My Favorite Olympics subjects

Olympics Beijing is now showing up !

The opening ceremony was just amazing ! Ray and I enjoyed every moment in it.

In some parts when huge fire works were up, it reminds me of Alfee’s summer live events.

I’ve heard that it was a Chinese top movie director who produced those settings.

I especially loved, a Chinese girl dancing on a cloth , below many guys were lifting her.

And also a Chinese lady who was doing Tai chi , her movements were like a water, and so elegant.

I usually didn’t watch Olympics opening ceremonies or I don’t remember much about that and only watching my favorite subjects without checking schedule.

But I believe this may be the most wonderful opening ceremony.

Kudos to Chinese people !

I’ve read that at a cost of over $US 370 million in front of 80 world leaders and a worldwide audience of four billion !!!

China was determined to prove that it could stage the greatest show on earth.

And seems like around 10,000 performers were taking part in the show to open the Games, which has been seven years in the planning. Seven years !!

It was also enjoyable to see many beautiful Chinese ladies in it.

Film director Zhang Yimou, whose work includes the film House of the Flying Daggers, has created a three-hour show portraying 5,000 years of Chinese history.

The lavish event was taking place amid tight security, after a series of protests and a terror attack in the Muslim region of Xinjiang earlier this week.

My favorite Olympics subjects are gymnastics, track & field. It may come from my admiration when I was a child.

I was always attracted to people who are super flexible, move artistically, and rhythmical, and great dancers, acting talent.

Also in different subject, I also admired people who can run fast.
When I was a school student, fast runners were always the hero of the sports activities in sports days.

For track & field, For long distance Marathon 42.195 km, I’m rooting for Mizuki Noguchi from Japan. I was emotional when she won it last Olympics.

She was really incredible , did wonderful job in such a tough weather and course in Greece. But seems like she is having injury with her left thigh and also she feels lower back is something wrong.

I understand that to win , they need a perfect strategy and calculation including preparation, depending on the weather, temperature, course , when to take last burst of speed etc.. plus motivation.

I found there is many drama while watching Marathon, and it’s like a life.
All the runners start running at the same time in the same place, and before get to the half way, we can already see the difference.

I wonder how many runners can get to the goal. Many of them had problems while running, and had to stop running.

Winner is always the hero .

Silver , bronze medalists are less impact.

But last Olympics, I was also surprised to see US runner finished in third, because she was far from the top running group, and she suddenly appeared at the end.

Her emotional moment in at the goal was impressive, too. “ Never give up “ is always theme of Olympics and every competitions.

I can get special power while watching Olympics.

All the Olympian athletes are amazing.

I’m also very looking forward to seeing Jeremy Wariner for 400m from the U.S.A. was very impressed with his running style last Olympics.

I don’t know why, but he was unique and I thought something interesting.

He wears sunglasses, and he doesn’t look like he is running hard, looks like he is jogging, and looks easy, and light.

So if we see only him running, it looks like a long distance running, but when we also watch his competitors and look at their faces , they all look running so hard, in pain from their effort, and running extremely fast , and yet Jeremy Wariner was always far ahead of all of those who look so hard running, while for him it looks easy.

That’s impressed me, and really curious who is this person ?

It’s mystery . I’ve heard that Jeremy’s coach is Michael Johnson who is still holds the world top record, 43.18.

Jeremy’s personal best record is 43.45. But since this year, his tough US rival appeared and he was beaten by him twice, so everyone is predicting Jeremy may not win. But I hope he will win !

Tracks & fields are always exciting to watch. It will show here on Friday.

Another interest is gymnastics,
Ray and I were watching ladies gymnastics last night. Johnny’s favorite gymnast Nastia Lukin was there.

In the US team, I thought Nastie is the most artistic and has original style. Her each pose is so artistic like art sculptures, just not so graceful otherwise.

But nowadays, since technical parts has improved and the more difficulty is required to win, it may be hard to show grace anymore.

Her looking is something very attractive, and cool with slender body and long beautiful legs. It was shame she made a mistake in landing at the end in uneven bar , but until then I thought she did great job.

We both are impressed with Russian gymnastic team more than other countries so far though. It was nice to see Anna …. ? In it. I remember her performances last Olympics. She is something cute and has own style. We haven’t seen Romanian team yet.

Last Olympics, we loved Romanian gymnasts the most. It will be shown on TV very soon.

I usually don’t watch other subjects, but this time, we were also watching swimming.

And it was very nice to watch Kosuke Kitajima from Japan has just won in the 100 m breaststroke yesterday !

I didn’t know about him but seems like he also won twice last Olympics and this time he finally broke the world record and achieved top record in the world.
Wow !

His reaction when he saw his placement after finished was funny and enjoyable. He was so fast, so while watching it, I started to shouting “ Go Kitajima, Go, Go, Go !”

And “ Yeeeeees ! “ he got it.

Ray was also glad and he was also laughing because I was too excited.

Great job Kitajima !

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