I saw two interesting comments about the game. The first is from Charles Robinson on Yahoo!:
Maybe the only way to understand how fulfilling the 2008 Opening Ceremony was is to think four years in advance to the 2012 games, and pity the city of London. The planning committee from those Games was in attendance last night. And you can bet whoever is in charge of the ceremony there was sitting on a floor with his head in his hands.
No worries. When the Athens Olympic opened, it was the same worry for me. I thought the Athens 2004 Olympic Opening was wonderful and hard to be better. Last night’s show proved that it is even better (at least from my point of view).
The second note was from Stephen Orlins.
Stephen Orlins, President of the National Committee of US China Relationship since 2005 wrote on his postcard to the YLFers:
From the opening of the new U.S. Embassy compound this morning at 8:08 a.m. until leaving for the opening ceremony at 5:00 p.m., I witnessed a deserted Beijing. Pedestrians were missing, businesses were closed (even the local Pacific Coffee) and foreigners were nearly as numerous as Chinese. The lack of traffic reminded me of the Beijing of 1979, except that there were no bicycles and road closures abounded.
very few pedestrians out there in beijing? that’s a surprise!
Yes, it was strangely deserted yesterday in Beijing. Traffic was the best it has ever been. It seemed like most people either headed over to the official Olympic screenings quite early or stayed at home.
same thing happened to Shanghai. A lot of shops and mall close after 6pm yesterday. Even mall like Yaohan (八百盘) in Pudong.
i really like this page and thanks for what you are doin and i hope you can keep doin it