Journo comment of the week: Upon arriving at the Shunyi Hotel last week, one journo checked in at the little store in Building 3, and discovered big, cheap beers. "Did you see the price of a bottle of beer at that store?" he asked incredulously. "Fifth cents for a giant beer. When I got here, I definitely had to have a beer in the shower, so bought one there and…"
Uh, back up a bit - in the shower?
Princeton coach Curtis Jordan, who is at the Games in his role on the FISA competition and fairness commission, was charged during the heats to follow each race up and down the course. The logistics of getting back to the start made this difficult, however, so Curtis either chose or was assigned a bicycle, and assumed the task of following the first half of every race - from behind the starting line to the 1250 mark for each race. On the first day of racing, there were 25 races - with a race or three off, Jordan estimated he cycled 50-60k both days of the heats.
The most famous members of the old British M4- are here, all in professional capacities; Redgrave, Pinsent, and Cracknell are all doing media and TV turns, and Tim Foster is coaching for the Swiss team.
row2k is doing blogs, photo galleries, streaming audio, interview transcripts, news links, and more, and you seem to be enjoying it; we did over 630,000 ad impressions in one day a couple days ago. We'll keep it coming for the finals, we hope you enjoy it.
Okay, racing is on shortly, have to post up; bring on the medals!
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