Olympics, part 2

Mixed feelings. One, they actually ARE showing some of the 'lesser' sports. I caught the finals of the womens archery (Korea over China using such hi-tech gizmos that can hardly be called bows. With all that technology, why didn't they shoot better. I've seen better shooting from longbows, and these cultures practically invented archery!). They showed the final of the womens sabre fencing, and then the bronze medal match. US swept all three medals. Wife even caught the Dressage (horse parading and posing) competition, but was hoping to see the jumping instead. No luck there. But now we're into the swimming phase so we get to see the preliminaries and the finals of each event. Ditto with the gymnastics. The only excitement was in watching how the US women clutch and stumble under the pressure (which they're doing in SPECTACULAR fashion. One went out of bounds on the floor, one fell off the un-even bars, one fell off the balance beam and also fell in the floor excercise.)

Stories are coming out now of the fraudulent nature of the opening ceremony. Those much-hyped firework 'footsteps' proceeding from downtown Beijing to the suburban Olympic stadium were revealed to be COMPLETELY COMPUTER GENERATED. They never existed.


The cute little girl who sang "Ode to the Motherland" at the ceremony was actually lip-synching! The photos have now come out of the less photogenic real singer of the song. Story here.

Makes you wonder about anything we saw on TV of the ceremony at all. Did it really happen at all?