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Breakfast is always a great time of the day for me. The hotel where I am staying here in Beijing has a delicious buffet and I have to race down there every morning in time to get seconds before it closes at 10:00 AM.
This morning, just as the hostesses were telling us, “Last Call,” my friend, Jeremy, who is our miraculous Web site guy here in Beijing, invited me to accompany him to men’s gymnastics. Because this is a popular event, we wanted to get there early enough to get a good seat in the media section of the venue. If we just want to be spectators at an event, our press badges will get us in, but the seats fill up fast with the thousands of credentialed journalists here for the games. The badges will get us in - except if a guy by the name of Michael Phelps is in house and in the water. Forget it. You better have a paid ticket, or you watch it on television.
Jeremy and I scurried through the halls, up the stairs and spotted two really good seats. We sat down just at the moment the predominately Chinese audience erupted into a harmonious chant for their athletes. If you’ve been watching the games, you know they are good.
The Rings…
(Pictured: Korea)
Pommel Horse...
(Pictured: U.S.A.'s Jonathan Horton)
Floor...
(Pictured: China)
Parallel Bars
(Pictured: Italy)
This morning, just as the hostesses were telling us, “Last Call,” my friend, Jeremy, who is our miraculous Web site guy here in Beijing, invited me to accompany him to men’s gymnastics. Because this is a popular event, we wanted to get there early enough to get a good seat in the media section of the venue. If we just want to be spectators at an event, our press badges will get us in, but the seats fill up fast with the thousands of credentialed journalists here for the games. The badges will get us in - except if a guy by the name of Michael Phelps is in house and in the water. Forget it. You better have a paid ticket, or you watch it on television.
Jeremy and I scurried through the halls, up the stairs and spotted two really good seats. We sat down just at the moment the predominately Chinese audience erupted into a harmonious chant for their athletes. If you’ve been watching the games, you know they are good.
The Rings…(Pictured: Korea)
Pommel Horse...(Pictured: U.S.A.'s Jonathan Horton)
Floor...(Pictured: China)
Parallel Bars(Pictured: Italy)
High Bar (Pictured: Jonathan Horton, U.S.A.)
And Vault
(not pictured)
My favorite is the rings. It is absolutely stupefying the strength that it takes to perform and the guys do it with such ease.
It was also a lot of fun to try to read the results board in Chinese. Can you pick out the U.S.?
Peace,
Shaun
nice info....with your blog..
keep it up..
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Hehe, trick question - the US isn't listed on that results board!