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Beautiful! Amazing! Moving!
Just great, a wonderful end to a fantastic two weeks :)
And once again I am a wreck from the final montage. It gets me everytime :(
The weekend has been insane so I will catch up on things tomorrow!
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>>>>> Olympic Trivia of the Day: Not many know the story of Lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian rower competing in the Finn (dinghy) class in the 1988 games in Seoul. On that fateful day Lemieux performed an incredible act of bravery. The winds had picked up, and the water became exceedingly choppy. Lemieux was in second place during his race when he saw two sailors from the Singaporean team in another race fall into the water. Lemieux rowed over and rescued the sailors, hauling them into his small boat. Though he was out of contention, he finished his race after an official boat picked up the sailors. But the Olympics committee awarded him an honorary second-place finish. IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said, "By your sportsmanship, self-sacrifice and courage, you embody all that is right with the Olympic ideal." Lemieux was not a big name, but his act of bravery brought honor to the Games.
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How hard was it watching Alicia Sacramone last night? I don't even mean when she messed up on vault but after when she was trying so hard to hold it together and then she fell again on floor. And I bet she appreciated NBC sticking the camera in her face when she was trying not to cry, sheesh. I'm not sure that the US would have been able to take gold over China even if they'd been dead on in their final events but still, it sucks when it feels like you lost rather than the other team just happened to win. Silver is amazing but it just stinks that it all kind of fell on her shoulders :/
>> Phelps becomes the winningest Olympian in history with 11 gold medals
>> Spitz miffed over Beijing snub
>> The loneliest sport in America
>> Memmel reveals broken ankle
>> Lochte set to face Phelps, Peirsol; Beard fails to make finals
I think gymnastics starts at 11 tonight which I'm happy about because then hopefully they'll show the 200m backstroke semifinals with Lochte and Peirsol. That is going to be a sweet final tomorrow night. I hope they go 1-2 but who knows which way!
>>>>>Olympic Trivia of the Day: The "Blood In The Water" match was a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and is arguably the most famous match in water polo history. The match, which happened on December 6, 1956, was played out against the background of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and saw Hungary defeat the USSR 4–0. The name was coined by the media after Hungarian player Ervin Zádor emerged from the pool during the last two minutes in the game with blood pouring from under his eye after being punched by a Soviet player.
The weekend was pretty good, it felt really long for some reason which was nice. On Saturday I kept thinking it was Sunday and then would get excited when I'd remember I could sleep in the next day. Yesterday was my friend's birthday so I went with her and a few others to an 18+ casino nearby. We had a good time, didn't spend too much money, and grabbed dinner before so it was a fun night :)
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Hahaha, snagged this from
>> Hansen misses medal in 100m breaststroke I felt so bad for him, his rivalry with Kitajima was supposed to be this big thing but Hansen has been wicked off, poor guy :/
>> US basketball favored on and off the court
>> No blarney: Irish journeyman counsels Chinese soccer team
>> Spanish cyclist kicked out of Olympics for doping
I watched a whole mess of events this weekend; beach volleyball, basketball, rowing, road races, weight lifting lol. Some events are way more entertaining than others obviously but seriously, I'll tune in for whatever :)
Peirsol is swimming tonight (yay!) in the 100m backstroke final and again on Thursday in the 200m final. The women's gymnastics are up Thursday too so that is seriously one night of must-see events! Eeeee!! I love Olympics time!!!
>>>>>Olympics Trivia of the Day: The emblem of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field. This was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. These five rings stand for passion, faith, victory, work ethic and sportsmanship.
Yay! The Olympics kick off tomorrow! Hooray :D
I'm wicked pumped for the opening ceremonies, I always get chills during them oh man. Even though countries don't really do like in ancient times with postponing wars and stuff to participate in the games I still love that it's this huge celebration that people the world over can enjoy and participate in.
I am ridiculously in love with the summer olympics in particular. I didn't know what to do with myself when Athens was over. I literally watched until the very end when NBC was like, "Okay bye now" and showed a montage with clips of Greece and the events played to the olympic theme music. Lol if memory serves I may have cried. Yeah I love them :)
This year I'm pretty nervous about security and safety in Beijing though. They are so crazy over there with the way they handle protests and there was that incident with sixteen police officers being killed the other day and now President Bush, clearly beloved by the world over, is there and everyone knows it. I've been watching these specials on the games and how Beijing has been getting ready for them and naturally they have plans in place should any acts of terrorism occur but they were even saying that they have to secure all the roads that food for the athletes in the olympic village comes in through in case someone tries a terrorist attack like that. Mass poisoning food like that had never even occured to me, how scary would that be? Eeshk
I just hope that nothing will happen and everyone will be safe during the next two weeks. I understand why so many people are protesting the games being held in Beijing and they certainly have reason to be but at this point I just want things to go smoothly for the sake of everyone involved.
And since work is dull....
So it's a bit early to already be procrastinating at work but I slept very badly last night and am struggling to stay awake and scrolling through identical lists of data to check things off isn't helping. Plus I finally finally saw The Dark Knight so why don't I just talk about that instead hm?
Movie Trivia of the Day: Nestor Carbonell Eyeliner guy who plays the Mayor in The Dark Knight coincidentally also played "Bat Manuel", a parody of Batman, in the comic-based live action "The Tick" (2001) TV series.
Hahahaha oh my god I love it, Bat ~Manuel~
So apparently the guy who is producing the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop movie has worked on a whole bunch of Keanu Reeves movies before. Surely though this doesn't mean that they would cast stiff as a board 44-year-old Keanu Reeves as the lazy and charismatic 27-year-old Spike Spiegel right? Right?
"Keanu Reeves has been attached to play Spike Spiegel in a big budget live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop"
FAIL
People have been suggesting Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Spike and actually that I could see if they did it right. I'm cringing to think about who else they're going to cast though...

Oh my god, oh my god
Okay so I'd already seen "The Boiling Rock" but I watched it a while back during finals and stuff and this was actually only the second time I've seen it. AGH OH MY GOD SO GOOD :D
As soon as it was over I pretty much leaped up from my chair and put my face as close as possible to the TV for the preview for "The Southern Raiders" tomorrow night lmao. There are no words to describe how friggin excited I am for that episode. All shipping aside because I think we all know who she's going to end up with in the end and I'm happy with that I am wicked pumped for a Zuko and Katara episode. We've seen Zuko and Aang and Zuko and Sokka and we know Toph was chill with him from the start so that only leaves Katara. I just love the idea of a friendship between them, their being opposites from the very start, it's just going to be so kick ass. And having mommy-issues Zuko be the one to help her confront the past concerning her mother? Brilliant. Doing it up ninja style? Fierce. Waterbending and firebending on the same team? I LOVE IT I LOVE IT :D
Only two new episodes left and then the finale. I am going to miss this show so much but damn if they didn't give us a perfectly executed story. And I am totally confident that their finale will be fantastic. More tv shows could take a leaf out of the Avatar books. It's just been a perfect series :)
Avatar Trivia of the Day: The fighting choreography of the show draws from martial arts; the fighting styles and weaponry are based on Chinese martial arts, with each bending art corresponding to a certain real-world style. The creators use Bagua for airbending, Hung Gar for earthbending, Northern Shaolin for firebending, and Tai Chi for waterbending. The only exception to this is Toph, who employs a Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis style.
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