Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 05 Aug 2012, 13:00Sir Cliff would have to improve on his performance at the Jubilee though ...
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Posted: 05 Aug 2012, 13:00Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 05 Aug 2012, 13:51OK, an unusually long introductory drum roll (which could easily have five seconds shaved off it).
It would then be less than sixty seconds long.
I'd do the editing myself if they asked me.
JN
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 05 Aug 2012, 15:58Uncle Fiesta wrote:Sir Cliff would have to improve on his performance at the Jubilee though ...
Why? 'Macca' clearly didn't!!!!
On the plus side; Team GB seems to be doing rather well so, good, bad or just average, our National Anthem is currently being played more than most...
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 06 Aug 2012, 20:43Iain_P wrote:I picked up somewhere that for timing reasons someone decided all national anthems should take no more than 60 seconds. I wonder if this may explain it? Remember the old days when you didn't want a CCCP gold because the old Soviet Union anthem went on and on....
Ours is forty seconds, the USA's runs for one minute ten seconds, Jamaica's is one minute . . . . . . . . not convinced at all that this is the reason.
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 12:51Dream on
Ron
Ron
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 13:09roninnes wrote:Dream on
Ron
Dream on - what exactly ?
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 15:51dave robinson wrote:roninnes wrote:Dream on
Ron
Dream on - what exactly ?
I thought it was called "Dance On"
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 16 Aug 2012, 22:46What I can't understand is that why the announcements at the London Olympics where first read out in French and then English?
Rob
Rob
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 17 Aug 2012, 07:52Because the cheering after an announcement in English would have drowned out the French translation?
Re: Our National Anthem at the olympics . . . .
Posted: 17 Aug 2012, 08:30the modern olympics were first thought of by a frenchman and since then it has become traditional for all announcements to be in french and english unless the host countries language is not english!! the reason french was used first at the london games is because it was a condition laid down by the IOC; its all on google!!
mike
mike