At Olympic Stadium yesterday evening. Beautiful place, open ceiling, sky bright and blue above us.
Dozens of countries represented.
Geographical knowledge is severely taxed as we realize we can name fewer than a third.
Maybe less.
Maybe a dozen.
Hmmmm. A crowd of yellow. Whomever could they be cheering for?? (hint: a certain runner’s home country’s flag’s colour.)
A few events happening simultaneously. The women’s heptathlon is at the javelin event. Spears sailling across the arena is a fairly impressive sight!
Bahrain is represented next to a German runner.
The women exit the track and the men effortlessly soar over a few hurdles.
Then the man of the hour approaches the blocks. Extremely personable, he hams it up for the cameras.
And the cameras are everywhere.
He runs.
He conquers.
He celebrates — surrounded by a hoard of cameras.
It was a fabulous moment.
The Country Mice 
Looks like the ladies have had a few bootcamps under their belts!!! LOL
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Lots of skimpy athletic attire — important that the audience check out every ripple of every muscle, I suppose.
I suspect some countries are not far from outfitting their women in thongs.
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