Wanbao: Yet Another Win for China
It looks like the PRC has captured gold again: the big pic shows artistic gymnastics becoming Gold Territory for China, once again.
Elsewhere in the capital...
• No-one's trashing the Olympic stadia: 70% of all trash is recycled, and all trash cans are cleaned every 30 minutes. Green Olympics is no longer confined to the realms of officialspeak: it's reality.
• Pingpong, badminton: the whole thing's all the rage tomorrow, and it's taking place in northwestern Beijing's Zhongguancun. We sugest you take Line 10 instead of trying to squash your way in by car, even with the odd/even restrictions in place.
• Getting no mileage? The Wanbao people are thinking if you could get somewhere faster in Beijing -- by taking side roads and secondary access routes instead of crowding on all these ring roads...
• Someone left their mobile phone in a taxi. No sweat: the cab driver returned the phone to its owner after 7 hours in the dark. It belonged to a Hungarian taxi rider -- who was more than all too happy to be reunited with his phone!
Less rain, but more clouds, 22°C - 30°C.
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Any they still suck at team sports, note the collapse against cuba in women's volleyball
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Rowing hasn't handed out any medals yet either, so it's a bit early to judge their success there, although the fact that they qualified 11 boats is pretty impressive.
And they won three medals in the pool today.
So far it seems Project 119 is doing what it set out to do -- beat the US in the gold medal standings.
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It seems that despite the efforts of Project 119, the Chinese are still winning their traditional sporting events at the Olympic Games. According to MSNBC.com, of the 27 medals China has accumulated for these Games, only two have come from swimming (one of the three sports the Chinese emphasized with Project 119). They've not won any in rowing, and track and field events have not started.