Thurs Aug 14 -- Men's Gymnastics

Immediately after swimming we went over to the men’s gymnastic individual all around finals – which had started an hour earlier. We had an unavoidable overlap between the swimming and gymnastics finals, but since the gymnastics building was right new to the swimming finals, we felt we could do both. We got there in the middle of the third rotation where the Chinese man was already leading by a large margin. The crowd was much bigger here, and even more pro-Chinese. There were very, very few Americans that we could see or note from any type of flag waving. In fact, apart from our flags, we could only count one other American flag in the entire audience – which I guess sits 18-20,000 people. With the Chinese man winning, the crowd was very happy and yet very appreciative of the good performances from the other men. We had great seats and really enjoyed the competition, which was won by the Chinese gymnast.