She's been around, she's just very quiet. Diamondais is or was back for a bit too

I fell asleep for the later half of the entrance parade thing because it was like eleven, but Mom shook me awake for the torch itself. The torch was pretty, and the way it was lit was unexpected (whee, fuse!) but the relay itself was a bit bland.

Most favourite part: the performance and the special effects.
Least favourite part: the song. Seriously, what?

Olympics?

World peace, international cooperation, ageless traditions....

Swimmers in the tiniest speedos imaginable.

Oh yes.


(don't forget the gymnasts. They may be 5 feet tall...but those arms. Sexy)

I thought that was great and an awesome cap to a super awesome ceremony. The way the dude 'ran' along the screen at the top of the stadium to light the torch, with images from the relay following him, it was really cool. In my opinion, of course.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that.

Some of those female delegates?

Mm-mm.

Can anyone find the opening ceremonies on the net now? My google skills fail at recent events.

Beach Volleyball

I’m really surprised how dominating the Chinese team is. Especially that 22 year old, Tiny. He’s a force.

so, any -streaming- videos of the opening games? this 4gb video is taking its time

I'm watching the US vs China in Water Polo at the moment. The Olympics are the only time I ever see anyone playing water polo. I'll never understand it, but it's funny to watch. I'd drown after about five minutes of trying to play it! We're winning 6 to 3 at the moment though, so yay!

There was a great big crash and pile up in the women's cycling road race when a Korean chick slid off the road, into the gutter beside the road and took out like twenty people on the way. Poor thing, got up and started peddling again, but she's all limpy doing it.

And the winner of the road race was so excited it was awesome! I think she hugged anyone who got close enough, no matter who they were! I think the announcer said her Gold was the first medal for Great Britain, so congrats, Brits!

Damn... that poor little Chinese girl fell right off the uneven bars. I feel so bad for her!

And WTF is up with the US chicks on the floor landing over a foot out of bounds with both feet?

And one of the US girls fell off the uneven bars too. And another one landed on her back on the dismount. Poor Team USA.

Pie

Poor Team USA? They failed horribly. There's no excuse for more than 1 member of the team to pull off some of the errors they did.

I hope China wins

I watched tennis at the stadium today. It was amazing. I've never seen anyone move so fast!

They were so awesome! So awesome!

I did think that Phelps's suit was gonna come off while he was doing his victory screaming though. I kept waiting and waiting and was sadly disappointed when it stubbornly stayed up.

Meanwhile, China is destroying everyone in terms of gold medals and whatnot.

Yep, thats what happens when you kidnap the judges families

Yeah, they've got 9 golds so far (as of 8/11 at 9pm Beijing time anyway). The next highest amount being South Korea with 4. But the US is only two behind in overall medal count - 12 to China's 14. So I don't consider it a wash at all.

With the reports of the housing they tore down with not enough reinbursement to the displaced and farmers being banned from using water for their crops( if they dont get enough precipitation the situation for many will be dire) so that the Olympics can have fountains I couldnt bring myself to watch any of it.