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Replay of NBC Olympic Opening Ceremony Broadcast

Jill Manty — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:04:44 +0000

You can view a recording of the Opening Ceremony by visiting NBCOlympics.com. The video did not work for me in Internet Explorer. I had to open it in Firefox. You might have to look around a little bit to find it.

One thing that is not on there in full is the really cool and slightly intimidating drumming at the beginning of the ceremony. For that, try this link.

2008 Summer Olympics Theme Song

George Manty — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:52:58 +0000

March 10th was the deadline for submitting a song to be used as the theme song for the 2008 Biejing Summer Olympics. Over 50,000 songs have been submitted. They are looking for 25 songs for the main Summer Olympic Games, and 10 songs for the Paralympics games.

“Chris Babida” was already named as the theme song for the the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, and “I am a Star” by Emil Chau was named as the song to be played for the Olympic volunteers. One song in particular has been getting A LOT of attention, Giorgio Moroder and Kong Xiangdong’s “Forever Friends”. Moroder has already written two Olympic theme song, this would be his third to make it in the Olympics.

Here is a nice rendition of the song by CoCo Lee:

Track The 2008 Olympic Torch On It’s Way To Beijing

George Manty — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:31:32 +0000

Do you wonder what route the Olympic Torch is taking in 2008?

Well, I just found out that you can track it’s path and find out exactly where it is today, by visiting the Google Maps Olympic Torch relay page.

From the map you can see where the torch is, where it was and where it is going.

Pretty Cool, huh?