They are over. Sixteen days after the 08-08-08, the Olympic games ended.
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Many words were spent to celebrate such an event. The amazing scenes of the opening ceremony, the perfect organization, the power of China shown to the world.
During these days thousand of athletes (someone says they were 11,000!) tried to win a gold medal, and 302 of them can now back to home and be really happy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a decision!
Dear RoboCuppers,
Thank you very much for your patience regarding the status of RoboCup 2008. We are happy to announce that we now fully expect RoboCup to go forward in Suzhou in July as planned.
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Yes, no, maybe.
After the bad news yesterday, it seems there is a little hope.
Dear all,
Following up on the previous message, the trustees are now working hard to ascertain the situation and will let you know the final status as soon as possible. We will do our best to make sure that there will still be a RoboCup 2008 and will keep you posted as further information is available. For now, please don’t make any new plans, but please also don’t cancel plans. The decision will be made this weekend.
What the hell is this? There will be a RoboCup this year or not?
Today is an amazing day: I bought a Lonely Planet China!
© Lonely Planet
Yeah, just buy a book it is not a good reason to be happy, but it means that I’m planning to visit China.
Like every year, next July I will partecipate to the RoboCup competitions, and after a week of hard work I will take a small trip with my friends. Are you wondering where? But in China of course!
To be honest I’m a little bit worried about what Chinese government are doing: they are killing Tibetan monk manifesting for their freedom. I’m very upset about any human rights violation (I’m a member of Amnesty International).
China is not an exception. Moreover with the Olympic Games held in Beijing, it seemed that something should have changed. I guess China is loosing opportunity to change the world.
This trip will the occasion to explore a small part of an ancient culture, which nothing have to do with current Government. It is a pity that they have such a awful behavior.
I will go there for the ancient culture and not for what China is now. And I’m sure that chinese people are not the same. In the future I hope they will understand how to tolerate and respect life of human beings.
For those that don’t know what CatchImprò is, they want to read this (Italian here).
CatchImprò is the name of a kind of Improvisational theatre, that start played just last year in Italy.
Next Febrary 9th, a show will be hold in my hometown.
I’m an active member of local Amnesty International group (here you can find our website. Try to guess who is the webmaster 
) and we organized such event related to Amnesty International Campaign to promote defense of Human Rights in China.
I was charged to design the poster of manifestation and here it is the result:
Click here to see it