The Stabbed incident in Beijing Olympics
As always, this time also many ugly incidents happened in the Beijing Olympics. I just want to pick one of the most inhuman and ugly incident and it is the man stabbed down in this month while people were in hard competition for the gold medals. Todd L. Bachman was stabbed down to death with his wife left seriously hurt.
Now the funeral ceremony of Todd L. Bachman is going to happen in the coming Friday and the arrangement has been made at Christina Lutheran Church in Lakeville as his son-in-law said. Hugh McCutcheon, the son-in-law, is the U.S. men’s Olympic volleyball coach.
I felt terrible to imagine the situation that the family came to enjoy the Olympic and now they are going back without his father-in-law with mother-in-law seriously hurt. It is horrible to imagine and now his wife Barbara is under treatment at mayo Clinic in Rochester. Now she is recovering and will soon be able to back to normal.
Argentina won the soccer tournament
Argentina is the winner of the grand finale soccer. Argentina struggled hard with Nigeria to win the tournament. Angel Di Maria is the star who is responsible for the winning of the team and he scored the goal in the 58th minute of the match.
Argentina struggled hard to hold the goal as Nigeria was in the attacking position after Argentina made a goal. It was evenly played and the match was very exciting. It was just like the recap of 1996 world cup when Nigeria won by 3-2 to become the first African team to win the soccer tournament in Olympics.
The 25-metre out swinging shot of Di Maria was spectacular and it gained confidence in the heart of Argentina players. Messi was also in a good from in the match and he contributes a lot in the winning of the team.
Nicolas Pareja and Sergio Romero saved Argentina from losing by blocking few wonderful attacks from Nigeria. Altogether, the attack of Nigeria was beautiful and Obinna did some critical attacks which their teammates missed to give support.
Bekham at the center in the flag passing ceremony
The passing of flag at the last day of Olympics is always an interesting event and it is the main event in the closing ceremony of Olympics. It has already been told that the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics will be spectacular and will be much more interesting than the opening ceremony itself.
Also may big players and stars are joining the closing ceremony. David Bekham who is the most glamorous football player of England will be in the center when the Olympic flag passes to the England on Sunday who is going to host the next Olympics in 2012.
In another end, the Los Angeles Galaxy player will be joined in the Bird’s Next stadium by Jimmy Page who is the legend of rock. Leona Lewis, the London-born singer is also going to join the ceremony. Many other sportsmen, dancers and singers are going to join the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics.
Even the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to going to present in the ceremony to see the receiving of flag by new London mayor Boris Johnson from Guo Jinlong who is the counterpart of Beijing. But the details and contents of the program have not been revealed and also the individual role of Bekham and other stars has not been disclosed yet.
Bryan Clay won Decathlon
Bryan Clay is the first American who won decathlon in Olympics since 1996. Decathlon is an event with ten events and there is always tough competition in these events. It is very excited event because one must be good in average in all the events in order to win decathlon.
Bryan Clay was the silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics and world champion in 2005 and this time he won the event with 8791 points. The 522 points acquired in the 1500 meters ob late Friday helped him a lot. Dan O’Brien was the last athlete who won the Olympic decathlon in 1996, Atlanta.
Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus, Leonel Suarez of Cuba and Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic were the close competitors of Bryan Clay in the event. They won silver, bronze and sixth position respectively. Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic who is the Olympic champion could only manage to complete in 6th position.
In more than five of the ten events, Clay finished the competition with first or second positions and third in two more events. These help Clay to score the highest point in the overall performance. On the Friday, he extended his competition with finishing second in the 110 meter hurdle, winning discuss and his performance in pole vault.
Preparation for the closing ceremony of Olympics
Closing ceremony is usually not much important like the opening ceremony. And all the time for any kind of game, the opening ceremony is much more spectacular than the closing ceremony. But in this Olympics, the story is different and the closing ceremony will be something different than the people witnessed in the past years.
Now the Chinese people have started the rehearsals for the closing ceremony of Olympics and the closing ceremony of the Olympics will be directed by Chinese filmamker Zhang Yimou who directed the opening ceremony also.
The NBC Sports executive David Neal went down to a college campus in Beijing to see the rehearsal of the closing ceremony of Olympics. He quoted as he had never seen such a closing ceremony that is expected to be happened on the Sunday. The opening ceremony was witnessed by the 34.2 million people in US and the number is much larger than the American Idol and now David is expecting much more spectators in the closing ceremony also.
The Beijing finale will be completely a new in the history of Olympics and also there will be performance by many renowned singers all over the world and many sport stars and film stars are going to present in the ceremony to witness the great finale of the Olympics.
The second Gold Medal for Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt was not only unbeatable in the last race but he also created a history in the world athletes. Few days back, he broke the world record in 100 meter race. And now in 200 he completed the race in 19.30 seconds breaking the world record of 10.32 seconds which has been the 12-yea-old mark of Michael Johnson.
Bolt broke both the world records of 100 and 200 meter races. He was .52 seconds ahead of Churandy Martina which is four body lengths and this is one of the largest margins in the victory of Olympic 200 meter race.
Last time 4 days before when he was running for the 100 meter race, he cheered up the crowd before he crossed the line knowing that he would definitely break the record. But this time, he was not confident enough as Johnson’s world record in 200 meter race was very high and therefore he desperately struggled up to the cross line.