Charles Aug 19: Coming Home

Charles Chan is coming home! After 2 full weeks of watching Olympics and reliving the memories of his athletic career with his Olympic family he coming home. His last day in Beijing is spent with his Olympic family and to having a big dinner with Peking duck, of course. Charles reflects on all of the excitement and emotion of the last 2 weeks.

Charles Beijing Olympic: Liu Xiang

90,000 spectators fell silent at the announcement that Liu Xiang's was unable to compete at the giant Birdsnest stadium. This overwhelmingly emotional announcement was soon replaced by cheers from the crowd for encouragement on Liu Xiang and the other competitors. Outside of the birdsnest the party conintued as young and old decorated themselves and celebrated as the Olympic games continued.

Aug 16 Women's Volleyball and Party in the Park

http://www.so-u.tv/ and Charles Chan go to Chao Yang Park for Olympic fun where he had his picture taken with famous cutouts of Yao Ming and Liu Xiang and volunteer Ben. He then went off to the Women's China vs. U.S.A Volleyball with China Premier, Hu Jintao. Fans yelled and waved the China flag as fans from the East and West joined in the uproar and excitement.

August 15: More Gold and Quanxi

Charles Chan has did it again. He managed to get a priceless ticket to the upcoming track and field competion. Money can't buy it but Quanxi makes it all happen and Charles has deep ties to Beijing and the athletes there. He will be watching out for Liu Xiang the 110 meter hurdler that won in Athens and is expected to take the gold medal in Beijing. He is also cheering on his gymnastic colleagues Yang Wei, Li Xiao Peng, Cheng Fei, He Kexin and Chen Yibing as they go for the gold medals in their individual competitions. A big surprise to Charles was seeing Li Na beat Venus Williams to move closer to the gold medal for the tennis championship. Where Michael Phelps is notable all of the attention is on the great spirit and athleticism shown by the China team. Charles is filling up his weekend with more stuff to tell us about.

August 14: China Spirit

Charles Chan delivers another installment of his ongoing Olympic blog. This time he strays away from taking specifically about the Olympic activities and starts discussing the emotion that has over taken him with regard to the Chinese people. Charles has recently returned from the Sichuan area on a humanitarian mission for earthquake relief and he discusses the common traits of strength, commitment and friendliness of the Chinese people during adversity and times of greatness. He shares with us his overwhelming pride in his people and their resilience and courageous pursuit of excellence.

August 12: Men's Gold

Charles continues to struggle with the technology hurdles to bring us up-close and personal coverage of the Olympics like only he can tell. In this Vlog he shares with us the excitement of seeing his school mates take home the gold, Xiao Xin and Huang Zhu. Yes, a number of the China Olympic Men's Gymnastics team come from the same school that Charles trained at and is currently staying at making this a very emotional experience for him. Excitement continues as the games progress to the Women's competition tonight where he will be front row to wish them on to victory. Charles is also full on with all the party action in Beijing as he takes us through a tour of Tiananmen Square where everyone is having fun.

Aug 10 Olympic fever

Charles tells about his excitement of being able to get a ticket from a long time friend of his Mao Mao a National Aerobic Champion. This time instead of walking he was able to take the MTR to stadium, transportation is working better. The Olympic park is an amazing party with lots of events and things going on everywhere. He got to meet lots of team members and supporters like the Russian rowing team and parent of Australian gymnasts. The ticket prices are outrageous a 50 RMB ticket is being scalped for 1000 RMB or more. The Olympic stadium seats 20,000 and it is sold out. He saw the Russian, Ukrainian and German gymnastic teams compete. In addition, he remembered the boy that was a Sichuan earthquake hero. It is a great story of the little boy that walked out during the opening ceremony with Mao. He was a hero that saved 7 people's lives by pulling them from the rubble.

Aug 9 The Olympic Opening

Charles was able to capture much of the excitement of the opening ceremony but he is still fascinated by the events he saw prior to the opening ceremony. He shares pictures and thoughts of his great adventure on his second report from Beijing. One of his highlights was having dinner with his gymnastics family from when he was training in Beijing with the Hong Kong National Team. He used to train at the Beijing Sports School where he is now a guest. The National training ceremony is where all the top athletes and coaches are from.

Aug. 7 First day in Beijing for the Olympics

Charles Chan will be providing inside and personal accounts of the Beijing Olympics as only a member of the National Team and true Hong Kong Hero could. He will be giving regular Vlog updates to keep us posted. You can find Charles updates on: http://www.so-u.tv/

Charles landed in Beijing to total turmoil. Transportation is very difficult and he found it easier to walk to get a view of the sites. He could not get close to most displays and therefore taking pictures is difficult. There is too much security and lots and lots of people. An International Judge who is a friend of his got him admittance to the Gymnastics Stadium where he was able to get pictures of the China men’s and women’s team. The atmosphere is electric with so many people all being very excited about the event. People are taking extraordinary measures to get there such as overnight cab rides and special direct flights from Shenzhen. The city is alive with special celebrations and outdoor art. Everywhere you look there is something amazing to see.

Charles Chan going to the Beijing Olympic games

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Mission to Sichuan - Charles Chan 體育精神四川行

The earthquake hitting the Sichuan region in May was devastating. Very few stories of joy and hope were told. SO-U.TV is bringing you one. Listen to Charles Chan, one of our Hong Kong heroes, relate his trip to the region and how with a little effort he brought joy to the distressed community. Watch and listen to Charles Chan at:
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512大地震是中國人永遠不會忘記的日子, 天災無情, 人間卻有情。救災可能只是一時, 但重建卻是一場漫長的抗戰, 體育精神的陳德華先生將會以快樂及笑聲這種正面方法去激勵及撫平四川災民的傷痛, 大家千萬別錯過這感人的故事, 請收看

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