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I'm up with a sick cat and starting to hallucinate with fatigue. A perfect time to blog about watching vast amounts of sport.

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Coming soon, I promise.

I liked the opening ceremony though, to the point where I wasn't thinking about logistics; I was simply enchanted. Nice job Canada.
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No pandas or dragons (although I'll grant you I've not seen the first half hour yet) but this gem of translation from one of the endless "pop songs":

"Let the whistle of pigeons rise and fall"

Okaaaaaay.

We've seen the Chinese Hi-5. I wonder if we'll get the Chinese Wiggles. There's the Red Wiggle, and the Red Wiggle, and the Red Wiggle, and another Red Wiggle. And Comrade Panda-sword.
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I'm enjoying the rhythmic gymnastics tonight (thank you SBS for an actual chunk of coverage). The skill, the costumes, the bendiness... but I can't help but think during the clubs routine that you wouldn't want these girls to be air traffic controllers.

Wow

Aug. 20th, 2008 10:24 pm
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Mr Bolt casually winning the 100m was one thing to see, but Bolt trying hard in the 200m was something else again. Beautiful. I'm so glad I caught that.
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Has just won a 200m semi-final of some sort at an absolute canter. Looked like he was out for a jog.
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When a highly trained athlete is unfortunate enough to suffer a fall in the medal round of a specialist event requiring perfection in strength and agility, please do not comment that he has fallen "on his little French bottom".
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If an international dressage horse "looks like Pepe Le Peu" during an extended trot, that's a *bad thing*.

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In the great tradition of Olympic mascots I find the current batch largely incomprehensible, even though I read a detailed article about their genesis. Who can spell design by committee, boys and girls? I think they represent War, Famine, Pestilance and Pandas.

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Some bright spark in the media changed the rules of dressage scoring today.

A minor Olympic whinge, and I talk about other stuff I did today )
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* Not all Finns are Flying. Some are no doubt fat, feisty, floppy, furious and/or fabulous.

* Don't mention the war. Any war.

* Don't make fun of large/tall/fat/short/pale/dark athletes. It's rude.
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Yes, it's still a work in progress, but at time of writing we're down to the boring how-bad-are-the-uniforms and let's-patronise-the-tiny-country-with-three-althletes-who-don't-have-a-hope-in-hell bits.

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