OT - couple general Olympic thoughts
1. It's nice to know that the new, culturally confident China isn't above playing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" and other stadium anthems during breaks in the action.
2. I'm enjoying the pains to which NBC is going to downplay the more unsavory aspects of Beijing and China, and how little bits of truth occasionally leak out. For instance, during the opening ceremonies, Bob Costas went out of his way to stress how the air pollution wasn't that bad. Then today during the beach volleyball, one of the announcers said, "You know, it might be a good thing that it's raining. It'll get some of the particles out of the air." Ouch.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:07 PM ^
fake singing, fake fireworks, fake passports, fake president (ours, it's 3 am, russia is invading georgia, and our president is flirting with the women's beach volleyball team), fake crowds (paid 'fans' and 'cheerleaders').
But at least South Korea and it's 48 million people are in 3rd place after 1 week. woot?!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 AM ^
August 15th, 2008 at 4:12 PM ^
Shocker! The Beijing organizers are playing fast and loose with the facts and trying to bully reporters into submission:
You can argue that China has the "right" to do these things; I don't agree with that, but whatever. But the IOC should not be associating itself with these goons.
August 16th, 2008 at 1:51 AM ^
That's not a biased article or anything? Not saying the Chinese are doing the right thing, but I won't exactly take a reporter's scorn for its supposed truthfulness either.
For example, when Lloyd was HC, reporters wrote so much crap (mostly lies) about UM football when The Fort was on lockdown. Now that our practices are a media free-for-all, we are getting puff pieces up the wazoo. Coincidence? I don't think so.