Today I was supposed to go down to the Silk Market, or at least do something cultural since I was taking the morning off from the epee competition. (The US did not qualify a team.) I’ll still cover the medal rounds.
It’s a great way to keep in touch with the family while I’m in China.
I go down and use the WiFi in the media center (which, since they can, they’ve charged us a large amount of $$ to access) and then fire up Skype.
Searching for Olympic goodies should not be this frustrating.
The fencing venue has a small store where you can buy some Olympic stuff. Their selection off fencing items: 0!
Shirts, yes, there is a “Beijing 2008″ standard logo shirt. But no fencing.
The United States Women’s Fencing Team earned the bronze medal by defeating France 45-38. This is the second fencing medal in the 2008 Games for Mariel Zagunis (Portland, Ore.), Sada Jacobson (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Becca Ward (Portland Ore.) having swept the gold, silver and bronze medals in the individual contest, respectively.
Yesterday’s women’s sabre event featured an American sweep and also a plethora of US press in the media room and stands. Today’s men’s epee event has more press overall on hand but mostly from foreign media outlets. It’s a showing of how internationally spread out participation in epee is.