Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Olympic event schedule

Here are the Olympic events we have tickets for. All times are local Beijing time — no, I don't know the math for converting to Pacific Time.

8/15
Arrive in Beijing

8/16
2:00 pm  Men's Handball, Prelim Group A — France vs Spain
3:45 pm  Men's Handball, Prelim Group B – Russia vs Germany

8/17
9:00 am Women's Basketball, Prelim Group B — Spain vs Mali
11:15 am Women's Basketball, Prelim Group A — Australia vs Russia
2:30 pm Women's Basketball, Prelim Group A — Latvia vs Korea
4:45 pm Women's Basketball, Prelim Group A — Brazil vs Belarus
8:00 pm Women's Basketball, Prelim Group B — Czech Republic vs China
10:15 pm Women's Basketball, Prelim Group B — New Zealand vs USA

8/18
Bike tour of Tiananmen Square, Dongjiaomin Lane, Qianmen (Hutong) 
9:00 pm Women's Football, Semifinal

8/19
Morning at Olympic Green
10:00 am Men's 3m Springboard, Semifinal
2:30 pm Women's Basketball, Quarterfinal
4:45 pm Women's Basketball, Quarterfinal
8:00 pm Women's Basketball, Quarterfinal
10:15 pm Women's Basketball, Quarterfinal

8/20
Great Wall, Forbidden City

8/21
9:00 am Athletics — Women's 20K Walk (Final), Men's Javelin, Men's Decathlon 100m, Women's High Jump, Men's Decathlon High Jump, Men's Decathlon Shot Put
8:00 pm Women's Basketball, Semifinal
10:15 pm Women's Basketball, Semifinal

8/22
Open

8/23
12:30 pm Women's Indoor Volleyball, Bronze Medal game
7:30 pm Women's Basketball, Bronze Medal game
10:00 pm Women's Basketball, Gold Medal game

8/24
Open
Closing Ceremony — we don't have tickets but expect to partying, HARD

8/25
Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven

8/26
Leave Beijing

8/27
Pass out from total exhaustion

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You forgot to add 8/28,attend Storm game to welcome home our Olympians.