Olympics? What Olympics?

Having no TV and three radio stations (two of which are identical, classic-rock stations) the Olympics are passing me by.

The only thing to have attracted my attention thus far is the disgraceful behaviour of some American athletes, who emerged from their plane wearing gas masks, as if the slightest intake of Chinese air would infect them with some kind of horrible disease. Behaviour like this strikes me as not only incredibly rude but bordering on xenophobia in the ease and rush to believe the very worst exaggerations about Beijing and its air. The athletes have since apologised.