olimpiyc games..I'm sure they are going to do a very good job
VIVA CANADA , and greetings from Venezuela
Robertoa19 2 years ago 13
beautiful
tokiettina91 2 years ago
The correct name of the song is "Who Knows"
freakout207 3 years ago
irmaterma, itz Who Knows
makkutottu 3 years ago
what is the name of this song?
irmaterma 3 years ago
why does avril say 'to knows' instead of 'who knows'?
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hubbabubba1012008 3 years ago
because there was Ice fishing, snowmobileing, eskimos,native chiefs those are steryotypes that the world has on canada and like really the games arnt taking place in Iqaluit this is vancouver show what vancouver is really about. ive been there and it does not look like that at all.
Wii624 3 years ago
i'm also canadian and still wonder without native culture and the other canadian culture displayed here like circ do sol(or whatever) what is vancouver culture? what makes it so special? or what could have been display'd for vancouver. i think this was a awsome way to represent Canada (not just vancouver) it's the country as a whole. ps: avril lavigne is dead sexy in this vid *drool*
Dude2Silly 3 years ago
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I dont think you get it. The whole world laughed at us about this ceremony. Its so gay and bad that it was funny. Seriously, i live in Toronto and i dont see fucking native dancers running down the street, same with vancouver! tell me man, do you see native people everywhere around vancouver??? I havnt, i see NORMAL people in vancouver not chief whatchamacallit or the HATU tribe either way its so embarassing!!
Wii624 3 years ago
i'm a vancouverite and vancouver is really about nature, snowboarding, hiking, if you go a little far out, there berry picking and salmon fishing, really, if you are an outdoorsy person, vancouver is an ideal place. but if you plan to LIVE here, it's just like anywhere else, in fact, it's just like a more natural version of Seattle (with lots of rain of course).
VWYL900802 2 years ago
When the fat guy was singing, I think that a choir should of sang it. Not 1 person
Chichichi145 3 years ago
canadas most embarrasing moment in history
Wii624 3 years ago
Not to be rude but, how is it embrassing..? I dont know!!! can you explain to me please :)
Chichichi145 3 years ago
also wtf is up with the eskimos were not eskimos thats up in the territories p.s any americans watching we are developed and i dunno if our governement brainwashed them but vancouver is very populated and is a great city. skyscrapers.
Wii624 3 years ago
OK WTF IS UP WITH THE NATIVES im canadian and i believe that there is more to our culture then stupid natives its an embarassement to us our opening and closing ceremonys are gonna be a disaster it will all be about the natives.
Wii624 3 years ago
i have nothing against avril, but i mean really. could they not get celine dion? or nelly furtado? or micheal buble?
hopefully one of them will show up for our opening ceremonies.
CanadianTBoy 3 years ago
they're all canadian? even michael buble? I thought he was british XD
Sgrat 3 years ago
ya buble canadian!!
lilbitch90 3 years ago
I like his accent :D
Sgrat 3 years ago 2
LOL. I think that feist would of been better :P
Chichichi145 3 years ago
I must admit that I thought that this was going to be a lot worse to view than it actually was. We will be ready by 2010. It won't be Beijing but it will be fine!!1
macintoshchris 3 years ago
I don't care about the ceremonies, I'm just glad that the Olympics have come to my hometown. I am still shocked that Vancouver is given the privilege to host the Olympics.
MattPeep1989 3 years ago
Dont be.
Calgary got them in 88 and compare to alot of other olympic cites vancouver is a shoe-in.
It's going to be a fantastic games, and to those people who think we wont put on a good show, don't know who is working for vanoc.
Motigflames 3 years ago
that preview was.........awkward, except for the avril lavigne part <3
Hope the opening ceromony will be much better =)
lilaleung 3 years ago
Anything we do will pale in comparison to China. No pressure Vancouver, No Pressure. :D
mulan64 3 years ago 2
Except have a joy-full games devoid of oppression and fruitless resources wasteing.
We will blow people's socks off.
Motigflames 3 years ago
true :D I'm looking forward to it.
mulan64 3 years ago
Come on Michael Buble
sing at the 2010 olympics
pinoyxlocc 3 years ago
With out the awkward start it's not that bad.
Motigflames 3 years ago
Well...
That was awkward.
Let's hope the opening ceremonies reach A LOT higher. Bring on Cirque de Soleil and hire an artistic coordinator with some balls. This looks as if it was cobbled together by Gordon Campbell and a bunch of goofs from City Hall. C'mon guys, surprise us, cut the Canadian corn and do this thing with some panache... and PLEASE do something to clean up the Downtown Eastside while your at it. The people of Vancouver and Canada deserve better.
supersirca 3 years ago
We got the guy who did the Sydney games.
Motigflames 3 years ago
i felt like this was choppy and drawn out for all that was in it.. i liked the cirque-du-soliel kinda acrobatics.. but i felt it could have been bigger more exciting than a man pulling a fish out of a hole.. avril was a nice touch though.
donteatthechalk 3 years ago 3
horrible preview. and im fucking canadian
donteatthechalk 3 years ago
I'm Canadian too, and I thought it was pretty nice.
tell me, what exactly were you expecting?
