The weekend events tended to be a bit more of a celebration. Many athletes were doing victory laps to cheers from the crowds. There were many medal ceremonies for the finals. We had to keep standing for different national anthems. USA, Russia, and Jamaica were the most played, but we also got to hear UK, Canada, Germany, and one or two others.Canada won Gold in the womens wheelchair race and this was the only time I heard the Canadian anthem played. Korean athlet...

Saturday I went back earlier in the day to spend more time in the Market St since they all closed up at 9pm the night before. I wanted to go back to the TDK booth to take a blue screen pic as when I got the email it said the jpeg file was empty. There was a longer line up this time but I took the pic with my camera as well this time. When I got home the second jpeg still says file is empty.There was another blue screen pic you could take in the Samsung booth comi...

Lots of videos from Friday nites events so I'll keep the blurb short...Highlight of the evening was the mens 200m semis where Usain Bolt qualified, the star of the evening. Also a close contender is the French runner Lemaitre who qualified in his heat.Canada's Dylan Armstrong won a Silver in mens shotput and I have the medal ceremony also.A fun interlude is 'Dance Time' & 'Kiss Time' when random audience members are picked on the big screenI used my pass to s...

Monday we had a school trip to the Daegu Stadium to see the games during the morning events. This was nice that students are being invited to visit and enjoy such a major event in their hometown. There were many school parties during the mornings events and I've heard from other teacher friends they have school trips as well during the week.Unfortunately for me, I live on the northern tip of Daegu, and the stadium is the southtern tip. Its taking me 1hr45mins eac...

The Daegu IAAF Games opening ceremony was held in spectacular style on Saturday. Surprisingly a friend and I were able to get tickets for 40,000w ($40) which were perfect seats in the centre of the oval on level three. I had my 9 day pass however given by the KoreaBlog which gave me daily free entrance but I had bought these tickets much earlier in anticipation. This was probably my one and only time to attend a major world sporting event, in my home town, at suc...