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I'll be rooting for U.S.A. in most of the games, but for Shunsuke Nagaski from Japan in the Trampoline events.

The smog will definitly do some damage to the sensitive athletes.

OO I be watching but I dunno who to root for! O.o

I'm rooting for China... with the odd bit of cheering for Canada here and there. (Hey, it's where I've been born and raised!).

Honestly, the smog is just... I can't even describe how awful it is. If they're so desperate as to go to drastic measures- stuffing pollutants into the atmosphere for rainfall to clear the smog, etc- they should have thought of that BEFORE everyone went and over-used new technology with old systems. But if you think about it, you can't just take away all of their rights just because there are so many of them. I mean, why isn't anyone pointing the finger at North America, in which people use diesel gas and drive their huge, gas-guzzling hummers?!

Yeah it is pretty interesting, although because I live in Canada, there won't me much badminton or tennis coverage. They'll follow our Canadian, who will get wrecked by Lin Dan. Same thing with Federer or Nadal. It's a shame we aren't that good at those sports.

The opening ceremony was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

You Chinese people sure know how to put on a good eye-candy spectacular. *o*.

It's the BEST performance I've ever seen so far, far surpassing any previous Olympic opening ceremony (and heck even Cirque du Soleil, LOL xD).

Let's just hope that this message of peace and prosperity doesn't just stay in the Olympics! D:
Speaking of such, this has also got to be the most behind-the-scenes politically controversial Olympics ever. I mean we got the Tibet thing going on, the Darfur crisis, the war in the Middle East....etc. Heck probably even the most protests during the whole global run of the Olympic torch. This will probably be on the Guiness World Records for 'most protested Olympic event' XD.

I am supporting my home country, the Philippines. And since my family and I moved around a lot, I will also be rooting for another country which I also call home: Japan. And now, I will also root for my current residential country. I'm not ready to call it home yet, but I will still root for USA.

Oh, and I'm having a sort of bias towards Finland too. =P. I'm only supporting them because my favorite [metal] band in the whole wide world (Nightwish btw) comes from Finland xD; I was so silly to do the rockstar devil horn sign when they came on during the country parade thing. XD; I almost did it, but I stopped because I was afraid of what my relatives will think of me. ^^;

So I'll also be supporting Finland. sweatdrop

At day two, China has already two medals; both of them gold.

I loved the Opening Ceremony! It was amaziing!!


I'll be rooting for USA!!