Last night Beijing went out with a big BANG!, one of the most fantastic closing ceremonies ever seen. It had everything, including 8 minutes of what London thought was relevant.... OMG thank heavens London has 4 years to work on an Opening ceremony, after last night they demonstrated how to waste 8 minutes, It was a disgrace !
AUSTRALIAN Openly Gay diver Matthew Mitcham has ended host nation China's stranglehold on the Beijing Olympic diving competition to win a shock gold medal in the men's 10m platform infront of his proud partner.
The 20-year-old Sydney diver produced a sensational final dive to become Australia's first male Olympic gold medallist in diving since Dick Eve won the plain high diving event in 1924.
Mitcham achieved an overall score of 537.95 to defeat China's Zhou Luxin (530.15), who had led the final until the final round, to grab Australia's second diving medal of the Games.
Matthew of course came out just weeks prior to departing for the games and applied for a grant from the government to pay for his partner to accompany him. He had so much support from the GLBT community that one supporter had promised to pay the A$5000.00 to ensure his partner could be by his side.
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All Aussie Beef, the Australian Quad four celebrate their unexpected gold medal win! Well done boys, as a ex school boy rower myself I know how much this will help rowing Australia.
[Above true blue Aussie beef!]
Thank heavens their are divers in the Olympics, swimmers are covered up with their full body fast suits, mens volleyball uniforms are terrible. Diving fortunately gives us some great eye candy and allows great action packed images of what we want to see! Grace, Elegance Beauty and Strength!
Swimmer Gregor Tait from Scotland pulled his swim wear off for an artistic photo shoot prior to heading to Beijing. [above]
British triple jumper Phillips Idow also pealed his lycra suit off for the cause.
Korea's Taehwan Park after winning the 400 metre freestyle race in Beijing earlier today.
[Below] Who knows what is whispered in each others ears after the race as they embrace one another!
Grant Hacket from Australia gets a HUG! [above]
Larsen Jensen from the USA gets one too!
The Olympics really do offer so much eye candy, the official Beijing website features these guys in their top 20 Hot List. Clockwise from top is Romanian Gymnast Marian Dragulescu, Spanish Gymnast Gervasio Deferr (photograph from Athens 2004), Canadian Sprinter Emmanuel Paris.
Day One of competition and the boys were out in their tight gymnastic outfits!
I could watch these boys all day!
Last Night my partner and I watched the Opening Ceremony of the XXVIIII th Olympics, and what an amazing spectacle. With the worlds eye's on China it was under enormous pressure to deliver, and deliver they did, arguably the greatest opening ceremony we have ever seen.
The scale of the opening production was off the scale, the color, the lighting and number of participants ensured China could never really fail. It was a 10 out 10 Performance.
This huge dome rose out from the ground and as seen above featured acrobats running around the sides. The globe changed colors and even developed into the earth planet.
Above the the rolls of paper opened on the huge stage, we were blown away when we saw this in disbelief how they managed to do it.
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