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Ian Scattergood of 20 East comments on yesterday's celebration of the Army Day in Poland, including several photos of the military parades around Warsaw.
Blogspot blogger Johnny Ong looks at Chinese and US media Olympics coverage and poses an interesting question: what does constitute “winning” the Olympics: number of gold medals, or number of medals overall?
And easily one of the coolest-looking blogs following the Beijing Olympics is ljcfyi (in Beijing), where ljc has taken many spectacular photos of everything from Fuwas bumping around and doing headstands between sports to the different colors of the Water Cube morph cycle to everywhere her friends Piglet and Domo have traveled.
..Victory! Photoblogger Derrick Story shares some of his photos taken late last week of players from the women's teams from China and a couple other countries: “captured with a Canon 5D, with a 70-200mm Canon L using a matching 1.4X multiplier.”
MySpacer Dr. O spent last night watching the super heavyweight boxing matches. Algeria's coach got kicked out. Legendary Cuban boxing star Teófilo Stevenson was there! See it all in Dr. O's video and photos and: “The last big kick of the night was the Chinese Zhang Zhilei - all 6′7″ and 200 pounds of him. Absolutely fucking manhandled his short chubby competition from Malaysia 15-0…”
Still at the Catch Up Lady's blog, we had to give big props to this post too, ‘Bikes in the Athletes' Village: An Olympic Revolution': “One of the best “insider” stories that came out of the afternoon was the inside scoop on the collapsible bikes that all the athletes' are riding. I'm not going to spoil it - so you'll have to watch the video…“
Nice to note year after year, Bangalore Pride Parade is improving a lot. Hope next year we see some recoreded...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...
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Next time we will be there again :)