An amazing day, finished off with our last time at the Bird's Nest and a new World Record.
We had a look at the local shops this morning - nosing around the toy stores (for a certain 7 year old) and other stores in the Wangfujing Shopping district - think Oxford Street on steroids! Lunch was in a nice Chinese restaurant - except we didn't realise it was a cook your own. We looked at a strange metal plate in the middle of the table and realised this was a griller - oh what fun!
We left early for the Athletics at the Bird's Nest as Ben wanted to try out the Metro to the Olympic Park. It was quite crowded - not quite sardines but close! For you security buffs out there we had to leave the Metro station we were in, go through security clearance, then go back down into the Metro station and 2 stops later we were in the Olympic Park. Hopefully with the 2012 stations outside the Park we won't see this in four years time. We then had a half an hour walk to the stadium (from the middle of the park - it's that big) and sank into our seats early after stocking up on drinks (good thing we did - other Brits around us reported 30 minutes to queue for pretty poor food and drink - choice: yoghurt, bread, hot dog, biscuits, noodles, snickers!).
First up was 8 heats of the 800m, then the Women's Hammer final (invented by miners!) and after six rounds the Belarusian came out on top beating the Olympic record.
The blue riband race was at the end of the evening. Jamaica's Usain Bolt delivered another astonishing display of sprinting to add the Olympic 200m title to his 100m crown with a new world record. It was truly amazing - he looked like he jogged around, beating Michael Johnson's long standing world record and leaving the rest of the field far behind him!!! Something we will always remember. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7572885.stm
More comments tomorrow and Friday on the Olympic experience.
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