We’re tackling the Olympics in three parts today; a sampling of the athletes on boats, and the celebs who attended, are coming later. This post is covering some of the incredible things we saw during the ceremony, which was bizarre and amazing and sometimes boring and weird but which finished on a literal high note courtesy of Celine Dion. We don’t have pictures of EVERYTHING — sadly, the pre-recorded stuff, like the tribute to the sacred art of the menage a trois, naturally was not captured by photographers — and it was SO sprawling and so VERY four hours long that I’m sure I have missed chunks in here. Please share your impressions and your favorite bits, even if you already popped by the Drinks With Broads live chat! (And as a reminder: We’re hosting living chats every day of the Olympics there, if you want to talk to like minded Olympics obsessives during the day. It’s been so fun. I thought having a whole building of decapitated Marie Antoinettes, heads in their hands and singing, was a wacky high point. The low point: how hard it would have been for the athletes themselves to see and enjoy any of it, and how much some of the back-and-forth dragged. There were SO many dead periods where people or things were trying to boat to/from the Eiffel Tower. They could’ve picked up the pace on all of that.
