Wrestling Blogs - Ben Askren

A few for my thoughts for you before I start my blog

-Women in the olympic have great legs

-Sometimes you wil be walking around Beijing and it will just start stinking for no good reason

-Taxis are so cheap, I dont think I have paid more than four american dollars for a ride anywhere

-The chinese Language is very tough to read and speak

Ok so today we went to the great wall and it is just mind boggling just to think of the time and effort put into that wall. It was very scenic but thegreat that view wasnt that great because it was so overcast it wasnt like at the grand canyon or in the rocky mountains where you can see forever. Today was also y last two a day, now it is just coasting into the olympics, I am very ready to compete. the day before former president Bush was supposed to come into practice but he got sick and just waved at us from the window. Tonight I got to go to my first olympic event I went to table tennis. It was very popular wth the Asian crowd. It is really interesting to see how many olympic events that are obscure to the American public from handball to badmiton to speed walkng to water polo it just seems that the American contingent doesn't even try to win these events. And what is going on with the Chinese lifters they are winning every weight and breaking world records. Seems fishy to me. Not much else exciting going on here I am just getting ready for bed. Have a good day

Ben