As you remember from this morning, I told you how a lot of people spent their
day.
Well, my day is far different. I only spend, on the average, 1.5 hours pooping
and peeing and the same (1.5 hours) for eating unless I have to refill my containers
with canned food, like collard greens, white hominy, and wild caught Alaskan
salmon and then it might be 2 hours at most. And I chew my food real good, too
(they say that you should chew your food 22 times and I get pretty close to that).
I only sleep about 7 hours so I'm up to 10.5 hours for the day. I might spend 0.5
hours watching TV and now I'm at 11 hours. I spend about 5 hours typing these
stories of my life (blogs), so now I'm up to 16.
And now I have 1/3rd of the day (8 hours) left to do what I want to do.
Christ the Redeemer:
Thanks to BBC News.
“We’re privileged to have a view of Christ – it’s a symbol of our community,”
says Daniel Nascimento who sells a popular Brazilian sorbet made from the
Amazonian acai berry.
“I’m not religious so for me, it’s just one of the most beautiful places in Rio.
There’s a trail here up the hill to Corcovado that only the residents know
about – it’s something special.”
Olympic Flags
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In 1997, at a banquet hosted by the US Olympic Committee, a reporter was
interviewing Hal Haig Prieste who had won a bronze medal in platform
diving as a member of the 1920 US Olympic team. The reporter mentioned
that the IOC had not been able to find out what had happened to the original
Olympic flag. "I can help you with that," Prieste said, "It's in my suitcase."
At the end of the Antwerp Olympics, spurred on by team-mate Duke
Kahanamoku, he climbed a flagpole and stole the Olympic flag. For 77 years
the flag was stored away in the bottom of his suitcase. The flag was returned
to the IOC by Prieste, by then 103 years old, in a special ceremony held at the
2000 Games in Sydney.... The original Antwerp Flag is now on display at the
Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a plaque thanking him for
donating it.....
Oslo flag....
The Oslo flag was presented to the IOC by the mayor of Oslo, Norway during
the 1952 Winter Olympics. Since then, it has been passed to the next organizing
city for the Winter Olympics. Currently, the actual Oslo flag is kept preserved
in a special box, and a replica has been used during recent closing ceremonies
instead....
Seoul flag....
Flag of South Korea alongside an Olympic Flag in Olympic Park, Seoul
As a successor to the Antwerp Flag,.... the Seoul flag was presented to the
IOC at the 1988 Summer Olympics by the city of Seoul, South Korea, and has
since then been passed on to the next organizing city of the Summer Olympics.
Singapore flag....
For the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, an Olympic flag was created for
the junior version of the Games. The flag is similar to the Olympic flag, but
has the host city and year on it and was first presented to Singapore by IOC
President Jacques Rogge..... During the closing ceremony on
26 August 2010, Singapore officials presented it to the next organizing
committee, Nanjing 2014...."
BBC Sport Rio 2016
Rio Olympics 2016: Laura Trott & Jason Kenny - Britain's golden couple
By Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer in Rio
"As a young girl she preferred trampolining to her bike, only to be forced to
give it up after repeatedly passing out in mid-air. "I kept getting dehydrated
during sessions, because you had to go out of the room to get a drink, and I
was like, 'Nah, I'll carry on bouncing'."
That's the heroic stuff. Not everything she does ends in such glorious success,
"Laura is the sort of person who can ruin a baked potato in a microwave,"
says Adrian. "We've always cooked with gas at home, but when she first moved
into the British Cycling academy flats in Manchester, they had electricity
instead. She put a potato in the oven to bake and thought she'd turned the
gas on - except she'd put the grill on instead. Pretty soon it was on fire. She
smoked the whole flat out."
So it is that Kenny tends to be entrusted with kitchen duties.
After becoming the first British woman to win three Olympic gold medals,
Laura Trott wrote on Instagram: "Checks under pillow.. this really did
happen last night" "He is a very good cook," says Lorraine. "He now does
a brilliant Sunday roast, although he never used to cook when he lived at
home. He says Laura is the bad influence, that she's the one who buys the
chocolate. "He gets his sporting genes from me. I used to run 100m and 200m.
His dad Michael is very self-disciplined, and Jason has inherited that from him.
"Unlike me, he copes well under pressure. I have to force myself to watch
him in big finals. I used to put my hands over my eyes, but then he lost a race
when I was doing that so I've had to go back to actually looking.
"When they were younger, we took both our boys to different sports - they
were lively lads, so we were trying to keep them out of mischief. We were
just an ordinary family, and he was an ordinary boy doing ordinary things.
"He's not changed at all. He's just Jason. His elder brother Craig is the
chatterbox, so maybe Jason thought he never needed to talk. But he has
a fantastic sense of humor. It's so dry I think sometimes people don't get it."
When they return to the UK, Trott and Kenny will wind down by walking their
two dogs, springer-poodle crosses named Pringle and Sprolo. In September
they will get married. Already they have turned down an offer to have it
featured in a magazine.
Fame has never been the driving force. Kenny may have 54,000 followers
on Twitter, but he last tweeted in early July. Trott may have won more
Olympic gold medals than any other British woman, but the motivation
remains pure.
"It isn't a job to me, but if it did feel like one, it would be a dream job," she
says. "All I do is ride my bike for four hours a day and then lie on the sofa
for the rest of it. I don't feel like I'd ever fall out of love with it."
And each understands exactly what the other is going through. How could
they not, when together they have turned a cottage in Cheshire into a medal
factory?
"If I was in a relationship with someone outside cycling," says Trott, "just
imagine how hard it would be. I'd have to explain everything from scratch."
This is day 14 of the XXXI Olympiad.
From CBS Sports Olympic medal tracker
USA: 37 gold, 34 silver, 32 bronze for a total of 103.
Great Britain: 24 gold, 21 silver, 13 bronze for a total of 58.
China: 22 gold, 18 silver, 25 bronze for a total of 65.
Russia: 13 gold, 16 silver, 19 bronze for a total of 48.
Germany: 13 gold, 8 silver, 13 bronze for a total of 34.
China won the most medals (7) since this morning and Russia won a gold medal
and traded places with Germany in the top five.
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