Well even though I’m done competing, the Games have just begun.  Luckily judo gets done in the next few days so that the team can enjoy watching other sports and not just judo. These past few days have been really exciting.  Yesterday our teammate Taylor Takata had a great day and ended up going 2-2 […]

-63kg and -81kg competed today. Travis Stevens (-81kg) went 2-2 today. He looked pretty good… had a good day. Finals between Japan and France in the -63kg was probably the most awesome match that I’ve watched in the entire tournament. Japan had the most beautiful throw that I’ve seen. The tournament is pretty much the […]

TIME: 2152hrs It’s been a few days since my last post. Two days of judo have gone by and so far the USA has a record of 4-6. We haven’t taken any medals… Yesterday -48kg and -60kg divisions competed and let me tell you… what a sight!! Being able to watch all the preliminaries and […]

So its 6 am here in China on August 10, the day after I competed.  Last night while writing my previous email, I was a bit delirious from lack of sleep, but now I feel much better.   Today begins day two of the judo competition.  Should be exciting, with the ever competitive 66kg men’s […]

…isn’t over yet!   I competed today and now it is 10:15pm here in China and I am exhausted.    After getting back from the opening ceremonies last night at 11pm or so, I slept a little bit, and weighed in at 7am. After I ate I went back to my room and rested for […]

Hey guys   Its 6:20am here at the Olympic Village, the day that I compete.  Weigh ins are at 7.   I will write more later, but I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has written me emails.  I read all of them this morning because I couldn’t sleep and […]

Well, I didn’t write last night… Sorry. I was WAY too tired. We did another day at the Silk Market and it drained me. Yesterday started out like every other again. Breakfast, practice and lunch. Practice was really easy for me because Sayaka decided not to practice. She was going to go to the gym […]

Some interesting tidbits that you may not have known about the Olympic Games!!! There are 596 Athletes on the 2008 US Olympic Team Of these, 310 are men and 286 are women. Consider this in relation to the population of the United States which is 304,800,035 people. There are 30 sports in the Olympic Games […]

I can’t believe it.  Before I left to come here, I was intereviewed for this NHK program that aired in Japan about me going to the Olympics, etc.  They specifically asked me a lot of questions about Ryoko Tani, arguably the most successful female judoka of all time.  I have never worked out with Tani […]

TIME: 0024hrs Day 6 has come to an end. I just got back to my room after playing a little … lot … of rock band and checking my emails. I am trying to resist the temptations that the wii is giving me, but it never works. It’s constantly saying, "Annie, come play, It’ll be […]