Flashes of Panic

We got word today that housing for the Olympics is 99% certain, and the hotel is 50m (meters, not miles) from the Birdcage, the main stadium (and, of course, the track and field venue.)

The message included this endorsement:

To quote the accommodation manager responsible, “I could hit a golf ball off the roof and it would land in the shot put area!”

This image leads me to speculate on how hard it would be to borrow some clubs in Beijing and test this assertion… how quickly I’d be on a plane if I actually did… and whether I could hit a golf ball that accurately in the first place. (The javelin sector would be easier.)

This may be a contender for the closest I’ve ever stayed to a competition venue. Stuttgart will be hard to beat, though.