Friday, August 22, 2008

Beijing 2008 Olympics 5

During the Olympics, my brother's fallen in love with Japanese table tennis player Ai Fukuhara (福原愛), who has nicknames like "Ai-chan (愛ちゃん)" and "China Doll." She is extremely popular in Japan and China because of her youth and cuteness. In addition, as Fukuhara was trained in China since she was a child, she could speak mandarin fluently.


Fukuhara in the past.


Fukuhara during the Beijing Olympics.


She was also the national flag bearer for Japan in the opening ceremony.


Below are some of the funny videos about Fukuhara on youtube.





Well, it's like day 15 of the Olympics and all the events of gymnastics have finished already so I should have brought this up before. The NBC guess commentaries were done by former gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi and he was actually very funny. It's hilarious to see him watching gymnasts doing their routines since he was yelling and screaming like he was watching a football or baseball game. I've never seen someone watching gymnastics like him before. Here's a funny clip about that particular moment, in which the final floor exercise performance by Nastia Liukin is replaced by a footage of turtles having sex.

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