Yesterday, just before the football match Belgium – Brazil was about to start. The anthems had been played and the referee was about to start the match.
Behind me, on row 3, a little girl asked her dad, “Which one is China?”.
note: I had promised myself that I wouldn’t write anything during the Olympics but this was just too cute.
The torch has made it to the top of the Mount Qomolangma/Mount Everest and was ignited by Norbu Zhamdu at 9:18am May 8.
It’s the first time the torch went that high. Let’s hope the rest of the journey will be in the same spirit.
Typos happen and I’m sure I have contributed many to this world, most of them online I guess. In many cases it’s just that but in some cases, like important mails for example or titles of articles I try to make sure it doesn’t happen.
Heck, I even re-read important mails to minimize the chance that an annoying mistake finds its way into my writings. It’s matter of quality control and the more important, the more scrutiny is required.
Josh from aCupofCha noticed that the English version of the Chinese Olympic Games website lacks this kind of quality control. (more…)
There was a tender and no surprise CCTV, the national broadcaster who has already the tv rights, is the lucky one.
It’s unknown who else placed bids but even if any party did I’m pretty sure it was decided beforehand that it should be CCTV to be the one to get them.
Let’s see how “digital” CCTV will turn out to be.
Source: Olympic.org
The Special Olympics in Shanghai are well on their way now and the first medal has been won on the marathon.
Some Special Olympics Stats:
When I took a taxi I noticed the driver was wearing an orange shirt instead of the standard suit and I asked him why he had changed.
“All for the Special Olympics”, he said. He also asked which attire I preferred. I must say I like the suit better.
Most bus drivers are also wearing orange this week.
It’s not the clearest picture but you can see the orange.
and even vaguer, the taxi driver’s orange shirt
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