Wow! We had a real hard time loading these images! They are of: a) Misha the Bear, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics (we seem to be popular in Russia for some reason) b) Icelandic handball star Arnor Atlason;. Iceland beat the host Great Britain in men's handball today by a score of 41-24 and c) American gymnast Shawn John who won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics; she is not competing in London, but she has been watching gymnastics events in the stands at the Olympics.
As a Turkish-American, it was interesting to see one Turkish newspaper "The Daily Hurriyet" express optimism as Turkish women's sprinter Nevin Yanit, 26, who competes in hurdles finished first in her preliminary race yesterday, while another Turkish newspaper "Today's Zaman" was expressing pessimism as a tweet from the publication pointed that Turkey has yet to medal at the Olympics so far.
So, here are some of the things we have learned about the games on Twitter today; they do or may contain SPOILER ALERTS!
1) @dominquedawes (Dominique Dawes): "Victoria Komova of RUS is up and ready and she definitely wants to redeem herself after the silver in AA."
2) @AlisonMitchell: "Got a feeling in my stomach like I used to before school. And, I'm not even competing! #goBeth #gymnastics" (This tweet is in reference to British gymnast Beth Tweedle, a contender for the bars event).
3) @bradplumer: "A few Olympic rule changes explain why so many gymnasts have been falling on their faces."
4) @nprnews: "Let's catch p: U.S. women's basketball Blowout, and Maroney's vault woes" (This is in reference to American gymnast Makayla Maroney falling on her second vault).
5) @ISROlympics2012: "Eran and Gideon in 11th place after 8 races" (This is talking about the Israeli men's sailing team of Gideon Kilger and Eran Sela. A later tweet from American tv reporter Christiane Amanpour said that Vojdan Shaherkan, a 16-year old female athlete from Saudi Arabia, one of Israel's main rivals had provided the first win for a female athlete for her country as she upset Melissa Mojica of Puerto Rico in judo. But, the result is not expected to change women's sporting rights in the kingdom.)
6) @shawnJohson (Shawn Johnson): "Hot pants! We're color coordinated."
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