If you believe what you’ve read about the smog in Beijing (which, unfortunately, you probably should), you know why every picture I’ve posted so far has looked like I took it about 5 minutes before a torrential downpour. Nope. That’s the smog folks. It constantly looks as if the entire country of 8 bajillion people [...]
Page Crawford @ the Games.
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Field Hockey Feels the Love
Our US Olympics Field Hockey Beijing contingent includes 6 Tar Heels, 2 Deamon Decons, 80+ friends and family from back here in the States… and a partridge in a pear tree. Check out the video below for more on where and how they all get to hang out in China. And to see Rachel Dawson’s rockin’ dance moves.
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Caption Free-for-all!
Write a funny caption for any of the photos below and win… uh… the respect and admiration of your peers!
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The University of the Olympics -Beijing Campus
Had a shoot yesterday in the Lenovo “I-Lounge” (Athlete computer lounge) inside the Olympic Village. The Village is usually open only to athletes and VIPs (ie friends of the security folks), but Lenovo is able to give out passes into the lounge every now-and-then so I snatched one up for yesterday. After promising my first-born [...]
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Bush-n-me…-n-Jake…-n-Brad… -n-half of some random dude’s face
Not to beat a dead horse, but I did indeed find at least one copy of the aforementioned pic that proves I did indeed meet (and side-snuggle with) President Bush. Take a look… and feel free to clown me for not taking off my sunglasses.
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I met President of the United States. Pretty cool, any way you slice it…
About 100 of my fellow Americans and I got to meet the leader of the free world today, and that’s pretty darn cool.
The pictures above are:
· Bush with some of the USA Baseball players and coaches
· Bush with Durham Bulls pitcher Jeremy Cummings. Good dude, that Cummings. Jeremy is such a sweet, mild-mannered guy… I [...] -
Interview with the tallest thang this side of Sichuan
Have I yet mentioned that I started off my Olympics experience interviewing Gold Medalist Jennie Finch (see video below) within my first few hours in China?! Yeah, sorry for the delay in posting this… my editing software was hating me as much as my last cab driver (see tweet from yesterday afternoon) up until today. [...]
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2nd Largest Commercial in the World
My Opening Ceremonies “watch party” turned out to be kind of a bust. As I previously threw him under the proverbial bus for, you know Jake had ditched me earlier in the evening to watch the Ceremonies live (Relax, I made him go. He tried to stay with me but I couldn’t let him [...]
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My first Olympics celeb-siting… sort of
Can you believe that first-thing off the plane we ran into two of the most recognizable Olympic figures over here?! Even got pics…
These “Fuwa” (aka “Friendlies”) totally live up to their names, and they’re all over every billboard in China.
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Flying the (Un)Friendly Skies
2 hours down, 14 more to go. I made it safe and sound on the RDU to EWR (Newark, NJ) flight. But now comes the big daddy… 14 loooong hours from the U-S of A all the way over to China. Buckle up baby, this is gonna be a killer.
To make matters worse, I myself [...]
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