Songs, Carnival and Giselle Bundhen

What they write about the opening of the Olympics in Rio

On the night of August 6, the opening ceremony of the summer Olympiad was held in Rio de Janeiro. Preparation for the games went to Brazil against the backdrop of corruption scandals, a large -scale political crisis, impeachment of President Dilma Rusef and epidemics of the Zika virus. However, the ceremony itself, which was spent less money than on the opening of the Olympics in London, passed without hesitation. Medusa looked that the foreign press was writing about the opening of games.

SB National: Rio presented the first “almost watching” opening ceremony since Beijing

The opening ceremony of Olympiads is unbearably boring events, and this is the worst four hours for all games, writes the American edition of SB National. First of all, due to the team of prefabricated-the monotonous exit of the participating teams to the stadium, which usually lasts more than two hours. The organizers of the Olympiad in Rio, with a limited budget, managed to diversify this part a little and make it less terrible, the authors of SB National believe.

“The parade of countries cannot be made interesting. In order for all 207 teams to go, it takes more than two hours. Brazil did everything that she could: bright colors, musical quarters that accompanied every delegation, funny tricycles on which each country announced, colorful design of the path of the parade. Once again - it is impossible to make the parade interesting, but they succeeded as close to this as possible. ”

The Daily Telegraph: Giselle Bundhen "Stole a show" at the opening ceremony of the Olympiad in Rio

One of the most memorable episodes of the opening ceremony in Rio is not pyrotechnics, not complex dance numbers and not political speeches, but a simple passage through the catwalk of the Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bundhen, who returned to the profession for one evening, writes The Daily Telegraph.

“Returning for the sake of one last passage by the catwalk, Giselle Bundhen added a little glamor at the Marakan stadium. She looked brilliant in her hips open on her hips in sparkles from designer Alexander Kherkovich, when she walked along the arena to the sounds of the Bosanova “Girl from Ipanema” under the views of 78 thousand people in the stadium and another millions around the world. ”

The Independent: Opening Ceremony - Songs, Dancing and Undushin, which did not cost Brazil of the condition

The British The Independent describes the opening ceremony as a musical carnival, devoid of expensive technical “bells and whistles” of the show in London and Sochi. Everything was permeated with music, people danced in their places and in the aisles at the Marakan stadium-Brazil promised to show something special at the ceremony, and Brazilian melodies turned out to be this highlight. There were so many music and it was so good that the opening ceremony would come in handy for the official soundtrack, writes The Independent and notes that all sharp places were circumvented in the show. In order to avoid suing, the Brazilians even decided not to represent the acting in the country of the acting President Michel Tombor. Despite this, some spectators nevertheless met the appearance of Toporer with a disapproving hum.

“Only [the President of the IOC] Thomas Bach was presented, and no one mentioned the Temor to avoid the choir of disapproving exclamations. There is an attempt to prevent popular indignation and in a decision not to talk about expenses for the event. When it all ends, the total cost of ceremonies at the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be called. ”

VOX: 6 winners and 5 lost at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio

The American edition of VOX dismantled the opening ceremony in the format “Winners and Losters” format. Vox notes that the ceremony was much less large than the opening of games in London and Sochi: in particular, there was only one set of scenery, and all the shifts of plans were made using projections. The main winner is the Brazil itself - the country is in a difficult economic and political situation, and the successful holding of games was in question. Nevertheless, everything went without failures, and the decision to abandon the decorations in favor of VOX projections separately calls the extremely successful course of the directors of the show Fernando Mearellisha and Daniela Thomas.

“To say that preparations for the 2016 summer Olympics caused a bad foreboding is to say nothing. Rio de Janeiro suffers from environmental pollution, ZIK virus and safety problems. Difficulties with preparing for games will probably appear in the coming days. But the opening ceremony passed without hesitation, if not more, and this will help calm the nerves. ”