So with Jude away and the Olympics in full swing my attention has been diverted to The Water Cube and the swimming within. I'm knackered. Lots of late nights and early mornings. But the swimming is as spectacular as the building.
Meanwhile the opening ceremony has produced awe and fear in America - with people saying "Shit, these guys are serious"
China is seems is high tech, populous and most frighteningly "highly disciplined" - people here are spooked.
And if I was the person responsible for the London Games Opening Ceremony I'd be feeling somewhat panicked now - as what we just saw is untoppable
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This is the first time I've ever heard anyone mention an opening ceremony, and this time EVERYONE is talking about it. Though I remember the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 86 when Scotland treated the world to a couple of pipe-bands, and a lot of fat ugly children waving from tatty floats in the rain.
But don't you think London should... just... not bother? Why try to top it? Why waste money? We want to see the men's 100m final, the 4x400 relay, the marathon - i don't need to see doves that should never have been caged, set free in the name of a mythical peace. We'll only make a hash of it anyway, why not have the first Olympics in a long while that's about sport? And only sport.
Suprised America is just cottoning on to what we all already knew - that the only super-power 20 years from now will be China. Maybe if we stopped importing goods from nations that exploit their workers, poison the environment, oppress their citizens... oh hang on... that IS America ;p
I think the underlying reason people are spooked is not by what was on show (a wonderful, imaginitive marriage of art, technology and performance – I loooooved it), but by what wasn't – any mention of Mao or any other element of Communism. Even the colour red was used sparingly. Savvy.
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