...using CGI for fireworks, detention and punishment of peaceful demonstrators, using a prettier 8 year old to lip sync because the actually musician was told she was too unattractive...

Yes, all original to Beijing's olympics. I'm not so sure about top notch.

Obviously they were trying to prove a point... it's all about having face for the Chinese. Doesn't matter what happens in the background, as long as things look ship shape to the world.

And from here on, this thread has officially been ruined and will now lead to a anti china and hate thread.

They should change Godwin's Law to include China!

man whats with the hate...china had money to burn... obviously.. England dun got the same amount of doh...

The hate is on not because of England lacking money to burn, but because the marketing and logo's look like shit. I know it's a bit of pot calling kettle black, but they should be sticking with things that represent London at least. And also, this is what happens with design through committee.

This. I think design wise it's simple. I like it.

Not hating on the China Olympics...they were spectacular. Proved what can happen when money and labor is no object.

London is going for more classic looks I guess but it sort of doesn't match their logo and overall "theme" look, which is a modern look like the Vancouver games but not as stylized. I actually thought our torches were fucking cool. All of our shit matched...from the volunteer clothing to the torches to the billboards to the cars...everything.

Whatever...#van2010 was fucking awesome. London is going to have to step that shit up if they're going to match how magical our Olympics were.

I think the issue is that with London, it's not as "London" as what people perceive, its more of a clusterfuck of people, kinda like a shittier Vancouver with more black people. So I the logos are sorta representative of the City LOL

What is "Seattle", Alex.

Not every Olympics needs to be compared to China or even copy what China did. They made their impression. Let London make theirs in their own way.

i dont think london is going to get away with forcing people out of the cities and their homes to tear down the area to build a new venue with forced labour

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