8/15/08 8:20am Local Time, Broadcast Compound
As much as I hate to admit it, I think everyone around here is getting a little anxious for swimming to be over. The weather, the crowds, the running around, the bad air, the lack of sleep -- it's all starting to get to people and everyone is kind of starting to miss home. It's not that swimming isn't exciting; I mean Michael Phelps has already made history with more gold medals, and now today he has a huge challenge in front of him (2 actually) with Ryan Lochte chasing him down in the 200 IM final and a tight field in the 100 fly semi. On top of that, Aaron Peirsol and Ryan Lochte are battling it out today in the 200 back final and Rebecca Soni has a chance to dethrone the Australian "Lethal" Leisel Jones. I'm so excited to watch today!
I really haven't done much the past 2 days because I've been so tired. There was no diving yesterday so I got to sleep all afternoon in our tape library trailer. My roommate here (who's a logger on the compound) took a picture of the room I was in because there were 3 other people on the floor with me, 1 in the hammock, and 1 in a chair. As I said, people are starting to get a little tired.
Hopefully today's races will wake some people up, and tomorrow a bunch of people I work with and I are finally going to the Great Wall because swimming is only happening in the morning! Yesterday an NBC group went and the weather ended up being terrible and stormy and one of our camera guys was struck by lightning. He's fine, I guess, aside from some burns on his shoulder. It was all over the news around the IBC and eventually word got home, too, I think.
Another day of work, another day watching Olympic swimming starts now.
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I think I told you already, but lightening struck one of the robotic cameras during the beach volleyball match in the rain. It was cool, because it came back on and kept rolling.
On a separate note, aside from the obviously 10 year old Chinese gymnasts, is it just me or did the Chinese female synchro divers look like 12 year old boys? Insanely talented 12 year old boys, but 12 year old boys in girl's speedos none the less. Just a thought, lots of shady business going on over there, wanted to know if you'd seen any of it.
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