In August 2008 I ventured to Beijing to watch the last 4 days of the Olympic Games. I had an awesome time and took more than 300 photos.. Seeing that we had aimed for cheap tickets we were seated at the very back at most venues, hence the lack of high quality sport shots.. However, here are some shots showing the great atmosphere at the different competitions we went to see.
We watched the men's beach volley bronze and gold game, the second last day of track and field, as well as the men's basketball bronze and gold game. Everything was great but the basketball final was simply outstanding!
Beach volley spectators
Beach volley spectators
Beach volley spectators
Beach volley spectators
Dinner with my Beijing friend Panda...I looooove Beijing food!
Cheering for Bahamas, with Bahamas, during the men's relay competition
Cheering for Finland too (otherwise bf might get angry...)
USA winning bball gold Previous blog posts about the games:
China looks incredible; hope to visit someday. Your photos look great!
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So you saw the basketball final game!
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Did you see Kobe?
He is the best
Jason -yeah I saw Kobe... :) He was quite cool but the US-Spain game wasn't his best game, he missed a lot of easy shots... although he was still a pleasure to watch! ;) A player that shone, however, was Spain's little point guard Ricky Rubio... what a player!! Great fun to watch.
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I have followed your blog!It is just extremely attractive to me for the special viewpoints and sights in China!
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i want to travel the world so bad!! when i get older im gonna be a missionary in japan! :D
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A friend of mine who lived in China told me that Beijing was the last place you wanted to be during the Olympics. He said it was so polluted and dirty that he stayed away the whole time.
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kanmuri -dirty and polluted??
ReplyDeleteSure. but not during the Olympics? The sky was fairly blue, the traffic was much better than usual, it wasn't that 'dusty' that Beijing sometimes tends to be and the streets were super-clean as all the vendors had been chased out of town.. In my opinion it was almost TOO clean! It didn't feel like Beijing!
Wow, i remember watching the USA basketball Gold Game, and it was simply amazing, i can't imagine how much better it was to watch the game live!
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