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Update: Sadly, Chicago was the first city eliminated Last night, the Chicago skyline lit up with support for the city’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. The world will find out TODAY who the lucky winner will be. Other cities in the running include Madrid, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro.  Chicagoans will be watching live from the official party in Daley Plaza as the International Olympic Committee makes their announcement from Copenhagen. Watch LIVE HERE. More photos below… More»

[The Fuwa, the mascots of the Beijing Olympics]

And alas, Sunday night”s closing ceremony marked the end of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing China. And what a Games it was! Arnold gave US athletes an awesome send off before they left for China. Michael Phelps managed to pull off 8 golds to become the most decorated (greatest) Olympian ever, and we bumped into him and his cocked Lacoste hat at China Doll. Opening ceremony tickets were nearly impossible to come by, fetching prices upwards of 30K (and Bill Gates was rumored to have spent 400K on an air-conditioned box). Henry Kissinger was spotted sleeping at a basketball game. Vince Vaughn hung out with the US athletes at the USA house. You can find Mcdonalds everywhere on planet earth, even in the Olympic Village cafeteria. We encouraged Olympic twins to mate.  The pool in the village was quite the scene, and gate crashers were a no go at the village “sex fest”.  Till next time, London 2012 here we come!

[Entering the "Bird"s Nest" National Stadium]

Go HERE for more pictures.

Excerpt From Wallstreet Journal China Blog.

It was a perfect day to spend at the 10-lane, 50-meter swimming pool in the athlete village. Some of the largest men I’ve ever seen (Romania — wrestlers?) were proudly donning their speedo suits and catching some afternoon rays next to tiny gymnasts and divers from Great Britain, listening to Billy Jean. To my delight, I believe I saw the girl from Ipanema, and all her sisters (teammates), too. Their bathing attire is quite different than what you’d find at a local community pool. I’m being generous here. Six-foot plus Brazilian athletes versus 5?10? 300lb. Eastern Europeans: quite a juxtaposition on human form. Things got ROWDY…

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Its official, there”s simply no place on earth where Mcdonald”s hasn”t forged its footprint, and perhaps nothing better proves this than their presence in the cafeteria in the Olympic Athlete Village. There is a full menu and best of all its FREE! See Olympians are in fact human, they have the same weakness for Big Macs and fries like us.

More photos from the Olympic Village HERE.

If you thought the door at Bungalow 8 was hard, then try to get past the guards at the Olympic Village in order to party with the Athletes. Yes, Wass Stevens is tough, but the Chinese army is a little bit tougher.

Yesterday Matthew Syed gave a detailed account of the nocturnal ongoings in the athletes village, describing it among other things as a “sex fest”.

Tomorrow night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world will mingle for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?

Well, true or not, we’ll never really know because we won’t be there. Security is tight, and without athletic credentials entry is not in the cards. Oh well, at least there are those like Matthew whom we can live through vicariously. Enjoy!

The Bud Club has been quite the party spot in Beijing these games.  Open every other night, there is copious amounts of free beer (Budweiser only of course), spacious dance floors, and athletes wall-to-wall.  WIth sporting events over this evening in China, this place is guaranteed to be live tonight!  And the best part is all spectators and athletes alike are welcome to come together and celebrate.  So head on over if you are in Beijing tonight, Ni Hao, Bihvhar!

[Smile Vince!]

Vince Vaughn dropped by the United States Hospitality house last night after watching some evening events. He was quite the sport, allowing people to get their picture taken with him, which was most certainly an exercise in patience (especially since he prob has been asked to do this a million times).

From MRod Nation:

“Why does the main Google search homepage feature an athletic sperm in a swimming pool?”

To remind us of Phelps’ superhuman fertility of course!

[Michael Phelps Has Strong Swimmers]

I’m thinking 500K to wear it, and another 500K to cock it?

And you thought paying $2K at Dune was a bit overpriced? Try scouting for tickets for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Bejing. I need to find some. I have put an ad up on craigslist and asmallworld.net, I have also gone to sites such as the one above. I have no idea where section CAT A is but for the $30,500.00 price tag it better be shoulder to shoulder with President Hu Jintao.