10 Things You Don’t Want To Miss At The 2008 Summer Olympics

Published: August 8, 2008, 6:16 pm

Written by popcrunch The Summer Olympics start this Friday, and it’s sometimes dizzying and tough to know what to watch with the hundreds of events, and NBC’s 3600+ hours of coverage this year. We here at SportsCrunch will be catching as much of the Olympics as we can, but here’s what we’d be watching if we had to keep our eyes on just ten things: 1. Opening Ceremonies To kick-start the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, the official flame, which has traveled via the torch relay for the last 129 days and has covered 85,000 miles - the longest relay since the beginning of the tradition at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, will be lit and the approximately 10,500 athletes will proudly walk into the stadium. The countries will be led by Greece, who traditionally enter first, and will be placed in order by stroke count with the Simplified Chinese characters instead of the usual alphabetical order. For example, Australia will enter in the 203rd position because the character is

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