Yippieeee! The Olympic Games 2008 have started in Beijing! And we were there! The Olympic expertise team :-) was watching the Grand Opening of the Games from a rooftop garden of a Chaoyang restaurant with a big TV screen properly dressed with new Olympic t-shirts (see photo). Zhang Yi Mou, the famous Chinese filmmaker, fulfilled the already high expectations as director of the opening ceremony. A great firework, thousands of Chinese drummers - we liked it; the performance was very Chinese ! When the athletes entered the new stadium (according to our knowledge the order depended on the number of strokes in the Chinese writing of the country name), the vibes at our restaurant felt just 很好 (excellent). The people in the restaurant were from a big variety of nationalities and thus nearly always somebody cheered. Maybe except for those countries which nobody knew nothing of and whose teams only consisted of three to five people only. Another two hours passed until all the athletes had entered in the stadium. We had cheered for Germany led by the basketball star Dirk Nowitzki, the whole restaurant had applauded for Roger Federer whom everybody seemed to know as well as for Rafael Nadal and of course the Chinese team (the biggest of all) got a frantic applause from the many Chinese and a warm greeting from all of us. The Olympic feeling has finally fully arrived in Beijing. I am looking forward to a fair and suspenseful competition!
Some more really good photos of the opening ceremony can be found at: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/575/305543/bilder/
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