The US is struggling with the fact China is beating them resoundly in the medal count to the point that American network NBC has started reordering the medal tally by total number of medals, instead of gold.
At the moment that puts the USA on a total of 93 medals and China on 83 (China has 46 gold to America's 28)
Below is an interesting article from the New York Times about the rise of China, not only in sport but politics and power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
The journo makes an interesting point about flashing your Olympic accreditation to get anywhere. Usually I'd have trouble blogging from China, watching the news and reading certain websites but during the Games so many restrictions have been lifted. I wonder what will happen after Sunday?
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Now that the Olympics is over, are there any obvious redactions to media freedoms set out by the Chinese Government?
I saw on SBS news tonight that the "press-freedoms" have officially been extended until the end of September, with the hint that they may remain for foreign media indefinitely.
Then again, perhaps the news is full of lies and you can no longer access your blog to tell us all the horrible, horrible truth? :)
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