My blog was starting to get dusty, considering I haven't wrote anything in it for two months. So why not start with the topic on everyone's mind (except for the new GS look, which I hate. Only able to view five of my friends' most recent blogs? Madness!): the Beijing Olympics.
I have absolutely no interest in sport but with a lot of free time on my hands and everyone talking about that opening ceremony -- which I still haven't bloody seen -- I was bound to watch it at some point. And now, I'm pretty much an addict. Although now that most of the sprinting and hurdles are over, I wonder how long I'll remain addicted; a 5000m race can only hold my attention for so long before I start watching Frasier on another channel.
I'm also constantly surprised by how excited/patriotic I get when it looks like one of the UK's athletes is going to do well (third in the medal standings, thank you very much). The thing is, I don't know how well my American and Chinese friends (yes, I'm proud to say I have friends from China) can relate to this because they're doing so well; it's pretty much guaranteed that the US and China are going to do well, so surely there's less excitement, right? I may be wrong, since I heard mention of the battle for medals between the US and China during several events. I always wonder how each nation will be represented to other nations too; I can only speak for myself but it seems that any event aired will get a replay but if there's a British athlete, it'll get about five replays and if we win a medal of any colour, it'll get over a dozen of them. 
Not that I'm not pleased to see our athletes get some credit but there's a limit: when Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu won the gold medal, a big deal was made about how she managed to beat the US's Sanya Richards. Who came third. Jamaica's Shericka Williams wasn't even mentioned.
I also have to give a special mention to Tasha Danvers, who got a bronze in the women's 400m hurdles. I might've started watching female runners for the wrong reasons but I was definitely excited for the right reasons (although I still happen to find Tasha attractive, I have those assistant girls to ogle now, not that I do. The ones who you see in the stadium now and again, carrying the athletes' bags and stuff). Although even then, Jamaica's Melaine Walker was hardly mentioned, despite coming first and setting a new Olympic record (although credit goes to American former athlete Michael Johnson for the satirical remark "you know, Melaine Walker set a new record, I don't know if anyone noticed").
Also, despite being straight, I seem to have a man-crush on Usain Bolt. Now THERE'S an athlete. By the time the race starts, he's already at the finish line, looking at his watch. By the time every other athlete finishes, he's sitting at home watching the replay. I'm hoping that, should Usain Bolt come to London for the 2012 Olympics (non-Brits - be prepared for disappointment), he'll run in event, go so fast that he explodes like the DeLorean from Back To The Future, reappear at the finish line as an old man and still go on to set a new world record. 
Which reminds me: the Beijing 2008 videogame is out. I haven't played it so is there any differences between the nations? For example, if you're playing as Jamaica in a male sprinting event, can you put less effort into it than the other athletes? 
