Watched my first live Olympic event

There has been endless Olympic coverage of various events but I was fortunate enough to catch the women's cycling event whiz by the street in front of our work. Most of us waited outside for the pack of cyclist to zoom by. All the competitors were basically riding together, with no break-away leader or stragglers. Very cool to be one of the ones lining the streets cheering the athletes on for the brief dozen seconds or so. Turns out the British rider ended up winning the gold for the event.

After a post-work dinner at an expat-jammed Thai restaurant, a bunch of us got caught in a thunderstorm without our umbrellas. We were pretty drenched before we finally managed to catch a cab to head back to our hotel. After drying off we watched Team USA out-play Team China in Olympic basketball to a 101-70 score. I was of course hopeful that the game would have been a bit more competitive, but I guess all that talent on the U.S. team was just a bit too much for Yao Ming and the rest of his teammates.

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