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[The Olympic Spirit]
Monday, August 30, 2004
Monday, August 30, 2004
Athens 2004. In the True Spirit of the Games.
After 15 days of all those medal chase, we finally arrive at the last 16th day, and will be biding goodbye to the flame in say 1++hour. Wow! that's fast for the Olympics that comes only once in 4 years. The next time we see the flame again will then be in 'BeiJing 2008'. Far isn't it. Come to think of it, they spend so much time and money on security and the stadium just for 16 days??!! Gosh, anyways it seems that the swimming complex was not even completed in time for the olympics and the security was not great despite the amount of money pumped in. Ah! however everything seems great if you watch the games at home. :P Watch quite some events like Cycling, Athletics, Gymnastics etc. Favourites: Syncronized swimming! The swimmers were great, the formation or what you call that were superb. Every movement was perfectly executed. Guess they have a hard time underwater yeah? All those pretty movements comes really with hard work. They practice for about a year plus just for 4 mins to give their best and of course to win a medal back home. Oh! The Russians were fantastic, man they really deserved the Gold medal. :D
Seems like Singapore did not win anything back in the end. It was so near yet so far for some of our athletics like Lee Jia Wei and maybe Ronald Susilo yeah. Anyways they gave their best. Maybe we can actually win something back in BeiJing 2008? Keep your fingers crossed yeah. Some like Ronald and Lee Jia Wei shot to fame due to the games though.
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Please support and visit the site as it seems that the sponsers had spend quite abit in maintaining this site. Yupz, the Americans are still currently leading in the 'Medals Table' with G:35 S:38 B:29 followed by China G:32 SL17 B:14. Seems that its still the big and powerful countries that are leading in the games. Yeah. Lastly a quote by Natalia LAVROVA (RUS) - Rhythmic Gymnastics, Group All-Around, gold medallist: "It was very difficult, but we made it, because we are united as a team and tied by friendship".
