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London Olympics game is just around the corner !  Watching Olympics game is one of our favorite things every 4 years, both Summer and Winter. It’s so exciting !  Because I think it’s a great motivation for our life to be inspired by world top athletes who have been working hard to do what they love and dream and challenge to be the world number one athletes. I love living with passion to get to our goals, no matter the result.  Another reason is we both love to see personalities through their performances.  Every Olympics, we can find a few inspiring athletes who have their original style, have strong charisma.  We are more interested to see their personality than who will win.  For summer Olympics, both of our favorite Olympics sports are gymnastics , and track & field.   Until 2004 Olympics, I didn’t realized that we can find someone who has interesting personality and originality in track & field, because unlike gymnastics and figure skating, track &

I felt complicated for the result of men‘s skating competition and we both could not sleep well that night. The actual result was  1. Evan Lysacek SP: 90.30, FP:167.37 Total : 257.67 2. Evgeny Plushenko SP: 90.85, FP: 165.51, Total : 256.36 3. Daisuke Takahashi SP: 90.25, FP: 156.98, Total : 247.23 4. Stephane Lambiel SP: 84.63, FP: 162.09, Total : 246.72 5. Patrick Chan SP: 81.12, FP: 160.30, Total : 241.42 6. Johnny Weir SP: 82.10, FP: 156.77, Total : 238.87 7. Nobunari Oda SP: 84.85, FP: 153.69, Total : 238.54 8. Takahiko Kozuka SP: 79.59, FP: 151.60, Total : 231.19 9. Jeremy Abbott SP: 69.40, FP: 149.56, Total : 218.96 10. Michal Brezina SP: 78.80, FP: 137.93, Total : 216.73 11. Denis Ten SP: 76.24, FP: 135.01, Total : 211.25 12. Florent Amodio SP: 75.35, FP:134.95, Total : 210.30 13. Artem Borodulin SP: 72.24, FP: 137.92, Total : 210.16 14. Javier Fernandez SP: 68.69, FP: 137.99, Total : 206.68 15. Adrian Schultheiss SP: 63.13, FP: 137.31, Total : 200.44 16. Brian Joubert SP:

It was so much fun to watch both men & women’s 400M X 4 relay ! After the disappointment from Jeremy’s loss in individual 400M competition, We were waiting for him coming in relay. I don’t know why, but Jeremy’s running is attractive and make me feel power and energy. He also looks cool. I love his sunglasses and shoes that are matching with US uniform. He is very unique for me, almost like an alien.  His body shape is beautiful , not too macho, and his shoulder is small compared with other runners. Many people say he is too skinny as a short distance runner. But I don’t think so. Until I found him, I’ve never recorded all the track & field , just enjoy the moment. Men’s 400m X 4 Final 1. U.S.A. ( 2.55. 39 ) LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy Wariner, 2. Bahama ( 2.58.03 ) 3. Russia ( 2.58.06 ) 4. Great Britain (2.58.81) 5. Belgium (2.59.37) 6. Australia (3.00.02) 7. Poland (3.00.32) 8. Jamaica (3.01.45) I was glad to see that Jeremy was th

1. He Kexin ( CHN )  A-score: 7.7, B-score : 9.025, total- 16725 2. Nastia Liukin ( USA )  A - score: 7.7, B- score: 9.025, total - 16725 3. Yang Yilin ( CHN )  A-score: 7.7, B-score: 8.950, total - 16650 4. Beth Tweddele (GBR) 5. Anastasiia Koval ( UKR) 6. Ksenia Semenova ( RUS ) 7. Steliana Nistor ( ROU ) 8. Dariya Zgoba (UKR) I was shocked to see the result showed He Kexin and Nastia’s was a tiebreaker but gold medal went to He Kexin. Immediately I started thinking about Johnny’s situation at last US Nationals’s tie breaker. And wonder how Johnny is feeing seeing this result. Nastia looked frustrated and disappointed after knowing this result. It’s a tie , why they don’t make a rule to give two gold medals to both of them for tie ? However, seeing all the gymnasts performances, what I thought was they should not give Nastia and He Kexin same scores, because I thought He Kexin’s was doing more difficult movements, twisted her body backwards after doing sault etc.. an

Vault Result -  1. Hong Un Jong (PRK) 2. Oksana Chusovitina (GER) 3. Cheng Fei (CHN) 4. Alicia Sacramone (USA) 5. Ariella Kaslin ( SUI ) 6. Carlotta Giovannini (ITA) 7. Jade Barbosa ( BRA) 8. Anna Pavlova (RUS) Hmm.. I felt sympathy for Alicia could not make medal for this because I thought she did better than Cheng Fei. Cheng Fei did good job in her first vault but in the second vault, she fell. And Alicia didn’t make a big mistake for both of them. It was hurt to see Alicia tears and disappointed. I would give Alicia over Cheng Fei for this. Also I felt bad for Anna Pavlova (RUS). The broadcast didn’t show her performances , and just showed only the scores and the scene Anna was talking with her coach with disappointed face. Seems like she started before the green light which showed ready sign was up and got a big deduction for it. And as a result she had disqualified for the second vault due to a false start. But it was great to see the 33 years old lady who is a

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

Skating Competition's off season is the time for me to improve whatever other knowledge I would like to learn.  Actually since I got into watching Figure skating ( Johnny Weir ), I didn’t spend much time for something knowledgeable for myself. Well, Johnny’s attraction power is like a magic, like a very powerful magnet. But at least I learned the judging rules of skating, researching skaters etc… I feel happy whenever I get new knowledge which is in a subject I love. Through my work, I have a lot of things I need to learn until everything will go smoothly. I have my personal goal in my life. And I’m still on the way to get there. I will need to 100% focus on it to quickly get there. However, Olympics will be coming this summer…. I love to watch Gymnastic especially women’s and also short and long distance running. In last Olympics, I enjoyed watching some Romanian gymnasts ( for women ) , also Carly Patterson in the U.S.A. But seems like they are not competing anymore.I’ve Ju

I've never watched men's figure skate before.  But this year , I was impressed by two men's skaters " Johnny Weir " and " Evgeny Plushenko "in preview on TV. So I was curious to see them. Johnny Weir He was the biggest impact person for me and my husband in this Olympic. When I first saw him on TV, I thought he is a Russian skater because of his classical artistic image and I couldn't believe he is from U.S.A. Later we found out he loves Russian style and his coach is a Russian lady. The music was Otonal. I like this music and that was really fit with his beautiful skate and his image.  Every detail of his performance was artistic , smooth and beautiful that brought me his romantic world.  I watched his skate over and over and never bored. I don't know why but his performance was like magic.  Normally, it's enough to see once or twice for most of the performers. My husband and I are usually easy to be bored .