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a 4-hour-plus battle against Chinese Taipei on the Wukesong baseball field and we left there as the WINNER! Imagine how unbelievable this is considering the opponents who has sent Chien-Ming Wang, Hong-Chih Kuo and other elite players to MLB…The last hit is just amazing, though lucky - Taiwan’s first baseman dropped the ball and didn’t catch up to throw out the last Chinese runner…We have to say thank you to IBAF’s extra innings rule - runners on first and second for each 11+ inning…Almost everyone chose to bunt to push the runners forward, and a walk will make it loaded…That’s some cool situation as a fan, but a pressing situation for the players. Anyway, we did it! We beat the Chinese Taipei baseball team! WOW!

Yes, miracles. Womens gymnastic team has won th gold medal for the first time in olympic history over the US with a margin of 2.4 pts. That’s some difference since the minimum difference is 0.005 pt…Congratulations again, Chinese Gymnastic team!

That’s some serious achievement. Congratulations Team China!

The gold of team gymnastics men has come back in Chinese’s hand after 8 years, and a apocalyptic loss 4 years ago. This one should be the most important one for China, maybe for the whole 08 event. Competition was fierce, and US, Japan are chasing right behind us. Fortunately we handled that well enough to preserve the gold medal.

And a BIG surprise comes from the fencing lane. Man Zhong got the gold medal for men saber fencing. Great achievement! Fencing has long been the backyard of europeans and after China’s trio of Chong Ye, Zhaozhi Dong and Haibin Wang, seems that few people could even come close to what Jujie Luan, China’s sole fencing gold medalist, did in LA, 1984.

Nothing to mention on weightlifting and diving medals. We are always good at this.

By the way, can someone stop Phelps? He’s just unstoppable in the pool… he beat Park in 200m freestyle with a record-breaking time, and got his 3rd gold of the event. He is tied for the greatest gold harvester all-time, will it be his sole lead? I do agree so.

Only the 1st day of olympics and we are under such sorrow…

1 American tourist (a relative of US team) was killed at Gu Lou(Drum tower),a downtown tour spot. His wife, seriously injured, was in hospital. The tour guide, Chinese, was ok, and the attacker leapt the tower to death(tower has a height of 130 ft, about 40m). The victim,Todd Bachman, is the father-in-law of US men’s volleyball team head coach, and father of 2004 olympic womens volleyball player,Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon. And the seriously wounded is his wife, who susffered from “life-threatening injuries”, according to MLB.com’s news.(Yes, MLB.com. Chinese media will not say the identity of the victims, just a “tourist” will cover.) 

And that’s the result of more than a million of people in city to protect the olympic? the result of security check on EVERY SINGLE bus, subway…?Maybe it’s an incident, but please, a knife? A knife that can KILL someone? In a tour spot?…I don’t want to say any more. And I don’t want to be GFWed(GFW = Great Fire Wall, China’s internet content filter system)

Mourn the victims. And, sorry for the whole US team.

Go China!

After that beautiful ceremony, it’s time for some serious sports. And we did it just fine.

Though Li Du missed the 1st gold medal of the XXIX Olympiad by a large margin(5th overall, 4th qualifying), China has managed to get a pair of gold medals today. A woman weightlifting 48kg, and a men shooting air pistol 10m. Congratulations to the winners!