http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2007/09/sponsored-by-nike-and-nikon-where-the-power-lies/ hmmn: musings from the far east(erwood) Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:42:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2007/09/sponsored-by-nike-and-nikon-where-the-power-lies/comment-page-1/#comment-5732 kurt Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:53:17 +0000 http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/?p=618#comment-5732 Guy, if by local helper you mean one of the Japanese staff/volunteers, I didn't see that. And truth be told, I can't verify that the people I did see tossing flags were coaches, but they <em>were</em> officials of some sort with that country's delegation, I'm pretty sure about that. I think this is what got me....I mean, in the past, this sort of thing was spontaneous, some exuberant fan would thrown down a flag and the athlete would wrap himself/herself in it. These days, there's no spontaneity at all. (Not helped by press photographers yelling to the athletes to turn the flag the proper orientation!) And no subversiveness as well. I mean, can you imagine what sort of hue and cry there would have been had one of the US relay team members decided he didn't want the flag cape? Would be interesting to speculate how that would go over in post 9/11 America vis-a-vis the Smith/Carlos action of 1968. Guy, if by local helper you mean one of the Japanese staff/volunteers, I didn’t see that. And truth be told, I can’t verify that the people I did see tossing flags were coaches, but they were officials of some sort with that country’s delegation, I’m pretty sure about that. I think this is what got me….I mean, in the past, this sort of thing was spontaneous, some exuberant fan would thrown down a flag and the athlete would wrap himself/herself in it. These days, there’s no spontaneity at all. (Not helped by press photographers yelling to the athletes to turn the flag the proper orientation!) And no subversiveness as well. I mean, can you imagine what sort of hue and cry there would have been had one of the US relay team members decided he didn’t want the flag cape? Would be interesting to speculate how that would go over in post 9/11 America vis-a-vis the Smith/Carlos action of 1968.

]]> http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2007/09/sponsored-by-nike-and-nikon-where-the-power-lies/comment-page-1/#comment-5727 akikana Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:09:47 +0000 http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/?p=618#comment-5727 I may well be wrong, but on more than one occasion I thought I saw a local helper toss the relevant flag to the winning athlete rather than coaches - though perhaps this was in cases when a non-favourite bagged the kin medal. I may well be wrong, but on more than one occasion I thought I saw a local helper toss the relevant flag to the winning athlete rather than coaches – though perhaps this was in cases when a non-favourite bagged the kin medal.

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