Beijing 2008

Been in a Olympics mood lately... cos practically i'm home most of the mornings and afternoons... since the channels are free... why not just watch? haha..

But mostly watching Gymnastic... Men team finals, women team finals, men individual all-rounder finals... but missed women individual all-rounder finals today... but now it's showing on Chn U... so i'm watching it.. just that it's near to the end already... Expected Nastia LIUKIN from USA to win the medal... she's been performing very well in the team competition... Anyway other than that... she's pretty too. haha! Anyway 1st runner up Shawn JOHNSON from USA was good too... but anyway she's still young so way to go ya!

If only they compete ytd instead of today.... Men competition is so... scary. They are like performing very well at the team finals... but dunno why quite a no. of the competitors had very bad performance at the individual and they like fell off the apparatus during the competition. In the gold medal position was Yang Wei from China. He's good but i think he's not really good in all the apparatus... Or at least... high bars isn't his forte... He just went up... do a few ok-only stunts... swing and turn a few rounds and finished off... But the rest of the apparatus he was really good.. eg. the double rings. i think he looked damn cool when he's up there... And becos high bars was his last item... he was already a few points ahead of the others.. he just need to pass it safely in order to get the gold.. safely = not falling from the bars and perform at least the basic stunts they had to fulfil.

In Silver medal position was UCHIMURA Kohei from Japan. He's even cooler cos he fell from pommel horse not once but TWICE. and still can get 2nd. But his team mate wasn't so lucky... Tomita Hiroyuki fell from Rings and fell out of the medals... a pity thou cos he performed quite well in others.

Yang Wei's team mate Chen Yibing wasn't that lucky too... He finished the competition LAST! dotx. To think that i was thinking quite highly of him.. but can't blame him lah... he fell off from pommel horse which was his first apparatus... and i think thereafter all his apparatus were quite badly done except for rings.. which was his forte. I think he fell at parallel bars also which was the main reason to his injury... Cos after that he fell from high horizontal bar again and in the end didn't finish his last item which was floor. Sian-ed.. hopefully he will do well in the individual apparatus competition.

Then today i watched something SO boring!!! i.e. Lin Dan from China vs Chen Jin from China in the semi-finals for Badminton Men's singles. Wah liao.. what is there to see when they are representing the same country... Results so predicted... obviously the deemed better one had to win what... Lin Dan is supposed to be World Rank No.1 lor! So the match was plain boring cos they looked like they were practising with each other for their next match. lol. So in the end Lin Dan beat Chen Jin flat after winning 2 sets straight. They must be thinking to themselves something like 'just get it over and be done with, it a no-point match'. Lol. and I bet it was the same for Women's doubles semi-finals cos it was also China vs China. But becos of that.. Finals will be more exciting at least. Haha! Looking forward to the Men's singles final. To see Lin Dan playing against Lee Chong Wei (world rank no.2) from malaysia again. And i seriously hope that Lin Dan is able to show his power and live up to his name of being world no.1. (the last time i watch them compete during my china trip, lin lost totally and how shameful for a first in the world)

Watching repeat of Badminton Women's doubles final now... it's China vs Korea... The other Chinese team already won the Japanese team and held a bronze medal... Ok.. actually China got the gold medal already lah.. quite expected too.. i think i seem them played against each other also.

Ok... after so much on other countries... let's encourage Team Singapore!! :))) The table tennis team had been doing quite well... And truly speaking i wasn't having high hopes on Li Jiawei for Women's singles cos she always very unstable at competitions... And this is not the first time she leads in the first 2 or 3 sets and after that lost eventually. Dunno why leh... maybe her stamina not as good.. But all the best for Mixed doubles! But the other player for Women's singles didn't let the countrymen down ya... And yeah!! We are getting a medal! Finally the little red dot is making into the great nations. I'm proud of Singapore! :))) Thou the Chinese team is really like how to defeat.. but well... we'll nv know... If we clinche the Gold, it will be a further glory for the team! If not, Silver itself is enough to show the world what Singapore is capable of! Yeah.

Can somebody tell me why is it that I will feel very touched when i see the victory ceremony? And it applies to Whatever sports it is! I know it's ridiculous... and i just feel VERY happy and TOUCHED for whoever from whichever country winning the medal.. I'd probably cry when i see Team Singapore standing on the podium. lol!

Ok lah.. shall stop here.. for the moment... when there's other exciting stuff.. i'll be back. hee.