a shameful waste of madhouse time

I was watching the Australia-China women’s basketball last night and listening to the commentary, I finally snapped: I’ve just become to sick of hearing them say the same things over and over. Most of the time it’s stuff along the lines of:
我们在跟世界一流的队的对抗中可以发现自己的不足。
我们跟世界一流的篮球对还是有一定的差距。
亚洲人不能光靠速度取胜，外国队也很灵活的。
经过跟世界一流的队的对抗我们可以不断提升我们各方面的素质、水平。
yadda yadda yadda. It’s like they barely talk about the game. They don’t try [...]

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According to this report, you can or will be able to soon.

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Clicking around Google China, I found some stuff that might be of some help as I prepare to head up to Beijing later today.
One of them is the SMS alert function, where you can subscribe to stuff like overall medal count, the weather, and individual sports. I suppose they will just SMS you the results, [...]

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刘翔 - 诗歌 - 红袖添香 via kwout

The irony is that i was looking for poems by the poet Liu Xiang, whose name is written with the same characters as that of the famous athlete. Clicking on a link I found this poem written on the occasion of Liu Xiang’s victory at the 2007 World Championships. [...]

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I’ve had about all that i can take of torch-bearers and Olympics stuff, but this news item caught my eye: it seems that Chinese netizens have been busy debating whether or not Super Voice Girl celebs like Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying (my personal favorite, the only cutie in the bunch) and He Jie are fit [...]

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