3461167 3 years ago
wow I really liked that. I cant wait until Vancouver 2010.. visited Vancouver for the first time in my life last summer, me and my family were jaw dropped. It's such a great (and good looking) cty!
:o)
Thanks for posting this video
3461167 3 years ago
this preview sucks!
blade96 3 years ago
excellent quality..... good audio and video... excellent work!!!!!!!
canglobalmedia 3 years ago
AVRIL LAVIGNE FOREVER!!!
marcowavrdol 3 years ago 3
At least this was better than the Sydney 2000 preview during the Atlanta 96 closing ceremony.(anyone remember the inflatable kangaroos on bikes?)
gaiapurpure 3 years ago
No, Macduck92, you're wrong. It didnt represent Canada well at all
themasterdeaux 3 years ago
I dont think Canadians will do it better than Italians.
Hopefully will be a great games!
jkuneth 3 years ago
Well you don't know the rest of Canadians there r not just white people,that Inuksuk is not white, if u want to see the real Inuksuk go to northern Canada
Aspov 3 years ago
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Terrible program. The Aboriginals have some sort of place, though they probably whined to the government again about not being respected, thus getting into this program. The ice fishing is stupid and Avril coming in with her high pitched nonsense at the end made it worse.
I can see why most people in Vancouver hated this.
CarrieCastle 4 years ago
My Family Thought it really represented Canada vey well.
Macduck92 4 years ago 2
what was that at the beginning with the natives of four different tribes and the "symbol". it sounded as if no one in the stadium knew whether to clap or not (mind you, not many viewers probably knew what to think after that). hopefully the opening ceremonies are better than that are truly represent what all of Canada is about as well as Vancouver. Even John Furlong (head of the VANOC)said that this presentation was a mistake of sorts. Anyways, can't wait for 2010! GO CANADA GO!
akeela2006 4 years ago
there will be hell to pay if he have another warm winter
MDHmodder 4 years ago
I didn't really get the whole demonstration thing there with the blocks before they built the inukshuk... I think that was more appropriate for Whitehorse or Yellowknife.. not Vancouver. Heh.. I've never seen anyone ice fishing here in Vancouver. haha..
Aikidopoi 4 years ago
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Like what the hell is this? I live in Canada, and I dont think ive ever seen anything like this, and what is the the fish that he brings outta the hole? I dont have great respect for the native community here, but I hope the Ceremonies dont revolve around it, Canada has alot to offer... And I hope they dont offer this kind of a ceremony to the world on Feb. 12 2010 at BC Place
JMarchant1986 4 years ago
fuck you asshole. cananda rules.
xxUnderMySkinxx 4 years ago 5
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stfu
yyogaisawesome4me123 4 years ago
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i dont like canada
yyogaisawesome4me123 4 years ago
we dont like you either.
phoenixx1 4 years ago 13
as a vancouverite, i have to say this totally sucked and doesn't represent vancouver in any way.
curtarmmar 4 years ago 5
See Canadians get resentful that the world vies them as all snowshoeing across icy tundras, ice fishing, and building igloos, and then they go to the Olympics and use their one moment to propagate that very stereotype. Go figure!
testohwise 4 years ago 4
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Our big moment to shine, before the entire world, and we cart out Avril Lavigne and some hockey players. Hurrah for cultural freaking significance. I liked the inukshuk in concept, but it wasn't even close to being epic enough.
How about some choreography? We have tons of athletic dancers in Canada; let's use them! And costumes maybe? People in snowsuits is just cheap! At the very least, they could've turned up the lights ...
GhostJournal 3 years ago 2
I remember getting chills seeing this live, made me so proud to be a Canadian, great job! looking forward to Canada kicking ass this time in 2010
daveni2 4 years ago
vancouver has sh*tty weather conditions, it never snows in winter, only rains all day, and summer, its super hot. vancouver is consider as the hottest place in canada. and even though the cherry blossums r cool in spring, this year is pretty bad dued to air pollutions. even ppl here complain bout the up and coming olympics in 2010. not that i have anything against it... but if u were to consider going to a place, u should understand the gg and bad of it.
brokenlies1 4 years ago
Vancouver that a relativly small City , compared to Toronto and Montreal.Which is 3-4 time bigger in population city-wise than vancouver.Beijing it's not even a contest.So i can't believe you're whining about the polution in vancouver.That absolutly nothing compared to much bigger city.
MangaVoltage 3 years ago 2
Vancouver is definitely not the hottest place in canada and it does snow in the winter, just not a lot.
lilaleung 3 years ago
thats the whole point of this... to promote ppl to come to vancouver. but in reality, vancouver is just as sh*tty as any other place. i live here... i should know.
brokenlies1 4 years ago
W ITALIA!
piso21 4 years ago
soo cool that video!! i wanna go to vancouver!! haha... mas fino lo de la pantallita xD
tridenteTGK 4 years ago
Thank God NO ITALIAN COMMENTS!!!
O CANADA!
JMarchant1986 5 years ago
awesome handover Vancouver! can't wait until 2010!
youkilledken 5 years ago