On the 8th of the 8th 2008 at 8.08 PM the Beijing Olympics started with a fascinating show.That is exactly one year ago on this date. We were at some friends house to watch this great event. And what happened; we couldn't even see it as it was broadcasted on a TV channel neither they or we could receive. We tried all possible options available on their tellie, but no, nothing from the grand opening in Beijing came through, and at the end we had to watch it on a labtop from the internet from some remote TV station somewhere in Chile or Columbia.
In Beijing this summer we had the opportunity to go there ourselves to see these venues with our own eyes, but without Mr. Phelps and Mr.Bolt and whatever they all were called, who dominated the headlines one year back in time.
The time we got there there were only a lot of tourists running around the Olympic area.
We got in to see th Birds nest Stadium -The National Stadium- and what an experience. It is a great Stadium, and I'm sure every big Football or Rugby club in the whole world will envy and like to call their home ground. No one is at home there at the moment, only the thousands of tourists peeping around inside to try to gasp a bit of the atmosphere from back then, one year ago.
Of cause we couldn't, we could just enjoy the feeling of being there and to walk around on the running track and get our photo taken with dozens of Chinese families.
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