didn't see much olympics this few days.
but add the following events to the "memorable events" list:
women's gymnastics.
for the team event, china won the US
...
didn't like that -.-
as for singles,
liukin> shawn johnson > china girl
i had wanted shawn to win actually,
cos she has so much sportsmanship.
the best i have seen yet,
you just...feel good watching her.
cheering her teammate who accidentally fell on the beam ( during the team event )
then congratulating her opponents during the singles event.
i like her cute toothy grin too.
i hope she wins in the years to come..
US dominated basketball games again.
was this today? cant recall.
anyway i remember watching germany's ping-pong men team play against japan.
there was this german couple the camera focused on.
during the break, the guy started cheering " Go Dimitrij "
and his wife shouted the reply " Jhia (2) you (1) "
i knew it was her from the accent of those words.
looked so cute together, cheering lonely, yet so proudly.
the chinese supporters helped them cheer as well later on :D
watching this game also changed my stereotype of only china people will take up a professional career in ping-pong o.o
as in all the players in the germany team are local germans.
i like the dimirtrij guy too, he had this unorthodox serve method.
refreshingly unique.
i was flipping channels and i saw the ending of the match between italy and belgium.
last 15-20 minutes or so.
i think it was yesterday.
italy scored a penalty.
a few minutes after that, a belgium guy ran, twist, twist, 1-2 pass, twist and shot.
he scored and after the goal replays, i saw the funniest thing.
a belgium player picked the ball and celebrated.
after that he threw the ball back...
..which coincidentally hit the italy's goalkeeper right in his head.
hahah
the complete innocence of that belgium player when that goalkeeper lunged and brought him down after that added to the funny factor. 8D
the goalkeeper went on to strangle another guy later on too.
jeez, all over a misunderstanding.
there was also another funny incident in the hockey match between great britain and canada today.
a great britain player was trying to steal the ball from a canada player.
he was so so aggressive that the canada player lost his balance and half-fell on the britain guy's back.
of course, the britain guy got called by the referee for a stick check.
THEN, with the canada guy still over his shoulder, like a sack of rice, he stood up and threw the canada guy behind and onto the floor.
like some kind of crazy rugby tackle..
..in hockey.
ridiculously foolishly funny.
Usain's Bolt run.
or Usain Bolt's run.
they mean the same thing anyway.
it seemed so easy...
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damn cool name by the way - Bolt.
phelps did it.
wow.
eight.
that should be unsurpassed in the next 5 decades at least.
what most people, i think, is admire how fast he is or something superficial.
what they should appreciate instead is his consistency, and the mental and physical toughness and tiredness he has to endure in his total 17 races.
that's truly remarkable!
last but not least, singapore's silver medal!
yay!
i didn't see much of the semi-final.
i came back at about 2.30 on friday.
read the papers that singapore was playing.
watched a little but i left the house about 3.
i watched only the last set of feng tianwei's game and first set of li jiawei's game, to be exact.
when i came back and showered, it was about 6 plus.
Randomly switched on the tv again and saw the last five points in the last game,
which feng won.
haha
i saw zixiang and pao jung in the saturday's TODAY paper and today's 9.30 channel 5 news.
:D
then there was the final today, which they lost.
but good job anyway!
a long time since i posted ( right? can't remember but i think so )
and i really shouldn't be posting but nevermind.
anyway, there's the OLYMPICS and SINGAPORE's BIRTHDAY.
for the latter, HAPPY 43rd BIRTHDAY + 3 DAYS SINGAPORE.
woohoooo.
nothing else to say since i didn't have tickets to watch the parade.
and what free time i had on that day that could be spent on watching the parade at home was not spent on that, nor on the other obvious choice of school work, but on the olympics. ( come to this later )
in my honest opinion anyway, the NDP's are getting crappier year by year.
i was at the last NDP parade at the kallang stadium and was glad to be there.
great atmosphere, lively crowd and such.
and these days, it is held at the stupid marina place which is so small and unsuitable to me.
maybe a modern and fancy image to organisers but...
having so many people going crazy in the stadium is the real cool.
and leave the national day songs to kit chan please,
i still can remember certain lyrics from her "home" and "where i belong" songs.
not like hady's "shine for singapore" song which the only words i can remember from the song are "shine", "for" and "singapore" ._.
coming to OLYMPICS
okay i saw almost everything that have taken part these few days.
all the swimming heats, semis and finals
some hockey matches from both male and females.
beach and indoor volleyball.
basketball.
weightlifting ( very boring to me hahaha )
gymnastics
diving
handball
tennis
boxing
opening ceremony
some scenes i loved were:
the Argentinian female hockey team with some of them wearing striking pink shoes.
the b-ball match between NZ and SPAIN and when one of the kiwis fooled the line ref into giving her the ball for a throw in when it should be given to spain instead as the kiwis threw it out of bounds. very evil, very sweet. was laughing my ass then.
today, in the men's team all around gym finals. alexander artemev on the pommel horse. twisting and spinning like crazy, damn nice.
US men owning China's ass in b-ball, esp late into the game
can't bring to mind the others... ><
but the last i can remember and the best as yet. PHELPS and his expression after the 4x100m win
HAHA if you saw his expression in the live telecast just after the race, you will be treated to scenes of "YEAH YEAH YEAH" from him
fuck, i absolutely loved it. i was like, shit! when the commentator said alain bernard was the french anchorman during the 3rd leg with the french leading with a half body length at the 275m mark; cause alain's fast in the 100m. then, lezak managed to own alain's ass in the 4th leg, i was pleasantly surprised. PHELPS can continue his quest for eight and judging from his reaction, i bet he badly wanted eight as well or he wouldn't be so glad to have won this >.>
grats TAO LI as well, so pro, as in really.
i mean, people don't really know how hard it is right, shaving time off from your best.
most people just accept that yes, tenths and hundredth of seconds shaved off is actually a lot though it seems very little.
but the fact is it is VERY LITTLE.
its just that it is much harder to shave off that very little amount than what people think
the best way to really understand is if you experience and time yourself.
i better study from today onwards, i got reminded that i forgot to do an online MOV test today.
can't watch too much.
good luck all OLYMPIANS
