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2012 Olympic Games Open with a Bang Fencer leads USA Magic finally hire New campus president new head coach weighs in on Olympics Jacque Vaughn chosen Page 4 Page 9 Volume 16, Issue 12 www.ValenciaVoice.com August 1, 2012 David Eulitt / Kansas City Star / MCT Confetti showers down on the Olympic athletes during the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, July 27. The London Games is the first modern Olympics in which women are competing in all events. 2012 Olympic games open with a bang 2012 Olympics: a historic event for women By Nobuaki Ono her country to send female Qatar, Saudi Arabia and The Yomiuri Shimbun athletes. Al Hamad said she Brunei, which had not sent Monarchy, an atmosphere of whimsy and the British people.” Ceremony emphasizes was proud to represent her female athletes to previ- party won out over pomp and circum- It was in the spirit of such generosity As cheers rang out country as a woman. ous Games for religious whimsy over solemnity stance during an Olympic opening cer- that the organizers chose not a single re- through the Olympic Sta- She was also the flag- and other reasons, to allow emony that allowed an economically be- nowned Olympian to light the cauldron dium, female athletes wear- bearer for her nation at the women to participate in the By Philip Hersh leaguered Britain to pat itself on the back. that will burn until Aug. 12 but seven ing hijabs marched in firmly first Youth Olympic Games London Games. Chicago Tribune Starting from his conviction that Brit- young athletes who embody the London holding their national flags held in 2010 in Singapore. The London Games is ain “rebooted human existence” with the Games’ idealistic motto and hope to “in- in the opening ceremony of She looked tense at that the first modern Olympics the London Games. event, and said she was in which women are com- In a city that knows how to do cer- Industrial Revolution, director Danny spire a generation.” Qatar’s flag-bearer was therefore determined to peting in all events and emony, from hoary rituals formalized Boyle called the entertainment piece of With 260 British Olympic medalists Bahya Mansour Al Hamad, smile while marching in the in which all participating in the Middle Ages to celebrating the the nearly four-hour ceremony Friday joining them, the seven young athletes 20, who competes in wom- Olympic opening ceremony. countries and territories Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last month night a “celebration of the creativity, exu- touched torches to copper petals that en’s shooting. It was the first The International have sent female athletes. partly through the Twitter feed @British- berance and, above all, the generosity of — See “Opening ceremony” on Page 2 time in Olympic history for Olympic Committee asked — MCT Campus www.ValenciaVoice.com NEWS August 1, 2012 2 Opening ceremony — Continued from Page 1 rose to form a cauldron at the center of the stadium floor. It will be moved to an- other position before the track and field events begin Friday. Before the torch arrived inside the Olym- pic Stadium in the hands of five-time Brit- ish rowing gold medalist Steven Redgrave, Boyle had leavened the proceedings in a va- riety of ways, so the ceremony took on the overall air of frivolity that usually prevails at the closing rather than the opening. The Sex Pistols’ sardonic “God Save the Queen” played in the countdown to the official start of the extravaganza _ well before Queen Elizabeth II arrived. Row- an Atkinson, aka “Mr. Bean,” hammed it up with the London Symphony Orches- tra for the “Chariots of Fire” theme and did a Rosie Ruiz turn by jumping into a car in a video send-up of the movie’s fa- mous beach running scene. The 86-year-old queen herself took part in a video skit with Daniel Craig, aka James Bond, in which she and Bond entered the stadium by “jumping” from a helicopter. The ceremony could not have been more of a contrast from that in Beijing David Eulitt / Kansas City Star / MCT four years ago, replacing Chinese milita- Drummers and volunteers perform before a scene of Industrial Age Britain during the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, July 27. ristic precision with British fancy. Hospi- tal beds for a scene honoring the National to belching smokestacks and pounding fireworks. That was followed by a long, by Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist nity and held the telecast until prime time. Health Service were rolling onto the stage music announcing the Industrial Revolu- loud tribute to British pop (done with mu- who invented the World Wide Web. While there were two solemn mo- while a children’s choir sang the British tion and the