Beijing Olympics Here We Come

...be careful, jek!!!!

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A Chinese attacker stabbed two Americans, killing the man and wounding the woman, who were attending the Olympic Games on Saturday, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Chinese police respond to the stabbings at the Drum Tower in Beijing on Saturday. An American man died.

The man also injured a female Chinese tour guide before leaping to his death around noon from the second floor of the Drum Tower, a popular Beijing tourist site, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

The USOC said the two Americans were family members of a coach for the U.S. men's indoor volleyball team. No other information about them was released.

The attacker was a 47-year-old man from the eastern Chinese city Hangzhou, a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Government Information Office told Xinhua.

A White House spokesman said President Bush, who is attending Olympic events Saturday, was told about the attack against the Americans.

The U.S. Embassy and the White House have offered the victims' families whatever assistance is needed, the spokesman said.
 
They are from the Minneapolis area and he was the CEO of Bachmans Garden Centers. Bachmans is the large garden center in Minneapolis/St. Paul. If you go to startribune.com you can read a lot about the family and what happened.
 
That's great, John. Have a super time and keep safe. We await your postings and photos to make these events even more special for us. TAKE CARE, amyb
 
Just putting the final touches on the trip. We leave for HK on the 15th and arrive in Beijing on the 20th for the last 5 days of the games. Follow along here if you care to. I choose TypePad for the blog as it allows iPhone and laptop blogging.

http://jek.typepad.com/olympics/

Back safe and sound yesterday. Tired, but still in awe of the amazing things we saw and the interesting people we met. Now, back to editing and sorting through the 2860 images I took on the trip. 60 GBs in all. Really gave that MacBook Air a stress test along with the LaCie portable USB drive I used for storage.
A few that I really like.

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Mon ami,

Wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! That's all that I can say about the photos. The pros that covered the event will be jealous.
 
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