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Final Update From China

Posted by JChambers | 24th August 2008

I thought it would be fitting in my final post to include a link to one of the four songs that they play incessantly here in Beijing. BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games) commissioned four songs for the Games. The link below is to Youtube which has one of the videos for these songs. The song is called "Beijing Welcomes You", and without exaggeration, I have probably heard this song over one hundred times in the past two weeks. They play these four songs repeatedly everywhere you go: in the taxis, in the Forbidden City, at the venues, in the lobby of the hotel, on the streets, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvSRkY4eEfM

One of the highlights of the past few days was watching Adam van Koeverden race in the K1 500 metres. Flat water canoe/kayak is a sport that many people in my family have participated in (including my grand-father, my father, my brother and myself) at local and national regattas over the years at the Rideau Canoe Club in Ottawa (and

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