Guess Where Team Korea Are Staying?

Nigeria awakes and Village Continues to rise...

The village is filling up as new teams continue to arrive while other  teams continue to make their presence felt.

My own NOC - National Olympic Committee - Nigeria has started to dress its office and its accommodation with the green and white:

Other COUNTRIES continue to impress as they dress their buildings...

CZECH

FRANCE

GERMANY

JAPAN

 KOREA

CHINA

Another Day, Another 16 miles...

There's a pattern developing here - another 16 mile day !

Olympic Rings & The White Cliffs of Dover

The Olympic Rings are turning up all over the place eg here on the White Cliffs of Dover (courtesy of London 2012's web site)

Daily Mileage - Walking 16 miles a day ?

My Samsung Olympic Phone includes a novel App - a Pedometer. Which claims to measure my footsteps and convert them into daily miles walked.

According to the the summary from 13th July to this morning I've walked 40,912 steps equivalent to 31.8 miles so each step is 26 inches.

I measured my step - 4 steps covered 97 inches making my measured step about 25 inches compared to the Pedometer step of 26 inches - almost the same so it looks I really have walked  nearly 16 miles a day for the past two days!

Village Waking Up

Teams SUI and NGR making their presence felt

The Village is starting to come alive as the Teams take residence, decorating and customising their allocated apartments, offices and spaces to their needs, style and above all national identify – flags and national symbols everywhere.

Teams CAN and AUS show off their love of animals

Canada’s huge red Moose standing at the entrance to their offices  and Australia’s Emu found in its coat of arms  and disarmingly seemingly randomly and incongrously at the entrance and balconies of Team Australia’s block. I feel there is more national identity assertion to come as the Village fills up!

Asserting and celebrating  national identity seems to be one of the key features of the Village – giving athletes a subtle  psychological advantage - taking pride in their country’s presence in the face of others.

Off To A False Start

I was all set to go when I had a call from my fellow co-ordinator – Bernie: Did you  get the message ? Me: What Message? Bernie On your Olympic phone!

I hadn’t looked, I had planned to turn it on this afternoon en route to my first Olympic session, sure enough there was voice  message for me.

My (first)meeting with Team NGR’s  Chef de Mission  has been moved to Friday at 8:30pm. When I was expecting to meet him this afternoon after the NGR DRM (Nigerian Delegation’s Resource Meeting)

Seems the inclusion of the Basketball team into Team NGR needs more time to plan.

Off to a false start but NOC’s communications are working well as I had call this morning to make sure I’d received the message from last night.

Friday the Thirteenth of July two thousand and twelve my 60th Birthday is going to be a doubly memorable day!

(Picture from AdrianSprints.com )