Musings from a financial translator in Tokyo (and now London)
Posted in Sports on Aug 26th, 2008
1) Michael Phelps. What more can be said? 2) Men’s 400 freestyle relay race with Lezak pulling off a had-to-see-it-to-believe-it comeback in literally the final 20 meters. One of the most exciting races I’ve ever seen in any event, and it kept Phelps on track for eight golds. 3) Bolt: He might have ran a [...]
I’m really enjoying the Olympics. Phelps is amazing, Bolt might have run a sub-9.6 100m if he hadn’t stopped running the last 20 meters, Kitajima’s great. But am I the only one slightly spooked out by the dozens and dozens of robot-like supports, assistants, presenters, floor ladies etc. that seemingly swarm every single event? Not [...]
id you know Japan’s government has a cabinet member specifically in charge of the North Korea government issue? I didn’t. I knew there was some government spokesperson, but I guess I always assumed it was someone from the Foreign Affairs Ministry or something. From the Nikkei: Kyoko Nakayama said her appointment as state minister in [...]