Let the games begin — updated
Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremonies are over and the games are about to begin. If you would like to get a flavour for the opening ceremonies,
You can check out this clip on Utube where they are raising the Chinese flag at the close of the opening ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV7
And the march of the flagbearers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3z_IjXdPEc
The Chinese news features the Opening Ceremonies today.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/04/content_10146505.htm
An athlete pours water into a conch representing wisdom during the opening ceremony of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2008. The games comprise Bridge, Chess, Go and Draughts with more than 3000 competitors competing for 35 gold medals
Chinese go chess player vows during the opening ceremony of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)
Daily Bulletin
Here is an excerpt from the first Bridge Daily
Participants in Bridge, Go, Chess, Xiangqi and Draughts, representing 143 countries and regions, were on hand for the opening ceremonies at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.
With the flags of the nations on display behind him, World Bridge Federation President Jose Damiani told players, “You are the ones who will show the world that you can combine harmony and honor even in tough competition.” Damiani is also president of the International Mind Sports Association.
See the Daily Bulletin at
http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Beijing.08/Bulletins/WMSG/Bul0101.htm
The junior teams have their very own bulletin at
http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/08_2%20Beijing/pdf/Youth/bul_01.pdf
Tonight’s Matches
I see that I have a lot of games to chose from tonight with Open games :Hungary-China, Australia-England, Norway-Egypt and Israel-Netherlands and Italy-Finland on some kind of vugraph in the first session. I really can’t decide! I am thinking Norway-Egypt at the moment but I might chaneg my mind later on.
OMG (oh my goodness) as they say online the I want to stay up and watch Round 2 in real time. Canada is playing against Italy on Vugraph and there are also two other great matches to watch, Island-Poland, Denmark-South Africa. I guess I could flip between them. Can I really stay up that late to watch those matches. They start at 2:20AM I hope so. Yawn.
BBO Vugraph
I just found the vugraph schedule for BBO on their forum
http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=27224
Here is the post for you
Many have been wondering if we are going to broadcast from the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing (October 3-18). Today I received an e-mail from Song Zhao, our contact in the CCBA, and he was able to forward a BBO schedule he has received from the WBF.
As usual, we will list the event on our vugraph schedule web page as soon as possible, but I can give you a summary here:
17 rounds of round-robin, 16 boards per match.
4 segments of 14 boards in the Round of 16.
6 segments of 16 boards in the quarter-finals.
6 segments of 16 boards in the semi-finals.
6 segments of 16 boards in the finals.
At this point we don’t know how many tables we will have up per session. As is always the case, it will depend on how many operators the organisers can get.
Roland
Results
If you want to check out the results from all sports go to the official site.
http://123.124.180.125/en-us/index.aspx
So far only the bridge individual has started but that will all change in an hour or two.
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