The world biggest sport party : Olympics kicked off just two days ago on auspicious time of 08.08.08 – 08:08 PM in Beijing, China. All eight, the most popular number for Chinese people due to the similar pronounciation as in “wealth”.
I happen to miss the opening ceremony screened live by our very old TVRI (shame on private TV stations) due to culinary hunting at Festival Jajanan Bango :-p. When nearly all the medias report how spectacular the opening ceremony was, I just couldn’t keep myself from browsing the internet to look for the pictures and was really “wowed” by what I saw.
These are some pictures taken from the opening ceremony (from Yahoo!)
Stunning Bird Nest Stadium
Inside the Stadium : Opening Ceremony
Olympic Flame
Fireworks
One World One Dream is the theme. Simple yet powerful. The event will be held till August 24 which can’t surely be missed by fanatic sport fans all over the world.
For the competition itself, I’m cheering for the Chinese team to take on the overall champion. While United States is so strong particularly in Swimming and Athletics, I think the Chinese have all it takes to edge the Uncle Sam. Shooting, Gymnastics, and Badminton have a pretty good chance of medal overhaul for the Chinese. Not to mention diving and table tennis.
As for Indonesia Team, it’s not that I’m not nationalist. Although I’m also cheering for Indonesian gold, realistically speaking I think we need to work extremely hard to clinch the gold medal. The chance is there but in front of home crowd, it’d be quite a challenge for our athlete.
The biggest chance will almost certainly come from weightlifting and badminton. I think Indonesia team have a pretty good chance in three events, Weightlifting male 56 kg through Eko Yuli Irawan, Badminton Mixed Doubles (Flandy Limpele/Vita Marissa & Nova Widianto / Vita Marissa) and Badminton Men’s Doubles (Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan). I’m predicting three golds at most for Indonesia. One gold is okay, two gold is a bonus, three gold is fantastic! No gold ? Under achieved !
For olympics update, visit official Beijing Olympics 2008 website here
no gold i think.. :p
haha… tega banget lu Ko..
perhaps 1.. but I kinda agree with you :p
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