xxvii: can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder (part 1)
Mon 05 Jan 2009 at 10:14 am ♥ Filed under Australia 2008, Travel
DAY III (12/27): Sydney Olympic Park! I fondly remember Beijing’s Olympic Green back in August, so it was nice to visit another Olympic village/park/green/site/etc. Except the one in Sydney was just about deserted by the time we got there1, which is all the better for taking photos!
The Forest of Poles! Each pole either has an alphabetically sorted list of volunteers, world record listing, medal count, or some other relevant display. I really like how it’s primarily a “forest” of light blue poles2, but then you get these bright poles that pop out.
I arrived 8.25 years too late. :’(
… have I ever told you that I am a HUGE Ian Thorpe fan? 
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HELL YEAH.
Various height-related Olympic and world records set.
HEY LJ folk: Do my photos show up on your flist? I sometimes try to access the feed through LJ/proxy, and they don’t exactly show up for me.
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1: Granted, we did get there around 10am. But I do wonder what it would have been like to be here during the actual Olympics. Hmm…
2: Light blue poles were the ones that had the listings of volunteers, whereas the other colors designated special poles, such as the torch display or medal count.
3: If you had known me back in 2004 and read my LJ, you might have noticed some Thorpe fangirling. Makes me nostalgic to the point where I wish he had competed in Beijing.
Those poles are sooo cool! I had no idea they had something like that anywhere.
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Coolest poles I’ve ever seen (in photos) in my life!
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