2008 Beijing Olympics - It’s over

Closing Ceremony: It's interesting to be a designer or work in film and see a production of this magnitude.

A total of 10,500 athletes were expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports, one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 games. Over 90,000 people show up for the closing ceremony and the olympic torch is passed to London, the host of the 2012 Olympics. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was also in attendance while London’s mayor, Boris Johnson received the Olympic flag from Beijing Mayor Go Jinlong. 

I think the the last 16 days allowed the world to learn more about China and it’s culture as well as exposing China to world. I hope that it has opened many new opportunities and eyes to what could be a new China one day. It’s gotta be such a crazy experience hosting the olympics, especially if you are close by. The traffic, the designs, the tourists and the opportunities. China spent over $40 billion on the whole deal.

USA Woman Soccer Team

I am particularly proud of our woman’s soccer (futball) team, winning the gold again. Sure I wish our mens team did better, but honestly I don’t feel like they are the best, I do with our woman’s team. I really hope that football (soccer) continues to grow in popularity and funding in this country.

So how did we do?
We came in second with 36 Gold, 38 Silver and 36 Bronze medals. 110 medals total making the USA first place in the amount of medals won.

2008 Closing Ceremony