Sorry for the lack of actual "Beijing" pics...i figured I took enough/spoke about it enough in the blog entries from last year that it was not necessary this year. One thing I did want to note that I dont think I did before is big brother has done a remarkable job sweeping up the beggers, homeless, and ripoff DVD shops that were all over last summer. There used to be TONS of bootleg dvd shops all over the place but now the few that exist have gone "legit", i.e. non bootleg DVDs. Unless, you know to how to ask them...in which case, as what happened at one place, they opened a secret door behind a bookcase to get to a secret bootleg room! I love it.
Another packed day at the track, the main events being the 4x100 (with no U.S. teams in it, but a potential Jamaican world record with Bolt and his teammate former WR record holder Asafa Powell in it), and pole vault. I had pretty cool seats right in front of the long jump pit though, check out this video (I have a special affinity towards the long jump, was 8th grade conference champion!):
Men's 4x400 prelim video, which the US men predictably dominated (lets hope so since we got gold, silver, and bronze in the individual 400). Can you believe those seats???:
Did not get many pictures this night, but the Jamaican's killed the WR thanks to a dominating 3rd leg by Bolt. Bryan Clay of the U.S. won the Decathlon, which was extra cool b/c i was sitting directly behind his family - how much fun would that be to have a family member get a gold in the Olympics?? (Teresa and Angela, I still love you).
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