BJ Olympics opening ceremony and mascots

[gray_areal]

After a long absence and lack of BSG to talk about, I've decided to broaden my LJ's scope of topics to include the Beijing Olympics and China in general. While I am not sure at this point exactly how I am going to do that - since I won't get many chances to watch specific events and don't want to propagate any one team (I'm not biased towards any

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[taru_croft]

The opening ceremony was great wasn't it? Did you see todays closing ceremony? I heard that they did not show it in China from telly *lol*

[gray_areal]

No, I didn't, actually. No time... :'-(
Why, what was so scandalous about it?
In fact, I don't seem to remember ever having watched an Olympic closing ceremony, come to think of it...

[taru_croft]

Hehee I've always watched opening and closing ceremonies whenever I have seen olympics *lol* I guess I'm wacko sports fan or something :D

Nothing scandalous. I think they just saved money like that *lol*