Watching the Olympics

Now I know why I didn't get into watching the Olympics in Canada, the broadcast sucked. Here, man, LIVE coverage of every sports non-stop from sun up to sun down! Not just TV broadcasting, the CCTV has over 8 channels for different sports and then LIVE streaming via its Internet website - fast and very high resolution. Maybe SlackTel should get someone over here to "learn".

I did not know how exciting it was about the Olympics until now. Maybe just the atmosphere with Olympics in China, or just breathing too much of the pollution in the air. Haha. The quality of play with the athletes and all those close up shots of athletes in play, man, you know it was tough. One thing I noticed was CCTV had no bias of coverage. Not like the Americans or the Canadians. I saw all sports and all athletes competing. As a matter fact, at some time we found it difficult to "locate" the Chinese athletes performing. Go figure.

Saw the swimming finals yesterday; glad to see the Canucks were in the Finals but disappointed in the performance. It seemed the athletes were just going thru the motions swimming lanes vs as "give it all the best". From the TV screen, I saw the top athletes swimming fast and furious, and the Canucks doing their own things. The stroke rate was slow compared to the others. So, was it a race or a leisure swim? I didn't understand.

Not sure why the track and field people decided on using Singapore as a base. The weather in Singapore the last week was so nice and mild compared to the heat in Beijing, I am afraid the "climatization" maybe faulty. It was cool in Singapore compared to Beijing. We shall see next week when the track and field begins.