Beach Volleyball

Posted on 2012/08/04 10:31:45 (August 2012).

[Thursday 2nd August 2012]
I have to admit to having been a bit grumpy about the Olympics - all the dire warnings about how the public transport would be completely overwhelmed and so on had made me think it was going to be nothing but an inconvenience, particularly as I'm not really much into sport in the first place.

Chie however had been keen that we go along to at least something, seeing as it was sort of a once in a lifetime event, and the only tickets she'd been able to get was for beach volleyball. On the plus side this was being held at Horseguards parade, so would feel a lot more "Londony" than the Olympic stadium proper.

This is pretty much the first time I've ever actually been a live spectator of any kind of sport, and I have to admit I pretty quickly started to find it somewhat boring and repetitive. In particular beach volleyball seems to be a sport for people with attention deficit disorder - there are very short bursts of actual sport, constantly interspersed with loud music, and commentators attempting to make jokes, as well as occasional appearances from dancers and people with rakes. Still, I guess I sort of liked the festival like atmosphere on the way into the stadium, and I suppose had I not attended anything at all during London 2012 I probably would have thought I'd missed out somehow.

hontou ni orinpikku yatte
irunone!
tuki no shasin iine!

Posted by yoko at 2012/08/08 12:51:14.

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