What is Liu Xiang ?

Dear friends,
       
image from www.bbc.co.uk                    image from Reuters.
Well, the local audience at Bird Nest has waited this big moment : Liu Xiang in action.
Before Liu Xiang appeared, the Bird Nest Stadium was fully packed with some 91,000 spectators. After the brief appearance of Liu Xiang and his decision to quit the race, about 80% of [...]

Gold, Silver and Bronze

Dear Friends,
Olympic Game comes only once every 4 years. (So you can justifiably call your son an Olympic Son if he is born on Feb 29).
Wow ! Did you watch the Men’s 100 meter Sprint live yesterday ? That’s one of those great Olympic moment, simply mesmerizing. Usain Bolt was literally flying !

image from http://ap.google.com
Usain [...]

To tell or Not to tell

Dear Friends,

cao Lei (middle), image from http://english.people.com.cn
Gold after Gold in Olympic Women weight lifting. Definitely it is quite eye opening, since I guess most would probably think Chinese women are harding, but not super weight lifters.
Cao Lei (曹磊) captured another Gold Medal today for China in the Women’s 75Kg category Weight Lifting. She also broke [...]

Olympic 2008 : American Psyche

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image from sina.com
While most Americans continue to celebrate their hero Michael Phelps in the swimming pool, today’s other top Olympics without doubt were the Women Team Gymnastics and Cuba vs China Women Volleyball.
China’s Women Volleyball team could not close the match after winning first 2 sets, allowing the Cubans to make a very strong come back to take [...]

Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony

Dear Friends,
What caught your eyes in the 4 hour long Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony ?
Personally, apart from all the fireworks and impecular synchronised movements of hundreds and thousands of performers, I like the following three :
1. the 2008 drummers :
Simple, straight to the point, with 2008 drummers beating and moving as one. It is classical Zhang [...]