The Olympics : Where did all the time go ?

We've been watching the olympics pretty religiously (actually more than religiously - haven't been to a temple in more than a year:). We saw:

1. Nastia Liuken win the all-round gold
2. Yang Wei win the all-round gold 
3. All of Phelps' gold medals : including 'The touch'
4. Walsh-Treanor win the beach volleyball gold
5. Brasil win the women's volleyball gold : As an example  of the american bent of the reporting - it's really hard to find a good picture of the team. Instead here is a picture of Kimberley Glass.
6. Bolt win three golds - he's so much faster than the rest of the field it's awesome! They actually complained because he had time to showboat before the end. In the 100ms. He had time to spare in the shortest race on earth!
7. Shawn Johnson win the gold on the balance beam - it was amazing to see her smiling through all the close losses (for silver - which isn't so bad if you think about it) - so it was nice that she finally got one!
8. The Chinese Team win the team gold (women's). The americans really should stop complaining about how young these girls are. They are amazing nonetheless. Huang Xu, Chen Yibing, Li Xiaopeng, Xiao Qin, Yang Wei, Zou Kai

The Olympics : China's coming out party (and where's India?)

We saw bits and pieces of the olympic ceremony - beautiful, astounding, amazing. I'm still looking for a high res video to see the parts we missed. I think that there is no doubt about which country is going to be the next great superpower.

And it isn't going to be us.