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We interviewed nine people in our newsroom. Each has their own top three Olympic athletes and their own reasons. Let's see who gets these medals!

Yan Fei
Print designer

1. Constantina Tomescu/ Romania/ women's marathon
(The 38-year-old champion is unusual and respectable.)
2. Michael Phelps/ USA/ swimming
(Eight golds!)
3. Matthew Mitcham/ Australia/ diving
(Winning in last dive by earning four 10s. Fighting until the last minute to gain the victory and that's sporting spirit!)

Gu Yan
Admin

1. Liao Hui/ China/  weightlifting
2. Zhang Xiangxiang/ China/ weightlifting
(Two nice guys with solid characters.)
3. Chen Yibing/ China/ gymnastics
(He is cute.)

Wu Jiayin
Opinion writer

1. Matt Emmons/ USA/ shooting
(He showed Olympic spirit even though he lost.)
2. Guo Jingjing/ China/ diving
(She showed her best and kept a high standard no matter how tough the competition was.)
3. Du Toit / South Africa/ marathon swimming
(She lost her left leg and participates in both the Olympics and the Paralympics.)

Nancy Zhang
Copy editor

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Everybody in the newsroom was astonished when Liu Xiang, defending Olympic Champion and megastar, quit in the first round of the men’s 110m hurdle competition in Beijing today.

Ahead of Liu, members of Shanghai Daily watched Dayron Robles of Cuba win his heat and American Terrence Trammel get injured in his race, and looked for Liu’s debut at the Bird’s Nest.

As Liu warmed up, copy editor Marc Tessier thought something was wrong with the hurdler.

“He was warming up and after completing a couple of hurdles, he went down on the ground on his hands and knees. He looked like he was in a lot of pain,” Tessier said.

The expression on Liu’s face said it all as his gingerly walked back to the starting blocks. And after a false start, Liu limped into the tunnel and we knew that his Olympics were over.

Disappointment sucked all the enthusiasm out of Shanghai Daily’s newsroom just like it did in the National Stadium.

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The Beijing Olympics has made Shanghai Daily newsroom exciting for the past week. The TV sets in the office are always set on live broadcasts of the games and the moment China wins the gold medal, the whole newsroom bursts into cheers.

Deng Kajia, our online editor, watched the opening ceremony in the office with several colleagues. She gives high marks to the show, “The part to show the culture of ancient China is fantastic. One of my foreign friends from London, the host city of 2012 Summer Olympics, told me that Beijing has left all the past host cities behind in the opening ceremony.”

Vivian Yang, the newcomer who works for the newly-launched Shanghai Daily Sunday, is deeply touched by Chinese gymnasts. “The two Olympic team golds are really impressive,” said Yang.

Orange Zhou, from the Marketing Department, has been an Olympic couch potato, “My TV set has never been used so frequently.” She thinks so far the Chinese men’s basketball team and women’s volleyball team play much better than she expected. She predicts that China will gain more than 40 gold medals. However, there are lots of maybes in games, and maybe the biggest is Liu Xiang. “Liu is in so many ads and sometimes I think he is too commercial,” said Zhou.

Wang Yong, chief of the Opinion Department, thinks whoever the winner is, wherever he/she comes from, we should applaud for them, because “true gold medals come from a sporting heart.”

“I do respect such athletes like Lee Bae-Young from the Republic of Korea,” said Wang, “He folded under 184kg in the 69kg-class clean and jerk on Tuesday after his legs cramped in pain. But He tried his best right to the end.

“The moment he fell to the ground, the audience applauded him. He was a hero.”

Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra won the 10-meter air rifle competition today, winning India its first Olympic individual gold medal.

Bindra finished with 700.5 points to edge out China's Zhu Qinan who had 699.7 points for the silver.

India's hockey team had won eight gold medals in field hockey in Olympic Games between 1928 and 1980.

Shanghai Daily's international editing team includes staff from India and the newsroom was just as excited about the victory as they were at China's silver success. 

Lancy Correa works on the Shanghai Daily's sports desk and he followed the shooting action with interest this morning.

"I watched Bindra's last four shots on the newsroom TV," Lancy said. "I am very, very proud. We have expected this gold medal since 1980."

When the result was known, Lancy immediately received phone calls from his Indian and Chinese friends, and congratulations came from all over the world via the Internet, one friend in Dubai sent him online greetings.

Lancy will be busy covering the Olympics till midnight. "Of course I want to have a party with my Indian friends to celebrate our first Olympic gold medal. But maybe it should be kept until after 1am," he said.

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Online department intern Lu Jingting was lucky enough to go to the Shanghai Stadium yesterday to watch the first day of the Olympic football match in Shanghai!

Lu, sophomore of the Communication and Information Engineering School, Shanghai University, got tickets free from her school. She went to the match with more than 100 schoolmates and teachers. Lu got tickets for the Australia vs Serbia and Argentina vs Ivory Coast matches.

Her first impression of the matches was that there were “strict security checks.” After stepping out of the Metro Line 1, she received three rounds of security checks before entering the stadium.

First round of checks was at the metro exit, a policeman asked Lu and her classmates to open their bags to ensure they didn’t carry any liquid. Only Olympic football ticket holders can walk out of the Metro station after 3pm on the days matches are scheduled.
 
Lu carried a large bag, so she had to queue up for an hour at the security check spot in front of Stand 25 of the stadium, while those without bags can go directly through other entrances. During waiting, Lu was asked to re-open her bag to show there is no water, but food like bread and potato chips can be taken in.

Ten check points were operating at the same time, and each check took about 5 minutes. The policeman checked Lu’s camera, key holder and wallet. Then Lu passed the metal check. Finally, she entered the stadium gates. 

There were vending sites in the stadium for water and other drinks.

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It’s the final countdown to the Beijing Olympics, and the Shanghai Daily newsroom is full of anticipation.

A set of posters with the cute Olympics ‘Fuwa’ mascots are on the walls of the newsroom. “We made our own posters.” said Bivash, our sports editor. “I told our layout designer Chen Jie what I wanted and she offered the nice pictures.”

Zhang Yi, business editor, feels excited as he has tickets of the Football Preliminary held in Shanghai. He will be in the Shanghai Stadium this Thursday and cheer for the football players. “I just want to be amid the optimistic and victorious atmosphere,” said Zhang.

Online department intern Lu Jingting also has the chance to see the famous Argentina team with her own eyes. Lu will go to the stadium together with her 60 classmates from the Communication and Information Engineering School of Shanghai University on Thursday. The school offered them free tickets.

Shanghai Daily’s online Olympics coverage [http://olympics.shanghaidaily.com/] has added profiles of Chinese athletes and will add more videos and pictures to the multimedia gallery.

Also the homepage of our main site will take on a new Olympic look with highlights feature on the Games. Just wait and see! 

We have set up a new blog for our sports reporter Ma Yue who will cover the Olympic Games in Beijing. [http://www.shanghaidaily.com/mayue/]

Ma Yue arrived in Beijing this morning! She is the Shanghai Daily representative in the group of 23 reporters sent to the Olympics by the Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, the parent group of Shanghai Daily.

Everyday, she will call back to the newsroom to share her first-hand impressions for the blog.

Today Ma settled down in the Olympics News Center and tried to get permission to watch athletes train.

Let’s enjoy the Games through Ma’s eyes. Please leave comments on her blog to further communicate with her.