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Sunday Ramblings: Beijing 2008 Olympic Edition

August 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Just got back from Tianjin where we we watched the women’s football preliminaries between Argentina/Sweden and China/Canada.  The crowd–to put it mildly–was supportive of their countrywomen.  I’ve been in Fenway during playoff games with the Yankees and that’s a boisterous crowd on its worst day, but the partisan boosters of the Chinese women’s soccer players [...]

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