My Review Of The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
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2008-08-25 01:01:30 US/Pacific
Opening ceremonies. Incredible. Thousands of volunteers in the arena wearing colorful outfits. Will we find the outfits in Wal Mart stores here in the States?
Americans dominate swimming. Someone won eight gold medals. I can't remember his name. Michael-something. If only NBC mentioned his name every 4 minutes instead of every 5 minutes I might remember.
Americans and Chinese dominate gymnastics. Millions of Chinese kids, now 8-10 years of age and inspired by the 2008 Chinese domination, will dominate the 2012 Summer Olympics when they turn... 16?
Speaking of gymnastics, they'd be a lot cooler if the IOC could somehow integrate hungry crocodiles.
Americans and Jamaicans dominate Track & Field. Question: if swimmers can have races in four different types of strokes, can't sprinters have races in four different types of runs? I want to see the 4x100 meter bear crawl.
Chinese dominate Ping Pong. OK, I really enjoyed watching the Ping Pong finals. I admit I don't really understand the rules. About the only thing I was certain of was a Chinese person would win the gold. And the silver.
Americans dominate team sports. Except Men's Soccer. Where each team can have two specialty players. Other nations bring specialty players like Ronaldhino. The Americans bring specialty players like... Brian McBride?
Closing ceremonies. The opening ceremonies, with the computer-generated fireworks and the 100-foot projected Blue Screen of Death, were much cooler. Speaking of death: Jimmy Page? It's a good thing a bus drove him in to the arena, because I don't think he could have walked it.
Pulled eFingers: |
steve — 2008-08-26 23:42:46 US/Pacific —I was very impressed with all of the venues and facilities that the Chinese built for the Olympics using American money and technology. Beating us at our own game, pun intended. |
Mom — 2008-09-09 10:24:17 US/Pacific —Oh...don't pick on the Elderly, we really can not help but be feeble and slow, not to mention slow and feeble minded. Poor Pitiful Jimmy Page...! |
ngan — 2008-09-15 22:02:10 US/Pacific —The name you're looking for is Phelps. Michael Phelps! |
Stacey — 2008-09-22 15:12:23 US/Pacific —I had a dream about you last night. It didn't involve porn. |
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