beyondBeijing2008.com

Check this one out. It seems that our National Anthem was looped at the start, and got cut at almost the end. Here’s from NBC:

Michael Phelps had his right hand on his heart, an Olympic gold medal around his neck and was listening to the closing notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner” when the music went [...]

So for those of you who caught the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony last night—Holy crap, right? The synchronization, the music, the timed fireworks; it was a spectacle so awesome that for entire stretches of it, I couldn’t really think of anything to say but “woah.†The show owes a lot of its splendor to [...]