http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics RSS Feed for Inq Olympics Blog en-us Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:59:14 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Test_for_embed_code.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_Olympic_Top_10.html Am I only the visiting American these things happen to? http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_Hey_London_top_this.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Carlis_Corner_Cheering_the_champs_at_Champs_Part_2.html When Delran soccer star Carli Lloyd scored the winning goal during overtime in the U.S. women’s soccer team’s match against Brazil, snagging the team an Olympic gold medal, her fans back home in South Jersey erupted into cheers. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Carlis_Corner_Cheering_the_champs_at_Champs.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Delrans_Lloyd_gives_US_gold_in_womens_soccer.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_Swirling_full_circle.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_Olympic_comparisons.html The Chinese, as the world now knows, are very sensitive to any criticism of their Olympic Games. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_Walls_and_vendors.html When I was a kid growing up in an Olney rowhouse, the Great Wall was just a Chinese restaurant on Roosevelt Boulevard near Adams Avenue. I suppose I'd seen pictures of the real wall but I had no illusions about ever getting there. Who went to China in those days, in that big, big 1950s' world? Who went anywhere besides the Jersey Shore? I suppose I was capable of dreaming about someday getting to England or France or even Germany, where my father and most of the fathers on Albanus Street had fought only a few years earlier. But China? The Great Wall? Never even appeared as a blip on my imagination's radar screen. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-olympics/Beijing_Journal_More_observations.html Obesity certainly doesn't appear to be a problem in China. Perhaps that's not surprising in a culture where rice is the most common food and chopsticks the eating utensil of choice. Still, it appears those in the Army might eat even less than the average citizen. There are thousands of soldiers stationed around Beijing and all appear to be roughly the same body type as Barney Fife. It might not be diet. It could be the result of them running in formation from place to place and standing at rigid attention for hours at a time.