I was working in the LOCOG office at the Main Press Centre on Tuesday and towards the end of the afternoon competition sessions I started to hear excited shouts.
Curiosity got the better of me and I walked down the corridor and discovered a large and occasionally vocal group of Chinese staff and volunteers, together with some international journalists attracted as I had been, watching China in a tightly contested basketball game on the giant Panasonic HDTV screen.
China forced the game to overtime and the crowd suffered/enjoyed the kind of reaction you can see in the different reactions in this image, before eventually losing.
Then yesterday morning (3am your time) I was lucky enough to go to the archery competiton. Here I watched a match between China and Korea. Early on there had been a rousing reception for the athlete from Chinese Taipei/Taiwan, but that was nothing compared to the welcome first for Korea and then for the Chinese athlete.
London 2012 official poster gold edition box set
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