I'm told the live streaming wasn't working well at all =S There should be a slideshow of pictures on this post hopefully. Most of the pictures are blurry but my logic is it's better than nothing??? Through all the jumping around the camera was nearly forgotten, but we managed to get one (out of focus) photo of Carole on the runway with the team. The excitement was incredible!! And through the massive crowd, Carole managed to see us and wave to us!!! Amazing!! She also pointed us out to team member Alan and to Coach Dorothy, and they also waved to us. =D
It was great to see the whole team together! The ceremony was very good. It started with breaking
down the walls of discrimination, then out came all 7500 athletes from 170 countries in their teams. -Ireland were about half way through. Team Greece were the final team to join the parade. As they entered, doves were released. =) There were 13 sections in the 4 hour long opening ceremony, which we'll get a better chance to blog about at another stage. Carole didn't get back to their hotel until 5am last night and they were up again at 6.45am to be ready for divisioning today at 9.30am.
Today Carole and the gymnastics section of the Irish team were at divisioning for the boys, Alan and John. Tomorrow the girls will have divisioning. -Another early day so I hope they get some sleep tonight!! We got to see Carole for a few minutes today while they were at divisioning, and she seems to be in good form. She's delighted to hear about everyone following the blog, and all the comments!! And she said to say hi to everyone =)
Best of luck to all the athletes and I know they're having a great time.
