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| The Olympiad rings on Tower Bridge, London |
"LONDON 2012" has come to an end, running from 27th July to 12th August. I had a ringside seat all the time that I wanted to watch the games... in front of the TV of course! I wished I was in London watching the live action, but 'live' TV coverage is just wonderful too. London, which previously hosted the games in 1908 and 1948, looked so spruced up to celebrate both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee/60-year reign as well as the Olympics.
I think we all watched the Lee Chong Wei-Lin Dan badminton final for gold... and we all felt for LCW! How we wished he could have gotten us our first gold ever! ... and we could all have celebrated with a dosh of free Baskin Robbins ice cream. But it was not meant to be... We also watched Pandelela Rinong Pamg dive to a bronze medal, well done! We are certainly proud of her and may she 'dive to greater heights'. (Or is it depths?)
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| A dejected LCW when the gold slipped away |
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| Well done, Pandelela! |
My favourite sports to watch were the athletics, gymnastics and swimming/diving. Who would want to miss seeing the fastest man Usain Bolt do his thing in both the 100 and 200 metres. The women athletes shone as well. But the 'glamour' sports of artistic and rhythmic gymnastics and synchronised swimming provided the best entertainment value (hey, even food is entertainment on TV); because to me, the former is all about 'precision dancing with apparatus' and the latter is 'precision dancing in water'.
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| The grace ... |
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| The beauty ... |
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| ... and artistry of rhythmic gymnastics |
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| The Spanish synchro swimming team |
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| Synchronised swimming duet |
The opening ceremony was quite something to watch - a dramatic presentation of Britain through the ages. Of course the 'Queen and James Bond parachuting' into the stadium was very English tongue in cheek humour. For the more slapstick but familiar, you have Mr Bean 'playing music' with the London Symphony Orchestra. The closing was less dramatic, more 'artistic'. All round, London did great in the hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games. The next Olympiad will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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| The Olympic rings at the opening |
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| The Olympic flame at the closing |
Note: All above pictures are TV grabs. Well, duh! How else could I have taken them?
The Baskin Robbins ice cream was given out for free in the end...In typical Malayisan style, people stood in line for a long period of time for ice cream...sheesh...sanggup! hahahhaah
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