Olympics

In honor of the Olympics, the 2008 mascot

The last few weeks, Alvin and I have been watching Olympics at night. After a while, I noticed that what we view on prime time in China is very different from what we view on prime time in the states. First, a big chunk of the viewing time is spent on table tennis and badminton. One foreigner friend here, also commented on how a lot of shooting and archery is also shown. This is because there is a lot of medals won by China in these sports. There was some swimming shown, but mostly it was when China won a medal. There was also a lot of diving and some individual event gymnastics. I still haven't seen the women's all-around for gymnastics (which I still want to watch). I heard it was played in the middle of the night.

 The last few days of the Olympics (which included mostly track and field), the sports channels were not playing new footage, but just old footage of when China won medals. I have always been easily moved to emotions by the commentators, but once or twice when the Chinese announcers got really excited, I was moved to tears by the excitement. I had to remind myself a couple of times that I root for USA.

 Still, it was fun watching the Olympics. I wish I could see which US athletes were getting profiled in the states, but now at least I know all about the ping pong gold medal winners.