advent of modernity, with sic and video at the dizzying pace of the Part hodgepodge, part head-shaker, ments of remembrance, one for those national anthem, “God Save the Queen.” its wonder and terror. Twitter generation), Kenneth Branagh as respectful of tradition and given to irrev- killed in conflicts, neither made refer- A pastoral tableau of this “green and As actors on the stadium floor de- Caliban in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” erent pokes in the eye, all this was seen ence to the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches pleasant land,” complete with sheep, picted the forging of one ring, four others JK Rowling reading “Peter Pan,” Lord live by billions of viewers worldwide _ murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the cows, thatched-roof houses (and, on cue, floated in like UFOs, linking into the five Voldemort being conquered by a pack with the exception of the United States, 1972 Munich Olympics. a couple of brief rain showers) gave way Olympic rings and setting off a blaze of of Mary Poppinses and an appearance where NBC refused to embraced moder- — Continued on the next Page www.ValenciaVoice.com NEWS August 1, 2012 3 — Continued from Page 2 For the first time, the parade of ath- letes included a woman in every country’s team. Two of the three Muslim nations that finally included women, Brunei and Qatar, marked the occasion with female flag bear- ers. The third, Saudi Arabia, chose a man. The British team wore white uni- forms with gold trim, a touch the ancient Greeks who began the Olympics would The “I’ll Just Have One More” Martini have seen as hubris. Two-time Olympic fencing champion 3 oz. gin or vodka Mariel Zagunis bore the flag for the U.S. 1/2 oz. dry vermouth team, while Muhammad Ali, who lit the 3 olives cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 1 automobile was among the nine people who carried 1 long day the Olympic flag. Because Ali was too in- 1 diminishing attention span firm to walk half the stadium with the flag, 1 too many he waited for the others at the foot of the hill where it was raised. Combine ingredients. Drink. Repeat. Queen Elizabeth declared open the Mix with sharp turn, telephone pole. third Summer Games to be held in London, Paul McCartney led the crowd in a “Hey Jude” singalong and the world’s largest harmonically tuned bell tolled intermit- tently as the 80,000-seat stadium emptied. The only thing missing was a few choruses of “Rule, Britannia.” David Eulitt / Kansas City Star / MCT — MCT Campus Mary Poppins descended on to the stage during Opening Ceremony. Never underestimate ‘just a few.’ Buzzed driving is drunk driving. The Olympic flag is raised in Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. David Eulitt / Kasas City Star / MCT www.ValenciaVoice.com NEWS August 1, 2012 4 Female fencer leads USA in London opening ceremony New campus president legislation from 1972 which barred gen- ticipation in the games due to the So- der-based exclusions from participation viet invasion of Afghanistan, something weighs in on Olympics and benefits in educational programs and Johnson opines as a mistake, since East- activities receiving federal financial aid. ern bloc nations boycotted the Los Ange- By Fred Lambert “Title IX changed my life,” Johnson les Olympics in 1984. [email protected] said. “I was one of the first of 200 women Competing in some events in China in the state of California to get an athletic before joining the administrative side Female fencer Mariel Zagunis bore scholarship. Before that, women could of the sport to prevent future boycotts, the U.S. flag on Friday’s opening ceremo- not get athletic scholarships.” Johnson became an athlete’s representa- ny for the London Olympics, something Johnson is a two-time college cham- tive for the U.S. Olympic Committee. Valencia’s new East and Winter Park pion fencer from San Jose State Univer- “The silver lining for me in all of that campus president, Stacey Johnson, said sity, and was on the U.S. team in the 1980 was that it really made me become in- is historic for special reasons. Olympics in Moscow. Then President volved,” said Johnson. “And to represent “It’s very special,” she said. “I’ve got- Jimmy Carter boycotted American par- athletes’ rights and to try and make poli- ten emails and texts from all over the cies and get involved and become an offi- country because of this.” cer of a national governing body -- which Brian Peterson / Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT When Johnson, herself an Olympic is what you call all the different Olympic Susie Scanlan of the United States, left, faces Olena Krybytska of Ukraine on Monday, July 30.
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