Reality check: The Olympics were only four months ago?
Old mascots never die, they simply graze away.
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Yesterday marked not only the reopening of the city’s most famous / infamous bar, but also four months since the start of the Olympics. Coincidence? (Kidding.)
But seriously, it is hard to believe so little time has passed since The Games, and even less since The Paralympics. It seems like more than a year ago that I hit two dozen pubs with Nicolas Carre during the opening ceremony, headed to stadiums all over the city to watch soccer, wheelchair rugby, field hockey, beach volleyball, and more, met a cigar-seeking Michael Phelps at China Doll 3.3, and spent nearly every night partying with fellow Beijing residents, tourists, and athletes.
But that is part and parcel of living in Beijing. I often feel a bit like a time traveler, fitting a typical year’s worth of living back home in the space of a few months here. Which is why The Olympics seems as distant as last year’s vacation. Thank Buddha for the memories – and cameras.
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