Posts tagged Olympics
Congratulations
Aug 17th
I am so proud of Michael Phelps, all he’s accomplished, and how he has handled it all. I loved watching how overwhelmed he was when he saw over 10,000 watching from the Ravens stadium in Baltimore, Phelps home town. I wish the cameras could be on him when it sinks in to him that 70 Million TV’s were tuned to NBC to watch him race. I’m not sure how many people 70 Million TV’s equates to, but there were four people and two dogs watching in our house.
Great job, Phelps. Your country More >
China, how dare you?
Aug 14th
How dare they?
China has attracted much criticism for the ways that they have masked what “Beijing is really like” by putting up a front (in some cases quite literally, see above). The girl that ’sang’ in the opening ceremonies was lip-syncing because the real singer wasn’t pretty enough for the Chinese government to put on display for the world to see. Also, over 100 restaurants in Beijing were ordered not to serve dog meat dishes during the games. Cars were ordered off the city roads for weeks prior to (more…)