Well with the end of the Olympic Games, I think I should bring this section to a close and put my thoughts in review down. It’s pretty hard as I’ve lost my computer essentially and so I’m having to look to my bro’s computer to help me with my computer/internet needs.

On Friday I went to Peristeri to watch the Boxing semi-finals. Out of all the stadia that I saw during the Olympics, of which I saw most of them, not all but at least 70%, the stadium which held the Boxing was pretty aweful. It wasn’t completed, and I later find out that they’re going to bring down one of the walls and then continue building to make it into a football stadium. All the back of house equipment, is there for you to see as you go to the stands. There was no points bar so that you can see who was winning and by how much. The toilets where outside. The event itself was pretty sweet. Saw the Brit Khan, and the Cuban’s were always a joy to watch, unbelievably fast, and slick on their feet.

Yesterday was the most Basketball I’ve seen in my life. I went out on Friday night to this crazy club, anyway got back home aroun 6ish, only to have to wake up by 8:30 to go watch the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th position basketball games. Which was great, because there was a lot of atmosphere in the Stadium, lots of people, my folks loved it. It was only their second event and they both thought the world of it. Helped that Greece was playing and the Stadium was packed. I get back home and watch a bit of the F1, as I dosed off to sleep, 5 hours later I get a phonecall from Stathi who’s asking me if I want to go watch the finals. ‘Fuck it man, let’s go’.

Don’t ask me how he got me in, don’t ask what bullshit stories he told, we were thinking we have a 50% chance of getting in. But there I was watching the small finals. USA vs Lithuania. Absolutely amazing game. We’re talking the craziest 3 point shooting I’ve seen a good long while. Lithunania deserves much much higher than 4th place, but that’s how it played out, which is a crying shame.

So while we’re sitting there (he got his cousin in there as well) he turns around to me (Stathi) and says here’s some tickets to the main stadium. You can either watch the Basketball or the final days of athletics in the main stadium OAKA. We decided to finish watching the USA game and then made a move to the main stadium.

Of all the stadiums this was the only one I hadn’t made a visit to, and this was because it was waay to expensive in my eyes at least, to pay 90 Euros, after having paid 180 Euros on tickets already. I’ve got loads of pictures, however like I said problems with my computer make it hard for me to get them on the site. I’m hunting down for a wordpress plugin to try and make it easy to put photos in one folder and then have the photos appear in a post. I know it exists just wish I didn’t have these problems with my computer. I suppose the only good thing is that I’m going to make a move next week and I’m going to buy my computer.

This Olympic experience couldn’t have been possible without my buddy Stathis, SPS2 Extrodinaire, thanks duderino.