Archive for August, 2008

Leaving on a Jet Plane

I head out to Beijing tomorrow morning on Delta to Seattle and then via Hainan Air to Beijing. It’s been a nervewracking week getting all of the final preparations done and getting clothes laid out for packing.

The hardest thing will be missing the family. We did a test run of Skype on my laptop and the home PC so hopefully we’ll be able to do some video calling. Seeing the kids react to a webcam should be cause for much amusement. I did see some early comments that Skype wasn’t working in Beijing, which would be a huge issue so I hope it was more of a technical glitch than anything else.

Fencing captain prepares for 3rd Olympics

The NY Sun spoke with Keeth Smart and posted a video slideshow of Keeth’s interview answers on YouTube:

World’s #1 Ranked Men’s Foil Fencer Fails Doping Test

22 year old Andrea Baldini has been removed from the Italian contingent to the Olympic Games following a positive drug test result from the European Championships in Kiev.

Follow the discussion at: http://www.fencing.net/forums/thread37256.html

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