To be honest I've only just caught up on yesterday's (30/7/12) Twitter but I can confirm that my mother and her partner attended the cross-country event of the equestrian three day eventing event.
Also I gather that China has a swimmer Yei Shiwen who is rather good. So good in-fact that the USA have accused her of taking performance enhancing drugs. In this case the 'drug' in question is "nationalism." As with the USSR China has a Communist system of government. One of the main hallmarks of this sort of totalitarian society is that the individual has no purpose other then as part of the greater nation. Therefore totalitarian regimes will think nothing of snatching somewhat promising athletes away from their families at a very early age in order to train them hard so they can bring pride to the great nation. China have been doing this for years so by lodging the complaint the USA was trying to put pressure on China over global trade while making it look like they are bravely battling for freedom while in secret they're taking away more and more individual rights every day. In preparation for the London Olympics Qatar based news channel "Al Jazeera" has been running a series of programs focusing on the hardships faced by Chinese athletes who didn't make the grade and were kicked out of the system.
Also "Al Jazeera" has been trying to whip up support for tougher anti-gun-laws in the USA. The idea being that the pressure from the left will force Barack Obama to make gun-control a platform in his re-election campaign re-starting the so-called "culture wars". This will obviously wipe him out in the middle ground of US voters and almost certainly guarantee that Romney will win in November.
So I think it's a case of existentialism 101; sometimes in life things happen and it is only through reacting to those things that you assign them meaning.
00:10 on 1/8/12.
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