Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Ceremonies

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/20/2022 at 1:24 PM, Dunadan said:

Have the commentators always received the speech "printed out" beforehand? I only noticed this time- opening and closing- because, having no clue about the language, they finish translating well before the end of the speech by the Chinese guy.

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As far as I know, that is usually the case indeed. Subtitles have always been faster than the actual speech here, as far as I remember at least.

[hckošice 15,085]

  On 2/20/2022 at 1:24 PM, Dunadan said:

Have the commentators always received the speech printed beforehand? I only noticed this time- opening and closing- because, having no clue about the language, they finish translating well before the end of the speech by the Chinese guy.

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I think it is usual thing, Every OG ceremonies I remember our commentators were reading the speeches

[heywoodu 15,333]

1976 Olympic fencing champion speaking to us live from Utopia.

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

The day that a gold fencer saved the world from WW3

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/20/2022 at 1:26 PM, De_Gambassi said:

The day that a gold fencer save the world from WW3

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And the pandemic! He just told us how to solve it by quoting the Olympic motto  

[hckošice 15,085]

Tommy ! Already longer speech than at the opening ffs !

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,333]

Some nice spontaneous applauding moments after every sentence.

[Griff88 1,969]

  On 2/20/2022 at 1:24 PM, Dunadan said:

Have the commentators always received the speech "printed out" beforehand? I only noticed this time- opening and closing- because, having no clue about the language, they finish translating well before the end of the speech by the Chinese guy.

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I think they did. For Asian Games 2018, the president’s speech text is already supplied for commentators (even though he added some extra sentences)

 

Even more extreme SEA Games 2013 in Myanmar (where the language is basically mysterious), the broadcast already included subtitles for the speech of the organizing committee head 

[hckošice 15,085]

oh man, how many pages they wrote him ?

[heywoodu 15,333]

Never thought I'd ever think so, but "I declare the Olympic Games closed" is what I've been waiting for for a few months already (even though I enjoyed the Games). Let the road to 2026 begin!