I’ve never seen anything like it so far. Okay usually I don’t care for gymnastics whatsoever, but this evening I was watching the men’s horizontal bar final. After and almost perfect routine (with a difficulty of 10.0) Alexey Nemov of Russia was waiting for his results…and after the jury proclaimed his result the whole crowd almost exploded with a choral of whistles which lasted for almost 10 minutes.

The jury counseled again and added 0.04points to his result, but he was still in 3rd place (which didn’t seem appropriate at that time)…so the chorus of whistles continued and continued until Nemov himself stepped up to the mat again and waved the crowd and asked them to settle down – and that’s what true sportmanship is!

I’m really curious what will be in the news about this…

Oh my! What a match, what a fight!
The wrath of the US women’s soccer team :(

I don’t know if you had the chance to watch the match, if not: you really missed something. I gotta admit that the US-Team was better almost the whole ninety minutes, but we were lucky and scored the tying 1-1 in the 90+2nd minute.

So extra time here we come…and we’re already down again 1-2 after a beautiful goal by Heather O’Reilly (assist Mia Hamm)…and that’s that…USA 2-1 Germany. We put up a good fight but it wasn’t enough today…congrats US…

Now it’s time to recover and win the match for bronze!