In front of the Olympic broadcast logos
Bela Karoli knows that these Chinese girls
are winning through an unfair dose of
home-grown nepotism. And I'm not sure
there's not a new wave of Orientalism
pervading the athlete's excursions into
the bleach cleaned streets of the capital
—they love it. And why shouldn't they
love it. After years of ascetic sport
preparations; to go to China-doll or
some place called Faux-Bar in deference
to old Los Angeles, but with red, and
Mountain and Water paintings on the
walls.
