Olympic Blog Day 2

Sunday (Monday in China) I am contemplating changing my day to match Beijing time, since so many of the events are live on tv after midnight. Really enoyed the women's field hockey where the US tied favored Argentina 2-2. It started at 5 or 6 in the morning, so I think I was one of the few to partake.

Coolest event to be in if I had the talent? Cycling road race!! Riding through the capital past the Olympic venues, Tianamen Square, the Forbiden City and to the Great Wall! Awesome...literally. They said it took 20 centuries to build the great wall!!! Feel free to add a comment on what event you would choose.

Noticing that many events have a lot empty seats even though this is considered a very well attended first few days. I hope Chicago gets the Games because I plan to have my butt in a lot of the seats in 2016. Some events are TOTALLY sold out, like all of the USA men's b-ball games. It seems President Bush and the Chinese Party Chairmen were two of the few lucky winners of the lottery to get tickets to the US-China men's basketball game.

Top 11 update: Noticing several attractive Russian girls this year, but someone forgot to send a memo to their women's "indoor" volleyball team. North Korean soccer is another team that will not be called upon as a supplier to my list. One possibility is Chinese "beach" volleyballer Xue (pronounced Schway) Chen. Can hear Mike Myers as Wayne (from Wayne's World) watching the games when Garth sees a great shot and exults "Awesome, No Way!" and Wayne retorts "Schway!"

Best event to watch: My family leaning to the "extended walk" portion of the dressage competition. Just kidding. We thought they were taking a break!

Worst announcer (so far): Andrea Kremer at the swimming venue. When she is not insulting the athletes or pointing out the tiniest flaws, she can only come up with the question "how do you feel right now?" Seriously?? This is the best NBC could come up with at one of the major venues? And when one of the male swimmers defended his sub-par prelim time (which still qualified for the next round) by saying "this is a poker game and I am still holding all of my cards close to my vest," her comeback is " I don't know how to play poker, so can you tell me what you are going to do?" You have got to be kidding!!

Anyway...another good day at the Games. Still not sure about the "hug-meter". One last question for you devoted readers: Name a men's sport that is dominated by teenagers in this Games? See you tomorrow.