KEY POINTS:
Five medals in one day, and the first time the National Anthem of New Zealand rang out in China.
It is also a glorious time for all the Chinese in New Zealand. We are proud for this amazing country!
Yesterday when Valerie Vili got the gold medal running excitedly in Bird's nests, she kindly stopped to help a photographer, who had fallen nearby, to stand up. She is such a nice person; I'd like to have seen her great result live at the Beijing Olympics. Well done! Vili!
The most unbelievable is Michael Phelps, 8 gold medals and 7 world records, is he from other planet? I guess him might be ET or something.
I talked to a BBC reporter about the Olympics today. He feels the Beijing Olympics are very different because "the most watched thing is not the Olympic game itself; not how many gold medals Chinese team win, instead people pay a lot of attention to the marginal gossips of the host Country."
I told him, that 2/3 of the media are overseas reporters at Beijing for Olympic Game. As the proportional distribution of the number of reporters is limited by the International Olympic Committee, most media put their energy totally onto the Olympic Games to show their audience the really fantastic games. The rare marginal gossips are not mainstream; China did well to contribute a freedom report space, otherwise how can these media feel free to 'interview, analyze and report' what they want.
But this will not effect billions of people who, like me, enjoy the Beijing Olympic Game. Turn on my laptop and the first thing is to check the results of the China Olympic team and New Zealand team.
I watched the Women Gymnastics. I found those Chinese girls all have beautiful smiles on their faces. The same can be said of those young volunteers. I'm really glad to see this smiling China, the powerful and great China; this is what my grandparents wished for all their lives.
Jing Jing Wei
