Hughesyâs opening monologue is going to have a field day! 
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Interesting thought that a developing country and a medium sizedl town by Australian population standards could host such an event. Did you know Birmingham have picked 2022 because Durban in South Africa was deemed unfit after they had been awarded the games?
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Is this 2018âs Yasminâs Getting Married moment? Universal Panning?
Is NEP producing that one?
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Hambantota is the home town of then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, and their games bid relied on financial and infrastructure investment from China. Now the country has been forced to give up assets in that particular town to the Chinese, because they pork barrelled that town into debtâŚ
So no guarantees Sri Lanka would have been able to do any better, if anything they would have experienced the post games low that many cities experience (and which the Gold Coast has done its best to avoid).
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1041438/game-of-loans-how-china-bought-hambantota
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Perhaps Nine News Brisbane can use their promo for tomorrow night to cover the closing ceremony as well as their original story.
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I might be in the minority, but I didnât think the Opening Ceremony was anywhere near as bad as tonightâs Closing Ceremony.
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After a great Commonwealth Games, the biggest letdown was tonightâs disaster.
Well done to Joh and Bas telling audiences it was beyond our control not to show the athletes entering the stadium
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Opening was a bit slow in parts, but it was cohesive.
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I find it ridiculous how networks pay so much for the rights and they donât get a say to what they show or goes to air.
NEP and the Commonwealth Games Committee are a utter joke. They should be shamed of themselves.
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Basil and JOhanna not happy about this closing ceremony. This shouldnât have happened and I think mr peter Beattie should apologise on this acts. It was much worse than the acts of glasgow 2014 opening ceremony
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Absolutely (and somebody from NEP too).
They shouldnât be disgruntled with Seven tomorrow morning, THEY should be apologising - to everybody.
Cluster fuck.
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Thanks for the background. Sounds like what we heard about Vanuatu. Sri Lanka would make a strategic naval base in the Indian Ocean.
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Joh & Bazzaâs rant shown as-is on delay in WA.
I agree, if they really wanted to get the athletes into the stadium early to make things quicker and easier so be it, but they still could have done something to acknowledge them. I missed the introduction, but everyone in my house spent most of the ceremony wondering when the athletes were going to come in, not realising that they were already there.
There was barely any acknowledgement of the athletes at all - it could easily have been mistaken for just being a generic concert. And that Kiwi bloke who got the David Dixon award - that was rushed that the audience was just left wondering what had happened - no real explanation of the award or how he came to be awarded it.
They got so caught up trying to make a point about reconciliation and #metoo that they forgot about the sport.
The hightlight of the night for me was the cross to Birmingham - it was colourful and something different. And all in one continuous shot using a drone!
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I thought the #BRUM sequence was great, at least they chose ELO who are from there.
However I canât help but feel they pinched the idea from somewhereâŚ
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New school term in Qld starts Tuesday. Students have to day off today (Monday) as all of the school bus services return to their bases across the state.
As someone who enjoyed the Opening Ceremony, the Closing Ceremony was better purely because of the visceral fucking rage it has managed to illicit. Delicious.
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