Posts by Bob Munro
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I've been really enjoying the Reuters reporters blogs, which cover a lot of this territory too.
Photographer Lucy Nicholson was up in the rafters of the Bird's Nest during the opening ceremony -
From BBC.
"US swimmer Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympic athlete in history, winning his 10th gold medal with victory in the 200m butterfly.
Phelps claimed his fourth gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and 10th of all time in a world record of 1:52.03.
The 23-year-old beat Hungary's Laszlo Cseh and Japan's Takeshi Matsuda."
Burmester was 4th equal after leading first 50m and always in contention. Great swim.
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I was just watching Burmester pipped for a medal in a time of 1:54.35, a New Zealand and Commonwealth record on the TVNZ third stream and have just discovered the actual TV feed failed and on one watching TV saw the race.
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Weirdly, over at The Hive, which normally doesn't get many comments there are lively discussions by people who seem to have a stake in all this. Even comments in what I assume to be Russian?
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My Dad, who was at the 1976 Olympics, who had friendly rivalry with the Canadian he was staying with over whose team would perform better, tells a story of the day he was able to inform his mate that New Zealand had won 11 gold medals in a single day ... our hockey team had triumphed :-)
We beat Australia in the final. There was a lovely photo from Whenuapai in the paper next day with an Australian Air Force plane being guided to a stop by a man with crossed hockey sticks.
Downside. The Africans (including Iraq!) stayed away because of us.
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But is he the greatest Olympian of all time?
Apart from Zeus himself of course, I should think Steve Redgrave would be in the frame?
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Look at Phelps at the end of the 200m freestyle.
Gold in World Record time. It's like 'Is anyone else going to join me at this end of the pool?' -
Thanks very much to Russell and the people and links on PAS for helping to make sense of the multitudes of points of view of China in the lead up to the games. It's helped me a lot to get some understanding. There are myriads of views.
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The New York Times has a long list of recent articles on a variety of China topics on the eve of the Olympics. I particularly enjoyed the one on the
architectural merits of the Birds nest stadium. -
Yes what a great piece by Gordon Campbell. It was so authoritative I started to believe it was me who had the dates wrong until I double-checked the Calendar. :)