The picture above is from the China v Cuba match.  China was quite good (and they beat Cuba, too!).

We were lucky to all get tickets to this same event as both H and I applied using our own accounts for the tickets during round 1 of ticket sales way back in August of last year. (or whenever it was)  Sure, we weren’t sitting next to each other, but we were close enough – for the later matches, we were able to consolidate.

We missed most of the first match (Germany v Austria) because H “couldn’t find a taxi”, but we made it in time for China v Cuba, so it was fine.

For more pictures, go to my flickr site.

On the evening of Thursday, August 14, Melanie and I went to a Boxing match, round of 16 Welter and Light Welter bouts.  Many thanks to my old friend Mike (who was supposed to visit Beijing during the Olympics, but unfortunately could not)  gave me his tickets (also to Rowing).

I’ve never seen boxing in real life before, so it was certainly interesting.  Some of the bouts were a bit slow – lots of hugging and dancing around.  Some of them, however, were quite exciting where one boxer it seemed would unleash a deadly series of punches – not really, but almost.

Thanks again, Mike!

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