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MyrnaLynne · 08-24-2008, 06:51 AM

Watched the spectacular diving upset last night when the Australia guy beat out the Chinese from sweeping the entire diving events and getting every gold medal. I was glad he won the gold - go Oz! (but not as glad as he was - he was weeping, he was so happy/surprised). Chinese guy looked pretty stunned - they probably will march him out and shoot him or something, knowing how China operates. Boy there's a sport I could never do in a million years - do a handstand on a cement platform 3 stories high and fling myself off and do all sorts of twists and enter the wanter perfectly! No way! Couldn't even get me out there to stand on the end of that platform!

I think I saw Oz win the kayak races too.

I was rooting for the countries where my friends live, as well as the US.

I was excited that I caught some of the rhythmic gymnastics - they do all the weird stuff with a long ribbon etc. It's just so graceful and different than the running and leaping and feats of strength of regular gymnastics. They just show the same few sports over and over - swimming and more swimmimg, boxing and more boxing, running and more running.

They should give a bit more coverage of the odd bits. Like curling!

Cool about the family castles JC - we probably had some peasant cottages in Eastern Europe in our family background!

I couldn't believe jumping on a trampoline was an Olympic sport! Thought that was something kids did in the back yard. Oh well, I suppose that's what all sports are. Kids' games taken way way wayyyy too seriously.